In this essay, the author, a Palestinian academic, reflects on his detention and interrogation by US and Israeli forces during the Gaza genocide. Situating his experiences within the growing interc...

April 29, 2026 - Letter to Le Moyne College in support of Mosab Abu Toha

As part of MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editor Lisa Hajjar organized a roundtable with faculty organizers and a legal advocate. Lara Deeb is professor…

With Basil Farraj

As part of MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editor Lisa Hajjar organized a roundtable with faculty organizers and a legal advocate. Lara Deeb is professor o...

The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...

With the killing of 175 school girls, educators, and parents in Minab, Iran, the latest chapter of the US-Israeli war in the Middle East began with a cruel act of scholasticide—a term many of us we…

[April 2025]. A record number of Palestinian children were held in Israeli military detention at the end of 2025, and a record proportion of these children were held without charge. This visual summar...

The US–Israeli war on Iran is the latest phase of the United States’ long-war in the Persian Gulf, a fifty-year project to secure imperial power in a region defined as a “vital interest” since the 197...

Egypt Security Sector Report

Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

Behind the systematic torture and sexual violence in Israeli prisons.

The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...

"Israel’s End Game" is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances...

By tracing the historical evolution of de-healthification, this brief argues that naming the process is essential for accountability.

As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...

By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

On July 31, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMH) in Gaza released a list of named people directly killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023.1 The list had 60 199 decedents with their reported age, se...

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

The Palestinian movement appears to have, for the moment, successfully thrown the ball back into the US-Israeli court.

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

Trump’s America torches its farmers, raids its firefighters, abandons its allies, and still finds time for a Navy boat parade.

No Other Land (2024) is the Oscar-winning documentary that shows the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Recorded between 2019 to 2023, the film tells the story of...

The conference sheds light on militarization and its rapid expansion and global impact, particularly in light of the brutal genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, which has ext...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

The MERIP Podcast · Episode

Issue Editors: Sabiha Allouche, Fida Adely and Hesham Sallem MER issue 314, “New Gender Frontlines,” takes stock of the role gender plays in the present political moment—one of ongoing genocidal […]

Hala Shoman reports on reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence.

Two Guantanamo Bay detainees are challenging the UK government in a rare four-day hearing, accusing British intelligence of complicity in CIA-led torture at black sites following 9/11.

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Mahmoud Khalil’s first court hearing was held in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, March 12, a morning that teetered between sun and clouds. Friends,