Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on the basis of a direct…
The ceasefire was expected to go immediately into effect, with the Israeli military beginning its withdrawal from Gaza, to be followed by the exchange of hostages between Hamas and Israel…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The E3 — France, Britain and Germany — successfully led a bid at the UN Security Council Friday to…
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even the tiniest detail is litigated in newspaper headlines when it comes to the Israeli government. Many news outlets reported that “some” or “dozens” of…
The truth is, almost everyone left, so that Netanyahu addressed mostly empty chairs.
“The government of Spain requires that international law be observed and that the right of our citizens to navigate the Mediterranean in conditions of security be respected."
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than…
Getting 86% of academics in a field to agree on something is a minor miracle.
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the actions of the three European countries in this regard as “unjustified, illegal and lacking in any legal basis.”
So 54% of Americans now sympathize with Palestinians, either primarily or equally with Israelis.
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an…
