Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Roland Shepphard, published on Socialist Action, October 21, 2023 [Editor’s note: We reprint below Roland Sheppard’s informative article reviewing key points in the formation and history of the Zionist state of Israel. ] August 24, 2023 Jerusalem Post: “Israeli Minister Eliyahu: The Palestinians aren’t under Apartheid, they’re Just in a Prison Camp“ When Palestine was a colony the Brtish,[…]
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By Ralph Nader, World BEYOND War, October 22, 2023 If President Joe Biden were a pony, instead of a perennial warhorse (e.g., gung-ho for Bush/Cheney’s criminal destruction of Iraq), he would have his tail between his legs on his return from a one-day trip to Israel. He failed to achieve any immediate, critical objectives while the ongoing destruction of Gaza[…]
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from Good Shephard Collective Newsletter, October 17, 2023 View web version (The website is currently down due to an attack, but we shall see) Some basic facts: Today marks the twelfth day since the beginning of Al Aqsa Flood and the subsequent Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Since October 7, Israeli colonial forces have murdered thousands of Palestinians in[…]
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from Consortium News, published October 17, 2023 The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave. The resolution drafted by Brazil[…]
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by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli conflict’. But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful. The supposedly astounding Israeli victories over the years against Arab armies[…]
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An evolving document compiled by young Palestinian media activists, published on OnGaza.org, as of October 18, 2023 (Recommended by Mazin Qumseyah) 1. What is the background on Israel/Palestine? Israel was built on top of Palestine through the ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians, a long-standing Zionist policy that resulted in 8 million Palestinians becoming refugees or displaced people and the[…]
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by Shiraz Durrani, published on Countercurrents, October 14, 2023 The attacks by ‘Israel’ on the people and the country of Palestine have increased in intensity in the last month. Palestinian resistance has once again forced the attention of the world on the plight of a people facing another massacre and a country being destroyed. At the same time, the Zionist[…]
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Statement by The Black Alliance for Peace, October 11, 2023 We say that a colonized people have a right to resist occupation and fight for self-determination by any means necessary! The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel. We recognize the right[…]
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by Charles Pierce, published on Dissident Voice, October 10, 2023 1. Doctrine. Zionism was devised by some middle-class Jewish Europeans (most prominently Lev Pinsker and Theodore Herzl) as one response to horrendous late 19th century anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe. Like many of their contemporaries among nationalistic privileged-class European intellectuals and like the Nazis who came later, the Zionists conceived of[…]
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UNAC Statement on Israeli Assault on Jenin More than 1000 Israeli soldiers invaded the occupied West Bank city of Jenin including the crowed Jenin refugee camp. The invasion force included Apache attack helicopters, drones, and bulldozers along with the ground forces. It has been described as the worst Israeli attack on Palestinians in decades. As people poured out of the[…]
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