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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Health
Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Archaeology
Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

  by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

By Peter Edwell, Macquarie University (The Conversation) – Some of the most enduring ancient myths in the Persian world were centred around gardens of almost […]

The Conversation

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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

By Avi Asher-Schapiro and Christopher Bing | – DOGE staffers exposed a sensitive U.S.-funded Afghanistan program and falsely suggested a contractor was involved in an […]

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

By Leonie Fleischmann, City St George’s, University of London (The Conversation) – The Israeli government has approved a plan for construction of a massive new […]

The Conversation

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

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

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

Shamai Leibowitz

Omar Khayyam
“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

I continue with my proposed project of writing a commentary on the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald […]

Juan Cole

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