LA Times: Students across the country are monitoring events at UC Irvine as pro- Israel groups try to reestablish their deterrence capacity on American campuses. After a 4-month-long investigation, UC Irvine’s administration last week announced an unprecedented recommendation to suspend for one year the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a registered campus organization, for its alleged [...]

Sometimes, most of time, maybe even all the time when I read Professor Juan Cole’s posts, I want to re-post them verbatim here. His recent post on Turkish-Israeli relations is once such moment. Read it here.

So I used to post a lot of comedy-oriented links here. What ever happened to those? Here’s a tribute to the past and promise to the future – posts that will make you smile will appear alongside posts that will make you angry, haha

The Guardian: Relations between Israel and its staunchest ally, the US, have suffered a “tectonic rift”, according to Israel’s ambassador to Washington. Michael Oren briefed Israeli diplomats on the sharp deterioration between the countries ahead of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House early next month. According to those present, Oren said [...]

See the video here. If Walid Jumblatt is now speaking in support of Palestinian rights, it just goes to show how perilous their situation is in Lebanon.

Speaking of Iran being on magazine covers (see the post below this one)… here are most though not all of the issues of Time Magazine with Iran on the cover. Did I mention that when I was an undergraduate, I began collecting these through eBay? I have all of them, even the black and white [...]

This is one of the few times you’ll see me agree with Fareed Zakaria. Here he speaks about the possibility of regime change in Iran and sharply and convincingly criticizes McCain’s wishful thinking.

[This is just a stepping stone... watch and see how activists from around the world begin to mobilize against Israeli interests. The massacre of the Freedom Flotilla was the last straw and I believe that people are just fed up and ready to act.] SF Chronicle: Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza [...]

Andrew Sullivan: To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim. An elite commando unit attacking a ship carrying toys and wheelchairs in the hours before dawn are those [...]

See the trailer for Oliver Stone’s latest documentary film here. See him talk about his film with Bill Maher here.

UCI’s MSU should just establish a new club with a similar name, i.e. the Muslim Student Association, and continue to raise awareness of Israel’s murderous policies. OC Register – Excerpts:  Ayloush called the university’s actions “unprecedented, heavy-handed and draconian.” “It appears to be politically motivated to silence any future peaceful and legitimate criticism of Israel’s [...]

Excerpt: But the ICRC – a neutral organisation – said the meagre list of goods allowed into Gaza doesn’t meet the needs of the territory’s 1.5 million inhabitants. The shortages are particularly dire in Gaza’s health care system, where the ICRC said more than 100 essential medicines – including chemotherapy and hemophilia drugs – are [...]

For those of you who live in a cave and are just venturing out for the first time, Apple recently announced the release of its newest iPhone. See a video of its design here welcome you to the future. You can pre-order on June 15 and it comes out June 24.