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California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers
Academic Freedom

California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers

H. Scott Prosterman

Positioned and disguised as a bill to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism expressions, it is really an attack on academic freedom

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“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

12/22/2025 By Juan Cole

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

12/22/2025 By The Conversation

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The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The cleavage threatens the post-conflict architecture, compromise the humanitarian response, and cast a shadow over Western coherence

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump
Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

Pardoning Netanyahu for his high crimes and felonies would mean Israel acquiescing to a Bibi dictatorship

H. Scott Prosterman

Entertainment
“With them the seed of Wisdom:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d- “I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

Tacitus, shared how Nero “polluted himself by every lawful or lawless indulgence.”

Liz Theoharis

Israel/ Palestine
How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

In response to censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm

Waging Nonviolence

Caribbean
Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

Dan Dinello

Hayat Tahrir
Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many.

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

In the era of 24-hour news cycles and never-ending scrolling, why does poetry in times of crisis still matter?

The Conversation

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

Max Perry Mueller

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