Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Academic Freedom

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$13,861
SUPPORTERS:163
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$16,139
COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

11/14/2025 By The Conversation

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

11/14/2025 By Greg Grandin

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters fire with Impunity at Palestinian civilians as Israeli Army watches

Israeli Squatters fire with Impunity at Palestinian civilians as Israeli Army watches

The slow civil war in the Palestinian West Bank, occupied illegally by Israel, between the hundreds of thousands of Israeli squatters planted there by the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt between the Left, Muslim Fundamentalism, and the Old Regime

Egypt between the Left, Muslim Fundamentalism, and the Old Regime

The campaigns of the candidates for president of Egypt drew to a close at midnight on Sunday, in preparation for voting on Wednesday and Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

Energy
The Great Fracking Catastrophe in Rural America (Cantarow)

The Great Fracking Catastrophe in Rural America (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out.  As Wisconsinites are learning, there’s money (and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

Two congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market…” (JFK Poster)

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market…” (JFK Poster)

Juan Cole

Syria
Aleppo Joins the Syrian Revolution:  Are al-Assad’s Days Numbered?

Aleppo Joins the Syrian Revolution: Are al-Assad’s Days Numbered?

The largest demonstrations held in Syria’s second city, Aleppo, since the beginning over a year ago of the revolutionary movement in that country, were held […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Frantic Civilian Tweets Map Out US Drone Strikes in Yemen (Woods and Serle)

Frantic Civilian Tweets Map Out US Drone Strikes in Yemen (Woods and Serle)

Chris Woods and Jack Serle write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Though the hour was late, Yemen’s social media was still very much awake. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
NDAA Provisions attacking Freedom of Speech Struck Down

NDAA Provisions attacking Freedom of Speech Struck Down

A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional portions of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which provided for indefinite imprisonment for journalists and activists who […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Time Magazine Cover asks if Bibi Netanyahu will Make Peace… 1996

Time Magazine Cover asks if Bibi Netanyahu will Make Peace… 1996

h/t @Amirmizroch

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2149
  • Page 2150
  • Page 2151
  • Page 2152
  • Page 2153
  • …
  • Page 3047
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Ramzy Baroud

Academic Freedom

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Middle East Studies Association

Featured

Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda

Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

The Conversation

Popular

  • No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn't Build the Giza Pyramids
  • Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel
  • Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza
  • Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump's Columbia U.
  • Israel's Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved