History Was Sentenced to Death in My City. It Survived.
It Survived.When the Islamic State took my city, the destruction of history was a military objective. (Marian O’Connor/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)My home of Mosul, in northern Iraq, survived the most complete anti-history project of the 21st century. As the director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, I document the point at which the normalization of antisemitism becomes operational—where the chant becomes a plot to action, and the plot becomes the basis for a federal complaint. The other belongs to the world he believes is already lost.
- ▪It Survived.When the Islamic State took my city, the destruction of history was a military objective. (Marian O’Connor/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)My home of Mosul, in northern Iraq, survived the most complete anti-history p
- ▪As the director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, I document the point at which the normalization of antisemitism becomes operational—where the chant becomes a plot to action
- ▪The other belongs to the world he believes is already lost.
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| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:16:55 GMT |
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History Was Sentenced to Death in My City. It Survived.When the Islamic State took my city, the destruction of history was a military objective. (Marian O’Connor/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)My home of Mosul, in northern Iraq, survived the most complete anti-history project of the 21st century. It is immensely premature to say we are now living through the death of history.By Omar Mohammed07.24.26 — AntisemitismNo description available.FOLLOW TOPIC --:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationREAD IN APPREAD IN APPLast week in The Free Press, Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin argued that history is being defeated by algorithms and artificial intelligence—a framework that led Ferguson, a historian, to conclude, “I failed utterly.” Nine writers then…
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