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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > communities-organizing-complicity.html

US Communities are Organizing to end Complicity with the Gaza Genocide in their Backyards

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (816+ words) ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > right-cartoonists-decide.html

Racist Cartoonists Can't Decide How to Smear El-Sayed

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News (8/8/26; Time, 8/13/26) that El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are “Islamists”: “They want Sharia law, they hate Jews, they hate Christians, they hate capitalism, they hate America.” President Trump got in on…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > americans-organize-islamophobia.html

Muslim Americans Organize Amid Spike in Islamophobia

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (234+ words) Originally published in Gad World. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. This sentiment, however, isn’t restricted to the level of the states....

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juancole.com > 2026 > 08 > from-trump-security.html

From Gaza to Trump, the Age of "Big Security" is Here

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (602+ words) ( openDemocracy.net ) – Binyamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is hardly a surprise, given the current mood among Israeli Jews. Anything less than the full termination of Hamas will be seen as a failure of leadership, threatening the…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 08 > american-candidates-supremacism.html

Attacks on Muslim American Candidates: The Hegemony of White Supremacism

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (452+ words) Middle East Monitor 08/19/2026 These tirades have been interpreted to mean that the American Right has an Islamophobia problem and that we just have to ‘power through’ it – meaning if we put our heads down and work hard enough and remind…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 08 > moderates-support-genocide.html

Dem Voters are Done with "Moderates" who support Genocide

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) The soothing “moderate” label routinely goes to candidates like Stevens who’ve supported continual arming of Israel. She “benefited from about $62 million in advertising spending from half a dozen outside groups,” the Times noted. “Over half of that sum came from…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 08 > mamdani-merits-victims.html

Mamdani merits a 9/11 Observance Role: Shia Were al-Qaeda's Victims Too

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (589+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is…...