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No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids
Archaeology

No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids

Juan Cole

As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.

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The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King:  A new Statue in Tehran

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King: A new Statue in Tehran

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Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not: The Stubborn Legacy of America’s Response to 9/11

( Tomdispatch.com ) – This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island […]

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How Israel's "Send Palestinians to Congo" plan Evokes British Colonial Plans to send Jews to Uganda

How Israel’s “Send Palestinians to Congo” plan Evokes British Colonial Plans to send Jews to Uganda

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – Nothing illuminates the mutant perversion of Zionism under Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) more clearly than this: […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that […]

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Iran
Muslims and Jews:  Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

Muslims and Jews: Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

( The Chukogu Shimbun ) – HIROSHIMA —The elegant art deco building of Ettefagh, Iran’s famous Jewish school, still stands on a leafy avenue adjacent […]

Nassrine Azimi

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Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami and Michael Hammer have a new commentary out based on their polling at the University of Maryland’s Critical […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

Shimri Zameret  ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government […]

Waging Nonviolence

Corruption
CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) – CNN has long been criticized by media analysts and journalists for its deference to the Israeli […]

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1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare that worsens with […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – After more than 90 days of war in Gaza, in which at least 22,000 Palestinians are […]

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