Middle East

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On October 9th, 2011, Egyptian army vehicles plowed into a Coptic Christian protest outside of the Maspero state television building in the capital city of Cairo, killing more than two dozen peaceful demonstrators. Less than a year after the Arab Spring came to Cairo and dislodged the country’s longtime […]

African-Americans

Riots or Uprising? If this Turmoil were in Iran, Trump would be Cheering on Arsonists and Dreaming of Regime Change

Omar Ahmed

(Middle East Monitor ) – The scenario is all too familiar: the almost casual murder in Minneapolis of an unarmed African American citizen — say his name: George Floyd — by police officers has sparked a wave of social unrest and protests across the country. Since Floyd’s killing on 25 May, we have seen what […]

Israel

Understanding Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Political Survival

Al-Shabaka

By Nijmeh Ali | – Overview ( Al-Shabaka.org ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics for nearly 25 years, first between 1996 and 1999 and then again since 2009. Winning a total of five elections, he has become the longest-serving prime minister in the country’s history and has laid the foundation […]

Arab World

Gulf Security in the Age of Covid-19: Webinar, Qatar University

Juan Cole

Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University Panel on Gulf Security in the Age of Covid-19

Featured

Jerusalem Demonstrations against Police Brutality after Autistic Palestinian Youth Shot to Death

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nir Hasson at Haaretz reports that Israeli police on Sunday evening forcibly dispersed dozens of Palestinian demonstrators who had gathered at Damascus Gate to protest the killing on Saturday of Iyad Hallak, an autistic Palestinian young man* by two Israeli border police. On Saturday evening, 100 Palestinian-Israelis in Jaffa and […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestine activists have 2 billion opportunities to pressure for divestment

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) on Friday published a new database documenting the many ways that local government employees’ pension contributions are being misused […]

Israel/ Palestine

Normalising Far-Right Israeli violence against Palestinians during the pandemic

Ramona Wadi

(Middle East Monitor) – In April, the Israeli Civil Administration stated that it would halt the demolition and destruction of Palestinian dwellings during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision, communicated as a victory by the Palestinian Authority, attempted to portray Israel as being concerned with the humanitarian consequences of the pandemic for a displaced population. However, […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud: Palestinians to be “subjects,” not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s free newspaper, Israel ha-Yom, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the quiet parts out loud. Although he did not use the word, he described an Apartheid regime in the Israeli-controlled Palestinian West Bank. He openly referred to the stateless Palestinians as […]

Epidemics

Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

Brian Whitaker

( Al-Bab.com) – There used to be about ten burials a day in the cemeteries of Yemen’s second city, Aden, but since Covid-19 arrived the number has risen to around 80 a day. Although many of these deaths have not been properly investigated, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which runs the city’s only dedicated Covid-19 treatment […]