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By Jess Bidgood at The NY Times: The pro-Palestinian student encampments protesting the war in Gaza swept across the country this week, and with them, dramatic imagery of arrests and
Continue readingThree Questions About Politics and the Campus Protests
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: You know how we fix the chaos at Columbia University? We listen to a Catholic priest! I’m kidding, obviously. But also not really kidding?
Continue readingA Palestinian, a Jew, and a Priest Walk Onto a Campus
Yuval Noah Harari in Haaretz: In the coming days Israel will have to make historic policy decisions, ones that could shape its fate and the fate of the entire region
Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian: For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have come out of Gaza and Israel since 7 October 2023 have been inescapable. This war hangs over us
Continue readingGaza and the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A recent report claims another system called Where’s Daddy? monitors targets and alerts the military when they return home, often to their family. by Natasha Karner at The Conversation: The
Continue readingHabsora: Israel Military AI System “a Mass Assassination Factory”
Today’s Big Question from The Week: America’s longtime military support for Israel is suddenly in doubt. The U.S. has sent tens of thousands of weapons following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
Editorial cartoons on war in Gaza from news organizations. Here are six of them selected by despardes.com. Source: The Daily Herald, The Week, Chappatte in Le Temps (Switzerland), and The
Bassem Yousef, an Egyptian-American comedian, television host, and surgeon at the India Today Conclave 2024 labelled Israel a “typical narcissist” –by skillfully blending comedy with poignant criticism, directing his ire
Continue readingIndia Bans Bassem Yousef Speech. The Video Has Gone Viral.
The West’s dehumanization of Arabs has helped to normalize war crimes. From the Hammer & Hope: Intense anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and what the Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said described as
By Paul Roberts at The Herald: Climate change is altering our relationship with water, increasing heat, changing weather and precipitation patterns; amount and timing of rain and• snow, and accelerating
Continue readingOur Relationship With Water is Altering. Climate Change is One of Them.
As a Jewish leftist born in Israel, I feel a profound sense of grief and defeat. Amira Hass in Hammer and Hope: I write these words from the West Bank
Continue readingThe Gaza Strip Has Been Destroyed. So Has Hope For A Fair Future.
Looking at the issue from the point of view of Israel, Professor Kahneman says that peace is difficult – very difficult. “Power imbalance” [1:07] is one of the reasons, he