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3 days ago | 
middleeasteye.net | John Rees |Hamid Dabashi
Liberal imperialists, who would have been delighted with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris as president in the last US election, are now up in arms, mourning the global embarrassment Donald Trump has caused them on the pages of The New York Times and beyond. Trump is too obvious, too crass, too vulgar an imperialist. Their first instinct is to disown him as an anomaly. He looks like a Latin American dictator, an African despot, an Oriental tyrant, or a Russian czar.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Richard Silverstein |Jonathan Cook |Hamid Dabashi
Americans have a proverbially short memory, and they think the whole world suffers from the same condition. Whether living inside or outside of the US at the mercy of this collective American amnesia, and the unremitting violence it entails, the world needs a much longer memory to survive the chaos Washington is visiting upon it.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Hamid Dabashi
These days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes time from his busy schedule slaughtering Palestinian women, their children, and the rest of their families to send messages of love and solidarity to Iranian women. The beleaguered war criminal kindly assures them how much he and his entire settler colony support their struggles for liberation. The messages sound surreal. But they are real.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Joseph A. Massad |Hamid Dabashi
I read The New York Times daily as a barometer - as a farmer would heed a bellwether, or an old-fashioned European anthropologist would stare at the behaviour of a faraway tribe - to see which way the liberal Zionist wind is blowing.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mohamed Hashem |Imran Mullah |Hamid Dabashi
African-American writer and public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates has said he doesn't "give a fuck" if he is sidelined in the media for calling Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Middle East Eye, the award-winning author discussed his new book, , his evolving views on Israel and Palestine and the 2024 US election, amongst other issues.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Hamid Dabashi
These days, as we get closer to D-Day for the US presidential elections, The New York Times is publishing one article after another about Donald Trump and fascism. "John Kelly, the Trump White House's longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist," The Times reports. "Is It Fascism?" asks another piece. Robert Paxton, a leading historian, once thought the label was overused but has now changed his mind in the face of "Trumpism".
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Hamid Dabashi
The United States is the single most powerful supporter of the Israeli settler colony. The U.S. government heavily arms and gives political cover to Israel, and considers the people at the mercy of its aggression as America's enemies. And president after president, Republican and Democrat, has enabled Israel to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide with total impunity.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Hamid Dabashi
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Leila Sansour |Hamid Dabashi
The United States is the single most powerful supporter of the Israeli settler colony. The US government heavily arms and gives political cover to Israel, and considers the people at the mercy of its aggression as America's enemies. And president after president, Republican and Democrat, has enabled Israel to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide with total impunity.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi 9 November 2022 13:19 GMT | Last update: 1 year 10 months ago The false divide between Islam and the West has little to do with the lived experiences of Muslims across history The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, is pictured on 26 October 2022 (AFP) Arguably the most damning binary division to have plagued our reading of world history, from the rise of Islam to this day, is the fictional bifurcation presumed between two compelling illusions codenamed “Islam” and...
