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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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Africa
Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050

Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050

By Philip Kofi Adom, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming […]

The Conversation

Arab Americans
Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data

Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data

By Simon Marshall-Shah | ( Michigan Advance ) – Without equitable data systems, governmental policies will always come up short of fairly representing all of […]

Michigan Advance

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Purim at the Time of Genocide

Purim at the Time of Genocide

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Donald Trump
Jared Kushner's Shameful Remarks on Gaza: "I would do my best to move the people out"

Jared Kushner’s Shameful Remarks on Gaza: “I would do my best to move the people out”

( Middle East Monitor ) – “It’s unfortunate that no one’s taking in the refugees,” lamented former White House advisor during the Trump administration Jared […]

Ramona Wadi

Donald Trump
If America were a Trumpian Autocracy: The Lies we'd be Told about War (and so much Else)

If America were a Trumpian Autocracy: The Lies we’d be Told about War (and so much Else)

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Displaced and Refugees
The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible […]

Juan Cole

Canada
Is Canada's Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?

Is Canada’s Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vote in the Canadian parliament this week to halt new arms exports to Israel is of great symbolic importance […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise

New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise

By Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University | Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah is not the only man-made island to have emerged from the sea this century. Over […]

The Conversation

Anti-intellectualism
Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Joseph R. Biden President of the United States   Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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