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

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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Anti-Vaxxer Trumpian Pols are Killing their own Constituents for Profit -- and Endangering us All

Anti-Vaxxer Trumpian Pols are Killing their own Constituents for Profit — and Endangering us All

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is killing his constituents by pandering to Donald Trump. He’s following the leads of […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Iran
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Muslim Secularism:  A conversation with Juan Cole (Ta'seel)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Muslim Secularism: A conversation with Juan Cole (Ta’seel)

Juan Cole in conversation with Ta’seel Commons: “’To read Juan Cole’s deft, plain-spoken translation of the Rubáiyát is to find companionship, to rejoin a thousand-year […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Vaccination
The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements

The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements

By Paula Larsson | – We are currently experiencing a worldwide vaccination effort that’s being impeded by rising pockets of anti-vaccination sentiment. There has been […]

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“No ice cream for you” – Ben & Jerry’s ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank

“No ice cream for you” – Ben & Jerry’s ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The civil society movement to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel racked up another victory on Monday when it […]

Juan Cole

European Union
European Islamophobia on both Left and Right is a Major Human Rights Concern

European Islamophobia on both Left and Right is a Major Human Rights Concern

( Middle East Monitor) – Europe’s identity crisis is not confined to the ceaseless squabbles by Europeans over the EU, Brexit, or football. It goes […]

Ramzy Baroud

Left Politics
In Difficult times, Let's remember all the Progressive Victories, and keep Bending the Arc of History

In Difficult times, Let’s remember all the Progressive Victories, and keep Bending the Arc of History

(Charleston, W.V.) – Enormous human betterment has occurred since The Enlightenment, chiefly because crusading liberals overcame conservative resistance, time after time. Modern democracy arose because […]

James A. Haught

Evangelicals
As a new Generation Emerges, Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable

As a new Generation Emerges, Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable

By Walker Robins | – Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, made waves in May 2021 when he publicly suggested that Israel should […]

The Conversation

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Palestinian-Israeli Party in Gov't Warns of "Religious War" over Violent Squatter Invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque Complex

Palestinian-Israeli Party in Gov’t Warns of “Religious War” over Violent Squatter Invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque Complex

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that early on Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli squatter-settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa […]

Juan Cole

Banking
This time, it is the Students and the Unions that the Gov't Needs to Bail out for a Healthy Economy

This time, it is the Students and the Unions that the Gov’t Needs to Bail out for a Healthy Economy

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Digging our way back out of the pandemic recession will not be easy, but we have the […]

John Buell

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