Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]
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Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees
( Middle East Monitor ) – More than 6,000 aid trucks carrying essential food and supplies are stuck in Jordan and Egypt, unable to reach […]
Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica
By Abrahm Lustgarten, Graphics by Lucas Waldron, Illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica ( ProPublica ) – As the planet gets hotter and its reservoirs […]
Islanders of Tuvalu Prepare first Mass Migration because of Sea Level Rise, as ICJ grants them Right to Sue
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The entire nation of Tuvalu, 11,000 people, is making preparations to relocate, reports Sophie Mak at Nikkei Asia . The […]
Gaza is Starving – how Israel’s Allies can go beyond Words and take meaningful Action
By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation) – In the past two months, more than 1,000 people seeking food have been killed, according to the […]
Protesting U of California’s Attempt to Forbid Boycotts
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to the University of California expressing concern about its prohibition of boycotts by […]
We’re All Palestinians Now: How Trump is Middle-Easternizing the United States
Here is my most recent column for the legendary Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch.com.Be sure to check out his searing introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The United […]
Historic Int’l Court of Justice Ruling: Climate Change ‘Imperils all Life’ — Polluters may be Sued
By Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – Climate change “imperils all forms of life” and countries must tackle the problem or face […]
The Unseen War for the Palestinian West Bank’s Future: It’s not just Gaza
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations […]
Anti-Zionist Jews Gather at the Birthplace of Zionism
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In March 1896, William Hechler, the Anglican chaplain at the British Embassy in Vienna, came across a book […]
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