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Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in…
Khury Petersen-Smith
Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at IPS. He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it.
The pause in the fighting in Gaza — with some humanitarian aid allowed in and exchange of some Israeli and Palestinian captives…
As Ukrainians face a brutal and ongoing Russian siege, NATO’s July summit has endangered and betrayed Kurdish people, cruelly trading the fate…
The uprising sweeping Iran in response to the murder of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa (Jîna) Amini by the country’s morality police for…
I would argue that the U.S. has never been a democracy, and that a key reason is its basically permanent state of war, which began with its founding
The calls for oversight and demands that federal agents be withdrawn from our cities are urgent. The move to deploy these forces in brazen contempt for civil rights is escalating repression to a frightening new level
Following centuries of exploitation, theft and discrimination, here is what a reparative economic agenda should entail
Trump has sent more new troops to the Middle East than he’s bringing home from Afghanistan
As we spiral toward a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it’s worth reflecting on the failures to rein in U.S. aggression along the way
Like millions of others, the Kurds are victims of disastrous U.S. interventions in the region