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(Iran) What Will Happen When Khamenei Dies? (Ardavan Khoshnood, BESA Center)

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, is 81 years old and reportedly in declining health. The question of the...

(Israel) Are There Now Memory Communities in Holocaust Discourse? (Udi Lebel, BESA Center)

The controversy around the identity of Yad Vashem’s directorate chairman seems to suggest that Holocaust discourse is now deteriorating into polemical argument. For decades,...

(Arab Uprisings) Secular liberals destroyed the Arab uprisings. Don’t let it happen again (Joseph Massad, Middle East Eye)

Besides the dictators and their western sponsors, secular Arab liberals have been the most reactionary anti-democratic force in Arab politics in the last three...

(Palestinians/Israel) ‘Until my last breath’: Palestinians of Jerusalem defend land against Israel’s bulldozers (Aseel Jundi, Middle East Eye)

Residents of Wadi al-Rababa say they have papers proving ownership dating back to Ottoman days, as they clash with Israeli forces called in to...

(USA) Progressive Jewish groups oppose codifying IHRA antisemitism definition into US law (Middle East Eye)

Ten groups warn that IHRA definition is being wrongly used against those who 'oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory' https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jewish-groups-oppose-ihra-antisemitism-definition-us-law

(USA) Trump impeachment 2.0: Here’s what US Arabs and Muslims are saying about it (Umar A Farooq, Ali Harb, Middle East Eye)

US House of Representatives votes 232 to 197 to impeach Trump over his role in inciting riot at US Capitol after the president rejected...

(USA/Guantanamo) ‘Holding our breath’: Will Biden keep his promise and shut Guantanamo Bay? (Sheren Khalel, Middle East Eye)

President-elect is expected to close prison camp before its 20th anniversary next year, analysts say https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/joe-biden-promise-close-guantanamo-bay

(Ethiopia) Ethiopia conflict: Outrage over damage to Tigray mosque (Zecharias Zelalem, Middle East Eye)

Details of the damage inflicted on the al-Nejashi mosque - believed to be one of the oldest mosques in Africa - took weeks to...

(Israel) Israel is losing the fight to obscure its apartheid character (Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye)

New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

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