AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Popular condemnation

26 Jun 2025

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was freed from detention at a US immigration facility last Friday after 104 days of captivity. A graduate student at Columbia University, Khalil – who...

Bombing alone is unlikely to secure regime change

22 Jun 2025

By bombing three key nuclear sites in Iran, Donald Trump has made the US into a partner in Israel's war on that country. This is no surprise. Trump is...

The great Gretas

19 Jun 2025

Palestine’s tiny strip coastal strip, Gaza, has become a global cause over the past 17 years thanks, in part, to two women called “Greta.” Californian activist Greta Berlin is a cofounder...

Netanyahu diverts global attention from Gaza war

15 Jun 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu chose Friday 13th as his lucky day, the day he would at long last launch his attack on Iran. As he has not been...

Unjust retaliation

12 Jun 2025

The Trump administration could declare a US travel ban on widely acclaimed rights lawyer Amal Clooney for her role in advising the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor who issued...

Gaza war must end for the sake of humanity

09 Jun 2025

Gaza is “worse than hell on earth,” International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chief Mirjana Spoljaric told the BBC’s Jermy Bowen following her latest visit to the strip....

Critical juncture

05 Jun 2025

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam last week declared his government’s intentions on the host of difficult problems facing the country. He began with the issue of security. He said...

‘Fresh ideas’ mooted to close gap in US-Iran N-deal talks

01 Jun 2025

Donald Trump has said he warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against attacking Iran because Washington and Tehran are close to reaching a deal on limiting that country's nuclear...

Ivy fight

29 May 2025

Why is Donald Trump waging war on Harvard, the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in the United States and is ranked among the top five around the...

Gaza, from prosperity to below the poverty line

25 May 2025

For millennia Gaza served as a commercial hub and bridge between Egypt and the Eastern Arab World. Palestinian writer and activist Edward Said wrote about travelling from Cairo, where...

Michael Jansen

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