• What is the NAKBA? The history of the “Catastrophe” Islamists use to justify genocide against Israel

    HAMAS apologists like to refer to the NAKBA (Catastrophe in Arabic) of 1948 to justify their program of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Israel. This video sets the record straight. The first use of the word was to describe the failure of the Arab League to exterminate Jews from Israel in 1948 in Israel’s war…


  • How pseudoscientific ideas about food and medicine have helped to devalue science, reason, and all things Western

    This article traces the contribution of New Age foodism and “alternative” medicine to a political movement that devalues science, reason and all things “Western”. It’s unlikely that anyone consciously combined the disparate pieces of antagonistic philosophies into a new proto-religion that was then marketed. I argue that this new proto-religion, sometimes referred to as Wokism,…


  • Dr. Alon Milwicki on the Utilitarianism of Antisemitism

    Dr. Alon Milwicki on the Utilitarianism of Antisemitism

    Dr. Alon Milwicki is a senior research analyst in the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As you reminded me and then taught me a bit further, antisemitism is not static. It’s problematic to make it a single definition. When we’re trying to create a culture in which it is…


  • Woke ironies: achieving the opposite of its stated goals

    In this article originally published in the British journal, Humanistically Speaking, the Edan Tasca of the Centre for Inquiry Canada and I examine the phenomenon of Wokism, which can be understood as a secular religion or as a mind virus that has infected humanist as well as many other organizations. We argue that, to achieve…