The Progressive magazine April 17, 2024: Zunes’ analysis of the recent Israeli-Iranian confrontation and the US role. [Source link]
Month: April 2024
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]
Antisemitism charges in Palestine solidarity movement
[In English, 53 min.] Torgny Segerstedt Foundation and the city of Malmö sponsored this recent important public lecture regarding charges of antisemitism in the Palestine solidarity movement and understanding what’s real, what’s not, and why it matters. [Source Link]
TV: Pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked Bay Area highways, bridges, & Israel vs. Iran
KTVU-TV Fox Oakland, April 15, 2024
Dr. Zunes begins about the one-minute mark [Source Link]
Podcast: US-Israeli relations and Gaza war
Fascinating People, Fascinating Places April 11, 2024, 30 min.:Zunes is the guest on this half-hour podcast “” in which he looks at US-Israeli relations and the war in Gaza [Facebook Source Link]
Israel and Iran Exchange Blows
April 15: Dr. Zunes was guest expert in this 50-minute interview on the nationally-syndicated Santita Jackson Show, along with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona [Facebook Source Link]
Biden’s engagemang for israel kan falla honom i valet
Zunes is quoted rather extensively in this article in the Gothenburg Post, the city’s leading newspaper.
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…
Biden Has Had the Power to Stop Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza Since Day One
[Truthout April 5, 2024] For the first time… Biden appears to have convinced Netanyahu to change policy. The Israeli government’s decision to open up the Erez crossing to allow more relief supplies came after his phone call. [Source]
How Biden Immediately Undermined UN Ceasefire Vote
[The Progressive April 8, 2024] The Biden Administration is trying to seem like they’re working to end to the fighting when they are not [Source]
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: Weaponization of Antisemitism
[Palestine Update, California Radio, April 8, 54 min.] Sources: UN, electronicintafada.net, Common Dreams, Palestine Chronicle, Reuters, popularresistance.org, the Arab Center, The Real News Network, The Guardian, NPR, The Intercept, bdsmovement.net, investigate.afsc.org, whoprofits.org…
The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
[The Progressive March 27, 2023] Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country remains unstable, with one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional governments in the world…
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.