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  • A Palestinian mourns the death of Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip in 21 June 2026 (Eyad Baba/AFP)

    Guilt, grief and strength: Gaza’s ‘sole survivor’ children face life alone

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on August 22, 2026 by Huda Skaik (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2026)

    Thousands of children who lost their families in Israeli strikes navigate grief, trauma and adulthood with little support.

  • A view of the House of Commons on 3 March 2026 (AFP)

    Greens, your Party and Labour backbenchers build anti-war alliance in parliament

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 4, 2026 by Imran Mulla (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2026)

    Jeremy Corbyn has tabled parliamentary bill that would require parliament’s approval for foreign use of British military bases.

  • US President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office of the White House on 18 November, 2025 (AFP)

    Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on November 21, 2025 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realized–and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.

  • Palestinians stand near a burning car reportedly set alight by Israeli settlers attempting to disrupt them harvesting olives near the occupied West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, on 19 October 2025 (Hazen Badar/AFP)

    Viral video of West Bank settler attack sparks outrage and accusations of U.S. hypocrisy

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on October 21, 2025 by Maysa Mustafa (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    Outcry grows as footage filmed by American journalist Jasper Nathaniel goes viral, revealing messages between him and U.S. embassy in Israel.

  • Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday on 29 September, 2025 (Reuters)

    The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump’s Gaza plan

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on October 1, 2025 by David Hearst (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Oct 07, 2025)

    Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza’s Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest.

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather for a mock trial against the University of Michigan's board of regents on the university's campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 21 April 2025 (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP)

    University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on September 2, 2025 by Middle East Eye Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Sep 04, 2025)

    Arbitration hearings carried out this summer are overreach, former students say.

  • A person holds the flag of Ecuador as people protest against deportations in New York City, on 10 June 2025 (Adam Gray/Getty Images via AFP)

    U.S. Supreme Court allows deportation of migrants to third countries

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on June 24, 2025 by Middle East Eye Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    Court ruling means migrants can now be deported without the opportunity to contest their destinations.

  • File picture dated 8 September 2002 shows partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert (AFP/Thomas Coex)

    What do we know about Israel’s own nuclear weapons?

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on June 18, 2025 by Rayhan Uddin (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jun 20, 2025)

    Unlike Iran, Israel is already a nuclear state, with a secretive programme that dates back to the 1950s.

  • Joy Metzler at the Air Force Academy graduation in 2023 (supplied/Joy Metzler)

    Meet the American military veterans fasting for Gaza

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on June 16, 2025 by Azad Essa (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2025)

    Hundreds of U.S. veterans and allies have been fasting for weeks across the country, in protest against the ongoing war in Gaza.

  • A building damaged in an Israeli strike on Tehran, on 13 June 2025 (Atta Kenner/AFP)

    Exclusive: U.S. quietly sent hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before Iran attack

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on June 13, 2025 by Sean Mathews (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2025)

    Hellfire missiles would have been used for precision strikes by Israel during Iran attack, U.S. officials say.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem, on 21 May 2025 (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

    Outrage as Netanyahu says no mass starvation in Gaza, suggests Palestinians are overweight

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on May 28, 2025 by Ghalia Mohamed (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted May 30, 2025)

    Prime minister says Israel has photographs of thousands of unclothed prisoners, an ‘indication’ of sufficient food, as experts warn of looming famine.

  • An image of the Grok logo, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, and it's founder, South African businessman Elon Musk, in Toulouse, France, on 13 January 2025 (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)

    AI chatbot Grok can’t stop talking about ‘white genocide’, admits it’s by design

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on May 15, 2025 by MEE Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted May 17, 2025)

    Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Washington would take away any visa that has previously been issued if students participated in social activism (Julien de Rosa/Reuters)

    U.S. revokes around 1,500 student visas, universities say they weren’t notified

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on April 18, 2025 by Syma Mohammed (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2025)

    Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.

  • From left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham pose with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for 'No Other Land' at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on 2 March 2025 (Daniel Cole/Reuters)

    Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 24, 2025 by Yasmine El-Sabawi (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2025)

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

  • Bruce Robbins said it was crucial the university stand up for its principles and refuse to capitulate to the Trump administration's undemocratic demands (Mohamed Hashem/MEE)

    Columbia professor says crackdown on pro-Palestine activists reeks of McCarthyism

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 19, 2025 by Mohamed Hashem (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 21, 2025)

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

  • Trump Era Palestine - Soumaya Ghannoushi

    In Trump’s new order, anyone can become Palestinian

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 17, 2025 by Soumaya Ghannoushi (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2025)

    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.

  • People in New York City's borough of Brooklyn protest against the 'selling' of land in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli real estate company, on 18 February (Haseeb Amin/Supplied)

    NYC real estate expo promoting sale of ‘stolen land’ in Palestine descends into violence

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 18. 2025 by Middle East Eye Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2025)

    Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

  • An effigy of US President Donald Trump dressed as a jester is seen at a protest in Washington, DC, on 5 February 2025 (Drew Angerer/AFP)

    Why Washington’s global dominance is hanging by a thread

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 18, 2025 by Hossam el-Hamalawy (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    Trump’s aggression does not reflect strength. He is desperately trying to slow the decline of U.S. empire.

  • Palestinians mourn outside the Jenin governmental hospital after several people were killed during an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank city's refugee camp on 16 January, 2025 (AFP/Zain Jaafar)

    Israel attacking hospitals and blocking medical aid in the West Bank, warns MSF

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 6, 2025 by Mera Aladam (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 08, 2025)

    Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.

  • US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, DC, on 4 February (AFP/ Andrew Caballero Reynolds)

    Gaza ceasefire in jeopardy as Trump casts doubt on phase two and three

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 5, 2025 by Rayhan Uddin (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2025)

    Hamas official tells MEE that group remains committed to agreement but ‘manipulation’ of truce may cause it to collapse.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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