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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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Muqtada Wounded By Us Bombing Muqtada

Muqtada Wounded By Us Bombing Muqtada

Muqtada Wounded by US Bombing Muqtada al-Sadr was wounded by US bombardment of Najaf on Friday morning, according to Reuters. Sadr spokesman Ahmad al-Shinabi told […]

Juan Cole

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223 Dead 500 Wounded In Clashes Across

223 Dead 500 Wounded In Clashes Across

223 dead, 500 wounded in clashes across Iraq US marines launch major assault on Najaf The headline, which is perfectly serviceable, is ripped off from […]

Juan Cole

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Endgame In Najaf From Arabic And

Endgame In Najaf From Arabic And

Endgame in Najaf? From Arabic and English radio and television broadcasts, including al-Jazeerah: The Marines have completely surrounded Najaf and cut off all the roads […]

Juan Cole

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Fierce Fighting In Amara Marines

Fierce Fighting In Amara Marines

Fierce Fighting in Amara Marines Prepare for final Push in Najaf Fresh explosions and machine gun fire rocked Najaf early Thursday morning. On Wednesday, fighting […]

Juan Cole

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Kerry And Bush On Iraq War Bush Asked

Kerry And Bush On Iraq War Bush Asked

Kerry and Bush on Iraq War Bush asked Kerry if he would still have voted for the Iraq War if he had known in fall […]

Juan Cole

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Correction To Nyt Re Sistani Alex

Correction To Nyt Re Sistani Alex

Correction to the NYT re: Sistani Alex Berenson’s otherewise fine article on the situation in Najaf contains an important error. This mistake may well not […]

Juan Cole

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Mahdi Army Fights On In Najaf Sadr

Mahdi Army Fights On In Najaf Sadr

Mahdi Army Fights on in Najaf, Sadr City The US military pounded Mahdi Army positions in the vast cemetery of Najaf again on Tuesday, with […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq National Congress Office Closed

Iraq National Congress Office Closed

Iraq National Congress Office Closed Al-Hayat reports via Agence France Presse that the head of the office of Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress in Baghdad […]

Juan Cole

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Pow Mistreatment Issue Between Us And

Pow Mistreatment Issue Between Us And

POW Mistreatment an Issue between US and Iraq, Denmark and UK Death Penalty Condemned by Danish Defense Minister Danish Colonel Henrik Flach said Tuesday, “The […]

Juan Cole

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