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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Iran
Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal: Here's how to ensure that a new agreement isn't so easily cancelled

Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal: Here’s how to ensure that a new agreement isn’t so easily cancelled

By Abolghasem Bayyenat | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – As talks for reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Islamophobia
Promoting Hatred of Muslim Americans is a Billion Dollar Industry: Can the New Congressional Envoy Combat it?

Promoting Hatred of Muslim Americans is a Billion Dollar Industry: Can the New Congressional Envoy Combat it?

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – US lawmakers voted, last month, in support of a bill to create a State Department […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
The North Atlantic Put up most Heat-Trapping Gases but Africa has to Deal with the Climate Emergency

The North Atlantic Put up most Heat-Trapping Gases but Africa has to Deal with the Climate Emergency

By Margaret Kadiri | – The UN climate summit COP26, held in November 2021, focused the world’s attention on the urgent need to tackle climate […]

The Conversation

China
US Maximum Pressure Foiled as Iran's new Best Friend, China, imports as much as 18 million barrels a month of its Oil

US Maximum Pressure Foiled as Iran’s new Best Friend, China, imports as much as 18 million barrels a month of its Oil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – China continues to rescue Iran from Washington’s financial and trade blockade on Iran, which by May, 2019, had reportedly reduced […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Response to Human Rights NGOs' finding that it practices Apartheid has been to Shoot the Messenger

Israel’s Response to Human Rights NGOs’ finding that it practices Apartheid has been to Shoot the Messenger

( ) – While Palestinians have been calling out Israeli apartheid for years, it was the non-governmental organisation B’Tselem that made the headlines a year […]

Ramona Wadi

Displaced and Refugees
America's Bombing Wars Haven't Ended, with  1,178 dropped under Biden

America’s Bombing Wars Haven’t Ended, with 1,178 dropped under Biden

The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Christianity
Which Way America?  Confronting Christian Nationalism in the Spirit of Desmond Tutu

Which Way America? Confronting Christian Nationalism in the Spirit of Desmond Tutu

( Tomdispatch.com) – “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot […]

Liz Theoharis

Climate Crisis
We are so F*cked unless we act Now: The 7 Hottest Years on Record were the last 7 Years

We are so F*cked unless we act Now: The 7 Hottest Years on Record were the last 7 Years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that the seven hottest years on record “by a clear margin” were […]

Juan Cole

China
Americans may think they have nothing to learn about Justice from the old Empires like China's: They're Wrong

Americans may think they have nothing to learn about Justice from the old Empires like China’s: They’re Wrong

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – A year ago, last September Jennifer Rubin wrote in the Washington Post: “The wanton disregard for the lives […]

Martin Powers

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