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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Israel-Palestine conflict: why Gulf leaders are staying quiet – for now

Israel-Palestine conflict: why Gulf leaders are staying quiet – for now

By Simon Mabon | – It’s generally reckoned to be one of Donald Trump’s few major foreign policy achievements. On August 13 2020, the United […]

The Conversation

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Israel's Total War on Palestinians: Hospital Crisis Grips Gaza in Deadliest Day of Israeli Airstrikes

Israel’s Total War on Palestinians: Hospital Crisis Grips Gaza in Deadliest Day of Israeli Airstrikes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the deadliest single day of the Israeli air campaign on Palestinian Gaza, 42 were killed on Sunday, according to […]

Juan Cole

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How global tax dodging costs lives: new research shows a direct link to increased death rates

How global tax dodging costs lives: new research shows a direct link to increased death rates

By Bernadette O’Hare and Stephen Hall | – Tax abuse is an expensive business. According to a recent report by the Tax Justice Network, avoiding […]

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Israel's Credibility Problem: Air Strikes destroy buildings housing more than a dozen media outlets in Gaza

Israel’s Credibility Problem: Air Strikes destroy buildings housing more than a dozen media outlets in Gaza

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – New York – Israeli forces must refrain from bombing media outlets, and should ensure that journalists can work safely […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Israel/ Palestine
Danger of Excessive Force by Israeli Security against Israelis of Palestinian Heritage in Mixed Cities

Danger of Excessive Force by Israeli Security against Israelis of Palestinian Heritage in Mixed Cities

( Human Rights Watch ) – (New York) – Amid escalating violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel […]

Human Rights Watch

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Bridges, not Walls:  Can the U.S. Border be Demilitarized?

Bridges, not Walls: Can the U.S. Border be Demilitarized?

By Todd Miller ( Tomdispatch.com) – From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I […]

Tomdispatch

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"Making the enemy blind": Did Israeli AF destroy Highrise housing AP and Al-Jazeera to Hide War Crimes?

“Making the enemy blind”: Did Israeli AF destroy Highrise housing AP and Al-Jazeera to Hide War Crimes?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Associated Press is flatly denying the Israeli military’s cover story for why it bombarded the al-Jala tower in Gaza, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
"Much Worse than Apartheid": Israel's Discourse on Palestine is Crumbling

“Much Worse than Apartheid”: Israel’s Discourse on Palestine is Crumbling

On April 27, one of the world’s largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Understanding Israel’s Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits

Understanding Israel’s Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – “Both sides need to de-escalate.” “No one benefits from this. ” You’ll hear a lot of statements like that […]

Phyllis Bennis

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