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Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to Israel for Violations of Laws of War

UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to Israel for Violations of Laws of War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – More than thirty independent experts appointed by the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations said Friday that arms exports to Israel must cease immediately, given Israeli violations of the international laws of war and the government’s announced intention to invade Rafah in south Gaza, […]

Displaced and Refugees
If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study

If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections, a joint report by the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University, issued this week, warns that a further 85,750 Palestinians could die in the next six months from […]

Displaced and Refugees
UN Human Rights Experts Blast Israel over "credible" Reports of Rape, Sexual Abuse, Arbitrary Imprisonment of Palestinian Women

UN Human Rights Experts Blast Israel over “credible” Reports of Rape, Sexual Abuse, Arbitrary Imprisonment of Palestinian Women

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Newspaper Arab 48 reports that United Nations officials have expressed the utmost anxiety about information that has reached them concerning “rape and threats of sexual assault” by Israeli forces during their arbitrary imprisonment of Palestinian women and girls. International rights experts called for an independent investigation into Israeli […]

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Biden, tired of being "Genocide Joe," Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire

Biden, tired of being “Genocide Joe,” Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian says he has seen a draft US proposal for a United Nations Security Council calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in Gaza and cautioning against any offensive on the southern Gaza region of Rafah, where 1.4 million refugees from the rest of Gaza have joined the […]

Apartheid
Brazil's Lula compares Netanyahu to Hitler: How Fascist is Israel's War on Palestinians?

Brazil’s Lula compares Netanyahu to Hitler: How Fascist is Israel’s War on Palestinians?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stirred controversy when he said, “What is happening in the Gaza Strip and with the Palestinian people did not exist at any other historical moment. Or rather, it did: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.” He continued, “It is not a war […]

Canada
Gov. Hochul's Canada Genocide Fantasy and the War of 1812

Gov. Hochul’s Canada Genocide Fantasy and the War of 1812

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – New York Governor Kathleen Courtney Hochul, a sixth-generation Irish-American, spoke on Thursday to a Jewish philanthropy in her state. In the course of her remarks, she referred to Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas. She went on to say, “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry my friends, […]

Democratic Party
A majority of Jewish Democrats and Muslim Democrats agree on one Thing: Immediate Gaza Ceasefire

A majority of Jewish Democrats and Muslim Democrats agree on one Thing: Immediate Gaza Ceasefire

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll conducted by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Muslim-American think tank based in Michigan, finds that half of Jewish Democrats and a majority of Muslim Democrats agree on the need for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Some 78% of Muslim Democrats favored an immediate […]

Children
Water Crisis and untreated Sewage could kill more Gaza Palestinians than Bombs: Threat of Infant Mortality

Water Crisis and untreated Sewage could kill more Gaza Palestinians than Bombs: Threat of Infant Mortality

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Arabi al-Jadid reports, “The streets of the Gaza Strip are witnessing a catastrophic environmental crisis due to the mixing of rainwater with sewage water, which is now flooding various roads as a result of a continuous overflow, resulting from the targeting of infrastructure [by the Israeli military], and the inability […]

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Are there any innocent civilians among Palestinians in Gaza?

Are there any innocent civilians among Palestinians in Gaza?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog said last October that “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took […]

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