This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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