After weeks of protests that paralyzed the country, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would postpone a plan to overhaul its judicial system amidst fears that the ongoing demonstrations might escalate further into violence and fracture his coalition.
A wing of the Hindu paramilitary organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) recently launched a campaign to train pregnant Indian women to instill sanskar (virtue/good action) and cultural pride in their children while still in their wombs.
A woman from Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra filed a complaint against her husband and in-laws for allegedly harassing her and collecting her menstrual blood for Aghori rituals before selling it, shocking many in the state.
The woman, who was not identified, lodged a first information report (FIR) detailing how her husband and his family harassed and abused her since she married him in 2019.
A cow vigilante influencer has become notorious in India and worldwide for uploading videos of his fights with suspected cow smugglers on several social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
The vigilante, who goes under the name of Monu Manesar on social media, has been documenting his war against people suspected of smuggling cattle or beef in India for six years, according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and the Hindustan Times.
A mob in India’s southern state of Telangana attacked an atheist activist while inside a police van, according to reports by Indian media outlets. The assault happened in the state’s Hanamkonda district.
ok...so goons can casually assault someone in police custody in a police vehicle. Wow @TelanganaCOPs
An article from the British online magazine Spiked revealed that a private liberal arts college in Minnesota temporarily closed and censored an art exhibition of a feminist artist after claiming some Muslim students were offended by it.
A human rights group released a new report detailing how security agencies and government officials in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been using social media and dating apps to crack down on LGBTQIA+ people.
The report by Human Rights Watch, titled “All This Terror Because of a Photo: Digital Targeting and Its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa,” exposed how governments used digital methods to clamp down on the region’s LGBTQIA+ community.
An Indian rationalist exposed a religious “godman” who claimed he could perform miracles in front of the public with a challenge the priest couldn’t take on.
An American politician who claimed to be Jewish turns out to be the granddaughter of a Nazi officer.
On February 10th, The Washington Post shed light upon Florida Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna's true origins and called her out for lying about her Jewish heritage in an interview in November 2022 with the Jewish Insider.
A new national survey released by the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution on February 8th reveals that around two-thirds of white evangelicals in the US and most Republicans are sympathetic or adhere to Christian nationalism.
