Human Rights

Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters and Statements from the Board | – Open Letter to US and Canadian College and University Presidents We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to urge you to uphold academic freedom on your […]

Democratic Party

Rep. Rashida Tlaib joins with UAW to call for Gaza Ceasefire

Michigan Advance

By Jon King | – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaking at Ceasefire Now rally in Washington D.C. 12/14/23 ( Michigan Advance ) – U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) on Thursday joined with United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain in Washington, D.C., in calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the […]

Israel/ Palestine

“If I must die, you must live to tell my Story:” On Gaza, Biden is Violating International Law

OtherWords

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – “If I must die, you must live to tell my story,” wrote Dr. Refaat Alareer, a 44-year-old Gazan poet and literature professor. A few weeks later, Alareer was killed while sheltering in his sister’s apartment, along with six family members. In the densely populated Gaza Strip, […]

Displaced and Refugees

US must Back UN Protection of Gaza’s Civilians, not Veto Resolutions to halt Mass Atrocities

Human Rights Watch

By Louis Charbonneau | – United Nations Director @loucharbon ( Human Rights Watch) – This week, US President Joe Biden warned Israel it was losing international support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza, which are laws-of-war violations. The United States should now back those words by acting at the United Nations Security Council to […]

Displaced and Refugees

Forced Migration as a Strategy of War: Israel’s Mass Displacement of Gaza Palestinians

The Conversation

By Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine; Adam G. Lichtenheld, Stanford University: and Kelsey Norman, Rice University | – As a result of the monthslong Israeli air and ground campaign in northern Gaza Strip, more than 1.8 million of the strip’s population have been displaced from their homes. And with the operation heading into Gaza’s […]

Apartheid

World Health Organization: Gaza faces Epidemics; 449 Israeli Attacks on Health Services in Palestine

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday confirmed more than 449 attacks on health services in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7, saying “now the work of the health workers is impossible.” Speaking at a special session organised by the WHO executive board on […]

Featured

On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling the world to punish the Russian Federation, to boycott its petroleum and gas, to seize assets even of private citizens in Europe and North America, and to make Russia a […]

censorship

Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Committee on Academic Freedom

Letter to the president of the University of Arizona expressing concern about the College of Education’s treatment of two faculty members by Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association. | – Robert C. Robbins President, University of Arizona president@email.arizona.edu Dear President Robbins, We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association […]

Anti-intellectualism

The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn)

Juan Cole

Excerpted from Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now) Israel’s total war on Gaza, following Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7, has roiled higher education in the United States. The atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel two months ago have reverberated on many U.S. campuses, deeply traumatizing many Jewish students. But so too […]