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Shibley Telhami
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Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement

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Shibley Telhami is an American professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. .. more

Political science 60%
Sociology 33%
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 12h
MESA letter on the detention of Vahid Abedini

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MESA statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 12h
Pretending it’s spring: Blooming Camellias, Thanksgiving week

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 14h
"it’s possible he’s actually still working for Turning Point."

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Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social · 14h
I’m shocked. Who’d have seen this coming?

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Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 14h
Torture: Israeli human rights groups tell UN that Palestinian detainees received medical treatment while shackled and blindfolded, forced to use diapers to relieve themselves, and were starved, with 'an official diet of approximately 1,000 calories daily' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israeli human rights groups tell UN that Israel increased use of torture during Gaza war
The Report Submitted to the UN Notes That Detainees Received Medical Treatment While Shackled and Blindfolded, and Were Forced to Use Diapers to Relieve Themselves. It Also Says Detainees Were Starved...
www.haaretz.com

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 15h
Note that in our latest UMD poll, only 6% of Americans say Epstein did not collaborate with a foreign intelligence, with 45% saying he did, and 48% didn't know. Republicans suspect Israel first, Democrats suspect Russia first. You can find analysis here: sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat....

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 15h
Seriously, WP, is this what the spiritual leader of about 1.4 billion people has to worry about?: "Especially in Lebanon, Leo will be closely watched by Israeli leaders, who smarted at Francis’s blistering denunciations of the war in Gaza." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Pope Leo’s trip to Middle East will stress, and test, interfaith ties
Rather than his native Chicago or adopted Peru, Pope Leo XIV is making his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon, putting him on tricky terrain shared by Muslims and Jews.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 15h
Unsatisfying: "we found a more mundane... explanation for Epstein’s remarkable success. He was, in the words of... Ehud Barak, “a collector of people.” He used those relationships to cultivate new connections and establish his legitimacy"

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18h
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
Must Watch: New York Jewish Grandmother Shames Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for Her Refusal to Speak up for US Teen Detained by Israel for Months
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Watch a Jewish Grandmother SHAME Kirsten Gillibrand for Her Refusal to Speak up for Detained US Teen
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
This: Trump told MBS he will supply Saudis with same advanced model of F-35 fighter jets that Israel has, despite pushback from Israelis. But a day later Rubio assured Netanyahu that wasn't the case and told him Saudis will get downgraded version of F-35!
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Scoop: Trump's meeting with MBS got tense over Israel
With the war in Gaza over, Trump had hoped for a breakthrough toward Saudi-Israeli normalization.
www.axios.com

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
Wow! "Epstein gave feedback on talking points to discredit Mearsheimer and Walt [after their Israel Lobby article in 2006] and used his extensive social network to circulate allegations of anti-semitism against the two scholars" @ryangrim & @MazMHussain
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Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week.
www.dropsitenews.com

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
In 2021 I wrote: 'If the Israeli right is pinning its hopes on solid support from evangelicals as the backbone of US patronage of Israel, anchored in biblical narrative that sidesteps international law, trends among young evangelicals raise questions about the trajectory' of such support.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 2d
Oil and imperialism are intertwined
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Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"