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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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We are All Mahmoud Khalil

We are All Mahmoud Khalil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The arrest of legal permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil, 29, by Department of Homeland Security agents for thought crimes is […]

Juan Cole

Alawites
Syria: End Coastal Killing Spree, Protect Civilians

Syria: End Coastal Killing Spree, Protect Civilians

Summary Executions, Indiscriminate Shootings, Outrages on Personal Dignity. ( Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Health-Care Workers in Gaza should not be a Target: Their Detention and Death affect the Whole Population

Health-Care Workers in Gaza should not be a Target: Their Detention and Death affect the Whole Population

By Tania King, The University of Melbourne; Fiona Stanley, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Guy Gillor, The University of Melbourne; Rob Moodie, The University of […]

The Conversation

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Israel Cuts Electricity for Water to Gaza, as Smotrich plans Expulsion of 5,000 Palestinian Civilians a Day for One Year

Israel Cuts Electricity for Water to Gaza, as Smotrich plans Expulsion of 5,000 Palestinian Civilians a Day for One Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghribi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen ordered late Sunday that […]

Juan Cole

Food Insecurity
My Jewish Faith and Int’l Law Demand an Immediate Resumption of Aid in Gaza

My Jewish Faith and Int’l Law Demand an Immediate Resumption of Aid in Gaza

By Mara Kronenfeld | – ( Otherwords.org) – Israel’s assault on Gaza, with backing from the United States, has created one of the worst humanitarian […]

OtherWords

Donald Trump
Living in Red-Card America: From Fear to Action

Living in Red-Card America: From Fear to Action

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign,” my 18-year-old Ro told me, as […]

Frida Berrigan

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Israel returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

Israel returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Eurasia
Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Written byNurbek Bekmurzaev ( Global Voices ) – The Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water in the world, faces a grim future in […]

Global Voices

Christan Nationalists
Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left […]

ProPublica

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