Saturday, August 24, 2024

Informed Comment daily updates (08/24/2024)

 


Palestinian Baby in Gaza Paralyzed by Polio, as Israel Rejects UN Ceasefire Call to allow Vaccinations

Palestinian Baby in Gaza Paralyzed by Polio, as Israel Rejects UN Ceasefire Call to allow Vaccinations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that the first verified case of type 2 poliovirus in 25 years in Gaza, in a baby, has resulted in the paralysis of the infant. It is only the first of many if the UN is not allowed to administer vaccines to 650,000 children […]

Are a Majority of Israelis now War Rape Apologists? The Sde Teiman Scandal

Are a Majority of Israelis now War Rape Apologists? The Sde Teiman Scandal

By Binoy Kampmark | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In 2007, writer Tal Nitsan isolated instances where Israeli male combatants systematically used sexual violence against Palestinian women in the war of 1948. In essentially marking off such conduct from more contemporary practices, she relied on media accounts, archival sources, the reports of human […]

Hope on the Horizon? What Bangladesh’s Regime Change could mean for Rohingya Refugees

Hope on the Horizon? What Bangladesh’s Regime Change could mean for Rohingya Refugees

By Sarah Nandi, McGill University | – Bangladesh is experiencing a seismic shift after 18 years of Awami League rule ended abruptly due to intensive student protests. This upheaval, and the crackdowns that resulted in the deaths of more than 300 protesters, forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country and ushered in an […]

Old posts you may have missed

What you Didn’t Hear at DNC: Israeli Expulsion Decrees Disrupt last Gaza Aid Hub, jeopardizing Aid Workers, Thousands of Civilians

US Politics and the Fate of Palestinians increasingly Bound up Together

Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared

Tim Walz took Minnesota to 54% Clean Electricty and Annual Reductions of Carbon; Can he do it for the USA?

Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

The overshoot Myth: you can’t keep burning Fossil Fuels and expect Scientists of the Future to get us back to 1.5°C

There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth

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