Middle East

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment) – Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz. Even […]

Israel/ Palestine

UN’s top Court orders Israel to ‘Prevent Genocide’ in Gaza

The Conversation

By Michelle Farrell, University of Liverpool | – (The Conversation) – In a landmark decision – and with the whole world watching – the International Court of Justice in The Hague has ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of acts of genocide” in Gaza and to allow desperately […]

Displaced and Refugees

Israel’s Reputation forever Besmirched by UN Court Injunction to Cease Genociding Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice’s ruling on “provisional measures” regarding the allegation of genocide against Israel for its behavior in Gaza is what in the US we would call a “preliminary injunction.” That is, it finds that South Africa in its complaint has made a plausible case that Israel is […]

Houthi

Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in […]

Israel/ Palestine

Western moral Credibility is dying along with Thousands of Gaza Citizens

The Conversation

By Shaun Narine, St. Thomas University (Canada) | – The western world’s feeble response to Israel’s attack on Gaza has severely damaged the West’s already tenuous moral credibility in the Global South and undermined the foundations of the human rights regime and international law developed after the Second World War. The West claims it champions […]

Democratic Party

Israel’s Victory in Gaza turns Pyrrhic as a Majority of Youths and Democrats brand it Genocidal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel is losing its campaign against Gaza not so much on the battlefield — though it is unclear that very many of its military goals have been accomplished — but in the court of public opinion. The Israeli far right has long ignored such PR setbacks, convinced that as long […]

Anti-intellectualism

US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pmoh@pmo.gov.il . . . Prime Minister, Ministers, Major General: We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to vehemently condemn the ongoing […]

Anti-intellectualism

Legal Bullying Aims to Silence Campus Critics of Israel

Common Dreams

Title VI was designed to end discrimination and harassment on campus, but the law can also be misused, as partisans of Israel have done, to protect Israel from criticism and stifle pro-Palestinian voices. By Michael Schwalbe | – (Commondreams.org ) – A sad fact of jurisprudence in an unequal world is that good laws created […]

Education

Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Bar Ilan University Ben Gurion University of the Negev Hebrew University of Jerusalem Open University Reichman University Technion Tel Aviv University University of Haifa Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pmoh@pmo.gov.il Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, sar@mops.gov.il Minister […]