Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Noura Erakat, Published on Mondoweiss, October 8, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is the transcript of a speech delivered by Noura Erakat on August 30, 2024 in Chicago as part of a panel titled, “All Eyes on Palestine,” at the Socialism conference in Chicago. It is being repurposed here as part of the Mondoweiss Reflections on a Genocide series. It[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law. Iran’s missile attacks on Israeli military targets were the result of a year of provocation. Months of restraint ended when Israel escalated its war on the rest of[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, September 15, 2024 On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote[…]
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by Youana Tchoukleva, published on Mondoweiss, August 31, 2024 As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an[…]
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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[…]
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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,[…]
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by Qassem Muaddi, published on Mondoweiss, July 15, 2024 Casualties 38,584 + killed* and at least 88,881 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Among the dead, 28,428 have been fully identified. These include 7,779 children, 5466 women, and 2418 elderly people as of May 1. In addition, around 10,000 more are estimated to be under the rubble.* 575+ Palestinians killed in[…]
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by Dr Marwan Asmar, published on Countercurrents, July 10, 2024 In some ways this story is light weight compared to so many of the atrocities that have taken place in Gaza. The death toll was up to 35 the last I heard, but likely has risen higher since then given the fact that no hospitals are currently functioning in Gaza.[…]
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with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, published by the Grayzone, June 11, 2024 Normally I don’t post videos as a primary source, but this is worth your time. In any case the Washington Post has run a hit piece against the Grayzone suggesting that those involved should be convicted of a crime for their analysis. This unimaginable attack on free[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, June 19, 2024 Dan Kovalik’s new book makes a case for Palestine. By December 29th last year, UNICEF reported that 1000 Gazan children had undergone amputations without anesthesia. This is one of the horrifying details that Dan Kovalik has collected in his new book The Case for Palestine, Why It Matters and[…]
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