KPFA-FM/Pacifica, Sept. 5, 2025; segment begins at 40:00.
Israel’s attack on Gaza City increases civilian death toll.
Category: Pacifica Radio
Interview: Israel ramps up Gaza genocide, dependent on U.S. support
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.
Interview: Repressive U.S.-backed Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara
Interview: Rabbis protest of ongoing genocide in Gaza and growing Jewish resistance
KSQD Community Radio, August 18, 2025 [1-hour]:
Zunes and Rabbi Chaim Schneider discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the growing Jewish resistance to what is being done in their name.
On Monday, August 11, roughly 18 San Francisco Bay Area rabbis and cantors sat down in the street, after speaking in front of the barricaded Israeli Consulate building, in opposition to Netanyahu’s plan to re-occupy the Gaza Strip and to express dismay at the unrelieved starvation and suffering of the people of Gaza and all hostages–on both sides–enforced by the Israeli and U.S. governments. The civil disobedience action yielded no arrests, although the group escalated from blocking Montgomery Street to sitting in the intersection of Montgomery and Sacramento for approximately half an hour of singing and prayer.
Interview: Africa’s Last Colony, Western Sahara
Pacifica Radio/WPFW, Washington DC, August 15, 2025 (56 mins.)
Zunes and Professor Jacob Mundy (Colgate University, NY), his co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution,” critique the bogus attempted designation of Western Sahara as a “terrorist” entity.
Interview: Latest developments in Israel/Palestine and U.S. policy
KPFA Evening News (Sunday) – July 27, 2025 [begins at 9:30]
Interview: Ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza
KPFA Evening News (Sunday) – July 27, 2025 [begins at 4:40]
Interviews: Israel, Syria, Gaza developments and ongoing mass killing
KPFA-FM Pacifica Network, July 19, 2025: Zunes
discusses Israel, Syria, Gaza, and other recent developments
[segment starts at 12:30] and July 13 on mass killing
[segment starts at 13:15; Note: Each broadcast must
load before you can drag the pointer to when it begins]
Interview: Iran and the U.S. Now
July 3, 2025, Pacifica Radio/KPFA: Zunes discusses Iran and the United States following the latest bombing and war in a wide-ranging interview (starts at 5:40)
Interviews for KPFA Radio on Middle East
* 20-minute interview with Kris Welch on recent Middle East developments [May 30, segment starts 1:06:45]
* Two on recent developments in Israel’s war on Gaza,
U.S. policy, repression of student activists, related issues:
June 8 begins at 10:20 and May 11 at 5:50
Interview: Trump’s Student Crackdowns
KQSD-FM March 2025 (30 mins.) on the crackdown on antiwar student activists and related issues
Interview: Gaza, resumption of war and implications
KPFA-FM news March 23, 2025 (segment starts at the 10:30)
Interview: US Middle East Policy Developments
KPFA-FM News March 9, 2025: Interview on recent developments (begins 2:30-6:30)
Interview: Ceasefire: Israel violates agreement, Democrats remain complacent
KPFA-FM February 14, 2025 with Kris Welch (17 mins. starting at 15:30)
Interview: Trump’s plans to ethnic cleanse Gaza
KPFA-FM news February 9, 2025; Segment begins at 14-mins.: Trump’s plans for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and other issues.
Gaza Ceasefire: Five Interviews Jan. 2025
- Al-Jazeera English [Source is no longer accessible]
- KPFA-FM (segment begins at 1:05): Most comprehensive with a special emphasis
on Biden administration policy - KTVU, a Bay Area network affiliate: Three short interviews
* https://www.ktvu.com/video/1577477
* https://www.ktvu.com/video/1577202
* https://bit.ly/4jiAD9v
Syria Background: Zunes’ Articles, Interviews and Videos Since 2011 Arab Spring
- From Gaza to Aleppo: A Handy Guide for Defending War Crimes: This article notes the remarkable parallel in the language used by those defending war crimes by the Assad regime and war crimes by Israel
- Here’s an analysis also from 2016 regarding the state of the conflict and U.S. policy: Syria After the Ceasefire
- This article from 2019 examines the Trump administration’s recognition of Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights (a decision upheld by the Biden administration) in defiance of the United Nations Security Council declaring it “null and void”: U.S. Recognition of Golan Annexation a Threat to World Order
- These two critically examine the ongoing U.S. military presence in Syria:
*Despite Everything US Troops Should Leave Syria (2019)
*If Biden Wants to Protect the Troops He Should Bring Them Home, Not Bomb, Syria (2021) - These four articles from 2017-2018 examine the U.S. response to Syrian chemical weapons attacks:
*History Shows Hypocrisy of U.S. Outrage over Chemical Weapons in Syria
*Why the United States Can’t Lead on Syria’s Chemical Weapons
*Trump’s Dangerous, Cynical Attack on Syria: Pacifica’s Sojourner Truth Radio
*Why These Missile Strikes Won’t Make Things Better for Syrian People - These links examine divisions over Syria within the
U.S. left and what a progressive policy would entail:
*How Syria Divides the Left (2017 written interview)
*The Anti-War Movement Must Listen to Voices Within Syria’s Civil War (2016 op-ed article)
*Why are Some Left Activists Falling for Fake News on Syria (television interview) - These articles from 2012-15 look at the debates regarding U.S. military intervention in Syria: *Obama’s Escalation in Syria (2015)
*Eight Arguments Against Going to War with Syria (2013)
*Despite Horrific Repression, the US Should Stay Out of Syria (2013)
*Military Intervention in Syria is a Bad Idea (2012) - And these two articles are my response to a series of articles attacking me for my opposition to U.S. military intervention in Syria:
*Opposition to Intervention in Syria is Utilitarian not Ideological (2013)
*On Syria Most Thoughtful People are Torn (2013) - On nonviolent alternatives in Syria during the early phases of the uprising:
*Supporting Nonviolence in Syria (2012)
*Unarmed Resistance Still Syria’s Best Hope (2012) - More on U.S. double-standards regarding Syria:
*U.S. Outrage over Syria Veto at UN Rife with Hypocrisy (2012)
*U.S. in No Position to Condemn Russian Transfer of Helicopter Gunships to Syrian Regime (2012) - On an earlier Israeli attack on Syria and the U.S. role in blocking Israeli-Syrian peace initiatives: Israel, Syria, and the United States (2013)
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).
Radio and Podcast: 4 Interviews
- Recent developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and U.S. policy with Kris Welch on KPFA-FM and affiliated stations [9/6/24 starts at 1:06:40]
- On the Iranian missile attacks and what led up to them, for a New York community radio station [10/2/24, 15 min.]
- On Israel’s war on Lebanon for KPFA-FM evening news [9/22/24 starts at the 2:30]
- On the war on Gaza, U.S. policy, and related issues for a northern California radio station [segment starts at 26:20]
Interviews: U.S. policy, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon and Kamala Harris for KPFA Pacifica Radio
Dr. Zunes is the guest for three recent KPFA radio interviews:
During the first hour of KPFA’s “Talkies” show with Kris Welch
August 16, 2024 (segment starts at the 9:30 mark); also on
August 25 on KPFA Evening News (starts at 11:45); and earlier
August 11 on recent developments (starts at 2:10).