Palestine

Democratic Party Convention: Lesser Evilism Strikes With a Vengeance and a Cacophony of Corporate Media Hype

August 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, Pro-war Left, Socialism, The War at Home

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 25, 2024 24,500 full size posters reading “We ♥ Joe” [See photo above] were held high by virtually every Democratic Party Convention delegate and attendee jammed into Chicago’s United Center to cheer for yesterday’s disgraced and withdrawn presidential candidate, Genocide Joe Biden. That the Biden-Harris administration presided over a new congressionally approved[…]

Ceasefire Negotiations as a Weapon of War

August 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Shortages of Supplies, US Hypocrisy, US Incited Protests

by Malik Hijazi, published on Mondoweiss, August 25, 2024 I have lost count of how many times I have clung to the hope of a ceasefire, only to watch it crumble into dust. As the war in Gaza stretches into the summer of 2024, the promise of ending this suffering has become nothing more than a cruel illusion. Every time[…]

The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns

August 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, American Exceptionalism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Political Analysis, Russia, The War at Home, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy, War on the Earth

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, August 21, 2024 An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct involvement in major wars with Russia and Iran,[…]

Tens of thousands march for Palestine at the Democratic National Convention

August 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Featured, Free Speech, Palestine, The War at Home, US Politics

Staff, published on Fightback News, August 21, 2024 Chicago, IL – On August 19, over 20,000 people marched on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The march was the result of over a year of work by the Coalition to March on[…]

Meeting Palestinian hero Leila Khaled

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Nicaragua, Palestine, Revolution

by Saher al Khamash, published on Workers World, August 12, 2024 During our trip to Nicaragua, we never thought we would meet Leila Khaled. However, her visit during this time in July is actually no surprise to those familiar with the details of her life and the parallels between the Palestinian and Nicaraguan liberation struggles. Palestinian revolutionary, socialist and guerrilla[…]

Kamala Harris in Her Own Words

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Weapons Sales

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2024 Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what she will do should she become president. What did Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden do? President Harris would follow in their ignoble footsteps. “People have said if[…]

Message to DNC: Stop the Genocide!

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Israel, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements

Editorial, published on Workers World, August 13, 2024 When Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, announced her running mate on Aug. 6 — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — there were probably more than a few sighs of relief. At least she didn’t pick Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a virulent Zionist who boasts of having once served in the Israeli[…]

The Axis of Resistance Stands Ready, Refusing to Be Subdued

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Middle East Wars, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

Statement published on the Resistance News Network, republished on Workers World, August 9,2024 The axis of evil prepares for the inevitable In light of an expected operation against the Zionist entity, “Israel’s” allies in the region and outside of it have quickly mobilized to support it as it remains in the state of high alert it has been in since[…]

The Victims’ Pact: Rawanda and Israel

August 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Civil War, Colonialism, Congo, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 31, 2024 Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Rwanda is the Israel of Africa. The two nations reinforce one another in a longstanding victims’[…]

About Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza – One Blessed by the West

August 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Europe, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Palestine

by Jonathon Cook, published on Middle East Eye, July 19, 2024 Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded. They just keep coming. On the weekend, Israel launched another devastating air strike on Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more, including women, children[…]