2024

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the federal civil service system and consolidate power in the hands of You Know Who, under Trump […]

Displaced and Refugees

The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington

Juan Cole

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible and distressing statistic, another number also stood out this week. It is reported that in the past week, more than 100 aid workers have been killed. Twenty-three on March 19 […]

Canada

Is Canada’s Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vote in the Canadian parliament this week to halt new arms exports to Israel is of great symbolic importance in ways that may not be apparent on the surface. The measure called for no new arms and military technology transfers to Israel, for support for the International Court of […]

Climate Crisis

New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise

The Conversation

By Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University | Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah is not the only man-made island to have emerged from the sea this century. Over the past 20 years, many islands have been built to accommodate both tourists and well-heeled residents – especially in the Arabian Gulf states and China. In an era of sea-level […]

Anti-intellectualism

Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Joseph R. Biden President of the United States Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ambassador Omar Zniber President, UN Human Rights Council Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Dear President Biden, High Commissioner Türk, Ambassador Zniber, and […]

Anti-Zionism

In Zionist Academia there is No Room for Dissent

Lior Sternfeld

By Sonia Boulos and Lior Sternfeld | – Madrid and State College, Pa. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In a statement from March 12, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced the suspension of Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, an internationally renowned Palestinian scholar and a faculty member in the Law School and School of Social […]

Democracy

The Man who Disproved Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Looks at the Problems with New York’s Voter Data

Ken Block

Barrington, RI (Special to Informed Comment) – If the oldest human alive is 116, how did 368 118-year-olds vote in New York in 2020? Election districts that do a terrible job identifying their voters expose their state to problems far beyond a few votes by individuals with impossible ages. Consider that in 2020 New York […]

Israel/ Palestine

Stop Treating Gaza as a Natural Disaster: Armed by US, Israel Trashes Genocide Convention

Tomdispatch

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let’s look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its “orders,” and (2) how hard the Biden administration […]

Hizbullah

Will Current Israeli-Lebanese Fighting derail Historic Land Border Agreement?