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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

11/15/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Academic Freedom
California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extrem e weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors

The Conversation

Latin America
Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

The Pentagon has so far destroyed 18 go-fast boats there and in the Pacific Ocean. No evidence has been presented that those were drug ships

Greg Grandin

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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

The perfect little story of a small nation fighting for survival amid ‘hordes of Arabs and Muslims’ is rapidly collapsing.

Ramzy Baroud

Academic Freedom
Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

The symposium aims to examine how the question of Palestine fits into contemporary European political and scholarly dynamics.

Middle East Studies Association

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Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

UNICEF said “1 in 5 infants have missed out on one or more vaccines. This is a big jump ahead of us in the coming days.”

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

Two prominent young Muslim figures have had an exceptional rise to power this year: Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria and Zohran Mamdani in New York City

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Academic Freedom
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.

Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.

In 2024, Columbia kept the campus locked down. It put in place so many rules governing protests that it effectively quashed

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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King: A new Statue in Tehran

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No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids

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