[In English, 53 min.] Torgny Segerstedt Foundation and the city of Malmö sponsored this recent important public lecture regarding charges of antisemitism in the Palestine solidarity movement and understanding what’s real, what’s not, and why it matters. [source unavailable]
Category: Video
TV: Pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked Bay Area highways, bridges, & Israel vs. Iran
KTVU-TV Fox Oakland, April 15, 2024
Dr. Zunes begins about the one-minute mark [source]
Israel and Iran Exchange Blows
Santita Jackson Show, April 15, nationally-syndicated:
Zunes was guest expert in this 50-minute interview with
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and
Professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona
[Facebook Source Link is no longer available]
Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine, election of most right-wing government ever, and US Role
Interview: A Beacon of Hope in Troubled Times; Stephen Zunes
Resource Center for Nonviolence, January 11, 2024; 25 min. on YouTube.
Professor Zunes shared his nuanced understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict with RCNV’s Executive Director, Silvia Morales. Zunes said. “Jews feel attachment to Israel, often rationalizing war crimes it commits.” RCNV and Zunes emphasize human rights and international law over ideology.
Interview: The US, Israel, and Palestine
March 4, 2024: The United States, Israel, and Palestine: 54-minute interview for the Santita Jackson Show
Lecture: US policy towards Israel/Palestine
March 5, 2024: US policy towards Israel/Palestine:
90-minute video at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Interviews: Western Sahara/Morocco
- Professor Stephen Zunes on Western Sahara, Russia, Ukraine, Biden, Israel and Morocco. February 2023
- This is a very short segment of a story about Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara on a Swedish television network (in English, 2 min., 02/27/2024).
- Interview for a podcast on U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara:
Part I (37 min) & Part II (20 min) January 2024. - Transcript of interview for La Tribune Diplomatique Internationale, Jan. 20, 2024 (English) making the links between the Israeli and Moroccan occupations
- Lecture: Occupied: Palestine and Western Sahara
(April 2024, Copenhagen, Global Aktion, 1:43 video) - Also see Western Sahara Uncovered, Episode 01: History of Western Sahara (5-min. video below, November 2023).
Find more at Western-Sahara.org.
Interviews February 2024: Israel’s Gaza War
- Watch the video: Four-minute segment on Al Jazeera English regarding hints Biden may finally be pressuring Netanyahu to suspend the bombing in Gaza.
- Ten-minute interview for Singaporean news station on the situation in Gaza
- Listen or download: Zunes’ 18-minute interview begins at the 41-minute mark, on US policy on Israel/Palestine. WBAI-FM in New York (Pacifica network).
- Two interviews for KTVU, a network-affiliated television station in Oakland on:
* US veto of the ceasefire resolution before the UN Security Council.
* President Biden’s meeting in San Francisco with the widow and daughter of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. - Biden’s widening war in the Middle East 02/03/2024 (Swedish)
- US 2024 presidential election 02/10/2024 (Swedish)
Lecture and Interviews: Israel’s Gaza War, January 2024
Jan. 11, 2024: Santa Cruz lecture, “one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, historical and present, and what we can learn from it.” Sponsored by Resource Center for Nonviolence
Also this discussion with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy on Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara, and the role of peace and human rights activists: Part I & Part II.
And a short interview for a Singapore television network
on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon.
Lecture: US Policy and Israel’s Gaza War at USF
December 4, 2023 University of San Francisco Lecture on
how US policy produced the current ongoing tragedy
[1 hour, 26 min.; source is no longer available.]
Interviews: Israel’s War on Gaza:
October-December 2023
- On Al-Jazeera English: Biden’s policy on Israel’s war on Gaza (Zunes begins at the four-minute mark.)
- KPFA and affiliated stations [Source link currently unavailable.
45-minutes, Zunes starts just before the ten-minute mark.
There’s ten minutes of failed Internet, but then he returns.] - Al-Jazeera English: U.S. support for Israel’s terror bombing of Gaza is not unique, given it has long supported other allies committing war crimes.
Interviews: Al Jazeera on Trump and Biden support for Israel’s war on Gaza
Al-Jazeera Video: Biden’s policy supports Israel’s war on Gaza
(Feb. 2024; Dr. Zunes begins at the four-minute mark.)
Three more quoting Dr. Zunes November 2023:
- For 20 years, this AIDS relief plan enjoyed broad US support. What changed? Nov. 14, 2023
- Israel-Hamas war updates: Al-Shifa Hospital under threat, Nov. 9, 2023
- Why are US Republicans pushing for aid to Israel but not Ukraine? Nov. 8, 2023
Middle East Crisis Webinar
Middle East Crisis Webinar with Dr. Stephen Zunes,
Steve Chase and Michael Beer Dec. 6, 2023 [or Audio]
Sponsor: Movement for a New Society
Movement for a New Society Reunion: International Training and Nonviolent Revolution
VIDEO of panel with 4 other activist presenters:
“Nonviolence, Peace & Transnational Part 2“
and Dr. Zunes’ PowerPoint of Photos from Sudan.
Sponsor: Movement for a New Society.
KTVU News: Ukraine
13 August 2021: Video is no longer available,
but see Dr. Zunes on KTVU Feb. 21, 2022.
VIDEO: Democracy Defense: Advice from Activists Around the World
Nonviolence International, Beautiful Trouble, BlackOUT Collective, and OR Books presented a webinar on: “Democracy Defense: Advice from Activists Around the World.” [Zunes begins at 47 mins..]
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War is a documentary short reviewing the role of then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) in leading the U.S. into the most devastating foreign policy blunder of the last 20 years. This 19-Minute documentary features observations by Dr. Stephen Zunes
[from minute 4:00-5:30; Posted Feb 21, 2020 by Mark Weisbrot.]
George H W Bush’s Legacy and US Wars in the Middle East
Yes! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali
Download the Audio or Video (24 min.)
The 41st U.S. president, George H. W. Bush has died at 94. The media’s usual posthumous praise does not begin to capture Bush’s ugly legacy, particularly in Middle East foreign policy…