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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
Democracy

Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

03/06/2026 By Juan Cole

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

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Displaced and Refugees
Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel's International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

by Dr Binoy Kampmark Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice.  In […]

Middle East Monitor

Pentagon
Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry

Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the […]

Nick Turse

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Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed

Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Sunday evening 12 Israeli cabinet members and 15 members of Parliament (the […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Most Palestinians in Gaza are now Displaced at least Twice Over. They have a Right to Choose where to Return

Most Palestinians in Gaza are now Displaced at least Twice Over. They have a Right to Choose where to Return

By Sari Bashi Program Director @saribashi | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – It has been almost four months since Israel began its strikes […]

Human Rights Watch

Genocide
Ruling by UN's Top Court means the U.S. and Canada could be liable for Complicity in Gaza Genocide

Ruling by UN’s Top Court means the U.S. and Canada could be liable for Complicity in Gaza Genocide

By Heidi Matthews, York University, Canada; Faisal A. Bhabha, York University, Canada; and Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – The International […]

The Conversation

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How Biden inherited the War with an Iraqi Shiite Militia from Bush, Trump and Netanyahu

How Biden inherited the War with an Iraqi Shiite Militia from Bush, Trump and Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The “Party of God Brigades” (Kata’ib Hizbullah) of Iraq struck the Tower 22 US military base in the far north […]

Juan Cole

Ecology
How Trees and Forests Heal us and make for Well-Being,

How Trees and Forests Heal us and make for Well-Being,

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Korean scientists have confirmed that walking through forest areas improved older women’s blood pressure, lung capacity and […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Climate Crisis
As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments can’t Afford any other Priority

As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments can’t Afford any other Priority

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In December, the New York Times reported that “Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and […]

Stan Cox

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From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality

From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment) – Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

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