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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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Barzani Greets Turkish Indecision On

Barzani Greets Turkish Indecision On

Barzani Greets Turkish Indecision on Troops In an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat in the United Arab Emirates, Massoud Barzani greeted the Turkish government’s new state […]

Juan Cole

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Two Us Soldiers Killed One Injured At

Two Us Soldiers Killed One Injured At

Two US Soldiers Killed, One injured at Kirkuk Guerrillas near Kirkuk fired on a US patrol with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns late Saturday, […]

Juan Cole

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Interim Council Establishes Security

Interim Council Establishes Security

Interim Council establishes Security Committee Iraq’s Interim Governing Council responded to the recent violence in the holy city of Karbala between a cleric’s militia and […]

Juan Cole

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Economic Privatization And

Economic Privatization And

Economic Privatization and Liberalization in Iraq, Kuwait–maybe even Egypt The US is going ahead with privatizing 12 state owned enterprises, mainly services, in Iraq. This […]

Juan Cole

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Bin Laden Tape On Iraq Thing That

Bin Laden Tape On Iraq Thing That

Bin Laden Tape on Iraq The thing that always strikes me about Bin Laden is how hysterical he remains all the time in his pronouncements, […]

Juan Cole

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Turks May Not Send Troops To Iraq

Turks May Not Send Troops To Iraq

Turks May not Send Troops to Iraq Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey has not made a “must go” decision about sending […]

Juan Cole

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Four Us Soldiers Killed 18 Wounded In

Four Us Soldiers Killed 18 Wounded In

Four US Soldiers Killed, 18 wounded In addition to the three US soldiers killed in Karbala on Friday–one of whom the Arabic press is calling […]

Juan Cole

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Demonstrations In Baghdad And Basra

Demonstrations In Baghdad And Basra

Demonstrations in Baghdad and Basra Against US by Shiites The aftermath of the gunbattle in Karbala between US troops and the tribal paramilitary of an […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Gunfight In Karbala For

Breaking News Gunfight In Karbala For

Breaking News: Gunfight in Karbala For twelve hours from Thursday night into Friday early morning, US military police engaged in a gunfight with Shiite militiamen […]

Juan Cole

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