“He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech,” said Mohsen Mahdawi’s lawyer. ( Common Dreams ) – A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Betar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Across War Zones, targeting Healthcare has become a Strategy, not an Accident
Written byWalid El Houri ( Global Voices ) – The bodies of 15 Palestinian rescue workers were recently discovered in Gaza, showing signs of execution-style killings. According to doctors on the ground, the workers were found with gunshot wounds to the head and their hands tied — disturbing indicators of extrajudicial execution. This massacre is […]
What is the Israel Lobby – and Why is it so Anxious?
By Ned Curthoys, The University of Western Australia (The Conversation) – Last May, on a trip to the United States, world-renowned Israeli–Jewish historian Ilan Pappe was detained by Homeland Security and held for two hours. Aged 69 at the time, he was, among other things, asked about his views on Hamas and whether Israel’s actions […]
A Majority of Americans Views Israel Negatively in wake of Gaza Genocide
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laura Silver at the Pew Research Center reports that 53% of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, a stark deterioration from 42% in spring 2022 before the Israeli total war on Gaza. Moreover, in just 3 years the percentage of Americans with very negative views of Israel has […]
Has Israel turned Gaza into a 21st Century Concentration Camp?
By Dr Mustafa Fetouri The basic definition of “concentration camp” is simple: a large place where a large group of people, usually civilians, are imprisoned without due process. There are various reasons as to why they are kept in confinement, including their ethnicity, religion or because they oppose the authorities ordering their imprisonment. Encyclopaedia Britannica […]
Trump Faces Palestine: The Colonial View of the World Never Dies
By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com) – In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was […]
Macron: France to Recognize the State of Palestine amid Gaza “Crime”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron visited El Arish in Egypt on Tuesday to see refugees from Gaza with his own eyes. He then announced that France would recognize the State of Palestine, probably in June. Mohamed Bouhafsi at French public television reports on remarks of French President Emannuel Macron on Gaza […]
Inside the Resurgence of Jewish-led Palestine Solidarity
Jewish Studies scholar Oren Kroll-Zeldin discusses his new book “Unsettled,” which documents the new generation of American Jews resisting Israeli violence. Shane Burley ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Over the last year and a half, the movement for Palestinian liberation has become one of the largest American social movements of the decade. Not only that, […]
Israel Killed Both Parents: 17,000 Gaza Children are worst Orphan Crisis in Modern History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewed total war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza waged by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recreated the worst headlines of 2024, but this time no one is watching, as the deliberately-created Trump crises suck up all the oxygen in the news universe. The UN Office […]
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