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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

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Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

By Ken Chitwood | – The violence that spread from Jerusalem to cities across Israel and the Palestinian territories, leaving at least 60 dead so […]

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Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Steve Hendrix, Shira Rubin and Michael E. Miller at WaPo report that Israeli air strikes on the densely populated urban […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Trump's "Abraham Accords" Inflamed Tensions by Marginalizing Palestinians  and how Biden must hold Israel Accountable

How Trump’s “Abraham Accords” Inflamed Tensions by Marginalizing Palestinians and how Biden must hold Israel Accountable

Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment) – Formal military units and street gangs are fighting it out separately throughout Israel, Palestine and the territories. Both […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

By Maha Nassar | – The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of […]

The Conversation

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Mother’s Day Tears:  The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

Mother’s Day Tears: The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

( Tomdispatch.com) – One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s […]

Liz Theoharis

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Civil War? Palestinian-Israelis Join Protests en Masse for First time in Decades, as Squatter Militias Attack

Civil War? Palestinian-Israelis Join Protests en Masse for First time in Decades, as Squatter Militias Attack

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in Lod, a small city of 77,000 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem to Gaza, Israeli Authorities' Escalation Highlights Reality of Apartheid, Persecution for Millions of Palestinians

Jerusalem to Gaza, Israeli Authorities’ Escalation Highlights Reality of Apartheid, Persecution for Millions of Palestinians

By Omar Shakir | Israel and Palestine Director | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Forcible takeovers of homes, brutal suppression of demonstrators, places of […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Did Israel Exacerbate the situation in Gaza to shift attention from its Sheikh Jarrah evictions?

Did Israel Exacerbate the situation in Gaza to shift attention from its Sheikh Jarrah evictions?

By Yousef A-Helou | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It seems it is the fate of Palestinians to face the worst of apartheid […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem: the politics behind the latest explosion of violence in the Holy City

Jerusalem: the politics behind the latest explosion of violence in the Holy City

By Carlo Aldrovandi | – The recent violence at the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount area and in the Old City of Jerusalem has spiralled into something […]

The Conversation

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