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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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Cobban On Cpa Laws And Transition To

Cobban On Cpa Laws And Transition To

Cobban on CPA Laws and Transition to new Iraqi Government Veteran journalist and blogger Helena Cobban wrote in with further remarks on the issue of […]

Juan Cole

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Bomb In Baghdad Kills 1 Wounds 3 Ap

Bomb In Baghdad Kills 1 Wounds 3 Ap

Bomb in Baghdad Kills 1, Wounds 3 AP reports, “The bloodshed persisted in Baghdad Friday, as a roadside bomb missed American troops but killed one […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Preachers Throughout Iraq

Shiite Preachers Throughout Iraq

Shiite Preachers throughout Iraq support Sistani, Slam US Plans as “Colonialism.” al-Hayat reported that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s representative in Karbala, Shaikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala’i, […]

Juan Cole

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Democratic Candidates In Iowa Differ On

Democratic Candidates In Iowa Differ On

Democratic Candidates in Iowa Differ on Iraq, and it Probably Doesn’t Matter I think the Iraq War as an issue has probably been overblown as […]

Juan Cole

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Paul Oneill Controversy Smith On Iraq

Paul Oneill Controversy Smith On Iraq

The Paul O’Neill Controversy: Smith on the Iraq War Planning and the PNAC The allegation by Paul O’Neill that Bush wanted people to get him […]

Juan Cole

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Nathan Brown On Trial Of Saddam Nathan

Nathan Brown On Trial Of Saddam Nathan

Nathan Brown on the Trial of Saddam Nathan Brown, an eminent political scientist at George Washington University, shared with me the following with regard to […]

Juan Cole

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Cole On Lehrer 116 Some Readers Have

Cole On Lehrer 116 Some Readers Have

Cole on Lehrer 1/16 Some readers have kindly asked me to let them know about these things in advance. I’ll be on Jim Lehrer’s show […]

Juan Cole

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Us Hq In Kirkuk Comes Under Fire

Us Hq In Kirkuk Comes Under Fire

US HQ in Kirkuk comes under Fire; Civilians killed by bomb near Tikrit al-Hayat: Guerrillas launched an RPG attack in Karbala, with no casualties reported. […]

Juan Cole

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30000 Shiites March In Basra Demanding

30000 Shiites March In Basra Demanding

30,000 Shiites march in Basra demanding Free and Fair Elections British troops estimated that 30,000 Shiites demonstrated in Basra on Thursday, with massive crowds beginning […]

Juan Cole

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