A mural painted on the rubble of a destroyed building in Al Thawra Street in Rimal, Gaza. The mural was created by Mostafa Mehna with 25 children from Gaza. The Arabic text reads "There is hope" -- photo, February 2025 via Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations  —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once bel

Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, murdered in March in Megiddo Prison By Vijay Prashad It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad...