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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 […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Islam
The Meaning of the Ramadan Fast for those in Gaza and other War Zones

The Meaning of the Ramadan Fast for those in Gaza and other War Zones

By Mahan Mirza, University of Notre Dame | – Ramadan in the Gaza Strip this year will be anything but “normal.” Malnutrition and disease are […]

The Conversation

Culture
The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

The Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters from the Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | The Board of Directors of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden owes an apology to fellow American Furkan Doğan, whom Israeli commandos murdered on May 31, 2010, as he […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

by By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – What a mad world humanity lives in, where we see the US dropping missiles and […]

Middle East Monitor

Health Care
The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the […]

Liz Theoharis

Books
Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalist and science fiction writer Frank Herbert’s Dune epic has many themes. One is, clearly, environmentalism and the need for […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist

Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist

by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – Canada is considering the resumption of funding the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of Species are most at Risk?

Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of Species are most at Risk?

By Erin Saupe, University of Oxford and Cooper Malanoski, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – Many experts believe we may soon face a […]

The Conversation

Agriculture
America's Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

America’s Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced Friday that the winter of 2023-24 was the hottest on record in U.S. […]

Juan Cole

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