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Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence
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Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Why has the Democratic leadership shown such reluctance to take effective legislative action to halt the flow […]

Let them in: Opening Gaza to the foreign Press Corps

Let them in: Opening Gaza to the foreign Press Corps

09/01/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Gaza: Israel is killing far more Civilians than is typical for modern Wars

Gaza: Israel is killing far more Civilians than is typical for modern Wars

09/01/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel's War on Gaza's Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

Israel’s War on Gaza’s Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update: Reuters reports that Al-Shifa hospital complex has been forced to cease operations after its final remaining generator was hit […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War

Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – November 11 – at the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” – marks 105 […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

By Yakov M. Rabkin ( Pressenza ) – A profound division exists between Zionist advocates of Israel on the one hand, and both secular and […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Anti-intellectualism
Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan

Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan

I write in awareness that the ongoing, painful events in the Middle East are putting an enormous emotional burden on the faculty, staff and students […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The non-profit collective of high-powered scientists, Climate Central, has released a new report demonstrating that the past 12 months have […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Israel's Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

Israel’s Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

By Peter Greste, The University of Queensland | – According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Gaza-Israel war has been the deadliest conflict for […]

The Conversation

censorship
Letter to Hebrew University, Israel, in defense of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian over Call for Gaza Ceasefire

Letter to Hebrew University, Israel, in defense of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian over Call for Gaza Ceasefire

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Asher Cohen  President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem hupres@savion.huji.ac.il    Tamir Sheafer  Rector, Hebrew University of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Immigration
Biden’s Border: Record Contracts for Private Industry on the World’s Deadliest Frontier

Biden’s Border: Record Contracts for Private Industry on the World’s Deadliest Frontier

By Todd Miller ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international […]

Tomdispatch

Congress
Dear Congress: Your Resolution against Rashida Tlaib is Delusional, full of Fake History and Falsehoods. Here's Why.

Dear Congress: Your Resolution against Rashida Tlaib is Delusional, full of Fake History and Falsehoods. Here’s Why.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Congressional resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian to serve in the national legislature, is a major scandal. […]

Juan Cole

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