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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why Iran's Provision of Drones to Russia for Ukraine War is a Diplomatic Failure of the Biden Administration

Why Iran’s Provision of Drones to Russia for Ukraine War is a Diplomatic Failure of the Biden Administration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden’s National Security Advisor on Monday spoke of the goals of the president’s trip, which begins today, Tuesday, to […]

Juan Cole

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Palestinians are Uniting, caught between Alliance of Authoritarian States and Western Indifference

Palestinians are Uniting, caught between Alliance of Authoritarian States and Western Indifference

By Tareq Baconi | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Over the course of the past decade, a new regional architecture has come into focus in […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Lebanon's Plan to Deport 15K Syrian Refugees per month back to Syria Is Unsafe and Unlawful

Lebanon’s Plan to Deport 15K Syrian Refugees per month back to Syria Is Unsafe and Unlawful

By Lama Fakih, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | – Human Rights Watch – Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine announced […]

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Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons

Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons

By Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas and Casey Ryan Kelly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | – (The Conversation) – Republican Eric Greitens, a candidate for Missouri’s […]

The Conversation

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On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East […]

Juan Cole

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Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Tuebingen (Special to Ann Arbor) – Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks (London: Verso, 2022). Ilham Tohti, a […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

By Hamid Yazdan Panah | – Iran is in a midst of yet another surge in executions, reaching a rate of killings in 2021 that […]

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Returning to Reno:  In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

Returning to Reno: In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I told my friend Mimi that, only weeks from now, I was returning to Reno to help UNITE-HERE, the hospitality […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Reviw of Daniel Mann, Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris ( Middle East Monitor) – “Sovereignty is made out of […]

Ramona Wadi

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