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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crows demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Anti-Zionism
Zionism's Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become Pharaoh

Zionism’s Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become Pharaoh

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Previously I’ve argued that Zionism has run its course as a political movement, and accomplished its goal: […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Iraq
Carceral Imperialism:  Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq

Carceral Imperialism: Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it […]

Maha Hilal

censorship
How the Israeli Government manages to censor the Journalists covering the War on Gaza

How the Israeli Government manages to censor the Journalists covering the War on Gaza

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | – (The Conversation) – Accusations about Israeli censorship of the media went mainstream in the US recently when […]

The Conversation

Far Right
German Far Right Leader on Trial for Nazi Slogan: "X" Marks the Spot

German Far Right Leader on Trial for Nazi Slogan: “X” Marks the Spot

Halle an der Saale, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– On the morning of April 18, in front of the district court in Halle, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Haredim
The Ideological Coup: How Far Right Kahanist Extremists Became the Face of Israel

The Ideological Coup: How Far Right Kahanist Extremists Became the Face of Israel

( Middle East Monitor ) – Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would […]

Ramzy Baroud

Anti-intellectualism
Our Alarm at Escalating Repression of Protest on Campuses (Middle East Studies Assn. / CAF)

Our Alarm at Escalating Repression of Protest on Campuses (Middle East Studies Assn. / CAF)

Middle East Studies Association | Committee on Academic Freedom MESA Board Joint Statement with CAF concerning escalating repression of protest on campuses The Board of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Anti-intellectualism
No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities

No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American campuses are being roiled by student and faculty protests against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which the International […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
Gaza War: Artificial Intelligence is radically changing Targeting Speeds and Scale of Civilian Harm

Gaza War: Artificial Intelligence is radically changing Targeting Speeds and Scale of Civilian Harm

By Lauren Gould, Utrecht University; Linde Arentze, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies; and Marijn Hoijtink, University of Antwerp | – (The Conversation) […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal, unleashing Tehran — Can Biden Fix it?

Trump blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal, unleashing Tehran — Can Biden Fix it?

By Bob Dreyfuss ( Tomdispatch.com ) – One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of […]

Bob Dreyfuss

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