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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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Muqdadiyah Massacre Of Shiites Baghdad

Muqdadiyah Massacre Of Shiites Baghdad

Muqdadiyah Massacre of Shiites Baghdad Sunni Neighborhoods Organize Militias At Muqdadiyah, a mixed Sunni-Shiite town north of Baghdad, guerrillas came to a bus station, separated […]

Juan Cole

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Beginning Of New War Will It Spill

Beginning Of New War Will It Spill

The Beginning of a New War? Will it Spill over on Iraq? All hell broke loose on Wednesday in the Mideast, with a Hizbullah attack […]

Juan Cole

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Of Mushrooms And Peak Experiences

Of Mushrooms And Peak Experiences

Of Mushrooms and Peak Experiences The magic mushrooms really do work. Depending on what you mean by “work.” I suspect that these mushrooms were used […]

Juan Cole

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190 Dead In Mumbai Train Bombings

190 Dead In Mumbai Train Bombings

190 Dead in Mumbai Train Bombings The likelihood is that the sophisticated coordinated attack on the trains in India’s western commercial hub of Mumbai (Bombay) […]

Juan Cole

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Over 60 Dead As Faith Based Killings

Over 60 Dead As Faith Based Killings

Over 60 Dead as Faith-Based Killings Continue Kurds to the Rescue? By my count, nearly 200 Iraqis have been killed in civil war violence during […]

Juan Cole

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Gaza Crisis Israeli Air Force Bombed

Gaza Crisis Israeli Air Force Bombed

Gaza Crisis The Israeli air force bombed a civilian Palestinian house that they said was being used to plot out terrorist attacks. As a home, […]

Juan Cole

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Over 55 Killed Including 25 In Sadr

Over 55 Killed Including 25 In Sadr

Over 55 Killed, Including 25 in Sadr City Bombings Iraq to Ask UN to Withdrew US Troop Immunity Guerrillas detonated two huge car bombs in […]

Juan Cole

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Food Water Running Out For Gazas

Food Water Running Out For Gazas

Food, Water Running out For Gaza’s Children The humanitarian crisis in a civilian Gaza under attack from Israel is worsening, according to United Nations agencies. […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 80 Dead In Civil War

At Least 80 Dead In Civil War

At least 80 Dead in Civil War Bloodbath Government Forced to Depend on Local Gunmen “”We will complete the mission and I will make my […]

Juan Cole

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