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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

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

03/07/2026 By Dialogue Earth

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

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Heartbeats around the World (Video)

Heartbeats around the World (Video)

“Engage: A Cloud-Sourced Film, or, “Heartbeats around the World”:

Juan Cole

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The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

The Harvard Magazine gives a full account of the deciphering by Professor Karen L. King of a fragmentary Coptic fragment on papyrus from the otherwise […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Fury Unbound: the Muslim Dilemma (Majid)

Fury Unbound: the Muslim Dilemma (Majid)

Anouar Majid writes from Rabat, Morocco, in a guest column for Informed Comment The French are in trouble. The publication Charlie Hebdo has just published […]

Juan Cole

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Romney lets the 47% Know Exactly how he feels about Them (Jamiol Cartoon)

Romney lets the 47% Know Exactly how he feels about Them (Jamiol Cartoon)

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Juan Cole

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Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

The Global Americana Institute is delighted to announce the publication in Arabic of Marshall Frady’s biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. along with some of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

In a conversation with donors he thought private, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out with startling clarity the American policy toward the Palestinians: Mother […]

Juan Cole

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America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

Jen Marlowe writes at Tomdispatch.com Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (in the U.S. at Least) By […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Nouman Ali Khan of the Bayyinah Institute appeals to the Quran, the behavior of the Prophet Muhammad, and common sense in upbraiding the violent believers […]

Juan Cole

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Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

It turns out that Mitt Romney divides Americans into two groups. Nearly half, 47%, (145.7 million people) are leeches. They are the ones, he says, […]

Juan Cole

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