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6 days ago | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Last year, Congress proposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) (S.558 and H.R. 1007) to combat anti-Semitism, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sen. Tommy Tuberville and other Republican officials object to the bill because it infringes on the right of far-right Christians to express that Jews are to blame for the death of Jesus? Excuse me, but isn’t this totally counterproductive to the point of the bill?
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2 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – On April 15, the venerable Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) issued an eloquent statement stating their objections to, “the false choice between confronting antisemitism and upholding democracy.” antisemitismhas traditionally been used as a right-wing tool to appeal to a primitive, nativist sense of exclusion. Now the motivations are more varied and complex.
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2 months ago | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The efforts to discredit and suppress the film No Other Land are part and parcel of a broader effort by Republicans to dominate and manipulate the mainstream media. They have gone to great lengths to undermine traditional media, in favor of the partisan charged social media outlets, free of boundaries and regulation.
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2 months ago | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – The title of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, reflects the sad reality that these people have no place else to go. The residents are mostly goat and sheep herders, and endure snow-blanketed winters and oppressive summer heat.
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2 months ago | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is eviscerating the US Constitution in a particularly insidious way. Previously, I have written about Trump’s efforts to hijack the Free Speech Movement, and invert it, thrusting us all down the Republican rabbit hole.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Most of (convicted felon) Donald Trump’s Executive Orders are brazenly unconstitutional, and stand to be reversed in Court rulings by thoughtful, law-abiding judges. But the red elephants in the room are the sycophantic, compliant judges he appointed during his last term such as Aileen Cannon of Florida. She let him off the hook in his classified documents case, in defiance of settled statutory law and legal precedent.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump’s second-term nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel is former Arkansas Governor, Rev. Mike Huckabee. He is an Evangelical Zionist, who has repeatedly claimed that there are no Palestinians, and brutally dismissed the right of the Palestinian people to their own land. A former US ambassador, Luis Moreno said of Huckabee, “I unfortunately was exposed to him during his visits to Israel back in the day.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A small coterie of wealthy Jewish Americans are perversely giddy and glowing over convicted criminal Donald Trump’s election. In contrast, American Jews in less wealthy income groups overwhelmingly voted against the orange authoritarian. Still, he garnered about a fifth of the Jewish vote. How did he con millions of Jewish people into voting against their own interests after his numerous expressions of anti-Semitism?
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Rob Maurer
It was no coincidence that Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu chose the US Election Day to fire his Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, when Washington was too distracted to respond. With Bibi, everything is calculated for his benefit, even if it inflicts maximum damage on Israel and its allies. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency the same day was an occasion for rejoicing in Netanyahu’s government.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
juancole.com | H. Scott Prosterman |Juan Cole
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It was no coincidence that Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu chose the US Election Day to fire his Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, when Washington was too distracted to respond. With Bibi, everything is calculated for his benefit, even if it inflicts maximum damage on Israel and its allies. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency the same day was an occasion for rejoicing in Netanyahu’s government.
