Israel/ Palestine

( Middle East Monitor ) – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the northern Gaza Strip and attempting to hide these crimes from the public, Anadolu Agency reports. “I speak on behalf of the commanders who serve in northern Gaza. There are war crimes being […]

International Criminal Court

Netherlands Supreme Court advised to uphold Israel F-35 Components Export Ban

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – The advocate general of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the country’s highest court, was advised on Friday to uphold the ruling banning the Dutch state from exporting F-35 components to Israel. The Court of Appeal in The Hague in February ordered the government to stop exporting components due […]

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Killing One innocent Soul is the Same as Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide

Juan Cole

The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio, the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts college in Berkeley, Ca. It underlines how both Jewish and Muslim spiritual teachings forbid the killing of innocents who are guilty of no crime, and equate this deed to killing all humankind […]

International Criminal Court

Hypocritical Rejection of Netanyahu Warrant: Washington Holds that the Int’l Criminal Court is only for Enemies and People of Color

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are a diplomatic disaster for Israel, reported the Economist, a “hard stigma” for the Israeli leader, wrote the Guardian, and a “major blow”, said others. But a term […]

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza’s cultural Heritage has been devastated by the Conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the Damage

The Conversation

By Michael Fradley, University of Oxford; Andrew Petersen, University of Bradford, and Bill Finlayson, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Situated at the junction between Africa and Asia, Gaza is a critical archaeological landscape. But the region’s heritage is currently facing an unprecedented risk of loss. Alongside the widespread loss of life, homes and livelihoods […]

Israel/ Palestine

A Week after Int’l Criminal Court Warrants, Israel’s Natanyahu Intensifies Destruction of Gaza

Middle East Monitor

By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – As soon as the arrest warrant was issued against the head of the Occupation government, the Occupation went mad, between shock and thinking of ways to appeal the decision, reject it or harming the ICC, as a whole. In the meantime, Netanyahu’s political and field missiles […]

Israel/ Palestine

Universities should not silence Research and Speech on Palestine

The Conversation

By Heidi Matthews, York University, Canada; Fatima Ahdash, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Priya Gupta, McGill University (The Conversation) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif for war crimes and crimes against humanity. […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel blocked all humanitarian aid for northern Gaza in November, says UN

Middle East Monitor

The UN announced yesterday that Israel has blocked or obstructed all attempts to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip throughout November. Details were provided by Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the UN. Haq told a press briefing that the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) attempted 41 humanitarian missions […]

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Lebanon Ceasefire underlines that both Israel and Hezbollah Lost the War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Iran and Iraq were fighting each other in the 1980s, with neither regime being much liked in Washington, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is said to have remarked, “The tragedy is that both sides can’t lose.” Actually, of course, in most wars both sides lose, and certainly the […]