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Climate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up
ByPatrick Wintour in Tehran November 16, 2025

As rainy season fails to bring relief, authorities try cloud seeding – while others across the country pray for a miracleWater, and its absence, has become Iran’s national obsession. In the mosques of northern Tehran the imams have been praying for rai…

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
ByTom Levitt October 23, 2025

After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunitedZeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husb…

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The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel – podcast
By October 20, 2025

In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fractureBy Mark Mazower. Read by Kerry Shale Continue rea…

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The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
ByShaul Magid October 7, 2025

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformedIt has been two years since the mass murder on 7 October 2023, an event that shook world Jewry more than any event since t…

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The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
ByShaul Magid October 7, 2025

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformedIt has been two years since the mass murder on 7 October 2023, an event that shook world Jewry more than any event since t…

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The Manchester synagogue attack and the right to protest | Letters
ByGuardian staff October 5, 2025

Tomilyn Rupert believes that the conflation of Zionism with Judaism is wrong and contributes to antisemitism. Plus letters from Gabriele Hodgson, Selina Osman and Deirdre BurrellAs a British Jew, I was extremely disappointed to read about Shabana Mahmo…

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The Manchester synagogue attack and the right to protest | Letters
ByGuardian staff October 5, 2025

Tomilyn Rupert believes that the conflation of Zionism with Judaism is wrong and contributes to antisemitism. Plus letters from Gabriele Hodgson, Selina Osman and Deirdre BurrellAs a British Jew, I was extremely disappointed to read about Shabana Mahmo…

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The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
ByMark Mazower September 25, 2025

In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fractureEven before it existed, Israel was on American mi…

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Jews and Israel are not the same. That lie is enabling atrocities | Norman Solomon
ByNorman Solomon September 16, 2025

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in GazaMore than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and m…

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Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon
ByNorman Solomon September 16, 2025September 16, 2025

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in GazaMore than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and m…

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