Source: The UnPopulist
by JL Wall
“For the last century, the relationship between Judaism and Islam has seemed to offer little more than bloodshed and acrimony. This has perhaps never been more the case than in the year since Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Try to imagine a ‘Judeo-Islamic tradition’ today, and all that comes to mind is an artifact, the kind of thing whose bones we might stare at in a museum. But it is a living thing, contends Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute on Islam and modernity, in his hopeful history of that tradition, The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World. Looking to what Judaism and Islam have shared in the past suggests that there are ways that competing Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms can coexist; the wider regional conflict, often couched in religious terms, need not continue indefinitely.” (10/07/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/moses-can-lead-israelis-and-palestinians