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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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Iranian Economy Buoyed By ‘Dark Fleet’ Oil Shipments To China

Iranian Economy Buoyed By ‘Dark Fleet’ Oil Shipments To China

By Michael Scollon | – ( RFE/RL ) – More than 6,000 kilometers from Tehran, in treacherous waters off the shores of Singapore, a “dark […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Donald Trump
Trump 2.0: Re-Breaking America in his Image

Trump 2.0: Re-Breaking America in his Image

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He’s […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Africa
Namibia, Victim of Germany's 1904 Genocide, Lambastes Berlin for Denying Israel's atrocities against Palestinians

Namibia, Victim of Germany’s 1904 Genocide, Lambastes Berlin for Denying Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Countries of the global South are most often denied a voice in Europe and North America. Our cable news brings […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why ending military Control over Palestinians is a Necessity for Israel

Why ending military Control over Palestinians is a Necessity for Israel

Tom Mehager ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Until Oct. 7, the Israeli state managed to maintain an “enlightened” and democratic facade among Western powers and […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Ilan Pappe’s book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ challenges the Propaganda Campaign

Ilan Pappe’s book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ challenges the Propaganda Campaign

By Mohammed Salem ( Middle East Monitor There is an urgent need to counter the Israeli propaganda that is “repeated endlessly in the media, enforced […]

Middle East Monitor

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Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

“When plunder [and dispossession]  becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves […]

Hugh J. Curran

Apartheid
Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

By Peter Greste, Macquarie University | – (The Conversation) – Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a […]

Peter Greste

Climate Crisis
Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

By Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University | – (The Conversation) – Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won't cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won’t cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening of Prime Minister Binyamin […]

Juan Cole

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