Human Rights

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[…]

Palestine and the Harlot Left Wing

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Right Wing Extremism, Zionism

by Susana Khalil, published on Socialist Action, January 3, 2024 Hamas is part of the political diversity of the native Palestinian people. Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an armed struggle stance against colonialism. To say at this point (in the face of the extermination of the native Palestinian Semitic people) that Hamas is a “terrorist group” may be[…]

The World Court: A Glimmer of Hope and a Cloud of Doubt

January 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Fascism, Genocide, Human Rights, International Institutions, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, January 7, 2024 If the International Court of Justice rules that Israel has committed, and is committing, genocide, will it save Gaza? On January 11-12 the ICJ (AKA the World Court) will hear the petition brought to it by South Africa. Specialists in International law Francis Boyle and (independently) Daniel Machover firmly believe[…]

Rally for Peace: Shut Down General Dynamics – No More Weapons for Israel

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Palestine, Resistance, Resource Wars, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, Weapons Sales, Zionism

According to event organizer Jack Gilroy, a group of over 100 people protested outside General Dynamics in a cold rain in Scranton, PA, Joe Biden’s home town. This factory manufactures ammunition required by both Israel and Ukraine to keep the U.S. backed slaughterhouse in business. Sponsors for this action include: Ban Killer Drones, The Merchants of Death Tribunal, Broome County[…]

Predicting Pestilence

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, War on the Earth, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Kathy Kelly, published on LA Progressive, December 4, 2023 World Health Organization now says disease could be even deadlier than airstrikes in Gaza. Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known[…]

Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Fascism, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2023 We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence[…]

International Delegation in Cairo Demands Opening of Rafah Border Crossing

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Egypt, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Resistance

Press Release, published on Workers World, November 12, 2023 Susan Abulhawa: +1.267.391.5386, Suzanne Adely: +1.773.510.7446. UNAC AC member Sara Flounders is in Egypt with this group, working to get aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Hopefully we will have a report-back from the scene very soon. We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers[…]

Rome Peace Conference Declares: U.S., Allies Provoked War in Ukraine, Stop NATO!

November 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, NATO, Neocolonialism, Organizing, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe

Statement published on Workers World, October 28, 2023 Delegates from 40 organizations and individuals from 25 countries gathered in Rome on Oct. 27 and 28, 2023, to discuss the causes of the current war in Ukraine, the war’s impact on international peace, the dangers facing our people and the tasks of the movement for a fair and permanent peace. The[…]