Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 30, 2023 Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives of 34,454 civilians, with 77,575 people injured as of April 28, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health, and caused the displacement of over 1 million people, the solidarity with Palestine is evolving into a[…]
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by Barry Shepard, published on Socialist Action, April 24, 2024 Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses. The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the killings and destruction have intensified, so to have many[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 23, 2024 April 22 – The global struggle in solidarity with the Palestinians against the horrific U.S./Israeli genocide since October 7 has become a major focus on U.S. college campuses. Prestigious Columbia University, located in Harlem, New York, has become ground zero in the campaign to divest funds supporting the apartheid Israeli[…]
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Just a few photos of a few protests. There are so many, but this is what I have time for today. On January 8, in New York City, more than 300 protesters were arrested following civil resistance actions that shut down traffic entering and leaving New York during the morning rush hour. Police arrest hundreds after Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down[…]
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by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, November 24, 2023 The following slightly edited article first appeared in The Electronic Intifada, Nov. 22, 2023. No matter the outcome of Israel’s genocidal invasion of Gaza, the Palestinian resistance fighters have already won. They were victorious from that first day when they executed a successful military raid of Israeli targets. It was[…]
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by Marjorie Cohn, published on Truthout, November 17, 2023 n November 16, two Palestinian human rights organizations, three Palestinians and five Palestinian Americans brought an emergency motion in United States federal court to immediately force President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to stop providing additional weapons, money, and military and diplomatic support to[…]
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Codepink struck on the East and West coasts recently: The vigil outside Nancy Pelosi’s home finally caught her attention when Toby Blome and Lydie Abood laid down under the front wheels of her van: Video by videographer Peter Menchini. Tobey Blome’s elaboration of the moment: A couple of us arrived in the early morning to find several black SUVs (Capitol[…]
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Yes, what was going on in Gaza before the October 7 Hamas revolt, and “Why didn’t the Palestinians Protest Non-Violently?” Actually, a friend asked me this question today, after expressing horror at the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens. It’s an important question and the vast majority of people in the United States don’t know the answer. The short[…]
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by Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, October 19, 2023 Five hundred people, including two dozen Rabbis, were arrested in Washington, DC on Wednesday as Jewish activists led a protest inside and outside The Capitol. The protesters were demanding lawmakers back a ceasefire in Gaza. Hundreds of protesters made their way into the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building where[…]
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