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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution

Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution

( Middle East Monitor ) – This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the “interregnum”; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions […]

Ramzy Baroud

Apartheid
Saudi Arabia: Biden Visit Risks Fostering Repression:  US Should Publicly Seek Rights Commitments, Reforms

Saudi Arabia: Biden Visit Risks Fostering Repression: US Should Publicly Seek Rights Commitments, Reforms

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – US President Joe Biden’s expected visit to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman risks encouraging […]

Human Rights Watch

Feminism
Abortion: The story of Suffering and Death behind Ireland’s Ban and subsequent Legalization

Abortion: The story of Suffering and Death behind Ireland’s Ban and subsequent Legalization

By Gretchen E. Ely, University of Tennessee | – Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized […]

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Apartheid
Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians

Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dawnmena (Dawn in the Middle East and North Africa), the democratization site founded by the late Jamal Khashoggi, carries an […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Abortion Rights should be considered a key Plank of religious Freedom

Abortion Rights should be considered a key Plank of religious Freedom

| Opinion | By Walter McClure | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – Our Constitution guarantees all of us the right to free exercise of […]

Minnesota Reformer

military
Ending the War in Ukraine:  Three Possible Futures

Ending the War in Ukraine: Three Possible Futures

( Tomdispatch.com) – When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, I was easing my way into a new job and in the throes of the […]

Rajan Menon

Feminism
Roe v Wade: Men benefit from Abortion Rights too – and should speak about Them More

Roe v Wade: Men benefit from Abortion Rights too – and should speak about Them More

By Stephen Burrell, Durham University and Sandy Ruxton, Durham University | – It’s striking that, as with many other gender equality issues, the positions of […]

The Conversation

Apartheid
Top 6 Worst Supreme Court Decisions in History

Top 6 Worst Supreme Court Decisions in History

1. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) I explained elsewhere, “Although we all learn about the 1857 Dred Scott decision in school, we aren’t usually told […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
A revolutionary Ruling – and Striking Down Abortion Rights is only the Beginning

A revolutionary Ruling – and Striking Down Abortion Rights is only the Beginning

By Morgan Marietta | – The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more […]

The Conversation

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