AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Stopped by sea

08 May 2025

As the International Court of Justice wound up hearings on Israel’s two-month blockade of Gaza, a small ship carrying aid for the strip was struck and disabled by two...

Making food a political issue throttles Gaza lives

04 May 2025

In a world where 757 million people face chronic hunger, and 45 million children suffer from wasting due to acute malnutrition, Gaza stands out as unique. War, drought, earthquakes,...

Running on empty

01 May 2025

A week ago, Donald Trump said he had pressed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to let food and medicine into Gaza. He told the press in his plane as...

Even the day before death Pope urged end to Gaza war

28 Apr 2025

Western secular leaders and religious patriarchs and prelates attended Pope Francis’ globally televised Vatican state funeral in Rome on Saturday. He would have preferred a quiet blessing as he...

Speech under siege

24 Apr 2025

Last week articles appeared in The Washington Post and The Guardian by Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate arrested without producing a warrant by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Trust in America virtually zero over Iran nuclear deal talks

20 Apr 2025

The situation in this region might have been very different if during his first term in office Donald Trump had not withdrawn the US from the 2015 six-party deal...

No in-between

17 Apr 2025

Celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani is currently focusing on the prosecution of British citizens who have been accused of war crimes while fighting in the Israeli army...

90,000 Arab students in US under Trump scanner

14 Apr 2025

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled last Friday in a high-profile case that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil could be deported for pro-Palestinian activism. He is not only a legal...

Slaying continues

10 Apr 2025

The Israeli army has been forced to admit that it killed eight Palestinian Red Crescent medics, six civil defence first responders and a UN employee by firing on a...

Trump’s tariffs could hit Americans hardest

07 Apr 2025

Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on US imports from most countries is destructive on the global level and can be expected to impact negatively the Eastern Arab World and...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.