Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
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]
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]. More at Western-Sahara.org.
[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 unavailable]
KTVU-TV Fox Oakland, April 15, 2024 Dr. Zunes begins about the one-minute mark [source]
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]
Santita Jackson Show, April 15, nationally-syndicated: Zunes was guest expert in this 50-minute interview with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona [Facebook Source Link is no longer available]
Zunes is quoted rather extensively in this article in the Gothenburg Post, the city’s leading newspaper.
Al Jazeera Analysis April 15, 2024: (Scroll down that page 2/3) … Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco, said the US is trying to “calm things” in the Middle East following Iran’s…
Truthout, April 5, 2024, by Stephen Zunes: In reality, the Biden administration has the power to stop Israel’s offensive in Gaza in its tracks. Though Congress authorizes military aid, the president has the authority under the Arms Export Control Act…
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]
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…
Unitarian Universalist San Francisco, April 8, 2024, 1 hr. 19 mins.
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 Progressive, March 27, 2023 [source]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…
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.”…
March 4, 2024: The United States, Israel, and Palestine: 54-minute interview for the Santita Jackson Show
March 5, 2024: US policy towards Israel/Palestine:90-minute video at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
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…
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)… [source]
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…