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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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Massacre alleged in Syria

Massacre alleged in Syria

Syrian opposition groups alleged that the Syrian government committed a massacre in Idlib on Wednesday, leaving over 100 dead, most of them said to be […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Women Rally against Police Brutality

Egyptian Women Rally against Police Brutality

Thousands of women rallied near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Tuesday, protesting the mistreatment meted out to women protesters by security forces. In some […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt Scientific Institute up in Flames

Egypt Scientific Institute up in Flames

The Scientific Institute in Cairo has been burned. It was the second oldest such institute outside Europe, after the one in Philadelphia. Some 200,000 rare […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones

Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones

The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong…

Juan Cole

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Iraq on the Brink: Court Forbids VP al-Hashimi from Leaving Country

Iraq on the Brink: Court Forbids VP al-Hashimi from Leaving Country

The Iraqi equivalent of the supreme court issued an order Monday forbidding Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi from leaving Iraq, according to al-Hayat writing in Arabic. […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Protesters Demand Military Step Down in Wake of Blue Bra Beating

Egyptian Protesters Demand Military Step Down in Wake of Blue Bra Beating

Demonstrations and clashes continued in downtown Cairo for the third day on Sunday, as protesters rallied against the police crackdown on Saturday, which entailed use […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!”  Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended …

Tom Engelhardt

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Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Only a couple days after US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta declared the Iraq War over and turned the last US base in Iraq over […]

Juan Cole

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Juan Cole

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