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Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities
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Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Jewish law does not permit us to look away when atrocities are being committed. It is […]

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

08/01/2025 By The Conversation

The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

08/01/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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From Campus Climate to Middle East Climate Emergency

From Campus Climate to Middle East Climate Emergency

Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part II on Sea Change Radio with Alex Wise. Transcript below. Or listen here: This week on Sea […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production

The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Assault on Rafah risks making Victory against Hamas more Elusive

Israel’s Assault on Rafah risks making Victory against Hamas more Elusive

By Ben Soodavar, King’s College London and Rhiannon Emm, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – The prospect of a ceasefire agreement, which Hamas […]

The Conversation

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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel's Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game

Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s total war on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

( Code Pink ) – On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Dissent
Democracy Versus Autocracy on America’s Campuses

Democracy Versus Autocracy on America’s Campuses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on […]

William D. Hartung

Authoritarianism
Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Hamburg, NY (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Carl Schmitt wrote in Political Theology (1922) “sovereign is he who decides on the state of the […]

Andrew Kolin

Iran
Gaza War is Bolstering Iran's Standing in the Muslim World as Anti-Americanism Surges

Gaza War is Bolstering Iran’s Standing in the Muslim World as Anti-Americanism Surges

The Conversation) – Iran’s leadership has been a direct beneficiary of the months-long war in Gaza. With every missile that Israel fires on Gaza, every […]

Shahram Akbarzadeh

Israel/ Palestine
Makes me feel Sad for the Rest: Why Palestinian Journalists in Gaza are the Real Journalists

Makes me feel Sad for the Rest: Why Palestinian Journalists in Gaza are the Real Journalists

( Middle East Monitor ) – By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has […]

Ramzy Baroud

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