Video: Oxford Union Debate Against Military Intervention to Promote Democracy
This House Would Fight for Democracy, Liberty & the Rule of Law Abroad, April 8, 2023 [11 mins., Prof. Stephen Zunes’ impassioned argument against John Bolton.]
Category: Self Determination
Self-determination
Interview: Israel/Palestine civilian deaths, US Policy and ICJ finds West Bank occupation illegal
KPFA Pacifica Network July 19,2024 Recent developments in Israel/Palestine, including mounting civilian casualties, U.S. policy and the International Court of Justice decision finding the Israeli occupation of the West Bank illegal (25 mins. starting at 1:05:00)
Interview: As Israel Refuses to End Genocide in Gaza, Threat of War With Hezbollah Looms
Truthout July 2, 2024: By Daniel Falcone, with Stephen Zunes and Lawrence Davidson. Also summarized by HeadTopics.com. For the past eight months, Hezbollah has attacked the northern portion of Israel in an attempt to pull the Israeli army out from…
Will Kamala Break With Joe on Israel?
The Progressive, July 26, 2024: While her Senate record was hawkish, Harris has signaled she’d make justice for Palestinians a higher priority than Biden… [source]
A Move to Out-Maneuver the US Veto to admit the State of Palestine as a UN member
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21, 2024 (IPS) Inter Press Service, by Thalif Deen, quoting Dr. Stephen Zunes: “It has been U.S. policy since 1990 to withdraw funding from any United Nations agency which grants Palestine member status…’” [source]
Interviews: Middle East,
KPFA Oct. 2023-July 2024
Twelve more interviews on KPFA Evening News aired Sundays on KPFA-FM and Pacifica Radio Network affiliated stations October 7, 2023 through July 2024
Parallels Between Today’s Student Activism and Anti-Apartheid Protests
In this Recent 8-min. video Dr. Zunes contrasts response to today’s growing student protests urging divestment from Israel with the successful student protests in the 1980s demanding boycotts and divestment from South Africa, which helped end apartheid there.
Interview: Status of Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara for Emmaus, Stockholm
ALSO SEE Dr. Zunes’s book and website: Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution Emmaus Artikel 2, Stockholm May 2024 An hour-long May 2024 interview (in English) of Dr. Stephen Zunes and a prominent Sahrawi activist in Stockholm on the…
Not only the fate of the people of Western Sahara is at stake.
Emmaus Artikel 2, Stockholm May 2024 (Dr. Stephen Zunes is quoted extensively): The opposition to Trump’s rushed and unrighteous recognition of Morocco’s alleged sovereignty over Western Sahara prompts President Biden to correct this mistake… Biden could resend the U.S. recognition…
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.…
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…
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]
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.
West’s role in Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara
April 20, 2024: On Dr. Zunes’ recent talk at the Gothenburg Science Festival on the West’s role in the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. More at Western-Sahara.org
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]. More at Western-Sahara.org.
Iran can gain politically by de-escalating
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…