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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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In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 "Most Influential"

In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 “Most Influential”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what may be a turning point for American media, Time magazine has chosen twin Palestinian activists from the endangered […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's future is apartheid in a 'solution of the three classes'

Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Reading the reflections of one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the […]

Middle East Monitor

Homelessness
The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless:  Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless: Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

( Tomdispatch.com) – Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; […]

Liz Theoharis

Mass Extinction
Human Activity is Threatening 1/3 of Tree Species with Extinction

Human Activity is Threatening 1/3 of Tree Species with Extinction

By Adrian Newton | One in three of the world’s tree species are at risk of becoming extinct, according to a recent report by the […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals

China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laura Zhou at the South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Every member of Congress attended the September 14, 2001 memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral for the […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza?

Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza?

Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with […]

Middle East Monitor

Christianity
Critical race theory is an important tool in better understanding how religion operates in America

Critical race theory is an important tool in better understanding how religion operates in America

By Tiffany Puett | – ( The Conversation) – The debate over critical race theory has played out in TV studios, school board meetings and […]

The Conversation

China
“We are on the way to a right-wing coup:"  Milley secured Nuclear Codes, Allayed China fears of Trump Strike

“We are on the way to a right-wing coup:” Milley secured Nuclear Codes, Allayed China fears of Trump Strike

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As a historian, I am fascinated by the practical appeals to history that appear throughout the story of Gen. Mark […]

Juan Cole

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