Middle East

Jennifer Rubin, The Contrarian -  The Israeli government’s prosecution of a war that has long since outlived any military purpose, its deliberate policy to restrict food from entering Gaza, its refusal to recognize the mass starvation it precipitated (let alone take responsibility for it), and its decision to occupy (at least) Gaza City—ignoring IDF objections, international outrage, hostage families’ pleas, and overwhelming domestic opposition—have endangered Israel’s relationship with American Jewry and spawned an unprecedented internal crisis in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accomplished what decades of terrorism, antisemitism, and hatred toward Israel did not: he has prompted some of Israel’s strongest allies to consider pausing financial and/or diplomatic support, so long as he refuses to course-correct. 

The Guardian -  More than 120 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as “censorship”. In an open letter published on Thursday, the scholars denounced the abrupt scrapping of a special issue of the Harvard Educational Review – which was first revealed by the Guardian in July – as an “attempt to silence the academic examination of the genocide, starvation and dehumanisation of Palestinian people by the state of Israel and its allies”.