Category: Yazidis

When Terrorist Victimizers Pretend to Be the ‘Victims’

Commentary The eponymous founder of Christianity, Jesus, is alleged to have said “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” He uttered these words when a bunch of religious leaders called Pharisees asked him if it was OK to stone to death a woman who had supposedly committed adultery. In essence, this challenge…


Rabbi Abraham Cooper on Christian, Yazidi Persecution in Middle East; the Recent Rise in Anti-Semitism; and the Abraham Accords One Year On

If the United States decides to remove all remaining troops from Iraq and Syria, it would spell the end of the Yazidis and the Syrian Christians, says Rabbi Abraham Cooper. “They would essentially disappear.” In this episode, we sit down with Rabbi Cooper, the associate dean and director of Global Social Action at the Simon…