Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Barry Weisleder, Published on Socialist Action, June 15, 2019 On Saturday, May 18, the first Pan-Canadian Day of Action for Palestinian rights took place. In Toronto, close to 500 people rallied and marched to demand justice for the Palestinian people. Shortly after 2 p.m., the gathering at Yonge and Dundas heard the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, listened to music,[…]
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by Ramzy Baroud, Published in TeleSUR TV English, June 13, 2019 Palestinians do not need to be lectured on how to meet Israeli and American expectations, nor should they ever aspire to imitate the undemocratic Israeli model. In a TV interview on June 2, on the news docuseries “Axios” on the HBO channel, Jared Kushner opened up regarding many issues,[…]
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by Ramzy Baroud, Published on Countercurrents.org, May 8, 2019 The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey and all over the world. The Conference was a rare opportunity aimed at articulating a discourse of international solidarity that is both inclusive and forward thinking. There was[…]
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Photo: Protests were held in Gaza recently over how the Palestinian Authority has stopped paying allowances to many prisoners; one prisoner, Faris Baroud, died behind Israeli bars soon after his allowance had been stopped. ~Ashraf Amra APA images by Hamza Abu Eltarabesh, Published on Electronic Intifada, April 16,2019 Walaa Abu al-Qumsan has been forced to drop out of university.[…]
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by Haidar Eid, Published on Mondoweiss, April 8, 2019 With the first anniversary of the Great March of Return, some disturbing questions have risen. Similar questions were raised in 2009, 2012, and 2014; in fact, this has been happening since 1948. It is becoming even more disturbing now to hear the same arguments being made by some of us who[…]
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Elliott Abrams meets with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie in Abu Dis near West Bank on Aug. 5, 2004. | Photo: Reuters Published in TeleSUR English, March 30, 2019 Elliott Abrams, the convicted war criminal behind many U.S. interventionist policies, was also behind the coup against a democratically elected Hamas in Palestine in 2007. On March 30, 1976, thousands[…]
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Above: Photo of Amal Wahdan in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez by Amal Wahdan, published on Centre for Hegemonic Studies Website, February 27, 2019 Who Am I? I have lived in colonized Palestine since I was born and l am still active deeply in the national struggle for the liberation of historic Palestine. I was subjected to house arrest, banned from[…]
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On Friday, 24th of August, Return demonstrated from the Eastern side of the Gaza fence in solidarity with the weekly Great March of Return in Gaza, which took place for the 22nd Friday in a row. Return activists were quickly forcibly removed from the area, but got to a hill where they waved multiple Palestinian flags and were seen by[…]
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Photo: Palestinians protest Israel’s family unification policies near Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem in April 2013. ~Sliman Khader APA images by Maureen Clare Murphy, Published on The Electronic Intifada, February 26, 2019 One of the most insidious aspects of Israel’s military occupation is also one of its most overlooked: its deliberate fragmentation of Palestinian society. While the spectacle of[…]
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Call initiated by the One State Assembly, February 9, 2019 We are calling for signatures on the statement which is an attempt to create national and global public opinion specially among Palestinians, Arabs and international supporters about the genuine, just and long lasting solution to the seven decades of the ethnic cleansing war and catastrophe of 1948. The One Democratic[…]
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