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

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Featured

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Colonialism
Palestinian History: Understanding the Past, Engaging with the Present

Palestinian History: Understanding the Past, Engaging with the Present

My 20-minute presentation on Israel Palestine is the first segment in the below below. In recognition of Arab American Heritage Month and in light of […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

( Code Pink ) – The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

censorship
The NYT's Palestinian-Israeli Lexicon:  Special Edition of the Ghoul's Glossary

The NYT’s Palestinian-Israeli Lexicon: Special Edition of the Ghoul’s Glossary

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American humorist and, oddly, horror author, Ambrose Bierce (d. 1913), produced a serial, staccato newspaper column consisting of humorous and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Shadow War no more: With Direct Warfare between Israel and Iran, is there any going Back?

Shadow War no more: With Direct Warfare between Israel and Iran, is there any going Back?

By Javed Ali, University of Michigan | – For decades, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a “shadow war.” Falling short of direct military […]

The Conversation

Anti-intellectualism
Protesting Columbia University's Arbitrary Suspension and Eviction of Students

Protesting Columbia University’s Arbitrary Suspension and Eviction of Students

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Minouche Shafik President, Columbia University officeofthepresident@columbia.edu    Dennis Mitchell Provost, Columbia University dml48@cumc.columbia.edu . […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Featured
Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza, as Returnees to North are Targeted and Refugee Camp is Bombed

Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza, as Returnees to North are Targeted and Refugee Camp is Bombed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brief interlude of the Iranian rocket attack on Israel, in which almost all the projectiles were shot down or […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
Gun Culture, Israeli Style

Gun Culture, Israeli Style

Mitchell Plitnick  ( Waging Nonviolence ) -Firearms are not uncommon in Israel. Armed security guards have long been a routine sight at shopping malls, clubs, […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Dead on Arrival: Israel's Blowback Genocide

Dead on Arrival: Israel’s Blowback Genocide

By Ellen Cantarow ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have […]

Tomdispatch

Featured
Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden's Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 174
  • Page 175
  • Page 176
  • Page 177
  • Page 178
  • …
  • Page 3027
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Juan Cole

Islamophobia

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

The Conversation

censorship

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Popular

  • Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
  • Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar's strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance
  • The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,
  • Israel's Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved