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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Israel/ Palestine
Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  Fax: +972-2-5664838   Minister of Education Yoav Kisch Fax: +972-2-5602390   Minister of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab Americans
Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Peter Beinart correctly argues, anti-Palestinianism is not a word in American English. I can tell since the internet helpfully […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | – The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion?  On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

( Tomdispatch.com) – When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many […]

Rebecca Gordon

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The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

Gaza has been enduring one of the most devastating massacres in this century. The Strip has been under blockade for two decades, and the world […]

Hilal Cibik

Foreign Policy
Iran and America: They weren’t Always Enemies

Iran and America: They weren’t Always Enemies

Review of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Heroes to Hostages America and Iran, 1800–1988 (Cambridge U.P., 2023) When the subject of Iran and America comes to mind, two […]

Fariba Amini

Climate Crisis
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit

By Emilie Rutledge, The Open University and Aiora Zabala, The Open University | – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh largest oil producer, […]

The Conversation

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President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

Grand Blanc, Mi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It has been clear since the horrid terror attack of October 7 by Hamas that President […]

Omer Abid

Climate Crisis
A Slow-Motion Gaza: Or how to Carbonize the Planet Earth

A Slow-Motion Gaza: Or how to Carbonize the Planet Earth

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything […]

Tom Engelhardt

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