Understanding Means and Ends admin, June 6, 2024January 21, 2025 Tikkun April 3, 2024 This article in the final issue of Tikkun magazine (for which Zunes served for many years as a contributing editor), is a tribute to Rabbi Michael Lerner, the magazine’s founder and one of the leading thinkers of our time (who, tragically, is in his final weeks… Continue Reading
The United States and Israel: An Alliance or a Protection Racket admin, April 1, 2017August 14, 2024 Tikkun May 17, 2017 Continue Reading
Overcoming Bitterness and No Longer Assuming the Worst of Democrats admin, November 2, 2016June 10, 2024 National Catholic Reporter November 28, 2016 For decades, I have been obsessed with exposing the Clintons and like-minded Democratic politicians’ dangerous foreign policies, challenging liberal naiveté that ignores or excuses such hawkish proclivities, and underscoring the need to withhold support until they embrace more responsible positions. What I am… Continue Reading
Democracy Imperiled in the Maldives admin, March 15, 2012August 16, 2024 Well before the launch of the Arab Spring, the people of the Maldives, a Muslim nation located on a tropical archipelago in the Indian Ocean, were engaged in widespread nonviolent resistance against the 30-year reign of the corrupt and autocratic president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The growing civil insurrection forced the dictator to finally allow for free elections in October 2008, which he lost. Continue Reading
Obama, Palestine, and the United Nations admin, March 2, 2012August 16, 2024 For those of us who hoped that President Barack Obama would usher in a new era supporting international law, the United Nations, and Israeli-Palestinian peace, 2011 proved to be a profoundly disappointing year. Continue Reading
Mubarak’s Ouster: Good for Egypt, Good for Israel admin, February 15, 2011January 21, 2025 The inspiring triumph of the Egyptian people in the nonviolent overthrow of the hated dictator Hosni Mubarak is a real triumph of the human spirit. While there will likely be continued struggle in order to insure that the military junta will allow for a real democratic transition, the mobilization of Egypt’s civil society and the empowerment of millions of workers, students, intellectuals and others in the cause of freedom will be difficult to contain. Continue Reading
Western Sahara: The Other Occupation admin, February 1, 2006 Imagine an Arab Muslim nation, most of whose people have lived in the squalor of refugee camps for decades in exile from their homeland. Most of the remaining population suffers under foreign military occupation, with a smaller number living as a minority within the legally-recognized territory of the occupier. The occupying power is in violation of a series of UN Security Council resolutions, has illegally brought in tens of thousands of settlers into the occupied territory, routinely violates international standards of human rights, has built a heavily-fortified separation barrier deep inside the occupied territory, and continues to defy a landmark decision of the International Court of Justice. Furthermore, and despite all this, the occupying power is considered to be a close ally of the United States and receives substantial American military, economic, and diplomatic support to maintain its occupation and colonization of the territory. Continue Reading