Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, October 16, 2023 Responding to a call from the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition, hundreds of people turned out at noon on Oct. 12, outside the Philadelphia offices of local NPR/PBS affiliate WHYY TV and radio. Protesters called out the media censorship of Palestinian resistance and the media whitewashing of Israeli genocide. A flier distributed[…]
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Statement from Chicago Antiwar Coalition, October 20, 2023 The large mass rallies and marches in Chicago against the U.S. government-backed Israeli genocidal attacks on Palestinians continue, with another to be held Saturday at 1 beginning at Michigan and Ida B. Wells Drive. Yesterday a group from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and supporters, including from Jewish Voice for Peace, sat[…]
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by Tareq S. Hajjaj and Mondoweiss Editors, published on Mondoweiss, October 7, 2023 At around 6:30 a.m., Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza launched a surprise attack on Israel from land, sea, and air, as thousands of rockets have been launched into Israel and reportedly dozens of Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed and abducted by the resistance. In the early[…]
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Statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions, published on Labor Today, October 7, 2023 *Featured Image: Israeli removes the rubble from the police station that was overrun by Hamas fighters in Sderot as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (October 7, 2023). Src: AlManar
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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 Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 22, 2022 Apartheid in Israel, potentially, Genocide in Gaza, accepted in the Middle East and the West as just a fact of life that shouldn’t interfere with business as usual. I’ve just been reading that reports on what it cost Egypt to enter an alliance with Israel and the United States. It’s a[…]
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From Samidoun, May 14, 2022 As we commemorate 74 years of ongoing Nakba targeting the Palestinian people, inside all of occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora, we also recall and celebrate 74 years of ongoing Palestinian resistance, revolution and struggle to liberate Palestine and confront imperialism, Zionism and reaction. In homes, community centers and the streets of cities,[…]
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by Theo Horesh, published on Mondoweiss, May 14, 2022 Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the neck, just above her bullet proof vest, and just under her helmet, in the West Bank city of Jenin. The precise placement of the shot suggests the killing was intentional. She was a reporter for Al Jazeera and an American citizen. Hence,[…]
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Published on Jews for Decolonization, August, 2021 This was published as a sign-on letter and circulated in Israel. The letter has over 1000 signatures. We can keep an eye on it an see how it grows. The letter acknowledges the suffering visited on the Palestinians and supports the global BDS Campaign, with which we wholly concur. It is a very[…]
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By Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, June 2, 2021 Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. “Do concentration camp guards have a right to self-defense?” Scholar Norman Finkelstein, author of “The[…]
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