Informed Comment daily updates (02/03/2024)

 

Top 3 Things Biden could Do instead of intensively Bombing Iraq and Syria Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration launched 85 air strikes on Friday against small bases of the Party of God Brigades (Kata’ib Hizbullah), an Iraqi Shiite militia active in Iraq and Syria. The organization is likely the culprit in Sunday’s drone strike against the Tower 22 US base in the far north of […]

As Gaza Faces Famine, Aid Agency UNRWA is Being Defunded on Dubious Grounds by Mariam Shah ( Middle East Monitor ) – Since 7 October 2023, the relentless Israeli aggression on Gaza has displaced more than 85 per cent of the enclave’s population, with over 27,000 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children. This displacement has plunged civilians into a dire situation with shortages of food, water and medicines, […]

Girls in Hijab Experience overlapping Forms of Racial and Gendered Violence By Salsabel Almanssori, University of Windsor and Muna Saleh, Concordia University of Edmonton | – World Hijab Day recognizes the millions of Muslim women and girls who wear the traditional Islamic headscarf. (The Conversation) – Around the world, Muslim girls in hijab are experiencing unique forms and heightened rates of gender and race-based violence and […]

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US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza” Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory “Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted” Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Informed Comment daily updates (02/02/2024)

 

US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza” Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans and the Palestinian human rights group al-Haq against President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for their involvement in an Israeli genocide against […]

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN agencies. Reducing access to food is being used as a weapon in Gaza by the Israeli government. Denying food to a civilian population is a tactic that has been used […]

“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com) – Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting […]

Old posts you may have missed

Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted” Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed