Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]
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Saudi Arabia, Rehabilitated, is Mediator in Ukraine War, and maybe with Iran
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University (The Conversation) – Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at first glance […]
Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against […]
The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.
Board of Directors, the Middle East Studies Association The second Trump administration has ushered in an existential threat to academic freedom and higher education in […]
Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime
By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness […]
The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The efforts to discredit and suppress the film No Other Land are part and parcel of a […]
After mass Killings in Syria, can a fragmented Country stay United?
By Ali Mamouri, Deakin University Shortly after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the new government led by rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa pledged […]
Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM March 11, 2025Katrina Armstrong, PresidentColumbia UniversityDaniel Abebe, DeanColumbia School of Law Dear President Armstrong and Dean Abebe: We are writing […]
Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs: Trump as McKinley Redux
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severethreats may be his […]
Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our […]
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