Ralph Uwe Scherer
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No matter where I go, there I am. You have to lose your mind to come to your senses.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2009
Unpacking the Saudi-Pakistani Mutual Defense Agreement
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FOLLOWING THE SIGNING of a mutual defense pact in Riyadh on Sept. 17 between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, Washington’s Arab Gulf...
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“Graves for the Living”: Gaza Detainees Talk About Their Time in Israeli Prisons
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ON OCT. 13, 2025, as many as 1,968 Palestinian detainees tasted freedom through a prisoner exchange with the Israeli occupation. Among them were 1,718 detainees who had been imprisoned during...
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Resisting Zionism’s IHRA Attack on Free Speech
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Panelists at the Sept. 21 Voices From the Holy Land Online Film Salon described the threat posed by the weaponization of “Holocaust memory” to create repressive laws in the United States based on the...
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In Mamdani’s Win, New York Has Reclaimed Democracy From Those Who Sold It
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What distinguished Mamdani was not only the content of his program, but the candor with which he stated its premise: Government should serve those who labor, not those who lobby. He proclaimed that...
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How Four Decades of Sharia Panic Have Distorted U.S. Policy in the Middle East
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The 1990s intensified these fears. Conflicts in Sudan, Algeria, Afghanistan and Chechnya were routinely framed in U.S. media as “Islamic law movements,” flattening complex histories of colonialism,...
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Pope Leo XIV: “We Know Israel Does Not…Accept” Palestinian State, But “We See It as the Only Solution”
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POPE LEO XIV flew from Türkiye to Lebanon on Nov. 30 and surprised the press corps flying with him by making some comments to them.
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How Catherine Connolly “Caught the Wind”
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CATHERINE CONNOLLY won the October 24 elections in a landslide, with 63 percent of the vote.
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Palestine at Christmas: A Land of Faith, Memory and Loss
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FOR CENTURIES, Christian pilgrims have journeyed to the Holy Land to walk in the footsteps of Jesus—celebrating his birth in Bethlehem and his resurrection in Jerusalem.
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Covert Israeli Campaign to Win Young Evangelicals May Drive More Away
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CHRISTIANS, ESPECIALLY EVANGELICALS, BEWARE! Israel, the world leader in weaponizing cell phones against their users, is eyeing your phones.
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Does the Moroccan Monarchy Function as an Institution?
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THE MOROCCAN MONARCHY is widely regarded as one of the most enduring and influential institutions in North Africa. On paper, it functions as a constitutional monarchy, with formal powers grounded in...
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Afghanistan’s International Realignment Under Taliban Rule
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FOUR YEARS AFTER the Taliban’s return to government following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, the country faces many challenges, including a struggling economy and human rights...
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“Never Again” for Whom? Holocaust Memory, Gaza and the Crisis of Universality
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THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA posted a striking Instagram message on Sept. 4, 2025. The graphic showed six interlocked arms of different colors, one tattooed with an Auschwitz number, with the caption:
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Striking a Hospital to Kill a Journalist: The Assassination of Hassan Eslaiah
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IN ISRAEL’S EYES, journalism in Gaza is not a legitimate practice; it is a form of terrorism that must be eliminated.
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Trump’s 20-Point Plan for Gaza and the Hamas Response
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U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S latest expression of fealty to Israel is the 20-point plan on Gaza announced on Sept. 29.
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A History of Deception: U.S.-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
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THE HISTORY OF ZIONISM is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called “Trump Gaza proposal,” which appears to be little more than a...
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