Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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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UNAC statement on Palestine, January 20, 2023 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) stands in unconditional solidarity with the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people against the ongoing Nakba: the occupation and ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine by the Israeli regime. We firmly uphold Palestinians’ Right of Return to their national homeland – from the river to the sea –[…]
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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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by Joseph Massad, published on Electronic Intifada, November 9, 2022 Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism. No other colonized people has been forced to carry[…]
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by the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, published on Black Agenda Report, October 19, 2022 The vote in the UN Security Council did not take place. It appears that behind the scenes, Russia and China made it clear they would not support these measures. I published the Black Alliance for Peace Response to this a little further down if[…]
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Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, October 18, 2022 BAP’s Explicit Call for Security Council Opposition Was Heard October 18, 2022 — One day after the Black Alliance for Peace – and other individuals and groups from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora – requested that Russia and China oppose the Biden Administration’s UN Security Council resolution providing cover for another[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, September 27, 2022 The destruction of Haiti appears to be an international project. The US leads, having smashed their legitimate government repeatedly and destroyed any avenues toward independence, integrity or economic stability that have arisen. What is their crime? Is it an indpendent spirit, or merely the vulnerability of the small and weak? […]
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by Ali Abunimah, published on Electronic Intifada, August 6, 2022 As the toll of death, injury and destruction rose in Gaza on Saturday, the second day of Israel’s surprise attack on the territory, the Biden administration reiterated its full support for Tel Aviv. John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council said the administration urges “all sides[…]
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by Azza Rojbi, published on Fire This Time, Volume 16, Issue #3/4 “Sometimes I sleep two, three hours, and then I wake up and stay up until morning… I remember my children and my home…Our lives were humble, but it was a quiet life, a good life, we were happy…we lost everything.” Those are the words of Abdullah al-Ibbi in[…]
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