Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. Assal Rad, a historian of the modern Middle East, has been contemplating why the protests against the U.S.-Israel war on Iran have been relatively muted in the U.S., given its historic domestic unpopularity. “If you look at the protests against the war in Iraq in 2003, …