Israel/ Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Annual Threat Assessment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Avril Haines) contains some important information that should be highlighted because it refutes right wing propaganda. Let me just draw attention to some of these points. 1. Here’s an essential one: “We assess that Iranian leaders did […]

Anti-intellectualism

Protesting the Suspension of Professor Jairo Fúnez-Flores by Texas Tech University

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Tedd Mitchell Chancellor, Texas Tech University System Tedd.mitchell@ttuhsc.edu Lawrence Schovanec President, Texas Tech University lawrence.schovanec@ttu.edu Ron Hendrick Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas Tech University provost.communications@ttu.edu Eileen Gianiodis Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Texas Tech University egianiod@ttu.edu […]

China

The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis

Alfred W. McCoy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises in […]

Israel/ Palestine

We are all Palestinian: Music Video by Mistahi

contributors

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mistahi: “We are all Palestinian” Mistahi was born and raised in Saskatoon, Canada as part of a poor neighbourhood. He was exposed to common problems that are familiar to most in the working class. Everyday he walked by a homeless shelter to attend elementary school. By the time he made […]

Anti-Zionism

QZionism hits Peak Conspiracy Theory with Smears of Oscar-Winning Jonathan Glazer

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and highly ethical Oscar-award-winning director, Jonathan Glazer, has been targeted by the crazies on the Zionist (Israeli-nationalist) right wing, as were all the actors and film people who expressed horror at the genocide in Gaza. Their allegations on social media are so bizarre and crazed that they are […]

Islam

The Meaning of the Ramadan Fast for those in Gaza and other War Zones

The Conversation

By Mahan Mirza, University of Notre Dame | – Ramadan in the Gaza Strip this year will be anything but “normal.” Malnutrition and disease are claiming dozens of lives. The Gaza Health Ministry said on March 6, 2024, that at least 20 people had died of malnutrition. Many others, it said, were “dying silently,” unable […]

Culture

The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

Committee on Academic Freedom

The Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters from the Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association and its Committee on Academic Freedom condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel, which has now claimed […]

Featured

Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden owes an apology to fellow American Furkan Doğan, whom Israeli commandos murdered on May 31, 2010, as he videoed their illegal attack in international waters on the aid ship Mavi Marmara. At the time, Biden justified the massacre. Doğan and other volunteers were trying to bring food and […]

Israel/ Palestine

Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

Middle East Monitor

by By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – What a mad world humanity lives in, where we see the US dropping missiles and bombs through its ally, Israel, on the helpless people of Gaza while, at the same time, we see it airdropping food to the same people. Is this a case of […]