On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other mystics. Today […]
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No, Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie
By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org) – The Israeli military launched a deadly assault on Gaza’s largest hospital last month on the grounds that […]
What are the Motivations behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?
Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. ( AlJazeera ) – On October 7, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza prison […]
Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: “between 7 October and 7:00 on 22 […]
Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content
Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in […]
A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski and Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real […]
Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right
Take a Leaf from the Book of George H. W. Bush
Gaza Crisis: US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen
By Basil Germond, Lancaster University | – The US is reportedly considering strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen that have been menacing commercial ships in […]
The US and China at Year’s End: Still Treading on the Precipice
( Tomdispatch.com) – This hasn’t exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. […]
If you Prick us, do We not Bleed? – Shakespeare in Gaza
(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children vs. 1200 dead Israelis? What […]