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The Ecocide of Gaza
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The Ecocide of Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Well before October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip had progressively been isolated from the West Bank and the outside world overall

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“All the Saints and Sages:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

11/25/2025 By Juan Cole

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

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How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

Critical Review of Ilan Evyatar, Yonah Jeremy Bob and Jonathan Davis, Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

( Code Pink ) – While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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

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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, […]

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