Zunes is one two faculty members interviewed in this 8-minute summary of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests at the University of San Francisco campus
Category: Video
3 Interviews on the ICC indictments of 2 Israeli Leaders and US Response
- An eight-minute interview for the main Singapore television news on the impact of the indictments
- Al-Jazeera English half hour conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese and Israeli scholar Ori Goldberg on the ramifications of the ICC’s indictments (also a Daily Telegraph “Quotable” one-minute clip which has been making the rounds)
- 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.)
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).
Video: 10 Interviews Aug.-Oct. 2024
- ET News, Indian TV: Anniversary of the October 7 attack
- 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.
- Three short for San Francisco Bay area network affiliates:
* The Iranian missile attack on Israel and what led things to this point
* Israel’s attacks on Lebanon
* And on Gaza and U.S. policy. - Two appearances on the Santita Jackson Show:
* On escalating violence in the Middle East
* On the vice-presidential debate, along with the latest news from the Middle East - A ten-minute segment of a panel sponsored by the Arab Organization for Human Rights-UK, about the Biden administration and the ceasefire talks, U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine, and how Harris would likely bring in a slight improvement in U.S. Middle East policy
- A short segment on a Singapore television news show about Israeli protests against Netanyahu and the Gaza War
Video: Oxford Union Debate Against Military Intervention to Promote Democracy
This House Would Fight for Democracy, Liberty & the Rule of Law Abroad, April 8, 2023 [11 mins., Prof. Stephen Zunes’ impassioned argument against John Bolton.]
Video Panel – Brave Resistance: Iran’s Women Prisoners Up Against Execution Surge and Threats Of Wider Regional War
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).
Gaza War Webinar: Escalating Famine and Genocide. Arab Organization for Human Rights-UK
Dr. Zunes speaks for the first seven minutes on U.S. policy then briefly again at the 1:11:30 mark [source]
Parallels Between Today’s Student Activism and Anti-Apartheid Protests
In this Recent 8-min. video Dr. 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.
TV Interviews: Police Attack and Clear Student Anti-War, Pro-Divestment Camp at UCLA
- Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses
- Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA


TV: What would ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu et al. mean?
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]
Interviews: US Israel/Palestine policy, Santita Jackson Show
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.
Antisemitism charges in Palestine solidarity movement
[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]
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)