New York, October 19, 2022 — As Americans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving and gather with loved ones, those around the world are being persecuted because of their beliefs. It’s happening to the Yazidis in Iraq, the Rohingya in Myanmar and Uyghur Muslims in China. In RELIGICIDE: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence (Post Hill Press; November 22, 2022; ISBN-13: 978-1637581018; Hardcover), co-authors and activists Georgette Bennett and Jerry White give a name to this insidious strand of violence and propose a global initiative and set of policies to identify it, respond to it and prevent it.  “We call it religicide,” Bennett and White declare. “Absent a name, and absent appropriate laws and…