Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Israel and Palestine
By Stephen Zunes The Progressive, October 16, 2025; republished by CommonDreams.org, October 17, 2025, “It’s Up to the Global Community to Transform the Gaza Ceasefire Into a Lasting Peace.” But recent violations by Israel call the new deal into question.…
The Progressive, by Stephen Zunes, October 8, 2025: Neither U.S. political party actually supports a two-state solution, instead both essentially endorse Israeli control over all of historic Palestine.
Channel News Asia/CNA, Singapore’s major news network, Oct. 9, 2025: Israel and Hamas October 8 agreed to a ceasefire after three days of indirect talks in Egypt. Both sides have signed off on the first phase of a United States-led…
Al Jazeera Television, October 9, 2025. Video is no longer available.
BBC Television, October 3, 2025: Five-minute interview of Dr. Zunes
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio, October 3, 2025: Zunes’s segment begins at 1:05:30
Santita Jackson Show Sept. 28, 2025: Zunes’s segment’s at 34 mins.
Wyoming Star, By Joe Yans, Published October 1, 2025:“… Given that both the Israeli government and the leading opposition have categorically ruled out Palestinian statehood and that the Democrats, like the Republicans, categorically rule out pressuring Israel to compromise, they…
KPFA Evening News (Sunday, Pacifica Radio Network), September 28, 2025; Zunes’s segment begins at 5:20: Trump’s opposition to an Israeli annexation of the West Bank, tentative efforts to win the war on Gaza, and Netanyahu’s visit to Washington,
Thinkers Forum, October 1, 2025: In this two-minute clip Zunes explains why U.S.-led “peace” efforts regarding Israel/Palestine under both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed [see full interview: Everything You Need to Know About the Middle East
Santa Cruz, CA, Sept. 5, 2025: Video 1:11; Zunes begins at 15 minutes
Thinkers Forum, Sept. 24, 2025: Amid Israel’s attack on Qatar, what’s next for the Middle East? We speak with Professor Stephen Zunes, who provides insights, analyzes the positions of key players, and explains everything you need to know about the…
WMNF, a Tampa, FL NPR affiliate: True Talk, June 26, 2025Arab-Muslim discussion and interviews with hosts Samar Jarrah and Ahmed Bedier on the U.S./Israeli war on Iran.
CNA (Channel News Asia), Singapore, Sept. 10, 2025
AlJazeera television, Sept. 10, 2025. Stephen Zunes, was one of the three guests. Israel’s bombing of a residential building in the capital, Doha, that was housing Hamas leaders, has drawn global condemnation. Fighter jets fired missiles into a residential compound…
KPFA-FM/Pacifica, Sept. 5, 2025; segment begins at 40:00. Israel’s attack on Gaza City increases civilian death toll.
BBC Television, September 6, 2025, (4 mins.). Zunes’s analysis of latest developments in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
Project Save the World Forum, Substack, August 30. 2025 (1 hour). Zunes’s conversation with longtime peace activist Jennifer Bing of the American Friends Service Committee and Canadian Peace Studies scholar, Metta Spencer… in a candid, unfiltered exchange [that] captures the tremor…
KPFA-FM Pacifica Radio, September 5, 2025, with Kris Welch. Zunes’s segment begins at 40-minutes, just before he joins a news conference to help read names of 18,000 Palestinian children Israel has slaughtered, so far.