Dr. Zunes’ Letter from Sweden

Posted on February 9, 2024:
Greetings from Sweden, where I am serving this semester as the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research Professor at the University of Gothenburg.

My latest article, written for The Progressive magazine, looks at U.S. opposition to the International Court of Justice reviewing evidence of Israeli violations of the Genocide Convention in light of the history of U.S. opposition to the World Court and the broader application of international law:
Will the United States Again Look the Other Way When the World Court Rules?

And here is an op-ed piece I wrote for the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the dangerous foreign policy views of Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running against two progressive Congresswomen for the open U.S. Senate seat in California. Please consider sharing it with any California voters you know. (If you hit a paywall, send me an email and I’ll cut & paste and send it to you directly.)
Adam Schiff’s Hawkish Foreign Policy Views Alienate Progressive Democrats

As a reminder that Biden’s support for Israel’s war on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip should not have been unexpected, here are links to two articles I wrote during the 2020 presidential campaign in which I forewarned of Biden’s callous disregard for human rights and international law:
Biden Has Defended U.S. Allies’ Use of Lethal Force Against Civilians
Democratic Platform Condemns BDS But Not Israel’s Occupation

Here is the transcript of a recent interview I did for La Tribune Diplomatique Internationale (in English) making the links between the Israeli and Moroccan occupations:
https://tribune-diplomatique-internationale.com/2024/prof-stephen-zunes-freedom-palestine-western-sahara/

Here are a number of important video recordings of a lecture and some interviews:

This is a lecture I gave last week Santa Cruz–one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, both historically and in the present, and what we can learn from it:
https://www.youtube.com/live/oNR0C7Sl7Ng

And here is a video of a discussion I had with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy, and the role of peace and human rights activists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hGlmJkb7Y

Here is a video link of an interview for a podcast, in two parts, on U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara:
Part I: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_lJtaZFFp0
Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_bFpiehXE

And here is a short interview I did for a Singapore television network on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkzL-0vLp8s


I’ve also been quoted in a couple of recent articles:
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/gaza-us-active-partner-israels-war
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/01/03/smashing-the-iran-myth-from-houthi-to-hezbollah/

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