Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

More Stories

Featured
DC Elites Shocked at Trump Bromance with Putin but Give Israel's Netanyahu a Pass

DC Elites Shocked at Trump Bromance with Putin but Give Israel’s Netanyahu a Pass

There is something profoundly hypocritical about US elites pretending that the US doesn’t embrace people like Putin all the time

Juan Cole

Russia
Backed by Putin Air Force, Syrian Army rapidly takes 90% of Daraa

Backed by Putin Air Force, Syrian Army rapidly takes 90% of Daraa

Syrian regime forces backed by Russia made sweeping advances on Monday against rebels holding out in the country’s vital southern zone

Rouba El Husseini

Donald Trump
Trump calls EU "Foe," on Eve of Putin Summit, on basis of his Zero-Sum Mercantilism

Trump calls EU “Foe,” on Eve of Putin Summit, on basis of his Zero-Sum Mercantilism

Trump categorized the European Union as a “foe” of the US, appearing to put it on the same footing as Russia and China

Juan Cole

Solar Energy
Latin America’s largest solar park turns Mexican desert green

Latin America’s largest solar park turns Mexican desert green

When the plant reaches full capacity later this year, it will supply enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes

Yussel Gonzalez

National Security State
For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security

For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security

The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity

Rajan Menon

Afghanistan
Raising Questions about Trump Policies,  Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Highest in Decade

Raising Questions about Trump Policies, Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Highest in Decade

The number of Afghan civilians killed in the country’s long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018

Allison Jackson

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel Unleashes Heaviest Airstrikes Since 2014 Assault

Gaza: Israel Unleashes Heaviest Airstrikes Since 2014 Assault

Israeli occupation forces struck 40 targets in the besieged Gaza Strip Saturday, in the most extensive Israeli military assault since 2014

TeleSur

Featured
Top Three Ways London's Sadiq Khan is a better Leader than Donald Trump

Top Three Ways London’s Sadiq Khan is a better Leader than Donald Trump

Sadiq Khan as mayor of London is the opposite of Trump in every way

Juan Cole

Environmentalism
Ireland To Become First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

Ireland To Become First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

Ireland’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that will require the country to divest all of its shares in fossil fuel companies

TeleSur

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1100
  • Page 1101
  • Page 1102
  • Page 1103
  • Page 1104
  • …
  • Page 3017
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

Human Rights Watch

Antarctica

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

The Conversation

Featured

Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
  • Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
  • America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved