Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]
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Israel & Palestine both Need to Root out the Hate
By Yakir Englander via ISLAMiCommentary Yakir Englander Serious illness calls for first aid, then sometimes surgery, followed by healing the source of the disease. If […]
Natural Gas isn’t the Global Warming Solution: It Endangers the Earth
By Naomi Oreskes via Tomdispatch.com Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to […]
Israel’s Gaza Campaign Endangers US Security: Why Obama & Kerry are Furious
By Juan Cole The United States as a great Power is facing a large number of challenges in the Muslim world, and Israel’s Gaza campaign […]
The Children of Gaza (That’s Mainly Who is There)
“Jon Snow recounts the scene in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.” Channel 4 News: “The […]
In Palestine, R2P isn’t Dead; It was never on the Table
By Michael Kearney My response to students’ queries on the matter of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has generally been that the whole narrative is a […]
Gaza/ Israel: Is Social Media A Corrective for Biased MSM reporting?
“When it comes to news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the media coverage itself often becomes the story. Here’s a look at how the U.S. media […]
Can People of Muslim Heritage defeat the Radical Fundamentalists?
“Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to […]
Gaza: Why a ‘Cease-Fire’ is Not enough
By Juan Cole When ordinary countries fight wars they have war aims. In World War II, the US wanted to defeat Germany militarily, but then […]
Arab-Americans take on hate
By Anna Lekas Miller “[This week]… several members of New York City’s Arab-American community filed into the Good Shephard’s Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn […]
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