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Brendan Szendro

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Faculty Lecturer in Political Science, McGill University

History offers plenty of lessons about what happens when governments support faith groups – and it doesn’t always help them. cosmonaut/iStock via Getty Images Plus

July 28, 2025

Why government support for religion doesn’t necessarily make people more religious

Brendan Szendro, McGill University

History shows that governments’ attempts to strengthen religious institutions can backfire.

Without a formal constitution, Israelis disagree on such basic issues as whether Israel is a Jewish state. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

June 16, 2021

How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs

Brendan Szendro, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Governed by a changeable body of ‘basic laws,’ Israel never settled basic questions like the rights of religious minorities. These destabilizing issues will continue to fester under a new government.

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