Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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“We Need to Talk About Israel”: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show”: “We Need to Talk About Israel” The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook […]
Gaza: Inside Israel’s massacre at al-Shujayeh: “I can’t Believe I Survived”
By Mohammed Suliman via al-Akhbar “A massacre, a massacre!” were the words my brother, who works as a doctor at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, said as […]
Gaza War Devastates Israeli Tourism Revenue, Points to Fragile Apartheid Future
By Juan Cole A Hamas rocket hit and destroyed a house in Yahoud, a town only a mile from Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on […]
Most would-be US Terrorists Wouldn’t have Committed a Crime without FBI Entrapment
Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) –The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” […]
Hottest June On Record Since 1880
By Ann Werner US government scientists have released their findings that this past June is the hottest on record since record keeping began in 1880. […]
On ‘Human Shielding’ in Gaza: The Israeli army has tried to justify striking civilian areas
By Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most "precise and surgical", is a potential […]
Is Rula Jebreal right about US Media Bias against Palestinians?
By Juan Cole Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal points to the overwhelming bias in US media against the Palestinians, calling NBC to account for having tried […]
Mohammed Suliman’s Twitter-Journal on Surviving Israel’s War on Gaza
Journalist Mohammed Suliman (@imPalestine), in Gaza, has been tweeting sardonic observations about living through the Israeli bombardment of his friends and family. They together form […]
Wagging the Dog: Gaza & MH17 Plane Deaths Stem from Netanyahu, Putin, Search for Popularity
By Martin Shaw Russia-Israel: domestic politics and serious blowback The Ukraine and Gaza crises alike demonstrate the risks of aggressive policy based on short-term calculations. […]