Dr. Zunes’ Speech from the Aug. 24 Panetta Protest admin, December 11, 2024December 12, 2024 Serf City Times included this transcript of Dr. Zunes’ speech at a rally in Santa Cruz protesting U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s strident support for Israel’s far right government, placing him further right than even the Biden administration — and the failure of the Santa Cruz city government and other Democratic… Continue Reading
Reaction to ICC Indictment Reveals US Bipartisan Contempt for International Law admin, December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 The Progressive, December 5, 2024 by Stephen Zunes:Examines Washington’s hysterical and dishonest reaction to the International Criminal Court’s indictments of two Israeli leaders for war crimes [Source] Continue Reading
3 Interviews on the ICC indictments of 2 Israeli Leaders & US Response admin, December 8, 2024December 10, 2024 An eight-minute interview for the main Singapore television news on the impact of the indictments Al-Jazeera English half hour conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese and Israeli scholar Ori Goldberg on the ramifications of the ICC’s indictments (and a Daily Telegraph “Quotable” one-minute… Continue Reading
Lectures & 11 Interviews Nov. 2024 on Trump’s Election & the Middle East admin, December 7, 2024December 12, 2024 First view Dr. Zunes’ 5-minute animated summary of his research on coup resistance; then his Lecture at the University of San Francisco on how to prepare for the aftermath of the election in the event of an attempted coup or legitimate victory by Trump. Lecture before the Unitarian Universalists of… Continue Reading
Will Biden Cost Harris the Election? admin, October 13, 2024October 13, 2024 News Lines Magazine October 8, 2024[Dr. Zunes urges readers to please circulate this important article widely, particularly to those in swing states who are reluctant to vote for Harris because of the Biden administration’s Middle East policy.] A detailed analysis of how Kamala Harris is seriously constrained by her role… Continue Reading
Democratic Platform Defies International Law on the Middle East admin, August 31, 2024August 31, 2024 Truthout August 29, 2024Despite indications Harris will have a better foreign policy than Biden, the Democratic Party’s platform’s segment on the Middle East — written primarily by Biden’s team — is very disappointing… Continue Reading
Interview: Suppression of Gaza War campus protests, outside agitators charge admin, May 19, 2024January 21, 2025 “Flashpoints” on KPFA-FM and affiliated stations (20-minute interview begins at the 13:15 mark): Dr. Zunes contrasts blatant censorship and violent police suppression of Gaza War campus protests with anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s. Continue Reading
The Crackdown on Campus Protests is a Bipartisan Strategy to Repress Pro-Palestine Speech admin, May 14, 2024January 21, 2025 The Progressive, May 1, 2024: Unlike apartheid-era South Africa, many universities aren’t even recognizing Israel’s human rights abuses. A wave of sit-ins and encampments have swept college and university campuses… led—as in past anti-war campus protests in 1968—by Columbia University. [source] Continue Reading
Don’t Buy the Right-wing Disinformation Campaign on “From the River to the Sea” admin, May 14, 2024January 21, 2025 Truthout May 5, 2024: This phrase was never about killing Jews. It emerged in the 1960s as a call for equal rights within a democratic state. The wave of pro-Palestinian protests sweeping American campuses was triggered by Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s order to forcibly clear a peaceful encampment [after]… Continue Reading
Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity Exceeds Reagan-era Activist Repression admin, February 15, 2024August 8, 2024 Truthout 02/14/2024 Continue Reading
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire & Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition admin, February 15, 2024August 13, 2024 U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire Common Dreams Feb. 1, 2024Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition Truthout Oct. 30, 2023 Continue Reading
Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election admin, February 15, 2024August 8, 2024 Biden’s Failure on Gaza Could Cost Democrats the 2024 Election Continue Reading
Scholars Weigh in on Gaza-Israel Conflict admin, February 15, 2024May 14, 2024 Counterpunch interview of Professors Zunes and international legal scholar Professor Richard Falk [Princeton] on Israel, Gaza, and U.S. policy Continue Reading
Democrats Attack Amnesty Report on Israel to Justify US Complicity in Human Rights Abuses admin, February 28, 2022March 13, 2024 This is indicative of the Democratic Party’s shift to the right on foreign policy in recent decades… [FULL LINK] Continue Reading
WRFI Human Rights Show: Amnesty International Report and U.S. Reaction admin, February 18, 2022August 14, 2024 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… Continue Reading
Harry Reid’s Hawkish Foreign Policy admin, January 3, 2022August 14, 2024 The death of former Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid of Nevada has brought forth praise for his parliamentary skills, which helped make possible some critically important legislation, as well as preventing the passage of a number of seriously problematic bills. However, on the foreign policy front, it should be noted that Reid not only failed to challenge dangerous Republican initiatives that violated fundamental principles of international law and human rights, he was often among their most prominent supporters. Continue Reading
Biden and Other Democrats Helped Colin Powell Spread George W. Bush’s Iraq Lies admin, October 19, 2021March 16, 2024 While the death of former Secretary of State and retired Gen. Colin Powell has elicited praise-filled eulogies in the mainstream media and officials in Washington, many Americans still carry bitter feelings over Powell’s support for the illegal, unnecessary and predictably disastrous war in Iraq. In particular, critics cite his February… Continue Reading
United States’ Imperial Foreign Policy Is the Deadly Enemy of Progress at Home admin, June 14, 2021August 14, 2024 Jacobin June 14, 2021: The US military spends trillions on death abroad that could be spent on improving life back home… Continue Reading
Commentary: Panetta out of touch with constituents in his support for Netanyahu admin, May 27, 2021August 14, 2024 The Californian: Commentary: As the ceasefire takes hold ending the fighting between Hamas and Israel, central coast voters are raising questions over controversial statements he made. Continue Reading
125 Democrats Say Military Aid to Israel Shouldn’t Depend on Human Rights Record admin, May 3, 2021March 16, 2024 In an apparent response to growing calls for making US aid to the Netanyahu government conditional on Israeli adherence to human rights law, 330 members of the US House of Representatives signed a letter late last month insisting that the $3.8 billion in annual military aid the United States provides… Continue Reading