Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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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by Maureen Clare Murphy, published on Electronic Intifada, July 6, 2023 Israel withdrew its troops from Jenin refugee camp early Wednesday after a two-day offensive – the largest in the occupied West Bank in two decades. At least 13 Palestinians, including four children, were killed during the incursion. An Israeli soldier from an elite unit who resided in Beit El[…]
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by Amjad Alqasis, published on Mondoweiss, June 27, 2023 Millions of Palestinians worldwide live in forced diaspora and are cut off from their homeland by Israel’s colonial practices and policies. The Zionist movement — and later, Israel — has forcibly displaced more than half of the Palestinian population and in turn has created numerous laws, regulations, and military orders such[…]
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by Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, published on The Electronic Intifada, June 4, 2023 How are we to understand the incredible events in Israel since January 2023? On the one hand, there is the amazing invention and deep commitment of the hundreds of thousands who come out weekly to protest proposed judicial reforms – with their witty hand-painted posters, their music and their[…]
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by Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, published on Mondoweiss, June 13, 2023 Forty-one years ago, I was in Lebanon leading a group of ten U.S. relief and development directors hoping to introduce them to the extensive needs of impoverished Lebanese and Palestinian refugees. On June 4, 1982, around 3:00 p.m., we were on our way to the crowded Fakhani district of[…]
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by Tamera Nassar, published on Electronic Intifada, October 9, 2022 If you let this article sit open for a bit, all kinds of images and videos appear in the tweets. [jb] A Palestinian resistance operation in occupied East Jerusalem killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others on Saturday evening. The person who carried out the shooting at a military[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 25, 2022 The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region. [BAR Ed] During[…]
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