What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for the Pro-Palestine Movement Stephen Zunes, February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 The Progressive February 3, 2025 Examines how a Trump presidency will make U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine even worse than under Biden, but how it might spawn a bigger backlash that could end up forcing real change in U.S. policy in the longer term. [source] Continue Reading
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
The Chilling Effect of Equating Criticism of Israel to Antisemitism admin, May 20, 2024January 21, 2025 The Progressive May 17, 2024: Broadening the federal definition of antisemitism is a disingenuous attempt to quash dissent… Continue Reading
The New Assault on Academic Freedom: Professors across the country are being targeted by the right in order to score political points. admin, May 20, 2024January 21, 2025 The Progressive May 15, 2024: During the wave of campus protests opposing the U.S.-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren’t the only ones facing arrest… Continue Reading
Interview: Suppression of Gaza War campus protests, outside agitators charge admin, May 19, 2024January 21, 2025 “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. Continue Reading
The Crackdown on Campus Protests is a Bipartisan Strategy to Repress Pro-Palestine Speech admin, May 14, 2024January 21, 2025 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. [source] Continue Reading
Antiwar/Solidarity Activism on Gaza: New Generation, New Challenges admin, May 14, 2024January 21, 2025 Project on Middle East Political Science April 2024. [source] Continue Reading
TV Interviews: Police Attack & Clear Student Anti-War, Pro-Divestment Camp at UCLA admin, May 13, 2024January 21, 2025 Al Jazeera English Television, May 2, 2024 Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA Continue Reading
Profile of Dr. Stephen Zunes in Swedish Press admin, May 13, 2024January 21, 2025 Gothenberg University Magazine May 2024 (Sweden; in English): Profile on Dr. Zunes’ visiting research fellowship at University of Gothenburg, pages 20-21 Continue Reading
Israel’s War on Gaza: 11 Zunes’ articles published Oct. 7-Dec. 31, 2023 admin, March 5, 2024August 8, 2024 Continue Reading
Movement for a New Society Reunion: International Training and Nonviolent Revolution admin, November 14, 2021May 20, 2024 VIDEO of panel with 4 other activist presenters: “Nonviolence, Peace & Transnational Part 2“ and Dr. Zunes’ PowerPoint of Photos from Sudan. Continue Reading
Remembering Martin Luther King, the Radical for Peace admin, April 3, 2018January 21, 2025 The Progressive April 3, 2018: King challenged the draining of our national resources for the military, opposed the Vietnam War and other aspects of U.S. foreign policy and questioned an economic system that created enormous poverty amid great wealth. He was assassinated while organizing the Poor People’s March… Continue Reading
Power’s Prophet: Remembering Gene Sharp admin, February 1, 2018January 14, 2025 The Progressive February 1, 2018: Dr. Gene Sharp, a Harvard University-based scholar, through his through analysis of centuries of nonviolent struggle, made a convincing case on utilitarian grounds that nonviolent struggle was a more effective and successful means of resistance than violence… [Related article & Petition] Continue Reading
Anti-war movement must listen to voices within Syria’s civil war admin, October 10, 2016January 21, 2025 National Catholic Reporter October 10, 2016. Continue Reading
Discerning Real from False Claims of Anti-Semitism in the Pro-Palestinian Movement admin, July 18, 2016August 14, 2024 National Catholic Reporter & Huffington Post July 18, 2016 Continue Reading
Attacks against anti-occupation activism increase admin, July 22, 2013August 15, 2024 A growing movement has emerged on college campus calling for divestment from companies that support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories that is part of broader international campaign initiated by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its occupation of territories seized in the 1967 war. Continue Reading
Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria admin, May 15, 2013August 15, 2024 Dr. Stephen Zunes talks about why there is nothing the U.S. can do about the Syrian situation Continue Reading
Protesters persist despite crackdown admin, December 22, 2011August 17, 2024 Of the popular pro-democracy civil insurrections that have swept the Middle East over the past year, none were as large — relative to the size of the country — as the one that took place in the island kingdom of Bahrain. And while scattered resistance continues, none were so thoroughly suppressed. The crackdown against the overwhelmingly nonviolent pro-democracy struggle launched in mid-February was brutal. More 40 people have been killed, including a number in custody, and more than 1,600 have been arrested. Those targeted were not just human rights activists, but journalists who covered the protests and medical personnel who treated victims. In October, a military court sentenced 20 doctors and nurses to up to 15 years in jail for assisting the wounded. Continue Reading
Washington Okays Attack on Unarmed U.S. Ship admin, July 1, 2011January 21, 2025 The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel with 50 Americans on board — bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. At a press conference on June 24, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Campaign by saying it would “provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves.” Continue Reading