Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Biden’s Failure on Gaza Could Cost Democrats the 2024 Election The Progressive, October 26, 2024 [source] [T]he Biden Administration and Congressional leaders of both parties are actively supporting the ongoing carnage Israel is unleashing on the residents in Gaza, opposing…
Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, October 31, 2023 By Stephen Zunes [source]
The Progressive, October 11, 2023 [source]
Counterpunch interview of Professors Zunes and international legal scholar Professor Richard Falk [Princeton] on Israel, Gaza, and U.S. policy [source]
Video: Dec. 4 lecture at the University of San Francisco [source link is no longer available]
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,…
Middle East Crisis Webinar with Dr. Stephen Zunes,Steve Chase and Michael Beer Dec. 6, 2023 [or Audio] Sponsor: Movement for a New Society
KPFA and Pacifica affiliates, Nov. 17, 2023 [45 mins. Note Zunes’s segment starts at 9:50, interrupted by a ten-minute Internet gap, after which Zunes returns.]
Truthout, Feb. 27, 2022 and Tikkun March 10, 2022 [source] Part of the decades-long tradition of the U.S. propping up Arab dictatorships that suppress pro-democracy struggles while justifying support for Israel, calling it the region’s “sole democracy.”
The Progressive, March 1, 2022: There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March…
KBBF Radio: Zunes on the occupation of Western Sahara and much more, plus Palestine Update and some poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. Find more at Western-Sahara.org.
Truthout, February 10, 2022: This is indicative of the Democratic Party’s shift to the right on foreign policy in recent decades…
WRFI February 18, 2022: Amnesty International published the extensive report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians” which concluded that decades of systematic discrimination and oppression of Palestinians and violation of their rights amounts to the crime of apartheid. We discuss why the…
KZFR public radio, Chico, CA, 11 February 2022 [Audio’s no longer available. Find more at Western-Sahara.org]
WHMP Bill Newman Show, KZFR public radio, Chico, CA, 9 Feb. 2022 (Zunes begins at 39:00). Find more at Western-Sahara.org.
Parallaxviews podcast, Feb. 8, 2022. Zunes analysis of the recent Amnesty International report (begins at 1:29:00; also at Amnesty.org) arguing Israel is in engaging in the practice of apartheid against Palestinians, especially in the Occupied Territories. Dr. Zunes will also…
January 24, 2022 Zoom: The UN and the World Court have called for the Sahrawi population to be allowed the right of self-determination. The U.S. meanwhile, remains the only country in the world that formally recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over Western…
Russia Ukraine War – Long drawn out conflict or peace soon? What stance will the US take if Russia goes to War with Ukraine?
The United States and Russia are heading toward a dangerous showdown over Ukraine, as the U.S. has 8,500 troops on high alert, ready to deploy to Eastern Europe should Russia invade Ukraine, and a new round of arms shipments have begun arriving in Ukraine.