Dr. Zunes speaks for the first seven minutes on U.S. policy then briefly again at the 1:11:30 mark [Source]
Category: Biden Foreign Policy
Is Joe Biden’s Gaza Policy Leading to a Repeat of 1968?
The Progressive June 5, 2024
Zunes warns how Biden’s Gaza policy and the repression against student protests is creating a political environment similar to 1968, in which alienating young and minority voters could dampen voter.
Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes
Truthout May 26, 2024:
Biden’s administration is violating US law by continuing to send military aid to Israel despite Gaza war crimes [and] growing popular opposition…
Biden’s Response to Israel’s ICC Prosecution Is an Attack on International Law
Truthout May 22, 2024:
This marks the first time in US history a sitting president has openly sided with suspected war criminals…
Letter: Panetta opposes halting weapons to Israel
Santa Cruz Sentinel Letter to the Editor May 20, 2024:
Once again, our Congressperson Jimmy Panetta is out of step with his constituents….
The Crackdown on Campus Protests is a Bipartisan Strategy to Repress Pro-Palestine Speech
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]
Don’t Buy the Right-wing Disinformation Campaign on “From the River to the Sea”
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] her grilling the previous day before a House committee… A major focus of the interrogation was the slogan…” [source]
Antiwar/Solidarity Activism on Gaza: New Generation, New Challenges
US rejection of UN Membership for Palestine Betrays Claimed Two-State Position
Common Dreams April 27, 2024: Unlike most governments that support a two-state solution, the United States only recognizes Israel, not Palestine. [source]
TV Interviews: Police Attack & Clear Student Anti-War, Pro-Divestment Camp at UCLA
Al Jazeera English Television, May 2, 2024
- Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses
- Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA
Interviews: US Israel/Palestine policy, Santita Jackson Show
Four interviews on US Israel/Palestine policy on the US nationally-syndicated Santita Jackson Show (Minn.): June 12, 2024 (Zunes begins at 31 mins.), April 29, April 29, and April 15. Watch all four below.
Interview: Campus activism and recent developments in Gaza
KPFA-FM in Berkeley April 26, 2024 (Download mp3)
Dr. Zunes’ half-hour segment begins at 30-minute mark
Interview: Israel’s True Motivations in war on Gaza
Israel’s True Motivations – A talk with Professor Stephen Zunes April 18, 2024, on WMNF-FM in Tampa
US student protests and growing opposition to Biden’s support for Gaza war
Dagens Nyheter, major Swedish daily, April 24, 2024
quotes Dr. Zunes on growing protests and opposition.
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]
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]
Interview: The US, Israel, and Palestine
March 4, 2024: The United States, Israel, and Palestine: 54-minute interview for the Santita Jackson Show
US policy towards Israel/Palestine
March 5, 2024, 90-minute lecture: US policy towards Israel/Palestine: public lecture 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]