Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Israel and Palestine
“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.
KPFA-FM, Berkeley, “Letters and Politics” April 17, 2024 (Dr. Zunes’ 20-min. segment begins at the 40-minute mark): On costs of the confrontation between Israel and Iran.
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.…
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…
Project on Middle East Political Science April 2024. [source]
Common Dreams April 27, 2024: Unlike most governments that support a two-state solution, the United States only recognizes Israel, not Palestine. [source]
Al Jazeera English Television, May 2, 2024 Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA
On Al Jazeera television broadcast panel with a prominent Israeli journalist and British international lawyer about possible indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders [source]
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.
KPFA-FM in Berkeley April 26, 2024 (Download mp3) Dr. Zunes’ half-hour segment begins at 30-minute mark
Israel’s True Motivations – A talk with Professor Stephen Zunes April 18, 2024, on WMNF-FM in Tampa
Dagens Nyheter, major Swedish daily, April 24, 2024 quotes Dr. Zunes on growing protests and opposition.
The Progressive magazine April 17, 2024: Zunes’ analysis of the recent Israeli-Iranian confrontation and the US role [source]
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]
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.
[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]
KTVU-TV Fox Oakland, April 15, 2024 Dr. Zunes begins about the one-minute mark [source]
Fascinating People, Fascinating Places April 11, 2024, 30 min.: Zunes is the guest on this half-hour podcast, in which he looks at US-Israeli relations and the war in Gaza [Facebook Source Link]
Santita Jackson Show, April 15, nationally-syndicated: Zunes was guest expert in this 50-minute interview with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona [Facebook Source Link is no longer available]
Zunes is quoted rather extensively in this article in the Gothenburg Post, the city’s leading newspaper.