Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, published on The Electronic Intifada, June 4, 2023 How are we to understand the incredible events in Israel since January 2023? On the one hand, there is the amazing invention and deep commitment of the hundreds of thousands who come out weekly to protest proposed judicial reforms – with their witty hand-painted posters, their music and their[…]
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by Rima Najjar, published on Countercurrents, May 18, 2023 In the image above, the three martyrs on the poster held up by Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, are Khalil Al-Bahtini, Jihad Ghannam and Tariq Izzedin, three Islamic Jihad leaders killed during Israel’s latest strike on the Gaza Strip. News sources generally describe Islamic Jihad[…]
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by the Palestinian Youth Movement, published on Mondoweiss, May 14, 2023 This year marks 75 years since the Nakba, which saw over 500 Palestinian villages destroyed and depopulated and up to one million Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes. On May 15th, Palestinians around the world commemorate Nakba Day. Although the Nakba is commemorated on May 15th and often incorrectly[…]
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by Robert Inlakesh, published on The Struggle / La Lucha, April 8, 2023 The popular outrage and response from the Resistance factions to the Israeli assaults on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque have again been distorted by Western media, in an attempt to try and pin the blame on the response. The framing of what occurred at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, February 2, 2023 Netanyahu’s governmental partner, the Jewish Strength Party, is willing to conduct Palestinicide in order to create a Jewish-only society in the Levant, writes Vijay Prashad. A two-state solution, is simply no longer factually possible. Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year,[…]
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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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