Video: A Year of Student Protest, Part 1: Goals & Achievements admin, December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Zunes is one two faculty members interviewed in this Continue Reading
Interview for Oberlin College, Zunes’ Alma Mater, on Israel, Palestine, Mideast admin, December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Oberlin College Nov. 1, 2024: Written transcript for the student newspaper after giving a series of talks October 2024 [source] Continue Reading
Dr. Zunes’ Speech from the Aug. 24 Panetta Protest admin, December 11, 2024December 12, 2024 Serf City Times included this transcript of Dr. Zunes’ speech at a rally in Santa Cruz protesting U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s strident support for Israel’s far right government, placing him further right than even the Biden administration — and the failure of the Santa Cruz city government and other Democratic… Continue Reading
Lecture: Antisemitism in the Pro-Palestinian Movement: What’s Real, What’s Not, and Why it Matters admin, October 13, 2024October 14, 2024 Lecture at University of San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2024, that critically examines charges of antisemitism in the U.S. pro-Palestinian movement. Continue Reading
Gaza War Webinar: Escalating Famine & Genocide. Arab Organization for Human Rights-UK admin, August 7, 2024August 10, 2024 Dr. Zunes speaks for the first seven minutes on U.S. policy then briefly again at the 1:11:30 mark [Source] Continue Reading
Parallels Between Today’s Student Activism and Anti-Apartheid Protests admin, June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 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. Continue Reading
Is Joe Biden’s Gaza Policy Leading to a Repeat of 1968? admin, June 6, 2024August 8, 2024 The Progressive June 5, 2024Zunes 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. Continue Reading
In Trump’s America, who’s protesting and why? admin, April 5, 2017August 14, 2024 Washington Post April 24, 2017: For March 2017, we tallied 585 protests, demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and rallies with at least one in every state and the District. Our conservative guess is that 80,000 to 90,000 people showed up. Because mainstream media often neglect to report nonviolent actions — especially small… Continue Reading
The Bipartisan Effort against Campaigns for Corporate Responsibility admin, March 22, 2017May 23, 2024 The Progressive, Huffington Post & Common Dreams The Trump Administration’s efforts to legitimize the Israeli occupation and illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories has received surprising bipartisan support. A series of bills passed or under consideration in Washington and in state capitols seeks to punish companies, religious denominations, academic associations,… Continue Reading
Pro-Palestinian activism faces suppression on Catholic campuses admin, March 9, 2017August 14, 2024 National Catholic Reporter March 7, 2017 Continue Reading
Fordham ban of Palestine group contradicts free speech, Jesuit values admin, February 9, 2017August 14, 2024 National Catholic Reporter February 9, 2017 Continue Reading
Occupy fizzled, but made 99% a force admin, September 17, 2012August 15, 2024 t’s been a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement sprang up. Since then, it has fizzled, but this does not mean that the underlying issues that gave rise to the protests have gone away. Until last year, mainstream political discourse did not include nearly as much emphasis on such populist concerns as rising income inequality, tax policies that favor the rich, growing influence by large corporate interests in elections and the reckless deregulation of financial institutions that resulted in the 2008 crisis. It is hard to miss them now. Continue Reading