Gothenberg University Magazine May 2024 (Sweden; in English): Profile on Dr. Zunes’ visiting research fellowship at University of Gothenburg, pages 20-21
Category: human rights
US student protests and growing opposition to Biden’s support for Gaza war
Dagens Nyheter, major Swedish daily, April 24, 2024
quotes Dr. Zunes on growing protests and opposition.
West’s role in Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara
April 20, 2024: On Dr. Zunes’ recent talk at the Gothenburg Science Festival on the West’s role in the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara
Biden Claims to Support a Two-State Solution but his Policies Say Otherwise
Truthout April 17, 2024: Recent initiatives by the Palestinian government to revive their application for UN membership are testing the U.S. claim it supports a “two-state solution” [source]
Comparing US policy towards Palestinian & Western Saharan struggles for self-determination
U.S. Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation newsletter April 11, 2024: A short essay comparing U.S. policy towards the Palestinian and Western Saharan struggles for self-determination:
Western Sahara. [Source Link]
Iran can gain politically by de-escalating
Al Jazeera Analysis April 15, 2024: (Scroll down that page 2/3).
… expanding to an international conflict of this magnitude… is something the US will try to prevent…
Spring 2024 articles quoting Dr. Stephen Zunes
* Will Israel Defy Another Security Council Resolution?
Inter Press News Service, April 9, 2024 [source]
“Israel’s tradition is to defy UN Security Council resolutions even when the US allows them to pass, then prevents them being enforced.”
* Plus two recent articles in a major Swedish daily on U.S .policy toward Israel and Palestine: March 29 & 30, 2024
Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine, election of most right-wing government ever, and US Role
Interview: A Beacon of Hope in Troubled Times; Stephen Zunes
Resource Center for Nonviolence, January 11, 2024; 25 min. on YouTube.
Professor Zunes shared his nuanced understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict with RCNV’s Executive Director, Silvia Morales. Zunes said. “Jews feel attachment to Israel, often rationalizing war crimes it commits.” RCNV and Zunes emphasize human rights and international law over ideology.
Getting Ukraine’s History Right
Getting Ukraine’s History Right Is Crucial for Anti-Imperialist Politics: Ten years after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution, what should the left make of it? Truthout 02/28/2024
Bipartisan Bill for Middle East Peace Will Enable Dictatorships and Occupation
Part of the decades-long tradition of the U.S. propping up Arab dictatorships that suppress pro-democracy struggles while justifying support for Israel, calling it the region’s “sole democracy.” [FULL LINK]
Russian Aggression, US Hypocrisy & Is UAE a Safe Haven for Oligarchs?
There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. The Progressive March 1, 2022
Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March 7, 14 and 29
*The limits of Iran’s influence on Yemen’s Houthi rebels
*Analysis: Can the UAE be a safe haven for Russian oligarchs?
*Can Russia return to the world stage as other aggressors have?
KBBF Speaking of Palestine: The Occupations of Western Sahara and Palestine
A KBBF interview with Professor Stephen Zunes on the occupation of Western Sahara and much more, plus
Palestine Update and some poems by Naomi Shihab Nye.
See WSahara.StephenZunes.org
Democrats Attack Amnesty Report on Israel to Justify US Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
This is indicative of the Democratic Party’s shift to the right on foreign policy in recent decades… [FULL LINK]
WRFI Human Rights Show: Amnesty International Report and U.S. Reaction
WRFI February 18, 2022: Amnesty International published the extensive report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians” which concluded that decades of systematic discrimination and oppression of Palestinians and violation of their rights amounts to the crime of apartheid. We discuss why the U.S. refuses to acknowledge that Israel violates a wide range of human rights.
KZFR Peace & Justice: U.S. and Western Sahara
Aired on KZFR public radio, Chico, CA, 11 February 2022; This audio is no longer available.
WHMP Bill Newman Show: U.S. and Western Sahara
Aired on KZFR public radio, Chico, CA, 9 February 2022
This audio is no longer available. (beginning at 39:00)
Parallaxviews: Amnesty International Report and U.S. Reaction
8 February 2022: And finally, Dr. Stephen Zunes returns to the program to discuss the recent Amnesty International report arguing Israel is in engaging in the practice of apartheid against Palestinians, especially in the Occupied Territories. Dr. Zunes will also give his thoughts on the reaction of the U.S. media and Congress to the report. (begins at 1:29:00) [FULL LINK]
WBAI Leonard Lopate at Large: Western Sahara and U.S. Policy
WBAI FM, NYC, 7 February 2022:
Stephen Zunes, on his newly updated book
“[Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.“
[FULL LINK]
Oberlin Club of Washington, DC: Western Sahara
28 January 2022: The United Nations and the World Court have called for the Sahrawi population to be allowed the right of self-determination. The United States, meanwhile, remains the only country in the world that formally recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The presentation is timed with the release of the second revised expanded edition of Professor Zunes’ book Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution, and his return from visiting Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Professor Zunes will assess the human rights situation under the Moroccan rule, the nonviolent and armed resistance to the occupation, U.S. policy, and more. [FULL LINK]