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

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Partners in Genocide: Israel is slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms

Partners in Genocide: Israel is slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms

( Middle East Monitor ) – While many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation […]

Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back

Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back

( New Jersey Star-Ledger ) – I cannot see President Biden without seeing 40,000 dead Gazans. He rightly stepped aside after his disastrous debate with […]

contributors

Featured
Ascending the Temple Mount: Political Act in a Site of Holiness

Ascending the Temple Mount: Political Act in a Site of Holiness

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Every year, Jews recite the entire Pentateuch aloud in synagogues. It is divided in weekly portions. This week’s […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Anti-intellectualism
Letter to Florida State University System Protesting the Policing and Censorship of course Materials relating to Israel/Palestine

Letter to Florida State University System Protesting the Policing and Censorship of course Materials relating to Israel/Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to the Chancellor of the Florida State University System regarding the policing and […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

CO2
How Exporting Fossil Fuels undermines Climate Targets

How Exporting Fossil Fuels undermines Climate Targets

By Bill Hare, Murdoch University | – (The Conversation) – Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels. While this coal and […]

The Conversation

Featured
Saudi Crown Prince fears Assassination if he Recognizes Israel without getting a Palestinian State

Saudi Crown Prince fears Assassination if he Recognizes Israel without getting a Palestinian State

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nahal Toosi at Politico reported on Wednesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump, the Candidate from Hell, wants to Make America a Hellhole

Trump, the Candidate from Hell, wants to Make America a Hellhole

Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
The Rate of Global Heating varies, but Temperatures will rise over Time until we Halt CO2 Emissions

The Rate of Global Heating varies, but Temperatures will rise over Time until we Halt CO2 Emissions

By Christopher Merchant, University of Reading | – A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended. From June 2023 until June 2024, air and […]

The Conversation

Featured
Ultra-Orthodox Threaten to Bolt Netanyahu's Government over Prayer at the Temple Mount

Ultra-Orthodox Threaten to Bolt Netanyahu’s Government over Prayer at the Temple Mount

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Times of Israel reported that a schism is brewing on the Israeli right wing. The Ultra-Orthodox object to Jews […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 124
  • Page 125
  • Page 126
  • Page 127
  • Page 128
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Afghanistan

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

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

Shamai Leibowitz

Omar Khayyam

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

Juan Cole

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
  • America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved