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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

In an early instance of Neoliberalism, the German concentration camps for the remnants of the genocided Herero were sometimes given to private companies to run […]

Juan Cole

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Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.;  Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.; Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

A notorious polluting coal plant has finally been closed in Alexandria, Va. It had been giving locals lung and heart problems for years. Ironically, the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

The polemicists of the fringe left and the far right who depict the Baathist regime in Syria as a beleagured victim of Western plotting may […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

My sweetheart —            may she live as long  as my heartbreak —         today began her kindnesses  […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

The German settlers and authorities round up 13,000 of the remaining Herero. They put them in concentration camps, where 4,000 died of mistreatment. Almost all […]

Juan Cole

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The Dead Pile up in Syria as Historic Aleppo Market Burns

The Dead Pile up in Syria as Historic Aleppo Market Burns

Reuters reports that heavy fighting raged in Deraa, Aleppo and elsewhere all weekend in Syria: Amateur video captured the burning of the historic 17th century […]

Juan Cole

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Settler Violence and Ethnic Cleansing: Mahmoud Abbas at the UN on What Israel is doing to the Palestinians

Settler Violence and Ethnic Cleansing: Mahmoud Abbas at the UN on What Israel is doing to the Palestinians

Mahmoud Abbas complains of Israeli settler colonialism in the Palestinian West Bank and warns of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem. The […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Obama set precedent with Drone Killings for Romney to become Terminator-in-Chief (Ross)

Obama set precedent with Drone Killings for Romney to become Terminator-in-Chief (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: President Obama’s personal involvement in selecting the targets of covert drone strikes means he risks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

German officers arrive in Southwest Africa from Berlin to deal with the Herero, whose rebellion has died down. Ordinarily a colonial state would now move […]

Juan Cole

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