* June 14, 2026, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco on “U.S. Policy towards Israel/Palestine: How We Can Change It”
* May 23, 2026, “Universities’ Acquiescence to Trump Administration Policies and Implications for Academic Freedom,” for the Peace & Justice Studies Association
* From a seminar organized by the Arab Organization for Human Rights in which I made a short presentation on U.S. support for the repressive Sisi regime in Egypt
* April 22, 2026, a conversation with Robert Malley, a key figure in recent Democratic administrations involved in negotiations with Iran and with Israel & Palestine, and Daniel Zoughbie of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California-Berkeley
Category: Lectures
Springs Farm to host talk with Middle East expert about Iran
Brattleboro Reformer, June 18, 2026
GUILFORD — Middle East scholar Stephen Zunes will be speaking at the Springs Farm at 49 Carpenter Hill Road on Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m. The focus of his talk is, “Iran: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Get Out?”
Changing Course: US Policy on Israel & Palestine with Dr. Stephen Zunes
Iran War and US Constitution
East Bay Wellstone Democratic Club March 23, 2026:
Starts with a 20-minute presentation by Zunes, followed by a similarly-length presentation by Samer Araabi, the Associate Director of Political Education and Research at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Generational Shift: An Assessment of Evolving Student Attitudes on College Campuses Towards Israel
Oberlin Club of Washington, D.C., October 20, 2025 (1:07)
Authoritarianism and Resistance: What the World Can Teach Us
May 17, 2025, Stephen Zunes’s keynote
address at the 2025 Western Washington
Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly
US is a constant partner in sabotaging ceasefires and shielding Israel’s crimes
U.S. support for Israel‘s breaking the ceasefire agreement and unleashing the terror bombing on Gaza, 12-minute video from a forum held March 2025 by the Arab Organization on Human Rights (UK-based)
The US Palestinian Rights Movement
Discussion with Dr. James Zogby of the Arab-American Institute, where we examined the trajectory of the pro-Palestinian movement over the past 50 years, including his history as an advocate for Palestinian rights from grassroots campaigns in the 1970s to his more recent leadership in the Democratic National Committee (University of San Francisco, 1-hour video)
Lecture: U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump
Video February 9, 2025: A talk for the Alameda County Green Party entitled “U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How It Will Differ from Biden (and How It Won’t)”
Lectures and 11 Interviews Nov. 2024 on Trump’s Election and the Middle East
First view Dr. Zunes’ 5-minute animated summary (scroll down to third video), 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 San Francisco on what a Trump administration would mean to the Middle East (1 hour 20 mins.)
- Al-Jazeera English: [source link may be unavailable.]:
Interview on recent developments involving Israel, Lebanon, Gaza and the US (24 mins.) - Al-Jazeera English [source link may be unavailable.]:
4-minute interview on new developments in Syria - I’m one of three professors interviewed on AJE’s “Inside Story” about Biden’s responsibility in Harris’s defeat
- A half-hour interview for a Wisconsin radio station on Trump’s cabinet appointments and the effect a Trump regime may have on the Middle East
- A 25-minute interview with Kris Welch on KPFA-FM on the impact of the election on the Middle East (segment starts at the 32-minute mark)
- A 50-minute interview for a New Zealand radio show and podcast about the U.S. election and its broader implications
- A 45-minute interview for a San Francisco NPR affiliate on the U.S.-backed war on Gaza and the impact of the U.S. election
- I gave this brief analysis on the election and the Middle East for a San Francisco Bay Area network affiliates
- Interviewed briefly on KPFA-FM’s evening news about how U.S. policy in support of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon could be impacted by Trump’s election victory (segment begins at the 13:55 mark)
- On Pacifica Radio’s “Flashpoints” (KPFA) talking about the then-upcoming election and foreign policy
- KPFA radio news interview on Israel’s attacks on Iran, the ongoing war crimes in Gaza, and the impact on the then-upcoming US election (segment starts at the 16:15).
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
Antisemitism charges in Palestine solidarity movement
[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]
Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine, election of most right-wing government ever, and US Role
Lecture: US policy towards Israel/Palestine
March 5, 2024: US policy towards Israel/Palestine:
90-minute video at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lecture and Interviews: Israel’s Gaza War, January 2024
Jan. 11, 2024: Santa Cruz lecture, “one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, historical and present, and what we can learn from it.” Sponsored by Resource Center for Nonviolence
Also this discussion with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy on Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara, and the role of peace and human rights activists: Part I & Part II.
And a short interview for a Singapore television network
on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon.
Lecture: US Policy and Israel’s Gaza War at USF
December 4, 2023 University of San Francisco Lecture on
how US policy produced the current ongoing tragedy
[1 hour, 26 min.; source is no longer available.]
Western Sahara: Oberlin Club of Washington, DC
January 24, 2022 Zoom: The UN and the World Court have called for the Sahrawi population to be allowed the right of self-determination. The U.S. meanwhile, remains the only country in the world that formally recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The presentation is timed with the release of the second revised expanded edition of Professor Zunes’ book Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution, and his return from visiting Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Professor Zunes will assess the human rights situation under the Moroccan rule, the nonviolent and armed resistance to the occupation, U.S. policy, and more. Find more at Western-Sahara.org.