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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

Review of David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954. Chapel Hill: The University of North […]

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Will Israel's Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

Will Israel’s Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – The devastating war in Gaza is now in its sixth month, and the figures are alarming: […]

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"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:" Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:” Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only […]

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Batteries
Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The far right Texas legislature, dominated by Republicans in the back pocket of the fossil fuel industry, has done what […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Countries like Australia are  Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Countries like Australia are Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | – Foreign Minister Penny Wong has taken Australian policy a modest step towards embracing recognition of a Palestine state […]

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Anti-intellectualism
Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Daniel Diermeier Chancellor, Vanderbilt University daniel.diermeier@vanderbilt.edu   C. Cybele Raver Provost, Vanderbilt University cybele.raver@vanderbilt.edu […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Displaced and Refugees
Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a "Mistake," Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a “Mistake,” Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden granted the Spanish-language cable television channel Univision an interview that aired on Tuesday evening. Biden ranged widely, condemning […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

  NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 APRIL 2024 Contact: academicsvsscholasticide@gmail.com   Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law […]

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Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures […]

Rebecca Gordon

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