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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Displaced and Refugees
The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible […]

Juan Cole

Canada
Is Canada's Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?

Is Canada’s Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vote in the Canadian parliament this week to halt new arms exports to Israel is of great symbolic importance […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise

New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise

By Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University | Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah is not the only man-made island to have emerged from the sea this century. Over […]

The Conversation

Anti-intellectualism
Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Joseph R. Biden President of the United States   Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Anti-Zionism
In Zionist Academia there is No Room for Dissent

In Zionist Academia there is No Room for Dissent

By Sonia Boulos and Lior Sternfeld | – Madrid and State College, Pa. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In a statement from March 12, […]

Lior Sternfeld

Democracy
The Man who Disproved Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Looks at the Problems with New York’s Voter Data

The Man who Disproved Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Looks at the Problems with New York’s Voter Data

Barrington, RI (Special to Informed Comment) – If the oldest human alive is 116, how did 368 118-year-olds vote in New York in 2020? Election […]

Ken Block

Israel/ Palestine
Stop Treating Gaza as a Natural Disaster: Armed by US, Israel Trashes Genocide Convention

Stop Treating Gaza as a Natural Disaster: Armed by US, Israel Trashes Genocide Convention

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to […]

Tomdispatch

Hizbullah
Will Current Israeli-Lebanese Fighting derail Historic Land Border Agreement?

Will Current Israeli-Lebanese Fighting derail Historic Land Border Agreement?

By Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College | – In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
UN and EU slam Israel:  Imposing on Palestinians 'Levels of Food Insecurity never Recorded anywhere in the World'

UN and EU slam Israel: Imposing on Palestinians ‘Levels of Food Insecurity never Recorded anywhere in the World’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union’s Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borell and the European Commissioner for Crisis management Janez Lenarčič, issued […]

Juan Cole

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