Mimi Kirk is an editorial consultant with Al-Shabaka. She served as the organization’s commissioning editor and managing director from 2016 to 2020. She is co-editor (with Rochelle Davis) of Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first Century (Indiana University Press, 2013), as well as several other volumes on the Middle East. Her writing has appeared in Middle East Report, Al-Jazeera, Jadaliyya, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
In recent years, much has been written about the overwhelming support former President Donald Trump has received from white evangelical Christians, particularly Christian Zionists. Less examined is the relationship between white supremacy and Christian Zionism, namely their overlapping ideologies and political clout. In this policy brief, analysts Halah Ahmad and Mimi Kirk examine the sinister synergy between Christian Zionism and white supremacy, unpacking the exceptionalism upon which Christian Zionist racist ideologies, discourses, and politics are based.
Read MoreThough Refqa Abu-Remaileh became a member of Al-Shabaka’s board this year, she is no stranger to the organization, having joined as a policy analyst in 2016. Dr. Abu-Remaileh grew up in Jordan and Canada before pursuing her master’s and doctorate in Arabic literature and film at Oxford University. She then worked at the Oxford Research…
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