Israel/ Palestine

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud ( Middle East Monitor ) – At first glance, the statement may seem baffling. If Israel is a ‘Jewish State’ that serves as a ‘homeland’ for all Jewish people, everywhere, does it not follow that the ‘struggle’, at least from an Israeli viewpoint, is essentially a religious one? If only […]

Israel/ Palestine

Concerns about Israel’s Accession to the US Visa Waiver Program

Committee on Academic Freedom

Middle East Studies Association | Committee on Academic Freedom | – Letter raising concerns about Israel’s accession to the US Visa Waiver Program Mr. Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary Department of Homeland Security Washington DC alejandro.mayorkas@hq.dhs.gov Mr. Anthony Blinken Secretary Department of State Washington DC secretary@state.gov Dear Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken: We write […]

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The Other Sinead O’Connor, Pro-Palestinian Critic of Violent Israeli Extremist Ben-Gvir, and Muslim Convert

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tragically, Sinead O’Connor is dead at 56. Many of the obituaries of Irish protest singer have been oddly thin, and have ignored key moments in her life. One was her contretemps with Israeli extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, now the country’s Minister of National Security. She later became fiercely critical of the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Squatter-Settlers Rampage in Palestinian-Americans’ West Bank Hometown

Middle East Monitor

Eric Goldstein goldsteinricky ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Kayed Abu Awwad sold his home in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in June, he never imagined that he and his family would be homeless a few weeks later. Like many American-born Palestinians, Abu Awwad, a 38-year-old truck driver, planned to move his family to […]

Israel/ Palestine

Is Washington invested in Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians?

The Conversation

By M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University | – During his recent trip to the United States, Israeli President Isaac Herzog gave a speech before the United States Congress. Mainstream media coverage of his speech has focused on two points: the unbreakable “sacred” bond between Israel and the U.S., and the idea that calling Israel […]

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Will the Triumph of the Messianic Israeli Far Right Destabilize the Country?

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israeli government voted this week to limit their Supreme Court’s ability to overturn unconstitutional laws after several months of debate. This elicited storm of global criticism, including from the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which said it is “gravely concerned” that this will further fracture Israel and American […]

Haredim

With Israel in Turmoil, its “Lost Boys” are Stoking Extreme Nationalism

The Conversation

By Anna Lippman, York University, Canada | – We saw it in the United States on Jan. 6, 2021. We witnessed it during Canada’s so-called Freedom Convoy. The evidence is clear —fascism is on the rise in North America. But ethno-nationalist fascism is growing even faster in the remote areas of occupied Palestine amid widespread […]

Authoritarianism

Chaos as Israel departs the Ranks of Democracies, Adopting the Hungarian Model of Elective Dictatorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday, the Israeli parliament or Knesset passed the article removing the power of administrative review from Israeli courts on grounds of “reasonability.” The measure passed 64-0 in the 120-seat body, with the far right wing coalition of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unanimously […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s New National Guard: A Tool for Palestinian Erasure

Al-Shabaka

by Ahmed Omar ( Al-Shabaka ) – In March 2023, after months of protests over Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overhaul, Israel gave far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir the go-ahead to establish a national guard. The force, to be composed of an initial 1,800 officers and with an operating budget of one billion NIS ($273 million), […]