Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the US and even Israel have seen Black Lives Matter protests, Yair Netanyahu, 28, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu– who lives in the prime minister’s residence– called on Sunday for Israelis of Palestinian descent to be expelled from Tel Aviv. https://t.co/PVev5KoWo9 submitted by /u/appstools232323 [link] [comments] […]

Israel/ Palestine

Is the ‘Boycott Israel’ (BDS) Movement Poised for a Big Expansion as Annexation of Palestine Looms?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights campaigners by French courts for BDS protests they staged more than a decade ago. In September 2009 and May 2010, the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat, w/out Trump, Parliament?

Middle East Monitor

By Bilal Daher | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel: Nearly 100 Palestinian students arbitrarily arrested and detained by Occupation, often without trial

Committee on Academic Freedom

Middle East Studies Association / Committee on Academic Freedom | Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu Fax: +972-2-5664838 pm_eng@pmo.gov.il. . . Et al. . . . Brigadier General Rasan Alian Head of Civil Administration in the West Bank Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories Fax: +972-2-6599133 mnz@mgar.co.il Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, Ambassador, and Brigadier-General, We write […]

Donald Trump

Will Trump Follow through? US Congress’ ‘Caesar Act’ Sanctions Russian, Syrian, Iranian Officials over Torture, War Crimes

Lauren Lewis

( Middle East Monitor) – On this day, 17 June 2020, America’s Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (also known as the Caesar Act) takes effect. The act, which was passed by the US Senate in December 2019, requires the US President to impose sanctions on members and allies of the Syrian regime, including […]

Iran

Washington’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ seeks Regime Change in Iran, but such changes Have usually been disasters for US Interests

David Belt

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The United States’ unilateral withdrawal from the unanimous UNSCR 2231—the “Iran nuclear deal” -— along with the enactment of an unprecedented “maximum pressure” sanctions regime on the Islamic Republic of Iran has amounted to a strategic-level strike on the economy of this country of 80 million. The goal […]

Donald Trump

“Trump Heights”: Illegal New Israeli Squatter Settlement on Occupied Syrian Golan Approved

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s government has formally greenlighted a new squatter settlement on the Syrian Golan Heights, to be named for US president Donald J. Trump. Israel has has militarily occupied much of the Golan Heights since 1967 and which it has illegally stolen from Syria. The United Nations Charter, to which Israel […]

Epidemics

Yemen’s health system is collapsing as coronavirus spreads, UN warns

Brian Whitaker

(Al-Bab.com) – Yemen is desperately short of medical supplies, though some are still getting through. Photo:

Syria

Humanitarian Catastrophe: Syria was Born amid Plague and Imperial Violence, and has come Full Circle

Tareq A. Ramadan

Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – Since its creation in 1920 during the Sam Remo Conference, led by the victors of WWI, the nation-state of Syria has endured a seemingly perpetual cycle of violence illustrated by numerous revolts, rebellions, coups, uprisings, and internecine conflicts over the decades and which continue to haunt the country of […]