Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

More Stories

Democratic Party
How Biden is determined to Parry Trump's Sabotage and restore Iran Nuclear Deal

How Biden is determined to Parry Trump’s Sabotage and restore Iran Nuclear Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The NYT’s Thomas Friedman reports on a recent telephone conversation he had with Joe Biden, and the interview contains good […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Why America’s Lame Duck 7 Weeks is Palestine’s Nightmare

Why America’s Lame Duck 7 Weeks is Palestine’s Nightmare

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Before Obama took office, Israel viciously assaulted the Gaza Strip. As Trump gets the boot, could another gambit be […]

Harry Blain

Israel/ Palestine
Occupation in the Time of COVID-19: Holding Israel Accountable for Palestinian Health

Occupation in the Time of COVID-19: Holding Israel Accountable for Palestinian Health

By Yara Asi Israel has directly contributed to the deterioration of Palestinians’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, […]

Al-Shabaka

Democratic Socialism
Socialism is a trigger word on social media – but real discussion is going on amid the screaming

Socialism is a trigger word on social media – but real discussion is going on amid the screaming

Robert Kozinets | – The word “socialism” has become a trigger word in U.S. politics, with both positive and negative perceptions of it split along […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
After the Coronavirus took down Trump in Election, could Israeli PM Netanyahu be Next?

After the Coronavirus took down Trump in Election, could Israeli PM Netanyahu be Next?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mahmoud Mujadalah at the Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Benny Gantz, the Israeli minister of defense who was set to […]

Juan Cole

Conspiracy Theories
"Stop the Stupid": Even GOP Stalwarts Are Turning on Trump's Coup Attempt

“Stop the Stupid”: Even GOP Stalwarts Are Turning on Trump’s Coup Attempt

(Special to Informed Comment) – Trump’s coup may have failed, but the scars to democracy won’t heal for generations. In a fitting end to his […]

Sandy Milne

Climate Crisis
The Fall of the American Empire on a Failing Planet

The Fall of the American Empire on a Failing Planet

(Tomdispatch.com ) – We’re now living in an age of opacity, as Rudy Giuliani pointed out in a courtroom recently. Here was the exchange: “‘In […]

Tom Engelhardt

Democracy
Biden vows Turkey's Autocrat Erdogan must "Pay a Price" for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

Biden vows Turkey’s Autocrat Erdogan must “Pay a Price” for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

By Ahmet Alioglu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – One of the leading assistants of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and a founder of the […]

Middle East Monitor

CIA
Israeli Official: "World should thank Israel" for murdering Iranian Scientist; CIA's Brennan: "Act of state-sponsored terrorism"

Israeli Official: “World should thank Israel” for murdering Iranian Scientist; CIA’s Brennan: “Act of state-sponsored terrorism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An unnamed Israeli official told the New York Times on Sunday, “the world should thank Israel” for killing Iranian nuclear […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 689
  • Page 690
  • Page 691
  • Page 692
  • Page 693
  • …
  • Page 3017
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

Human Rights Watch

Antarctica

We’ll all Feel the Abrupt Changes Striking Antarctica Sea Ice and Ocean Currents

The Conversation

Featured

Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
  • Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
  • Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?
  • ‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved