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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
Colonialism

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

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Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: On August 31, on the evening before new U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian National Authority (PNA) peace talks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls' School, Destroy Olive Trees

Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls’ School, Destroy Olive Trees

The phrase “ethnic cleansing” conjures up a swift, comprehensive act of expulsion. But in reality, moving a large population off its land is the death […]

Juan Cole

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Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Matthew Carr writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Until this year, Spain appeared to be relatively indifferent to the Islamophobic politics that have […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Alam:  Zionism: Two Deficits

Alam: Zionism: Two Deficits

M. Shahid Alam shares with us an excerpt from his recent book, Israeli Exceptionalism excerpted from the author’s Israeli Exceptionalism (Palgrave, 2009) “We do not […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited Iran on Monday, seeing Tehran’s support for his candidacy for a second term. […]

Juan Cole

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Zogby:  Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

Zogby: Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

James Zogby writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After decades spent trying to better explain the Arab World to other Americans, all too […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
The Rumors of Multiculturalism's death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

The Rumors of Multiculturalism’s death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the weekend declared “multiculturalism” dead in her country and demanded that labor immigrants be assimilated, through German language and German […]

Juan Cole

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Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Iran commentary in the United States generates more heat than light for the most part, and much of it is frankly driven by ignorance. Veteran […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Tomdispatch.com has been on a tear in the past two weeks. From Bacevich on the US military as quagmire specialists to Pepe Escobar on central […]

Juan Cole

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