Genocide

VFP Statement on Gaza

October 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Statement

Veterans for Peace Statement, published on VeteransForPeace.org, October 24, 2023 On October 12, Veterans For Peace issued this statement about the conflict between Hamas and Israel, in which we condemned the horrific violence on both sides, particularly the killing of civilians. We added our voice to the many calls for a ceasefire and negotiations toward a political solution because there is no military one.[…]

Israel’s Ambassador Pushes to shut Down Pro-Palestinian Activism

October 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Canada, Censorship and Propaganda, Democracy, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Yves Engler, published on The Canada Files, October 20, 2023 Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians. In a bid to amplify calls to ban Palestine solidarity marches, Israel’s ambassador Iddo Moed told the Canadian Press on Thursday, “I don’t think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I think that that is something that is[…]

Gaza Faces Imminent Starvation Amid Israeli Bombing, Blockade

October 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Public Health, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Alex Lantier, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 This article is from nearly a week ago. Things are much worse now. This is not an issue of the ‘Netanyahu’ government, though they play their part. This is expectable outcome of settler colonialism. The latest “plan” is to drive the Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai. This is ethnic cleansing.[…]

UNRWA To Stop Services to Palestinian Refugees in August Due to Financial Crisis

July 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, June 24, 2023 Ahmad Ayyesh, 41 and a father of six children, is standing in a protest in the midday heat on Tuesday afternoon outside the large doors of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City. He joined the protest to raise his voice and demand that the agency’s[…]

I saw Israel’s ‘Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem’ in Lebanon 41 Years ago, and I See it Again Today

June 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide

by Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, published on Mondoweiss, June 13, 2023 Forty-one years ago, I was in Lebanon leading a group of ten U.S. relief and development directors hoping to introduce them to the extensive needs of impoverished Lebanese and Palestinian refugees. On June 4, 1982, around 3:00 p.m., we were on our way to the crowded Fakhani district of[…]

‘We Have Survived and Flourished’: Massive Turnout on National Day of Mourning

December 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Native Americans

By Will Hodgkinson posted on Workers World, November 29, 2022 Kisha James (Aquinnah Wampanoag and Oglala Lakota), co-leader of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), opened the rally by telling the history of NDOM, which was founded in 1970 by her grandfather, the late Wamsutta Frank James. Kisha James quoted an account of the first NDOM by Russell Means[…]

Israel kills 4 teens in rampage across West Bank

October 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine

by Tamera Nassar, published on Electronic Intifada, October 9, 2022 If you let this article sit open for a bit, all kinds of images and videos appear in the tweets. [jb] A Palestinian resistance operation in occupied East Jerusalem killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others on Saturday evening. The person who carried out the shooting at a military[…]