Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine, election of most right-wing government ever, and US Role
Unitarian Universalist San Francisco, April 8, 2024, 1 hr. 19 mins.
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Interview: Weaponization of Antisemitism
Palestine Update, California Radio, April 8, 54 min.Sources: UN, electronicintafada.net, Common Dreams, Palestine Chronicle, Reuters, popularresistance.org, the Arab Center, The Real News Network, The Guardian, NPR, The Intercept, bdsmovement.net, investigate.afsc.org, whoprofits.org…
The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
The Progressive, March 27, 2023 [source]Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country remains unstable, with one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional governments in the world…
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.”…
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
U.S. Has Redefined ‘Human Shields’ to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians
Truthout March 22, 2024: The civilian death rate from the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip is the highest of any conflict since the 1994 Rwanda genocide [yet] Biden has vetoed multiple UN Security Council resolutions, rejected calls by…
Why Young Voters Aren’t With Biden on Israel
The Progressive March 15, 2024: Young people are progressive, more aware of racism and a rightwing Israel, and increasingly turning away from Biden (72% of voters 18-29 disapprove of his handling of the war)… [source]
Russia and US Abuse UN Veto Power
Inter Press Service February 27, 2024: How both Russia and the United States abuse their veto power at the United Nations (Dr. Stephen Zunes is quoted midway). Russia vs Ukraine and Israel vs Hamas—have exposed once again the stark reality…
Getting Ukraine’s History Right
Truthout Feb. 28, 2024, by Stephen Zunes [source]This month marks the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, which ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and in turn prompted the Russian seizure of Crimea and the Russian-backed secessionist movement in…
U.S. Support for Israel Bolsters its Own Interests
The Progressive February 27, 2024: The Biden Administration cast its third veto in four months to block a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, one of forty-eight vetoes in which U.S. was the only dissenting vote……
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…
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…
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…
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.]
US Actions in Yemen Helped Create Current Crisis
The Progressive 02/06/2024: Plus Five Background Articles: Yemen: Adding Fuel to Fire, Sojourners, June 2017: US military strikes in Yemen are feeding the rise of al-Qaeda [and] exemplify the failed U.S. policy in the region. Powerful Nonviolent Resistance to Armed…
Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity Exceeds Reagan-era Activist Repression
Truthout, Feb. 14, 2024 [source] Historically, would-be authoritarians of various stripes have used the threat of other forms of authoritarianism to consolidate their own power. We saw this during the Cold War, when the alleged threat of communism led to…
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire and Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire Common Dreams Feb. 1, 2024Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition Truthout Oct. 30, 2023