Informed Comment daily updates (03/20/2024)

In Zionist Academia there is No Room for Dissent

By Sonia Bolous and Lior Sternfeld | – State College, Pa. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In a statement from March 12, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced the suspension of Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, an internationally renowned Palestinian scholar and a faculty member in the Law School and School of Social Work. The […] The Man who Disproved Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Looks at the Problems with New York’s Voter Data Barrington, RI (Special to Informed Comment) – If the oldest human alive is 116, how did 368 118-year-olds vote in New York in 2020? Election districts that do a terrible job identifying their voters expose their state to problems far beyond a few votes by individuals with impossible ages. Consider that in 2020 New York […] Stop Treating Gaza as a Natural Disaster: Armed by US, Israel Trashes Genocide Convention By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let’s look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its “orders,” and (2) how hard the Biden administration […] Will Current Israeli-Lebanese Fighting derail Historic Land Border Agreement? By Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College | – In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border dispute. But then came the […] Old posts you may have missed UN and EU slam Israel: Imposing on Palestinians ‘Levels of Food Insecurity never Recorded anywhere in the World’ How AIPAC supports Israel’s far Right Likud Party over Democratic America Patients, Advocates Push Biden to ‘Reclaim Medicare’ From Privatized Medicare Advantage Could Trump win again? Roots of MAGA Paranoia and the Politics of Fear Western Powers could Stop the Gaza Genocide; instead they Cover it Up with “Humanitarian Aid” Daring Look a Sacred Cow in the Teeth: Military Spending and National (in)Security