Limited Prenatal Care; Unsafe Deliveries; Newborns Facing Fatal Conditions Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem, January 28, 2025) – The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023, Human Rights Watch said in […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Protesting to Columbia U. over Forced Retirement of Professor Katherine Franke for Palestine Advocacy
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Senator Greg Fryer Co-Chair, Faculty Affairs, Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Columbia University Senate gaf1@cumc.columbia.edu Senator Letty Moss-Salentijn Co-Chair, Faculty Affairs, Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Columbia University Senate lm23@cumc.columbia.edu Dear Senators Fryer and Moss-Salentijn: We write on behalf of the […]
Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet proposed ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants in the fall of 2023, following many years of such calls from the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis. Then last year Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, dissatisfied with merely enabling an ongoing Israeli genocide, […]
Israel destroyed 70% of Gaza’s Buildings: Was this ‘Domicide’ a further Move toward Colonization?
by Jibran Syed ( Middle East Monitor ) – As Palestinians continue to make their way back to the remnants of Gaza – a place that is now unrecognisable since Israel destroyed nearly 70% of all buildings in the small but densely populated area, it is deeply misleading to describe this situation as a return […]
Interview: Juan Cole’s ‘Gaza Yet Stands’ and the Fate of Palestine
Interview of Juan Cole on his book Gaza Yet Stands by Shubhda Chaudhary for her Middle East Insights YouTube channel. Dr. Chaudhary Dr. Shubhda Chaudhary is the Founder of Middle East Insights Platform – India’s dynamic online volunteer-based organization with members from South Asia, Middle East, and Africa. She is an accomplished academic in Global […]
How the Israel-Hamas War Reshaped the Middle East
By Ray Furlong and Abubakar Siddique ( RFE/ RL ) – The 15-month conflict in the Middle East has caused a dramatic shift in the regional balance of power. Iran and Russia have been severely weakened as Israel has pounded Tehran’s proxies in the region, leading also to the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in […]
Trump 2.0 and Palestinians: From Reversal to Repression
The first Trump administration reversed decades of US policies regarding Palestinians. The new one shuns genocidal atrocities. It prefers cultural genocide. New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In my new book, The Fall of Israel (2025), I examine the activities of all US postwar administrations regarding the Israelis and Palestinians. The first Trump […]
Trump’s Envoy Witkoff on Gaza Deal: “Now We Have to Implement it”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, gave an interview with Fox Cable News. Below I will quote him and present a little commentary with further information and context. Witkoff was asked about a statement by Hamas reported in the New York Times “We’re prepared for a […]
The long-term Impact of Israel’s Gaza Genocide will only become Clear as the Toxic Dust Settles
by Dr Emma Keelan by Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the toxic dust begins to settle, it is hard to even fathom the complex feelings of our Palestinian friends and colleagues, many of whom have families in Gaza who are beginning the arduous task of returning home and […]
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