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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Open Letter to Sec'y Blinken: James Cavallaro Should not be Disqualified on Inter-American Human Rights for Criticizing Israeli Apartheid

Open Letter to Sec’y Blinken: James Cavallaro Should not be Disqualified on Inter-American Human Rights for Criticizing Israeli Apartheid

Open Letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the withdrawal of Professor James Cavallaro’s nomination for commissioner to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights […]

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Israeli Rampage leaves 11 Dead, over 100 Injured in Occupied Nablus, but Kamala Harris only Condemns Russian Occupation of Ukraine as War Crime

Israeli Rampage leaves 11 Dead, over 100 Injured in Occupied Nablus, but Kamala Harris only Condemns Russian Occupation of Ukraine as War Crime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A daytime Israeli military raid on Wednesday on an apartment in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the Palestinian West […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
U.S. Sanctions Are Hurting Syrians

U.S. Sanctions Are Hurting Syrians

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – March 2023 will mark 12 years of war in Syria. No country should […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Bashar al-Assad
Sanctions or Assad: What is blocking Aid from entering northern Syria?

Sanctions or Assad: What is blocking Aid from entering northern Syria?

Sulaiman Lkaderi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the death toll from the earthquakes which rocked Turkiye and Syria continues to rise, […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
The Importance of Addressing Institutional Islamophobia: Intelligence Agencies use Lazy Stereotypes

The Importance of Addressing Institutional Islamophobia: Intelligence Agencies use Lazy Stereotypes

By Baljit Nagra, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Paula Maurutto, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – There has been an uproar recently among […]

The Conversation

Anti-intellectualism
KKK without the Robes: DeSantis has gutted Florida Education, Cancelled Black History and Criminalized  LGBTQ+ People

KKK without the Robes: DeSantis has gutted Florida Education, Cancelled Black History and Criminalized LGBTQ+ People

Informed Comment is introducing guest Feature posts occasionally, as Editor-in-Chief Juan Cole steps back from his unprecedented and grueling routine of writing a blog essay […]

Dan Dinello

Islamophobia
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

Review of Rizwaan Sabir, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and The Security State (London: Pluto Press, 2022.) Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – In May […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

Note for TomDispatch Readers: I hate to bother you when you were so wonderful in helping keep this website afloat with contributions as last year […]

Tom Engelhardt

NATO
Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – After decades of progress on limiting the buildup […]

The Conversation

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