Israel/ Palestine

“This year’s celebrations carry a message of hope for our people and a message to the world that the Palestinian people love peace and life.”

Israel/ Palestine

3 Narratives of Gaza: Trump’s Riviera, Palestinians’ Two-States, Israel’s Genocide

Ramzy Baroud

Only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli narrative of domination and genocide.

Israel/ Palestine

“You will not Kill our Imagination:” Palestinian Memoirist Saeed Teebi

The Conversation

Teebi’s efforts to come to terms with the failures and powers of language to narrate a Palestinian story that can stand for itself

Academic Freedom

California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A California District Court hearing on was held on Wednesday, December 17, over an injunction sought by plaintiffs represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) against a new law, California AB 715, which is supposedly intended to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism. But it no more does […]

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Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll in Israel, published in Ma’ariv, is summarized in al-Balad. It shows that if Israel has early elections, the currently dominant right wing coalition would fall from holding roughly 61 seats in the 120-member Israeli parliament or Knesset to only 50. Likud is projected to lose 3 […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Waging Nonviolence

No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza. Eleftheria Kousta ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As Russian attacks were keeping Kyiv’s residents awake most nights this summer, a group of Ukrainians gathered outside the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide to protest Israel’s siege of Gaza and […]

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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC, on which the United Nations depends to determine the level of nutritional crises around the world, delivered the good news on Friday that Gaza is now no longer in famine. While that report is welcome, the situation that Israel is imposing on […]

Academic Freedom

Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Despite Sanctions

Middle East Studies Association

Middle East Studies Association of North America | – ( MESA Press Release ) – WASHINGTON—In response to a letter sent by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Treasury Department last week confirmed that a scholarly organization—the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)—may hold an event with U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese even […]

Israel/ Palestine

Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers

The Conversation

By Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell (The Conversation) – Owais Hammam was walking near his home in Khirbet Bani Harith in the West Bank on Dec. 3, 2025, when, according to media reports, he was kidnapped by Jewish settlers. Over several hours at a nearby settlement, the 18-year-old Palestinian is alleged to have endured repeated beatings, […]