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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

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

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

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

Why the Trump Administration’s use of Legality in a Lawless Fashion, is worse than just Law-Breaking

Why the Trump Administration’s use of Legality in a Lawless Fashion, is worse than just Law-Breaking

03/06/2026 By Maha Hilal

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Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

What appears to be a Taliban poison-gas attack has sickened 60 girls at a school in Kabul, though most were quickly discharged from hospital and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nuclear engineer Behrad Nakhai writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment A brief overview of Bushehr nuclear power plant startup (Simplified) Finally, nuclear fuel […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie

Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie

It wasn’t the 21-year-old Michael Enright who drunkenly slashed his New York city cab driver after asking ‘Are you Muslim?’ It was the Republican National […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Matthews Takes Down Lazio over Half-Truths and Scapegoating of Muslims

Matthews Takes Down Lazio over Half-Truths and Scapegoating of Muslims

Chris Matthews of Hardball takes down New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for his scapegoating of Muslims and aggressive, manipulative tactics, suggesting that the meanness […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Anzalone: From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to <i>Jihadi</i> Journalism in Somalia

Anzalone: From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to Jihadi Journalism in Somalia

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment– which is particularly timely given the bloody attack by fundamentalist gunmen on a Mogadishu hotel, […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Stewart: Fox Smears Owner Alwaleed bin Talal!

Stewart: Fox Smears Owner Alwaleed bin Talal!

Jon Stewart points out that Fox News anchors and guests are vilifying Saudi prince and financier Alwaleed bin Talal as a financial backer of Imam […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Bombings Kill 32 in Pakistan NW; <br/> US Drone Strikes Kill 20; <br/> As Floods Advance on Sindh

Bombings Kill 32 in Pakistan NW;
US Drone Strikes Kill 20;
As Floods Advance on Sindh

As Pakistan’s army and political elite focused on the catastrophic floods that have put a fifth of the country under water and displaced millions, militants […]

Juan Cole

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Cole at CNN: Now the US Should Get out of Iraq’s Politics

Cole at CNN: Now the US Should Get out of Iraq’s Politics

My essay, “Now the US should get out of Iraq’s Poltics,” is now at the CNN web site. Excerpt: “Washington should stop trying to shoehorn […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
What would Martin Luther King Say?  Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America

What would Martin Luther King Say? Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America

The demonstration held on Sunday against the Park 51 Muslim community center in lower Manhattan was an attempt by the right wing to strike at […]

Juan Cole

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