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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Zelensky Lambastes Israel for not Helping Ukraine, Warns of Russian Aid to Iran's Nuclear Program

Zelensky Lambastes Israel for not Helping Ukraine, Warns of Russian Aid to Iran’s Nuclear Program

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky lambasted Israel on Monday, saying that the latter’s refusal to provide Ukraine with anti-missile defenses and […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Can a Right-Wing Indian-British Billionaire Save the Conservative Party from Instability and Growing Unpopularity?

Can a Right-Wing Indian-British Billionaire Save the Conservative Party from Instability and Growing Unpopularity?

London (Special to Informed Comment) – In a further display of chaos within the UK Conservative Party and British government, Britain has appointed its third […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

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How Palestinian Youth resisted Israeli Occupation: with a Haircut

How Palestinian Youth resisted Israeli Occupation: with a Haircut

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The Protests in Iran are part of a long History of Women’s Resistance

The Protests in Iran are part of a long History of Women’s Resistance

By Niloofar Hooman, McMaster University | – On Sept. 16, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of […]

The Conversation

China
One City in China Plans More Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030 than the Entire United States

One City in China Plans More Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030 than the Entire United States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Shenzhen Daily reports that the city of Chaozhou in China’s southern Guangdong Province is planning the world’s largest offshore […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Amnon Kapeliouk, Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War (London: Verso, 2022). The 1973 […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Iran's Universities Turn Into A Major Battleground Amid Anti-Government Protests

Iran’s Universities Turn Into A Major Battleground Amid Anti-Government Protests

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Mohammad Zarghami | – ( RFE/RL ) – Dozens of students protested outside the law faculty at Tehran’s Allameh Tabatabei University […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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UN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again:  Zero Accountability for War Crimes

UN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again: Zero Accountability for War Crimes

By Joey Shea Acting Researcher, Yemen and Bahrain | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – On October 7, the Human Rights Council adopted, without […]

Human Rights Watch

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On Turning 70 in a Graying, Climate-threatened World where Christians and Muslims must learn to Understand Each Other

On Turning 70 in a Graying, Climate-threatened World where Christians and Muslims must learn to Understand Each Other

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A daily column is inevitably personal, even if the focus is, as with Informed Comment, on current events. Today I’m […]

Juan Cole

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