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

No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids
Archaeology

No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids

Juan Cole

As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$13,609
SUPPORTERS:155
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$16,391
Climate Tipping Points Close In: Scientists urge radical Action before it’s too Late

Climate Tipping Points Close In: Scientists urge radical Action before it’s too Late

11/10/2025 By The Conversation

Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable

Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable

11/10/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Iran
Iranians Celebrate first Now Ruz (New Year's) Since lifting of Int'l Sanctions

Iranians Celebrate first Now Ruz (New Year’s) Since lifting of Int’l Sanctions

CCTV | (Video News Report) | – – “March 20 marks the Persian New Year, Nowruz, which translates as “New Day.” Millions of people across […]

contributors

Afghanistan
'Not Sharia': Female Afghan Rap Star campaigns against Child Marriage

‘Not Sharia’: Female Afghan Rap Star campaigns against Child Marriage

Jon Snow | (Channel 4 News Video Report) | – – “Sonita Alizadeh was just 10-years-old the first time her parents tried to sell her […]

contributors

Climate Change
Climate Change: 13 Million Americans in Path of slow-motion sea rise Tsunami

Climate Change: 13 Million Americans in Path of slow-motion sea rise Tsunami

by Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (( Commondreams.org) | – – “Once you take into account growth of population, the numbers end up being two […]

contributors

Authoritarianism
Turkey's Erdogan: Democracy Has 'Absolutely No Value Any Longer'  given war on PKK Terrorism

Turkey’s Erdogan: Democracy Has ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’ given war on PKK Terrorism

TeleSur | – – “Democracy Has ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’” The Turkish president made the comments in the context of the government’s fight against […]

contributors

Government surveillance
Mr. President: Weakening Apple’s Defenses puts us all at Risk

Mr. President: Weakening Apple’s Defenses puts us all at Risk

Electronic Frontier Foundation | – – The Apple Fight Is About All of Us A Joint Statement from Access Now, the American Civil Liberties Union, […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Targets for Prosecution Whistleblowers on Israeli Military abuses in Neighboring Palestine

Netanyahu Targets for Prosecution Whistleblowers on Israeli Military abuses in Neighboring Palestine

IMEMC | – – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said rights group Breaking the Silence had “crossed a red line”, following allegations that the group […]

contributors

Featured
More US Muslims favor Bernie Sanders than do US Jews

More US Muslims favor Bernie Sanders than do US Jews

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) published a new opinion poll on America’s Muslims […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam Captured in Brussels Firefight

Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam Captured in Brussels Firefight

Euractiv.com | – – The most-wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was wounded and caught in a shootout in Brussels on Friday (18 […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Gov’t violations of Palestinian Journalists’ Rights reached new Peak in 2015

Israeli Gov’t violations of Palestinian Journalists’ Rights reached new Peak in 2015

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian press freedoms watchdog on Thursday said 2015 had seen an “unprecedented” increase in Israeli […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1516
  • Page 1517
  • Page 1518
  • Page 1519
  • Page 1520
  • …
  • Page 3046
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

The State of Palestine Must Exist: An Interview With Gershon Baskin

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine

One Month into Gaza Ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ Future look like?

Paul Rogers

Featured

Turkiye Indicts 37 Israeli Officials for Genocide amid Reports Israel’s own Military Lawyers warned of War Crimes

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Verdict from the People: Why the Gaza Tribunal is about Accountability, not Symbolism

Ramzy Baroud

Popular

  • Turkiye Indicts 37 Israeli Officials for Genocide amid Reports Israel's own Military Lawyers warned of War Crimes
  • Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
  • The Netanyahu Cabinet's Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
  • When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language
  • Living without a Net in a Trumpian World: The Fate of the Aging
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved