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

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
Archaeology

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

09/14/2025 By Human Rights Watch

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

09/14/2025 By Global Voices

More Stories

Bill of Rights
Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private?  The Police Don't

Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t

By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine […]

contributors

Apartheid
"Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation" - Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

BBC: Spokesman for Fatah, Dr Husam Zomlot tells the BBC News that Israeli PM Netanyahu is guilty of ‘ liquidation of an entire nation’. ‘We […]

contributors

Apartheid
UN on Gaza:  Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

UN on Gaza: Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory: Gaza Emergency Situation Report Highlights • The Rafah area was subject to […]

contributors

Apartheid
"Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel" - Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

“Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel” – Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

The Young Turks: “”The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has banned a radio advertisement from a human rights organisation which listed the names of some of the […]

contributors

BDS Occupied Territories
Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

By Juan Cole The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Sanction and Divestment movement by Western civil […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Gaza:  Khuzaa district Flattened, Evidence of Israeli Atrocities

Gaza: Khuzaa district Flattened, Evidence of Israeli Atrocities

Channel 4 News: “WARNING – this report contains graphic images some viewers may find distressing. Paul Mason reports on the end of the proposed 72-hour […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Obama steps up to call Bush-era CIA Torture "Torture," Despite Legal Implications

Obama steps up to call Bush-era CIA Torture “Torture,” Despite Legal Implications

CNN points out that President Obama’s forthright condemnation of Bush administration-era CIA torture could cause legal problems for Agency employees, and that the Congressional report […]

contributors

Apartheid
Is Israel Committing a Genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza?

Is Israel Committing a Genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza?

By Luke Peterson Yes, Israel is committing genocide. What we are witnessing now is the extension of the program of national erasure against the Palestinians […]

contributors

Featured
Are Israelis and Zionists really talking about a Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem?

Are Israelis and Zionists really talking about a Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem?

By Juan Cole The Times of Israel published and then removed from its site an essay by Yochanan Gordon that openly called for genocide against […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1821
  • Page 1822
  • Page 1823
  • Page 1824
  • Page 1825
  • …
  • Page 3026
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The Conversation

European Union

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

The Conversation

Popular

  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
  • Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover
  • While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
  • Iran Seeks China's help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in "4th Industrial Revolution"
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved