CSRR in the News
2025
How Trump’s attacks on DEI and Palestine activists are connected. Mondoweiss. Sahar Aziz. (2025).
Constitutional Collapse. New Left Review. Aziz Rana. (2025).
“What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities.” Just Security. William C. Banks. (2025).
“The Only Way to Stop the Netanyahu-Trump Plan to Eliminate Palestine Is to Begin Rebuilding Gaza Now.” Mondoweiss. Muhannad Ayyash. (2025).
“Trump’s Gaza “Takeover” Plan Breaches International Law: Experts.” Yeni Safak. Yeni Safak. (2025).
Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide? Al Jazeera. Muhannad Ayyash. (2025).
Gender Politics and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nermin Allam. (2025).
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil. Dissent Magazine. Wadie Said. (2025)
The Astroturf “Civil Rights” Groups Fueling Trump’s Deportation Attacks. Academe Blog. Emmaia Gelman. (2025).
How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide. Middle East Eye. Raz Segal. (2025).
War Crimes Demand Accountability—No Matter the Perpetrator. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).
Trump’s Gaza Plan Undermines Justice and International Law. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).
Gaza Ceasefire Is Just the Beginning of the Path to Peace. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2025).
Two Genocides: Gaza and Metropolis. Counterpunch. M. Shahid Alam. (2025).
Harvard’s new antisemitism policy hurts Jews, helps Trump. The Hill. Jonathan Feingold. (2025).
We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants. The Conversation. Brittany Friedman. (2025).
2024
Saudi Arabia’s narrow UN human rights council defeat offers a sliver of hope that accountability remains possible. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
Canada: Dropping Charges in Hijab-Pulling Case Sets A Dangerous Precedent. Middle East Eye. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
Canada is putting too many Black Canadians behind bars. Here is what we can do about it. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
Jimmy Carter: A utopian dove or a shrewd driver of US empire? Middle East Eye. Nazia Kazi. (2024).
Could Florida colleges be the blueprint for Trump’s war on education? The Emancipator. Jonathan Feingold. (2024).
What’s going on with Quebec’s latest secularism scandal? Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
As the far right celebrates election success in Austria, this much is clear. It must be denied power. The Gaudian. Farid Hafez. (2024).
Gaza Has Become The Graveyard of Western Ideals. Newsweek. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
Justin Trudeau’s Legacy: A Cautionary Tale for Progressive Leaders. Zeteo. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
What’s behind Germany’s raging Islamophobia? Al Jazeera. Farid Hafez. (2024).
Islamophobia, Race, and the Palestine Taboo. Faculty of Arts, University Of Alberta. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
How Israel turned Gaza’s ‘safe zones’ into graveyards. Middle East Eye. Ghada Ageel (2024).
White House strategy to counter Islamophobia means nothing while funding the slaughter of Muslims abroad. Mondoweiss. Nadia Ahmad (2024).
How DEI Initiatives on Islamophobia Fall Short. Inside HigherEd. Nadia Ahmad (2024).
How Muslim women are targeted in ‘progressive’ circles. Middle East Eye. Nadia Ahmad (2024).
REVEALED: The Senators Who Dared to Challenge the $20B Arms Deal & What Happens Next. LA Progressive. Nadia Ahmad (2024).
The Supreme Court Sides With the FDA on the Abortion Pill—for Now. The Nation. Aziza Ahmed (2024).
Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm. The Nation. Aziza Ahmed & Joanna West. (2024).
Human Rights Law Professor Akram Susan speaks on South Africa’s genocide case in ICJ against Israel. (2024).(interviewing Akram Susan)
Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu: A Long Time Coming. Arab Center Washington DC. Susan M. Akram & John B. Quigley (2024).
Egypt and Türkiye: The crowning of a new friendship? ISPI. Khalil Al-Anani, (2024).
Biden’s asylum order likely to meet resistance from courts, Daily J. Raquel E Aldana (2024).
War Biology and Antimicrobial Resistance: The Case of Gaza, Institute for Palestine Studies, Omar Dewachi (2024).
ACMCU, Book Talk | The Woman’s Mosque of America, (Nov. 3, 2023) (interviewing Tazeen M. Ali).
Free Speech Week Event: Scrutinizing Universities’ Responses to the Campus Protests. The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center. (2024). (interviewing Mohammad Fadel)
How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives. Middle East Eye. Nancy Khalil. (2024).
After Gaza, ‘election madness’ is not the same on US campuses. Al Jazeera. Nazia Kazi. (2024).
Israel’s Vision of No Palestinians ‘From the River to the Sea’. DAWN. Sahar Aziz. (2024).
SpearIt: Palestinian blood, seed of the mosque. Post-Gazette. SpearIt. (2024).
In Iraq, the personal is political: The raging debate on child marriage and what’s really at stake. The New Arab. Zahra Ali. (2024).
Words matter — antisemitism vs. Islamophobia. Trib Total Media. SpearIt. (2024).
‘Little Guantánamo’ Gets Bigger. The Nation. Nausheen Husain. (2024).
Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Bidisha Biswas. (2024).
Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia. ME Council. (2024). (interviewing Juan Cole).
How Prominent Muslims in Austria Were Painted as Enemies of the State. News Lines Magazine. Farid Hafez. (2024).
Accusing Israel of genocide cost me a job — just another example of a university failing Jews. Forward. Raz Segal. (2024).
Cyprus: From early Zionist colony to military base for Israel’s war on Gaza. Middle East Eye. Joseph Massad. (2024).
‘Palestinian’ is the new ‘n-word’. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. SpearIt. (2024).
The GOP’s Bad Faith Focus on Campus Antisemitism. Inside Higher Ed. Jonathan Feingold. (2024).
TMU law school students deserve and apology. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty.(2024).
Let the student protestors be. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
The is one hope for saving U.S. global reputation. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
New study claims Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Boston Globe. (2024). (interviewing Susan M. Akram)
Why academic scholarship on Israel and Palestine threatens western elites. Middle East Eye. Joseph Massad. (2024).
Juan Cole, Another American War in the Middle East?. Tom Dispatch. Juan Cole. (2024).
In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping. The Nation. Juan Cole. (2024).
With Every New Atrocity in Gaza, Iran Gains More Influence. The Nation. Juan Cole. (2024).
How Muslim women are targeted in ‘progressive’ circles. Middle East Eye. Nadia Ahmed, (2024).
Abortion Restrictions Worsen racial Inequities in Maternal Care. Bloomberg Law. Aziza Ahmed. (2024).
‘From the River to the Sea’: US students must have the freedom to speak with their conscience, Scroll.In, Bidisha Biswas (2024).
UN Pleads for Gaza Cease-Fire to Administer Polio Vaccines. Israel is Refusing, Common Dreams. Common Dreams. Juan Cole. (2024).
Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the U.S. Will be Dragged Into?94.1 KPFA. Juan Cole. (2024).
Why the U.S. Should Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Foreign Policy. Omar Dajani & Mushon Zer-Avi. (2024).
Netanyahu says Rafah camp strike was a ‘tragic mistake.’ Experts weigh in on what happened. PBS.(2024).
Postscripts on Israel: October 7 Surprise? M. Shahid Alam. CounterPunch. (2024).
‘From the River to the Sea’: US students must have the freedom to speak with their conscience. Bidisha Biwas. Scroll. (2024).
The “Miraculous” Nature of the Israel Exception in International Law: Israel’s Nationality Laws. Mohammad Fadel. Contending Modernities. (2024).
Guyana oil boom comes with climate crash.Gaiutra Bahadur. WBUR. (2024).
Is Guyana’s Oil a Blessing or a Curse? The New York Times. Gaiutra Bahadur. (2024).
Summer of Threat 2024: America’s security watchdogs are barking. Are we listening?. Northjersey.com. John Farmer Jr. & Kevin Shaeffer.(2024).
Trump’s Challenge to Democracy Through the Lens of Transitional Justice, Just Security. Jonathan Hafetz. (2024).
Halt: The International Court of Justice and the Rafah Offensive, Just Security. Adil Ahmad Haque. (2024).
DEI Statements Are Not About Ideology. They’re About Accountability. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stacy Hawkins.(2024).
“Little Guantanamo” Gets Bigger, Nation. Nausheen Husain. (2024).
Canada is putting too many Black Canadians behind bars. Here is what we can do about it. Toronto Star. Faisal Kutty. (2024).
How the imperial presidency was built. The Ink. Aziz Rana. (2024)
What does Anti-Arab Racism on Campus Have to Do With the War on Gaza?, Nation. Sherene Razack. (2024).
Shirin Sinnar Weighs in on Political Rhetoric After Trump Rally Attack KQED. Shirin Sinnar. (2024)
Anti-Palestinian racism needs to be included in Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy. Conversation. Jasmin Zine. (2024)
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Investigation Echoes HUAC and the Era of McCarthyism. Parallax Views. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Islamophobia Is Ignored in Ferment over Anti-Semitism on Campus. KKFI 90.1 Kansas City. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N. The New York Times. Asli Bali. (2024).
Most Bigoted, Genocidal Representative in Congress smears Juan Cole as a Racist. Juan Cole. Informed Comment. (2024).
Recording: A Conversation on Antisemitism and Islamophobia.UC Davis Jewish Studies Program. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Oct. 7 Mass Rape. Democracy Now. (2024). (interviewing Deepa Kumar).
Feds study antisemitism complaint against Princeton; Muslim group files against Rutgers. North Jersey. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University. Murtaza Hussain. The Intercept. (2024).
Think Tank with Steve Adubato. Thirteen. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
The Attack on Academic Freedom. Occupied Thoughts. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz and Peter Beinart).
The failures of the UN in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Susan M. Akram. Open Global Rights. (2024).
Is International Law Still Relevant after the Carnage in Gaza? Susan Akram. Arab Center Washington DC. (2024).
Gaza is the greatest test liberalism has faced since 1945. And it is failing. Faisal Kutty. Middle East Eye. (2024).
Rutgers Islamic Center’s vandalization shows our need to combat Islamophobia. Sahar Aziz. North Jersey. (2024).
Astroturf Antisemitism Watchdogs. Emmaia Gelman. Jadaliyya. (2024).
Amid Gaza War, College Campuses Become Free Speech “Testing Ground”. Intercepted. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Biden is still the best US president Israel could wish for. Faisal Kutty. Al Jazeera. (2024).
Majority of US voters want Gaza cease-fire. Do Jewish, evangelical faithful agree?.Saher Selod. USA Today. (2024).
Free speech issues complicate Rice University’s ‘D’ rating on ADL’s antisemitism report card. Houston Chronicle. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz)
The Islamophobia Network and the Israel-Palestine Discourse w/ Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael. (interviewing Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick).
Unpacking Islamophobia: Five Questions on Islamophobia in Gaza Report. Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick. Bridge Initiative Team. (2024).
A tale of two US court decisions, and the Palestine exception. Faisal Kutty. Al Jazeera. (2024).
Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse. CounterPunch Radio. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick).
Beyond ‘Genocide Joe’: This election year, Muslim-American voters are at a crossroads. Nazia Kazi. Middle East Eye. (2024).
War on Gaza: Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself. Joseph Massad. Middle East Eye. (2024).
There is a seismic shift in the Muslim American community. Nazia Kazi. Al Jazeera. (2024).
Anti-Palestinian bias in western media is off the scale since the war on Gaza. Faisal Kutty. Middle East Eye. (2024).
US Foreign Policy Establishment Is Instrumentalizing Islamophobia, Report Shows. Truthout. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Ep. 248: Presumptively Antisemitic ft. Prof. Sahar Aziz. The Insurgents. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus. Juan R. Cole. Democracy for the Arab World Now. (2024).
Biden Stands at the Precipice of a Greater War in the Middle East and His Political Future. Juan R. Cole. The Intercept. (2024).
The Liberals no longer have unconditional Muslim support. Faisal Kutty. The Hills Times. (2024).
How Western media treats the “Islamic Threat”. Faisal Kutty. Toronto Star. (2024).
Islamophobia Palestine and the Presumption of Anti-Semitism. The Real News. (2024) (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Why Israel’s Supreme Court Must Remain a Strong Check on Power—Especially Now. Udi Ofer. Newsweek. (2024).
Special- The ICJ Israel Case Explainer. Aslı Bâli. American Prestige. (2024).
Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.(2024) (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
Don’t Stop Speaking About Palestine. Chamtuli Huq. Common Dreams. (2024).
Amid Gaza Protests, Universities Are Cracking Down on A Celebrated Protest Tactic: Sit-Ins. The Intercept. (2024) (interviewing Sahar Aziz).
On Parenthood and Genocide. Heba Gowayed. In These Times. (2024).
Antisemitism and Islamophobia In The US Political Discourse On Israel/Palestine. Middle East Focus. (2024) (interviewing Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick).
Undercover FBI Agents Helped Autistic Teen Plan Trip to Join Isis. Murtaza Hussain. The Intercept. (2024).
Drop the charges against Indigo ‘Peace 11’ protesters. Faisal Kutty. Al Jazeera. (2024).
2023
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2021 – 2022
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2015 – 2020
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