March 4, 2024: The United States, Israel, and Palestine: 54-minute interview for the Santita Jackson Show
Month: March 2024
Lecture: US policy towards Israel/Palestine
March 5, 2024: US policy towards Israel/Palestine:
90-minute video at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
U.S. Has Redefined ‘Human Shields’ to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians
Truthout March 22, 2024: The civilian death rate from the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip is the highest of any conflict since the 1994 Rwanda genocide [yet] Biden has vetoed multiple UN Security Council resolutions, rejected calls by progressives to condition military aid, and used emergency powers to bypass public and congressional oversight to send additional bombs and missiles… [Link]
Why Young Voters Aren’t With Biden on Israel
The Progressive March 15, 2024: Young people are progressive, more aware of racism and a rightwing Israel, and increasingly turning away from Biden (72% of voters 18-29 disapprove of his handling of the war)… [Link]
Russia & US Abuse UN Veto Power
Inter Press Service February 27, 2024: How both Russia and the United States abuse their veto power at the United Nations
(Dr. Stephen Zunes is quoted midway).
Russia vs Ukraine and Israel vs Hamas—have exposed once again the stark reality that the UN, created 79 years ago to maintain international peace and security, has failed in its political mission – while its credibility is at stake. Russia is accused of violating the UN charter by invading a sovereign nation state and causing hundreds and thousands of deaths over two years — with no signs of a peaceful settlement.
Accusations against Israel include war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing and disproportionate killings of over 30,000 civilians, mostly women and children in Gaza, in retaliation for 1,200 killings by Hamas last October. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has taken a rightful stand on the two conflicts, has been criticized by both countries, with Israel calling for his resignation while ignoring his request for a meeting or a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Source]
Getting Ukraine’s History Right
Truthout 02/28/2024 by Stephen Zunes [Source]
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, which ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and in turn prompted the Russian seizure of Crimea and the Russian-backed secessionist movement in the Donbas. It also marks the second anniversary of the Russian invasion eight years later. Western anti-imperialists have correctly recognized a number of provocative actions and other missteps by the United States and NATO which are a necessary part of the context for the ongoing tragedy. However, it is essential for us to get our criticisms right…
U.S. Support for Israel Bolsters its Own Interests
The Progressive February 27, 2024: The Biden Administration cast its third veto in four months to block a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, one of forty-eight vetoes in which U.S. was the only dissenting vote… Congress rarely questions the more than $3 billion in military aid sent annually to Israel… far more than to any other country… [Source]
Interviews: Western Sahara/Morocco
- Professor Stephen Zunes on Western Sahara, Russia, Ukraine, Biden, Israel and Morocco. February 2023
- This is a very short segment of a story about Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara on a Swedish television network (in English, 2 min., 02/27/2024).
- Interview for a podcast on U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara:
Part I (37 min) & Part II (20 min) January 2024. - Transcript of interview for La Tribune Diplomatique Internationale (in English) making the links between the Israeli and Moroccan occupations. 01/20/2024
- Lecture: Occupied: Palestine and Western Sahara
(April 2024, Copenhagen, Global Aktion, 1:43 video) - Also see Western Sahara Uncovered, Episode 01: History of Western Sahara (5-min. video below, November 2023). Find more at Western-Sahara.org.
Interviews February 2024: Israel’s Gaza War
- [Watch the video] Four-minute segment on Al Jazeera English regarding hints Biden may finally be pressuring Netanyahu to suspend the bombing in Gaza.
- Ten-minute interview for Singaporean news station on the situation in Gaza
- Listen or download — Zunes’ 18-minute interview begins at the 41-minute mark, on US policy on Israel/Palestine. WBAI-FM in New York (Pacifica network).
- Two interviews for KTVU, a network-affiliated television station in Oakland on:
* US veto of the ceasefire resolution before the UN Security Council.
* President Biden’s meeting in San Francisco with the widow and daughter of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. - Biden’s widening war in the Middle East 02/03/2024 (Swedish)
- US 2024 presidential election 02/10/2024 (Swedish)
Lecture & Interviews: Israel’s Gaza War, January 2024
Jan. 11, 2024: Santa Cruz lecture, “one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, historical and present, and what we can learn from it.” Sponsored by Resource Center for Nonviolence
Also this discussion with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy on Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara, and the role of peace and human rights activists: Part I & Part II.
And a short interview for a Singapore television network
on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon.
Lecture: US Policy and Israel’s Gaza War at USF
December 4, 2023 University of San Francisco Lecture on
how US policy produced the current ongoing tragedy
(1 hour, 26 min.) [Source may no longer be accessible]
Interviews: Israel’s War on Gaza:
October-December 2023
- On Al-Jazeera English: Biden’s policy on Israel’s war on Gaza (Zunes begins at the four-minute mark.)
- KPFA and affiliated stations [Source link currently unavailable.
45-minutes, Zunes starts just before the ten-minute mark.
There’s ten minutes of failed Internet, but then he returns.] - Al-Jazeera English: U.S. support for Israel’s terror bombing of Gaza is not unique, given it has long supported other allies committing war crimes.
Israel’s War on Gaza: 11 Zunes’ articles published Oct. 7-Dec. 31, 2023
- Applying International Law to Israel’s War and Hamas’ Attack; Yesmagazine.org/Trithout Oct. 18, 2023 [Video & Transcript]
- Political Costs of Biden’s Support for Israel’s War Mount [Source]
- U.S. Attacks on the ICJ are a Declaration of Empire [Source]
- Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election [Source]
- Scholars Weigh in on Gaza-Israel Conflict Counterpunch interview of Professors Zunes and international legal scholar Richard Falk [Princeton] on Israel, Gaza, and U.S. policy, 10/13/2023 [Source]
- How U.S. Policy Failures Have Helped Hamas [Source]
- Hamas, Israel and the U.S. Have Learned Nothing [Source]
- Biden’s Backing Israel War Crimes Carries on Sordid U.S. Tradition [Source]
- O Globo, Brazil’s largest newspaper, on Israel’s war on Gaza (English translation and original Portuguese transcript) [Source]
- Dr. Zunes is quoted in this Al-Jazeera article: Why are US Republicans pushing for aid to Israel but not Ukraine? [Source]
- More Articles and interviews on the Gaza Crisis