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

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

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 crowds 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

More Stories

Featured
Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Madison, Wisconsin (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Barely a day after Iran fired drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles westward across the desert skies towards […]

Jennifer Loewenstein

Iran
Israel's Limited Attack on Iran Appears Aimed at De-Escalating Conflict

Israel’s Limited Attack on Iran Appears Aimed at De-Escalating Conflict

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – Israel had vowed to make Iran pay for Tehran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on April 13. But […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Islam
Learning about Patience and Impatience: Top Three Principles from the Great Sufi Scholar al-Ghazali

Learning about Patience and Impatience: Top Three Principles from the Great Sufi Scholar al-Ghazali

By Liz Bucar, Northeastern University | – From childhood, we are told that patience is a virtue and that good things will come to those […]

The Conversation

Featured
Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire

Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long wanted war with Iran and has all along been trying […]

Fariba Amini

Anti-intellectualism
Expressing Outrage at USC over its Decision to cancel Asna Tabassum’s Valedictory Address at Commencement

Expressing Outrage at USC over its Decision to cancel Asna Tabassum’s Valedictory Address at Commencement

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Carol Folt President, University of Southern California president@usc.edu Andrew Guzman Provost, University of Southern […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Far Right
Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over

Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Haiti has descended into chaos. It’s had no president or parliament — and no elections either –for eight long years. Its […]

John Feffer

Bill of Rights
In Fit of anti-Palestinian Hatred, Congress tries to Outlaw "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free"

In Fit of anti-Palestinian Hatred, Congress tries to Outlaw “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chanting of the phrase “From the river to the […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
SecState Blinken is Squelching Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Units for Killings or Rapes

SecState Blinken is Squelching Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Units for Killings or Rapes

By Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple […]

ProPublica

Colonialism
Colonialists have long used Starvation as a Tool of Oppression

Colonialists have long used Starvation as a Tool of Oppression

By Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation | – In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we continue our conversation about […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 159
  • Page 160
  • Page 161
  • Page 162
  • Page 163
  • …
  • Page 3013
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

The Conversation

censorship

On Occidental College’s Disciplining of Students Protesting Gaza

Committee on Academic Freedom

Featured

War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

Popular

  • We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
  • Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
  • War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza
  • Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?
  • The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved