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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

03/06/2026 By Juan Cole

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

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Nightmare in Iraq

Nightmare in Iraq

Joe Stork via Human Rights Watch Fearing for their lives, more than 150,000 Yezidis fled Sinjar and surrounding villages to mountains north of the city […]

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Colonialism
Gaza and the struggle for Palestine: the 1930s

Gaza and the struggle for Palestine: the 1930s

By William R. Polk Annoyed but not deterred, the British Colonial Office decided in the 1930s, as it was then also doing in India, to […]

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Apartheid
Palestinian Education: another victim of Israel's Gaza War

Palestinian Education: another victim of Israel’s Gaza War

By Aimee Shalan and Samer Abdelnour Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights […]

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Iraq:  Is al-Maliki Preparing to Make a Coup?

Iraq: Is al-Maliki Preparing to Make a Coup?

Nouri al-Maliki, who is seeking a third term as prime minister of Iraq in the teeth of widespread opposition, abruptly began acting like a strongman […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel can't Afford to Lose Jews Like Me

Israel can’t Afford to Lose Jews Like Me

by DAVID H. SCHANZER for ISLAMiCommentary David Schanzer Writing in the New York Times . . . , columnist Shmuel Rosner labeled non-Israeli liberal Jews […]

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Apartheid
The Israeli assault has caused $150 million damage to Gaza food industry

The Israeli assault has caused $150 million damage to Gaza food industry

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Israeli offensive on Gaza has caused “huge losses” for the already-struggling food industry in the coastal enclave, a national industry […]

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Iraq
The US intervened again in Iraq in Part to Save the Yazidis:  Who are They?

The US intervened again in Iraq in Part to Save the Yazidis: Who are They?

By Petr Kubalek via RFE/RL Islamic militants this week encircled thousands of members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, prompting the Obama administration to […]

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History
Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine:  Historical Background (Pt. 1, a)

Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine: Historical Background (Pt. 1, a)

By William R. Polk Like many observers I am both sick at heart and emotionally drained from watching and reading about the horrible events in […]

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The Cruel Jest of American "Humanitarian Aid" to Iraq

The Cruel Jest of American “Humanitarian Aid” to Iraq

By Juan Cole The United States of America has no claim on the language of “humanitarian aid” to Iraq after what it did to that […]

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