Geography Archives: Middle East

Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision

Netanyahu could live stream himself kicking a baby Palestinian off a cliff and telling the camera he did it because he wants to commit genocide, and the next day Tammy Bruce would respond to all questions about the incident by yelling the word “Hamas!” with her fingers in her ears.

American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it.

Imagine a group of a dozen armed men storming your village at nightfall. They assault you and your neighbours, throw stones at your house, beat you. If you try to defend yourself, or document the violence, they attack you. When the military arrives, they detain you. Some of them join in with the violence. This harrowing scene is not a story from Tsarist Russia or Jim Crow America. Last Monday, this was exactly what occurred in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank.

An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.

The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, was targeted by pro-Israel groups for co-authoring an op-ed calling for Tufts to divest from Israel

The immense cost to U.S. taxpayers of Trump’s assault on Yemen, which promises no results and primarily serves Israel’s interests, could easily reach the tens of billions at the current pace, especially considering the intensity of operations is much greater than under his predecessor.

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago.

Authorities arrested and are attempting to deport Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and prominent figure in last year’s Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment.

Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

The term ‘zero distance’ became famous after it was used by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza to illustrate the strength and courage of Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli tanks.

Yesterday Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion.

Bruce Robbins tells Real Talk he could be ‘thrown to the lions’ over steps he took during last year’s campus protests.

Trump’s attack on Chuck Schumer shows you don’t have to be Palestinian to be punished like one. You only have to step out of line.

Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire and then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide.

Like the people of Gaza after the January 17, 2025 ceasefire there, thousands of the 1.4 million Lebanese people displaced by Israeli bombings are streaming home in long lines to their villages, even though Israel reduced scores of towns to rubble.

After two weeks of systematic Israeli violations of the tenuous ceasefire agreement, Israel has officially resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel’s killing of over 400 people, Hamas remains committed to completing the ceasefire.

Over the past year, the United States and Israel have waged a major regional war, coordinated with the Gaza genocide, targeting Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran itself.