Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Viviana Weinstein, posted on Workers World, May 21, 2025 My father Max was an immigrant, a U.S. citizen, Jewish and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the fascists during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. Like many Jews who suffered through the years of the Holocaust, he was anti-Zionist. My parents understood Zionism to be[…]
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Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state’s sadistic nature. There are many accomplices to these crimes, but Joe Biden’s role in giving protection to a genocide cannot be forgotten.[…]
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by IAK Staff, from If Americans Knew, May 19, 2025 NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. Medical sources say Israeli forces killed 151 Palestinians in[…]
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The following comes from statements on Resistance News Network and Al-Akhbar English issued on May 19 regarding an escalation of actions by resistance forces in Yemen in response to Israel’s escalation of its genocidal war in Gaza. The announced blockade of Haifa Port came in response to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s orders for additional aircraft carriers to redeploy[…]
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By Nurah Tape – The Palestine Chronicle What does 77 years of Nakba mean for Palestinians today — and why does dispossession still continue? May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba — the destruction of historic Palestine, the catastrophe of dispossession, and the mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in 1948, which continues to this day. The[…]
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Editorial, by Workers World, May 13, 2025 The movement in solidarity with Palestine had a big win when a court order released Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana detention center. On May 9 she returned to Boston. Mass support developed for Öztürk, whose arrest resembled a kidnapping by a criminal conspiracy. The criminals were from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency[…]
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by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, May 8, 2025 The following is Part 2 of a talk given by the author to a meeting of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on April 24 in Philadelphia. (Trigger warning due to graphic descriptions of rape and torture.) At some point, the boundaries are pushed too far. As a historic example,[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, May 3, 2025 I am in Malta with the group ready to board the Gaza flotilla ship “Conscience” which was bombed by Israel yesterday. As one of the organizers of the US Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, we have been working for months to bring activists from 22 countries[…]
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by Robert Stevens, published on World Socialist Website, May 4, 2025 Apparently, Israel not only attacked the ship but capitalist forces are making sure the ship sinks. Worse, every effort to secure the ship with appropriate paperwork has failed due to legal inconsistencies, economic [jb] Israel used drones to attack a humanitarian aid ship en route to Gaza in the[…]
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by Paul Larudee, published on Substack, May 3, 2025 Israel maintains its deniability, but is there any doubt that it was behind the drone attack against a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on May 2, 2025 off the coast of Malta? Israel was delivering a statement to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the defenders of human rights everywhere, that[…]
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