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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Israel/ Palestine
West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military either took part in or did not protect Palestinians from violent settler attacks in […]

Human Rights Watch

Anti-intellectualism
College Administrators are falling into a tried and true Trap laid by the Right

College Administrators are falling into a tried and true Trap laid by the Right

By Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, University of New Orleans | – Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops […]

The Conversation

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

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