Human Rights

Israel’s Holiday Village in Gaza: The Grotesque Reality behind the Genocide

January 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Racism, US Intervention

by Jeremy Salt, published on Palestine Chronicles, January 1, 2024 Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is not that the Israeli army has set up a holiday village for tired soldiers on the coast of[…]

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

The UN Must Use the “Uniting for Peace” Process to Stop Israel

October 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Interview, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, United Nations

by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, October 20, 2024 The international community is united in their condemnation of the actions of Israel upon the civilians in Gaza, with a death now well over 40,000, and the attacks on Lebanon which have killed and injured civilians who have no connection to Hezbollah. The UN General Assembly has voted for a[…]

Qumsiyeh: What You Can Do

October 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Genocide, Human Rights, Palestine

by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published on his Popular Resistance blog, ongoing…. Action without rational thought based on critical thinking can be dangerous, but rational thought and spoken words remain sterile without ACTION Before we address what can be done, we need to know the problem (provide accurate diagnosis) and then think of appropriate therapy and prognosis. We must think globally and[…]

An Open Letter to Dr. Jill Stein (Updated)

September 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Syria

by Syria Support Movement, published on Syria Support Movement Website, September 26, 2024 Editor’s Note: Nowhere is it suggested that Jill Stein is or is not overall the best candidate for president. This is an informational statement that is concerned with the Green Party Platform as described in the text. Disagreeing with a point, or stance is not an attack[…]

Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing

September 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Civil Resistance, Economic Collapse, Human Rights, Poverty, The War at Home

TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]

Chicago Authorities Want a “Conversation” With the Poor People’s Army About the DNC 2024

July 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Human Rights, Police Brutality, Poverty, Poverty, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 24, 2024 I spoke to Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Army , also known as the Poor People’s Campaign for Economic Human Rights. ANN GARRISON: Cheri, tell us about what you experienced in Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention. CHERI HONKALA: I’ve never experienced anything like it. I attempted to serve[…]

In Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide

February 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Political Analysis, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Jonathan Cook, published on Substack, January 30, 2024 There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main channel by which the UN disseminates food and welfare services to the most desperate and destitute[…]

Hamas Statement on the October 7 “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” Attack

January 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Political Prisoners, Resistance

Statement from the Hamas Press office on Al Aqsa Flood (a differently formatted version of this document was posted on Socialist Action, January 25, 2024)

Genocide, Sex Extortion, and a Peoples Movement

January 30, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, New World Visions, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mazin Qusiyeh, writing in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine, published on Popular Resistance, January 26, 2024 What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it? Read on for this serious[…]