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2026-09-03T20:40:52-04:00

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Killing Amalek: The Torah’s Most Misunderstood Commandment

Last updated on: September 3, 2026 at 8:40 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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Few passages of the Torah have provoked more confusion, polemic, and misuse than the Mitzvah or Commandment to “blot out the memory of Amalek.” But who is this “Amalek?” Archaeological evidence for Amalek’s existence offers us no clues; neither do any contemporaneous sources from surrounding nations and third parties. Egyptian and Assyrian monumental inscriptions, which documented various tribes and peoples throughout the Levant, contain no reference to Amalek or the Amalekites whatsoever. This would be strange even in the case... Read more

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2026-08-28T12:48:35-04:00

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Out-Crowleying Crowley: The Emptiness of the O9A

Last updated on: August 28, 2026 at 12:48 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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O9A Neo-Crowley Racial Cosplay and Edgelord Atrocitism Aleister Crowley did not create an authentically new spiritual tradition. He created a theatrical personality and an occult collage assembled from Jewish Kabbalah, Christian apocalypticism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Egyptian religion, Indian Yoga and Tantra, Islamic and Persian imagery, astrology, alchemy, and European ceremonial magic. He then placed himself at the center of this collection as “the Great Beast 666,” prophet of a supposedly new Aeon and authoritative interpreter of traditions whose languages, histories, disciplines,... Read more

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2026-08-27T21:11:48-04:00

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Circumcision, Indigeneity and Judeophobic Cultural Hypocrisy

Last updated on: August 27, 2026 at 9:11 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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Few bodily practices have accumulated as many competing layers of historical meaning as circumcision. In fact, to say “few” is itself an exaggeration. Without parallel, circumcision stands out from all other practices of body modification, in terms of socio-religious significance and controversy in the eyes of outsiders to Judaism and the Islam tradition which derives its relevant statutes from a Jewish, Torah precedence (Qurʾān 41:43; 42:13; 46:9; 4:163; 5:48; 12:111; 21:25; 6:34; 35:4; et al.). In contemporary polemic, Jewish brit... Read more

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2026-05-31T21:44:49-04:00

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Beyond Meat: How Arabia Turned ‘Bread’ into ‘Flesh’

Last updated on: May 31, 2026 at 9:44 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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One of the most revealing and defining characteristics of the Semitic language family is the way a single triliteral root can preserve a shared semantic core while simultaneously diverging into radically different cultural expressions. Few roots expose this phenomenon across languages more clearly than the root from which the very city name of Bethlehem derives (L-Ḥ-M). Across most Semitic languages, the root overwhelmingly denotes bread, nourishment, staple food, or sustenance in general. In Biblical Hebrew, leḥem (לחם) means bread and... Read more

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2026-05-30T16:06:42-04:00

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Does the Talmud Support Pedophilia? Debunking the Viral Lie

Last updated on: May 30, 2026 at 4:06 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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For centuries, antisemites have relied upon a remarkably consistent strategy: isolate an unfamiliar Jewish text, rip a sentence from its legal and linguistic context, mistranslate it into emotionally inflammatory modern language, and then circulate the distortion among audiences unlikely ever to verify the original source. In the digital age, this process has accelerated exponentially. Misconstrued and mistranslated fragments of the Talmūd now circulate endlessly across extremist forums, TikTok clips, neo-Nazi message boards, and conspiratorial social media ecosystems where ancient rabbinic... Read more

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2026-05-19T18:27:34-04:00

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BAMBOOZLED: No People Rise by Blaming Another People

Last updated on: May 19, 2026 at 6:27 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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The Lost Path of Reconstruction Before even beginning this work, I found myself unable to settle comfortably upon a single framing for what follows. At various points I considered titles such as “From Admiration to Obsession: The Historical Construction of Black American Antisemitic Consciousness”; “The Hijacking of the Original Nation of Islam Vision: How Louis Farrakhan Replaced Reconstruction with Grievance and Conspiracy” and “No People Rise Through Obsession With Another People: The Failure of Farrakhanist Antisemitism and the Lost Path... Read more

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2026-02-10T14:53:13-05:00

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The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus: Parable or Biography?

Last updated on: February 10, 2026 at 2:53 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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The figure known in Christian tradition as “Jesus” is ordinarily approached as a recoverable historical individual whose life was later interpreted, theologized, and mythologized. This article proceeds from a different starting point. It argues that the Gospel protagonist does not originate as biography at all, but as the re-literalization of a Jewish symbolic complex centered on yeshuʿah—national deliverance, restoration, and liberation—emerging from the sectarian, revolutionary, and apocalyptic environment of late Second Temple Judaism. What later readers encounter as a named... Read more

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2026-05-17T14:32:23-04:00

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The Jewish Talmud’s Four-Wife Rule Long Before the Qurʾān

Last updated on: May 17, 2026 at 2:32 pm By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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Modern discussions of Qurʾānic law frequently proceed from an assumption the Qurʾān itself repeatedly repudiates: namely, that the oration attributed to Muḥammad presents itself as the foundation of a novel—or the recovery of a lost—antique religion, standing apart from and in opposition to earlier scriptural traditions, Abrahamic or otherwise. Within this interpretive framework, legal correspondences between the Qurʾān and Jewish law are routinely treated as evidence of borrowing in the narrow sense of literary dependence, rather than as indicators of... Read more

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Women in Religion

2026-02-23T09:15:08-05:00

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Arabs Called 1927 Al-Aqsa Mosque Collapse God’s Punishment

Last updated on: February 23, 2026 at 9:15 am By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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Jews and Muslims alike saw the 1927 destruction of the Temple Mount Mosque as “The Hand of Heaven” and “From Allah.” This study reconstructs the architectural and theological history of al-Masjid al-Aqṣā and the Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah atop Jerusalem’s ancient Temple Mount (Har ha-Bayit; al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf), with particular emphasis on the catastrophic Jericho earthquake of July 11, 1927. The 1927 Temple Mount Earthquake Mosque Ruin ‘From God’ as ‘The Hand of Heaven’ Through a synthesis of Arabic chronicles, rabbinic and Hebrew-press... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2026-02-04T05:50:09-05:00

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The Messiah’s Mirror: Good Micah, Bad Micah

Last updated on: February 4, 2026 at 5:50 am By Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri

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Across Biblical literature, Rabbinic tradition, and the Qurʾān, the most dangerous religious figure is not the idolater who openly denies the Oneness of the Creator, but rather the one who knows the Reality expressed by the Torah as Ha-Shem and then exploits that knowledge—specifically the knowledge of the Holy Name—to mislead others or to secure personal power and gain (Devarim/Deuteronomy 13:2–6; 18:20–22; b. Sanhedrin 90a; Qurʾān 7:175–176). This shared concern forms the axis around which the figures of Bilʿam ben... Read more

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