Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 31, 2023 On January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a gunman shot ultra-Orthodox Jewish worshippers as they came out of the Ateret Avraham synagogue in the Neve Yaakov Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. The gunman was 21-year-old Khairi Alkam a resident of East Jerusalem. He was later shot dead by Israeli[…]
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by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, January 19, 2023 Benjamin Netanyahu’s radical rightwing ministers’ agenda is to “empty the West Bank of Arabs.” And yet high Biden officials are meeting with Netanyahu today, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due out within a couple of weeks, all to give Biden’s blessing to the “unbreakable” bond between the two governments[…]
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Published on If American Knew, November 14, 2022 UPDATED INFORMATION from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, November 14, 2022 On Monday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, at dawn, a teenage girl in Betunia town after shooting her with a live round in the head and added that the name published before was[…]
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by Hamzah Khan, published on Mondoweiss, October 4, 2022 The right to boycott was once enshrined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982, but the recent passing of anti-BDS laws in several U.S. states shows how fragile basic civil rights have become. Few things have as much bipartisan support in the U.S. as unconditional support for Israel. Ironically, while criticisms[…]
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by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 13, 2022 Day in and day out you read about Palestinian children (usually teenagers) killed by IDF guns, and you stop reacting to the news. But sometimes something happens that breaks through the wall of repetition, like the story of this 7 year old Palestinian boy who died while running from these[…]
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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[…]
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By Mackenzie Dolan and Dave Welsh, published on Workers World, September 13, 2022 Tech workers held actions in multiple cities Sept. 8, demanding Big Tech drop its Project Nimbus contract with the apartheid police state of Israel. Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion-dollar contract Amazon and Google have with the Israeli government and military for “cloud computing” that aids in[…]
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Press Release, Defense for Children International in Palestine, August 18, 2022 Ramallah, August 18, 2022—Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International – Palestine’s headquarters in the central occupied West Bank early Thursday morning. Israeli forces raided DCIP’s headquarters located in Al-Bireh’s Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, located just south of Ramallah around 5:55 a.m. on August 18. More than a dozen Israeli[…]
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by Peter Schwarz, published on World Socialist Website, August 18, 202 A statement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas comparing Israeli massacres of Palestinians with the Holocaust has provoked from German media outlets and politicians a storm of indignation that would be hard to beat for its mendacity. At a joint press conference with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, Abbas[…]
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by Tamara Nasser, published on Electronic Intifada, August 7, 2022 A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad resistance group took effect before midnight Sunday, ending a deadly Israeli assault on Gaza. In the hours before the Egyptian-mediated truce took hold, Israel ramped up its killing and assassination spree for the third consecutive day. By late evening on Sunday, the[…]
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