Informed Comment daily updates (05/12/2024)

 
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A Record-Breaking War on Mothers and their Children Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s permanent representative to the United Nation, spearheaded the November 2023 resolution for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, given that 70% of those killed in Gaza were children and women. “…Men want to end the war, women want to make peace,” she […]

How the US continues to provide Cover for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains set in his plans to invade Rafah, with or without US assistance. Responding to US President Joe Biden’s warning earlier this week that arms supplies will be limited if Israel invades Rafah, Netanyahu responded, “If we must, we shall fight with our fingernails.” […]

Germany’s EV Exports soar 58 percent to one Quarter of all Cars shipped Abroad ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country’s statistical office Destatis has said. The country exported about 786,000 fully electric cars for a total value of roughly 36 […]

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Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton Weaponizing Antisemitism Israel is not giving Aid Groups what they need to to run operational Responses the Gaza Emergency Antisemitism and Antizionism: A Dangerous Conflation Why are Algorithms called Algorithms? A brief History of the Persian Polymath you’ve likely never Heard of War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young Juan Cole: Israel and Campus Protests (Sea Change Radio)

Informed Comment daily updates (05/04/2024)

 

Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of them are either injured, or sick, or malnourished. Much of the Gaza population has been forced south to Rafah by the Israeli military, which had promised them it was a […]

Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle – So let’s put a Cap on It By Jack Marley, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round of negotiations for a global pact on plastic ended yesterday in Ottawa. Nearly 200 countries have agreed that a treaty must tackle plastic pollution at every stage of its existence, […]

Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68 Mark Rudd ( Waging Nonviolence ) – What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime? Turn away and allow oneself to be distracted? Pretend it doesn’t exist? Or acknowledge the crime for what it is, and take some sort of action to try to stop it? Students at Columbia in 1968 understood […]

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Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War “Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising

Informed Comment daily updates (05/03/2024)

 

Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Going back to the late nineteenth century, Zionism has had a complex and storied history, and there have been many strains of the ideology. Some early Zionists did not insist on colonizing Palestine, while others did (and colonizing it was the word they used). All agreed that the Jewish religion […]

Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The process of crafting congressional legislation is often likened to sausage-making. Best not to look behind the scenes at the mechanics of the process, which is a bloody mess. But the analogy is not apt. Sure, sausage-making can be ugly. The end product, however, is presentable and usually […]

The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway.  Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in […]

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I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War “Intifada” in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising Israeli Violence against Palestinian Children is rooted in Viewing them all as Dangerous Adults What Causes Famines? In Gaza and Elsewhere, Outside Pressure and Vulnerability can lead to Hunger and Death Hubert Humphrey Redux? Biden is Risking Election and Country with his Embrace of Netanyahu’s War

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Informed Comment daily updates (01/02/2024)

 

Extreme Right Israeli Gov’t brands “Illegal” Supreme Court’s upholding of Judicial Review; Divisions Loom amid Gaza War Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the midst of Israel’s brutal total war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and its apparent failure to attain its basic war goals, the country’s Supreme Court has issued a ruling sure to throw the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Members of the government criticized the court for issuing […]

Dear President Biden: About your Record on Guns, Arms, and Belligerence Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden Dear Joe, I would wish you a Happy New Year; but it seems trite and banal, given all the challenges and troubles you and our country face in 2024 – some inherited from previous administrations, others of your own making. Americans are 10 times more […]

Charles Kendal Hirschkind sings “Palestine is Burning.” Charles Kendal Hirschkind, “Palestine is Burning.” For writings on Israeli assault on Gaza by Charles Hirschkind, see: The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children . Informed Comment. Palestine Forgotten. Informed Comment. “Exterminate the Brutes.” . Mondoweiss. To support BDS, click here.

The Year’s 10 Good News Stories for Children’s Rights, including Iraqi Curbs on Child Soldiers Jo Becker Advocacy Director, Children’s Rights Division   ( Human Rights Watch) – Grim stories of conflict, abuse, and deprivation seem to confront us every day. That’s why at year’s end we like to highlight the progress made for children. Related Video: “Improving children’s health in Yemen” | UNICEF Here are 10 good news stories […]

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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: “When New Year’s rainclouds wash the tulip’s face” “Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism:” Ex-Harvard Hillel Leader Many thanks – We Reached our Fundraising Goal — Thanks to You Israel uses Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza 33 new Gigs of Solar: Top 7 Renewables Good News Stories in the US for 2023 3 More Months of Israel’s Gaza Attack will push Deaths to 50K from Airstrikes, Hunger, Disease

Informed Comment daily updates (01/01/2024)

 

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: “When New Year’s rainclouds wash the tulip’s face” Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the quatrains attributed to the medieval Iranian astronomer Omar Khayyam, the Rubáiyát, the renewal that comes with New Year is an important theme. Since the Iranian New Year is held on the spring solstice (typically March 21), it is associated with the rebirth of greenery. This year I’m sharing […]

“Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism:” Ex-Harvard Hillel Leader Jessica Corbett ( Commondreams.org) – “For the safety of Jews and Palestinians, stop weaponizing antisemitism.” That’s the headline of a Friday op-ed from Bernie Steinberg, who was the executive director of Harvard Hillel from 1993 to 2010. Harvard University is among many U.S. higher education institutions—including Brandeis University, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), […]

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Israel uses Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza By Jehan Alfarra | – ( Middle East Monitor ) = “Bread in those days was like gold.” These were the words of a survivor of the siege of Leningrad, arguably one of the darkest chapters of World War II and a haunting reminder of the horrific toll exacted upon populations deliberately deprived of essential […]

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33 new Gigs of Solar: Top 7 Renewables Good News Stories in the US for 2023 3 More Months of Israel’s Gaza Attack will push Deaths to 50K from Airstrikes, Hunger, Disease 10 Victories of the American Worker in 2023 South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide at Int’l Court of Justice, as Global South charges West with Hypocrisy Iran’s Climate Migration Crisis Could Turn Into National ‘Disaster’ World’s Decades of Silence on Israel’s Colonial Violence is being Reaped in Gaza