( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza remains a prime example. Even before the current war, the Gaza Strip suffered under a 17-year hermetic blockade, which has rendered the impoverished area virtually ‘unlivable’. That […]
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Archives for 2024
SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested
By Clare Pastore, University of Southern California | – (The Conversation) – The Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit cities from criminalizing sleeping outdoors. City of Grants Pass v. Johnson began when a small city in Oregon with just one homeless shelter began enforcing a local […]
AIPAC’s Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Rep. Jamal Bowman’s loss to George Latimer for the 16th District of New York in the Democratic primary illustrates the destructive reach of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel wading into American electoral politics. Their agenda is driven by a single issue, about which […]
Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations
Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity, including malnutrition, hunger and starvation. A famine review analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on […]
Liberal Zionism and the woke facade of Israeli genocide
( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.” Yet Zionism’s […]
Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – During CNN’s sh*tshow — I mean, debate — Trump at one point insisted that Biden let the Israelis “go” at the Palestinians: You got to ask him, as far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. He said the only one who wants to keep […]
Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov’t a Firing Offense
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | = Elhanan Fellheimer Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students Prof. Arie Zaban President of Bar-Ilan University Chairperson of Association of University Heads – VERA President Zaban, Chairman Fellheimer, We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the Middle East Studies Association […]
An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy
By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, can they effectively address mounting threats — of violence, election denialism, foreign influence, and voter discrimination? Do they run the risk of alarming the public to the point of reducing […]
Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 2018, the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center published that 81% of women reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault in their lifetime. Further, the majority of violence against women is perpetrated by male intimate partners and acquaintances. There are myriad other misogynist […]
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