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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@husseinaboubak

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.
Research @ISGAP1
Sr. Fellow @jerusalemcenter
Here I stand. I can't do otherwise. God help me

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"Secondly—and I cannot stress this enough—since the Second World War, our history of antisemitism has been reframed and distorted to answer two overriding demands, both of which compressed this phenomenon into a single question of racism. The first is the imperative to explain

"Secondly—and I cannot stress this enough—since the Second World War, our history of antisemitism has been reframed and distorted to answer two overriding demands, both of which compressed this phenomenon into a single question of racism. The first is the imperative to explain
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"While the nineteenth century produced many works in which civilized European men faced monsters, works that meditate on supernaturalism, naturalism, and occultism, it is in Dracula that the underlying terror of the 19th century revolution of meaning, and in whose aftermath we

"While the nineteenth century produced many works in which civilized European men faced monsters, works that meditate on supernaturalism, naturalism, and occultism, it is in Dracula that the underlying terror of the 19th century revolution of meaning, and in whose aftermath we
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This version of modern Jewish identity, recast within the semantic field of Otherness, is structured around a constellation of derivative tropes: the Jew as exile, the Jew as diasporic, the Jew as victim, the Jew as prophetic conscience. The Jew as countercultural herald, as a

This version of modern Jewish identity, recast within the semantic field of Otherness, is structured around a constellation of derivative tropes: the Jew as exile, the Jew as diasporic, the Jew as victim, the Jew as prophetic conscience. The Jew as countercultural herald, as a
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The finest writer need not unveil what’s new, But in fresh skin, old truths does brew. What stirs the soul is not the tale untold, But how familiar sorrows in grace unfold. When common clay finds its most perfect voice, The heart recalls why it should still rejoice. For beauty

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"The problem is you don't engage with the scholarship." "What scholarship? Ah, you mean the dumb people? Well, that's exactly the point." ". . ."

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I love how this heathen Protestant country is now shamelessly claiming Catholicism for itself. Happy Fourth to the best country on earth!

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Perhaps something happened to him in Doha. If not and its all him, then there is one terrible brain virus in the world that I know that has the immense power of bringing a man to such a drastic path of self-destruction interviewing America's enemies on the 4th of July.

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A rarely discussed aspect of globalization are former "third world" intellectuals who move to the "west" and display complete ignorance of local history, which they insist on reading through surreal "imperial" lenses. It is a sort of "reverse-orientalism."

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After #Lebanon refused to disarm #Hezbollah, Lebanese media now reporting an exceptional wave of #Israel air strikes against Hezbollah targets. Perhaps now the Lebanese state will realize that it can’t get away with its talking acrobatics while doing nothing.

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Qatar pays both Rs and Ds in DC. The difference is that the Rs are straightforward. They unapologetically take the money, register as foreign agents, and lobby. The Ds are much more above this, so instead they have Doha donate to their NGOs, universities, hospitals, etc. This

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It's just like saying "Kill all men" or "shoot the police." It's about the end of patriarchy, structural racism, and colonialism. It's about our collective liberation!

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We have gone a long way, albeit downward, from St. Augustine’s graceful Confessions of humility to the pathetic identity confessional self-narrations of narcissism that saturate our lives today. Read old books!

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It's important to remember that the protests against Israel because of Gaza, especially on campus, did not actually start with the IDF operations, but started as a symbolic participation in the Hamas pogrom itself.