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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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Education
Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out: Hardening Schools and Arming Teachers Is the Wrong Approach

Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out: Hardening Schools and Arming Teachers Is the Wrong Approach

( Tomdispatch.com ) – American schools are soft, you say? I know what you mean. I taught college for 15 years, so I’ve dealt with […]

William J. Astore

Bill of Rights
Why the Supreme Court’s Football Decision is a Game-Changer on School Prayer

Why the Supreme Court’s Football Decision is a Game-Changer on School Prayer

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton | – The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently banned school-sponsored prayer in public schools. At the same time, lower […]

The Conversation

Batteries
As US Electric Vehicle Sales Double in One Year, Biden calls for Lowering their Price to Defeat Oil Tyrant Putin

As US Electric Vehicle Sales Double in One Year, Biden calls for Lowering their Price to Defeat Oil Tyrant Putin

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden called last week for a vast expansion of green energy in the United States to offset what […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
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 […]

The Conversation

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

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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

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