By Myra Williamson, Auckland University of Technology | – Peace in the Middle East seems further away than ever. The assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, the threat of Iranian retaliation against Israel, and the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza have all put the region on a knife edge. At first glance, there might seem to […]
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Archives for 2024
Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists
Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 31, Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were killed by Israel in the Shati refugee camp in the north of Gaza while reporting on the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyya in Iran. The Israeli army admitted to killing al-Ghoul and […]
Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In July, China reached an unprecedented inflection point for an industrialized society, with more electric cars purchased than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. William Gavin at Quartz points out that 3 years ago, only 7% of cars sold in China were EVs. Just this year, EV sales are up 37%. […]
On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns
By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of […]
Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain’s current Violence is the Result
By Chris Allen, University of Leicester | – (The Conversation) – As someone who has researched Islamophobia in Britain for a quarter of a century, it is clear to me that the current violence on the streets of Britain is an example of it. This was true from the first outbreak of violence, after a […]
B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the functioning of the Israeli prison system, in which it concludes that Israeli authorities are now routinely using torture on Palestinian prisoners. This violence, B’Tselem showed, is part of Israel’s longstanding […]
Gaza: more Palestinians are Dying due to Israeli Blockade, says new Report
( Middle East Monitor ) – Even after ten months of its systematic and widespread destruction of the healthcare sector in the Gaza Strip, and its arbitrary blockade of the territory, Israel continues to prevent the entry of medical supplies, including medical devices and essential medicines. The direct result is that more Palestinians are dying […]
Qatar, Upset with failed Israeli-Palestinian Talks and Haniyeh Assassination, may Turn to Mediating between Iran and West
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University | – (The Conversation) – When the longtime political chief of Hamas was assassinated in late July 2024, it didn’t just leave the entire Middle East on edge. It also created a political headache in Qatar. That’s because the death of Ismail Haniyeh, the result of an apparent Israeli […]
Israeli Minister asserts that Starving 2 Million Palestinians is Morally and Legally permitted
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reported this week that the civil administrator of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank and the minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, broached the subject of whether it is legal and moral to starve over two million people to death. Smotrich, the head of the […]
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