by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban. In a key piece of actual extensive, on-the-ground reporting, the New York Times’s Alissa Rubin has raised …
What the New York Times doesn’t want you to know about Idlib
by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban If you rely only on the New York Times to understand events in Syria, …
A hierarchy of vulnerability
by Alice Rothchild This piece, by JWE Board Member Alice Rothchild, is crossposted from Mondoweiss. I was recently passing through customs where I popped my US passport face down on …
Bay Area’s Rick Sterling and Chuck Scurich join JWE board
Just World Educational is delighted to announce that two fine peace-and-justice activists from the San Francisco Bay Area, Chuck Scurich and Rick Sterling, have joined our board. They bring to …
Cobban, Falk react to Trump’s “Deal”
On January 28, Pres. Trump rolled out his long-threatened “Deal of the Century” on the Palestine Question– in a White House event alongside Israeli POM Netanyahu and before a glittering …
The Decline of International Law: Reflections of a True Believer
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from the personal blog of JWE Board member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note from R. Falk: This post was initially published on January 27, …
Barometer: US-Iran war prospects
by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban Three weeks after the United States’ January 3 assassination of Gen. Qasem …
Facing the Global Crisis
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from a portion of the interview as published on the personal blog of JWE Board member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note by R. Falk: …
As U.S. Congress votes on war powers, Falk & Cobban join the discussion
This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives is due to vote on a resolution (PDF text here) that, in the wake of the United States’ killing of Iranian General Qasem …
In Jesus’s birthplace, Palestinian Christians mark Christmas behind a Wall
by Helena Cobban, JWE president In 2019, the Palestinian Christians of Bethlehem– many of them descendants of some of Jesus’s or his disciples’ first converts– spent their 58th Christmas under …