Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]
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Does Compromise show Weakness or Strength? – A Surprising finding in the Talmud
Growing up in Israel, the prevailing mentality surrounding me everywhere I went was that compromise shows weakness. The message was clear: compromise is a “Diaspora […]
Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%
( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, […]
Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized […]
Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces
Review of Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – […]
Americans Want a Ceasefire. It’s Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch
By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords ) – Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, […]
‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis
By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children […]
Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Maya Angelou wisely advised, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Members of the […]
The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza
( Counterpunch ) – “In preparation for the Nazi war crimes trials in 1945, representatives of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States […]
The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes
Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu John Jackson Provost, […]
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