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Israel's airstrike on a tent camp in Rafah killed scores of civilians and led to more global outcry. To discuss how it happened and its wider significance, Amna Nawaz spoke with Noura Erakat, an associate professor at Rutgers University and a human rights lawyer, and retired Israeli Col. Pnina S..

This article describes the treatment of activists protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian cause within the University of California (UC) system, and the tensions that escalated as members of the strike were met by violence and force. This series of events is described by Muriam Haleh Davis..

On 9 October, Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat joined Al Jazeera to discuss Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, its context, and the role of international law in resolving this crisis.

The residents of the besieged enclave of Gaza faced a night of death and destruction as Israeli war planes launched a series of air strikes in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed to reduce Gaza “to rubble” after Hamas’ unprecedented a..

The political reality of life in Palestine drove me to engage in this book. I witnessed the hunger strike and participated in solidarity with the prisoners’ cause before starting my research in 2014. I wanted to understand the revolutionary transformation that ..

Malihe Razazan spoke to Human Rights Watch (HRW) Iran Researcher Tara Sepehri Far about Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike and the criminalization of peaceful protests in Iran. Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer, who was arrested in 2010 and started her second hunger strike this year in Aug..

The months of struggle to win a cost of living adjustment (COLA), launched in fall 2019 by grad workers at UC Santa Cruz, concentrated a broad wave of political assertion. In addition to the grad workers’ strikes—first our collective non-submission of final grades and then a full teaching strike..

What started as a small campaign and an exchange of disgruntled emails among rent-burdened graduate student employees late last year at a university in California is turning into an entrenched labor strike. At a time when many are raising the alarm about ..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 3 February 2020 in..

A hundred and twenty-five days ago, on 13 January 2019, I started an indefinite and terminal hunger strike in the Toronto Kurdish Community Center. As a Kurdish journalist facing severe criminal charges due to my efforts to disclose human right violations in Turkey, I have had to flee from Turke..

In the past four days, Israel has killed three young Palestinian boys in Gaza raising the death toll to 139 since Palestinians began the Great Return March on 30 March 2018. The renewed escalations follow Israel sealing of Kerem Shalom, the only commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip and Israeli ..

The U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war and prevent a “massacre” in the besieged eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus.

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup covers several important stories affecting the Middle East and North African mediascape. A

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup tackles several important themes influencing the MENA mediascape. On the eve of the second round of France’s elections, ISIS-operated An-Nur Media Center

[GMU Event -- Trump`s Strike on Syria: Context/Implications: GMU Town Hall Conversation. Thursday, April 13, 4:30pm. Research I Room 163, GMU

In this interview conducted with Al Jazeera English on 7 April 2017, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses the recent US missile strike against Syria. Rabbani concludes that it appears to be a single strike rather than the beginning of a broade..

Wednesday, February 1 (New York, New York) 

On Thursday, February 2, Yemeni grocery store owners across five New York boroughs will close 1,000 stores from 12pm to 8pm in response to the Trump administration’s infamous “Muslim Ban” executive order. This shutdown of grocery stores and bod..

Talking about Syria 

Civil wars generate their own momentum. They go through different phases and produce different leaderships and warlords. The Lebanese civil war makes for a good academic comparison with the current Syrian war in that internal and external a..

[The following statement was issued by Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) on 29 April 2016.]

Syria: Update on Airstrikes at Al Quds Hospital

The situation in ..

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. To access Part 1, click here.

Historically, the risks of soldier death ..

On 20 July, ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) attacked a press conference organized by the Socialist Youth Association Federation and killed thirty-three socialist activists in Suruç. On 22 July, a clash broke out between ISIS militants and Turkish soldiers near Kilis. The following day..

The CIA operates armed drones to engage in targeted killing operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. That is known. But, to borrow from former Secretary of Defense Donald