Video February 9, 2025: A talk for the Alameda County Green Party entitled “U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How It Will Differ from Biden (and How It Won’t)”
Al-Jazeera English February 5, 2025 (5 mins.):
Following Trump’s press conference with Israeli prime
minister Netanyahu [Source link is no longer available]
Israeli Committee Against House Demolition UK Webinar
‘The Palestinian Struggle in the Age of Trump,’ 23 Jan 2025 [Zunes’s segment starts at 28 minutes; video source]
Professors Stephen Zunes and Leila Farsakh were distinguished guests, moderated by Jeff Halper. Leila Farsakh works with several international organisations and is a senior research fellow at the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University and chair of the One Democratic State Campaign. They provided historical background about Palestinian resistance, the centrality of the Palestinian refugees, the different approaches taken by the Palestine Authority and Hamas, and how Trump is worse than Biden. It is expected that Israel’s apartheid policies will intensify and as Palestinians continue to resist living under oppression as they seek freedom and justice, their struggle will be bloody. However, with Trump in office and the flagrant Republican agenda, it will likely mobilize unprecedented opposition among leftists, liberals, and a growing segment of the US Democratic Party.
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
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)
4 Keys to Defeat a Coup (5 mins.): Dr. Zunes’s animated summary of his research on coup resistance. Also at ChooseDemocracy.us,
see “10 Ways to Ground Ourselves” & “Bringing Down a Dictator”.
On an Arab Organization for Human Rights panel addressing U.S. and Israeli efforts to undermine the authority of the International Criminal Court (Dr. Zunes’ segment starts at 31:30 plus additional remarks starting at 1:16:20 and 1:32:50.)
Al Jazeera English: Interviewed along with Nicholas Noe and Gideon Levy about the implications of the Israeli assassination of Nasrallah and the ongoing war on Lebanon.
August 25, 2024 panel, Unitarian Universalists of San Francisco panel: Dr. Zunes addressed U.S. policy and the prospects of change in Iran (segment starts at the 13:35 mark, and in the Q&A session starting at the 1:32:30 mark).
In this Recent 8-min. videoDr. 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.
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.
