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

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

08/20/2025 By The Conversation

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

08/20/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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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

Displaced and Refugees
Lindsey “Dr. Strangelove” Graham, Critic of Putin’s Atrocities, Urges Nuking of Gaza’s Civilians

Lindsey “Dr. Strangelove” Graham, Critic of Putin’s Atrocities, Urges Nuking of Gaza’s Civilians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina let his inner genocidal maniac loose on Sunday, defending Israel’s total war on Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

By Akshaya Kumar | (@AkshayaSays) | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – This week, United States President Joe Biden announced that his administration has “held up” […]

Human Rights Watch

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