Statement from Katherine Franke, January 10, 2025 For the last year and a half, as students at Columbia University and across the globe have protested […]
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To Defend Israel’s Actions, the US is Destroying the Int’l Legal System it once Constructed
( Middle East Monitor ) – In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonised nations that […]
The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s Education and Knowledge Systems
By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip […]
War, Trauma, and Forgetting
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Our memories are often suppressed by trauma, a word derived from “Traumatiko”, a wound or mental shock. […]
Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Otherwords.org ) – Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. […]
My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent
By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – (The Conversation) – I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a […]
Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit”
Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself […]
Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: […]
How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential Catastrophe
By Frédéric Cyr, Memorial University of Newfoundland | – Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring […]
Black Thursday: Israel’s Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports on the Great Flour Massacre committed by the Israeli army […]