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History Prof, U Michigan: Global affairs, Environment, Progressivism, Lit., Pop Culture, Spirituality; jricardocole ; @jricole @mastodon .social
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My 'Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires,' is out from Nation Books on Oct. 9, 2018; pre-order! Fred Donner, U of Chicago, says it "draws deeply on the text of the Qur'an and on a vast selection of the best modern scholarship to make a convincing case"
#Islam
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Macklemore knows more history in this one song than Hillary Clinton has known her entire life - signed, a historian
HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.
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Mexico Fully Recognizes Palestine as an Independent State, welcomes formal Palestinian Embassy
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no American university president has deplored the Israeli destruction of all the universities in Gaza
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@Ayaan
I was studying the Qur’an in Cairo before you were born, son.
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fine. Can we have our $26 bn back, then?
Israeli Far Right Minister of Settlements and National Missions, Orit Struck, stated that the United States "does not deserve to be labeled as a friend of Israel."
Speaking in an interview with an Israeli radio station this week, she also emphasized, "Israel is not just another
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Oslo, the Capital of Norway, Announces boycott of Goods Produced in the Israeli-Occupied Territories
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You don’t have the faintest idea what Muslim belief is; you are apparently incapable of reading contextually
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In 1972 I joined other Northwestern undergrads in blocking Sheridan Road for three days. We were protesting the US genocide against Vietnam which may have killed 5 million. We were right. You are right
NUPD THREATENING ARRESTS AT THE NORTHWESTERN ENCAMPMENT AND CALLING FOR CPD REINFORCEMENTS
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Washington's purely instrumental use of international law to bash Russia but protect Israel equals the destruction of international law
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@Ayaan
Dude, I have Ph.D in Islamic Studies. I think that was the point.
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As a social scientist, are you saying that is a weighted sample or a sufficient ‘N’? And would we really investigate Islam as a religion that way alone? And if I challenged you on your knowledge of Christianity would you reply that you are good friends with Richard Dawkins?
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You are depriving 2.2 million innocent people in Gaza of potable water, with many slowly dying of thirst
This is the United States of America for God’s sake.
Everyone should be able to turn on the faucet and drink clean water.
My Administration is investing $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country.
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The US press also made Reagan and Bush sound more coherent than they were. And they keep prefacing 'analysis' of some Trumpism by saying 'this president' says X, giving respect to their own construct
Would be nice if US reporters also highlighted this and stopped normalizing his crazy.
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@BretStephensNYT
@IlhanMN
You literally called Obama an ‘anti-Israel president’ for *trying to make peace*, i.e. not swearing allegiance to one side
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Belgian Minister says what Biden won’t: Israel is wiping Entire Palestinian Villages off the Map
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So can Masha Gessen get an apology now?
Israeli Finance Minister says Palestinians have been living in a ghetto and the time has arrived to liquidate the ghetto
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Don't miss my new book, ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires,’ (Nation Books, Oct. 2018); order now! John Esposito says ‘Best book I’ve read in years’
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On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)
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whiteness covers a multitude of sins
As a mob raided the Capitol, a Capitol Police officer gave them directions to Chuck Schumer's office, per this Times report: "But they could not find Mr. Schumer’s office. He said they asked a Capitol Police officer, who tried to direct them."
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Texas Wind turbines went right on Turning under Harvey’s impact, as Refineries Shut Down
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How did we Become so Backward? S. Korea has US Equivalent of 1,311 Coronavirus Deaths as we hit 16,000
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No, Harris’s assertion was that suicide bombing is a peculiarly Muslim thing. Showing that it was and is not is a *refutation* of the essentialist argument, not whataboutism. Suicide was forbidden in normative Islam through history
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Dear white terrorists: Please read some history. Texas wasn't invaded by Hispanics. It was all the other way around.
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Look at the work of Robert Pape at U Chicago. There have been hundred os secular such attacks. It is a tactic deployed by people who view themselves as under foreign occupation
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not going to any academic conferences in Germany and don't advise others to.
Hundreds of German police blocked streets around the Palestine Conference in Berlin. Police erected barricades around the venue on Germaniastrasse in the Tempelhof neighbourhood.
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Ilhan Omar represents 708,000 people in a district that voted for her by 78.2%; nobody elected Lou Dobbs to anything at all & he represents 1 white nationalist Australian billionaire
Lou Dobbs on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "Who is she representing? Because it isn't America"
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75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032
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The Stupidity of Evil: Teens Shouting 'Build that Wall' at Native American Vet -
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Gaza has outed the psychopaths and sociopaths among us
Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg, pastor and "good" Christian, talks about his solution for
#Gaza
: Give it the Hiroshima treatment. "Get it over quick."
A sitting US Rep in a secret town hall feels comfortable musing positively about genocide. Listen. Share.
#DemCastMI
#DemCast
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A Fourth Woman has contacted Montgomery County with Kavanaugh Rape Allegations -
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US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes -
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he should have to pay us that much for therapy to get that smirk out of our minds
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The War on Terror is over
MSNBC beats Fox in key ratings for first time in 17 years | TheHill
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Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation | The Hill
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I have solar panels. My summer electric bill is $14 a month
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On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”
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OK then you don't need billions of our dollars to prop you up either
netanyahu responds to biden’s warning that rafah invasion would cross a red line:
“we are not a vassal of the united states”
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No, Ben Shapiro, Science isn’t White
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also no evidence that any US food aid has yet reached the Palestinians Israel is starving
Seem that parts of the US pier in Gaza has collapsed. Interesting also to note the US is now an occupying power with troops on the ground in Gaza
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Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists -
http://t.co/86iH6d8cRA
http://t.co/YpQF4po4eg
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Every popular movement in the Middle East demanding parliamentary democracy since 1876 has been opposed by the West and often resulting gov't's have been overthrown by invasions or covert ops; only Tunisia has survived
Iraq & democracy do not easily coexist. Whether b/c of history, demography, religion, pol culture, outside influence, and/or something else, it was the wrong place (& arguably there was no right one) to project American ambitions for a transformed MidEast.
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Did the National Enquirer blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?
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Trump’s App’t of Nauert at U.N. is a National Security Threat to the U.S.
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To repeat, Israel was founded on a racialist supremacist principle that requires Jews to rule, and its partisans brook no resistance to it. The congressman shares those principles and that intolerance.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) brazenly defames University of Michigan Professor
@jricole
as an "anti-Semite" for making statements about the history of Israel that Walberg doesn't like. Yet another GOP hearing dedicated to slandering private citizens for their political speech
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my increasing fear is that large numbers of Americans are so poorly educated because of tax cuts pushed by people like the Lincoln Project that they do not know how to read a graph and this means nothing to them
Donald Trump might not know it, but this is his resignation letter.
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Poll: Most Americans don’t agree with Biden Administration’s support for Israel’s Military Campaign
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huge story blacked out by wall to wall election speculation
Something like 80% of New Orleans is without power and many won't have lines repaired for 3-5 days. For context if you're not seeing this on the news, Zeta is the strongest hurricane in recorded history to have its eye directly pass over New Orleans.
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Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It has a civilian enrichment program, making fuel for its Bushehr reactor. This inexcusably shoddy reporting in NYT is the kind of thing that got us into the Iraq War
Breaking News: Iran’s top nuclear scientist was fatally shot in northern Iran, state media reported. He was seen as the force behind its nuclear weapons program.
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you missed the fine print about white people
If Israel has the right to defend itself, doesn't Iran too?
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Trump tries to Camouflage Muslim Ban with a Few Venezuelans and N. Koreans
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40% of California Grid Power from Solar, Sometimes Costs less than Nothing
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Dear American pundits giving Oliver North the benefit of the doubt: European and Japanese kids play video games and watch t.v. too, and Europe and Japan have a fraction the mass shootings that the US does. The difference? Easy availability of powerful firearms.
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Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians
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it isn't a settler boom; it is the state-backed theft of others' property, encouraging squatting on it, and implementing race segregation
Israel continues settlement boom, issuing 2,500 tenders for new settler homes just before Biden inauguration
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Hi Maajid. Look, I respect your life experience and feel for you that in your youth you got mixed up in a cult like HT. That must have been horrible and wrenching
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Top 5 Reasons We must, despite Trump, change the name of Fort Bragg, since Braxton Bragg was a horrible Human Being
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Decling to feed the trolls; stay hungry, my friend
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What if Israelis attacked the Basilica of St. Peter on Easter? That's how Muslims feel about Assault on al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem -
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As a voter I try to be an adult. I know politicians are imperfect and they often make compromises with which I am uncomfortable. Having grown up partially in France I couldn't care less who they sleep with. But I do have red lines. Genocide is one of them.
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Arab-Americans, including 'Watan' Newspaper, Endorse Bernie Sanders -
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This super-spreader type event hit the Iranian government last spring, striking cabinet members & 10% of parliament. Theocrats.
The number of senior level Republican government officials who have contracted the coronavirus is growing by the hour. I don't think there's a parallel in the developed world to what the United States is going through right now.
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No, Ben Shapiro, Science isn't White -
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If Giuliani's right Trump lied about Porn Star Hush Money, why believe him on Iran? -
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the Qur'an
Name something people have strong opinions on, but actually know little about.
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George Will pretended to be a journalist while personally helping prep the addled far right wing Ronald Reagan for a presidential debate. There’s a straight line from that to Trumpism and Will owes the country an apology before he can pose as a member of the resistance
From George Will, one of the most brutal assessments of any sitting president I’ve ever read:
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@AlissaShira
50 Israeli Hostages to be exchanged for 150 Palestinian “Prisoners” — Why the Prisoners are also Hostages
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Says the man who systematically distorted the documents on Benghazi
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@SecPompeo
on Saudi investigation into
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: "We're going to give them the space to complete their investigations. And when they issue their reports, we'll form our judgment about the thoroughness, depth, and the decisions they make about accountability connected to that"
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@emanabdelhadi
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You have my support and admiration, for what it is worth (not much I fear).
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Dear MSM CT "experts" this was not a 'brilliantly executed' 'military' operation; it was murder of soft targets who don't shoot back
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Facebook illegally sold your private data to Bob Mercer and Steve Bannon so they could put Trump in the White House
Weird & extraordinary to see this. Facebook fined $5bn. As direct result of our reporting. FTC’s biggest fine ever. Yet such is scale & size of company, it means *nothing*. Stock price actually surged on news. Facebook is well & truly out of all control
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When I started my blog, which I suppose was my crank move, I thought all tenured professors would have one. Then I realized that publicly standing for Palestinian rights and human rights generally, and debunking gov't propaganda, was like voluntary exile from polite society
Do you know anyone who has used tenure to improve working conditions in academia, fight adjunctification, create lobbies in DC, improve public understanding of what academia is, etc.? Or is the point of the added security merely for writing weird crank books?
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My phone seems to be telling me Trump is president and it is a national emergency
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Canada’s Trudeau calls for inquiry into Israeli Killings in Gaza
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Could Africa skip Pipelines straight to Solar Panels?
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Sanders, AOC, Tlaib Threaten to Cut Israeli Funding if Netanyahu Annexes 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank -
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Everyday War Crimes: Israeli PM Netanyahu Gets COVID Vaccine, Squatters get Vaccine, but Not Occupied Palestinians -
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Trump’s Worst Nightmare: Mueller’s Grand Jury Subpoena’s Russia Documents
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Dirty, Hot, Deadly: The Real Trump Scandal is What He’s done to the Environment
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Hell just froze: Brazilians r protesting soccer, Egyptians r protesting Islamic government, & Turks r protesting mistreatment of Kurds
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How Morocco Could use its Solar Energy and abundant Phosphorous to Feed the World and Offset Russia via
@jricole
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If so, why do you think that is?
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Oh come on. What bullshit. They were mocking and blocking Phillips. The MAGA hats might be a clue
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@ripcitydiehard
@BrianBeckcom
You should also read my 18 books before embarrassing yourself by speaking with no knowledge
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In anti-Trump surge, Renewables make 18% of US electricity & impel job growth -
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