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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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Bonapartes Proclamation On Overthrowing

Bonapartes Proclamation On Overthrowing

Bonaparte’s Proclamation on Overthrowing the Ottoman Beys of Egypt Just one day until the book is out!. From the Napoleon’s Egypt Blog today, Bonaparte’s June […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Obama Sticks To His Guns Senator Obama

Obama Sticks To His Guns Senator Obama

Obama Sticks to his Guns Senator Obama still can’t see why it is controversial for him to threaten to violate Pakistan’s sovereignty to get at […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Sermons On Sunni Withdrawal Saudi

Iraqi Sermons On Sunni Withdrawal Saudi

Iraqi Sermons on the Sunni Withdrawal, Saudi Calls for Destruction of Shrines The USG Open Source Center translates select passages from Sunni and Shiite sermons […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Hard Of Hearing When It Comes To Saudis

Hard Of Hearing When It Comes To Saudis

Hard of Hearing when it Comes to the Saudis Iraqslogger discovers that the State Department suddenly can’t hear very well when the Saudi foreign minister […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Al Anbar Resident Approval Of Sunni

Al Anbar Resident Approval Of Sunni

Al-Anbar Residents approve of Sunni withdrawal Remember all that reporting about “progress” against “al-Qaeda” in al-Anbar Province? But for Sunni Arab Iraqis to hate the […]

Juan Cole

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Arc Of Crisis Panel At Yearly Kos Heres

Arc Of Crisis Panel At Yearly Kos Heres

Candidates at Yearly Kos Reactions to Arc of Crisis Panel Alas, although I heard the Democratic candidates for president at Yearly Kos and attended the […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Pakistani Protests Against Obama

Pakistani Protests Against Obama

Pakistani Protests against Obama; Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table; Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that They, Too, Could run for President I’m […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Shiite Militia Attacks On Us And

Shiite Militia Attacks On Us And

Shiite Militia Attacks on US and British Troops;The Kurds and the Kirkuk Crisis Remember that spate of newspaper stories about July seeing the lowest number […]

Juan Cole

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Cole Interview From Yearly Kos

Cole Interview From Yearly Kos

Cole Interview from Yearly Kos An interview with me at Josh Marshall’s Talkingpointsmemo from the Yearly Kos conference. (Top video frame.) Thanks to Josh’s staff […]

Juan Cole

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