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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
Democracy

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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Israel/ Palestine
As Gaza Faces Famine, Aid Agency UNRWA is Being Defunded on Dubious Grounds

As Gaza Faces Famine, Aid Agency UNRWA is Being Defunded on Dubious Grounds

by Mariam Shah ( Middle East Monitor ) – Since 7 October 2023, the relentless Israeli aggression on Gaza has displaced more than 85 per […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
Girls in Hijab Experience overlapping Forms of Racial and Gendered Violence

Girls in Hijab Experience overlapping Forms of Racial and Gendered Violence

By Salsabel Almanssori, University of Windsor and Muna Saleh, Concordia University of Edmonton | – World Hijab Day recognizes the millions of Muslim women and […]

The Conversation

Constitution
US District Court Judge: "It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza"

US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN […]

The Conversation

Addiction
“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com) – Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency […]

Tomdispatch

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Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at "Intercepted"

Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted”

Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain interview Juan Cole at their superb Intercepted podcast at the Intercept . I come in about 12 minutes in. They […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Governments should continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling

Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling

By Daria Shapovalova, University of Aberdeen | – Norway’s district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu's War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Let’s face it. Israel under PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), isn’t helping the fight against global Antisemitism, and […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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