Israel

Three U.S. wars threaten World War Three: $95 billion targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China

May 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, China, Fascism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, NATO, Palestine, Resistance, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 3, 2024 Anyone who thinks that the U.S. policy of continued arming and fully supporting the Israeli genocide is an accident or a mistake need only look at the $95 billion “supplemental aid” bill just passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden on April 24. The same group of war[…]

Nicaragua Acts To Stop Genocide And Strengthen International Law

May 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, International Institutions, International Law, Interview, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Legal Struggles, Nicaragua, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, April 27, 2024 NOTE: This is an edited transcript of an interview with Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Arguello Gomez about Nicaragua’s efforts to stop the genocide in Palestine. You can listen to the full interview on Clearing the FOG here. – Margaret Flowers Tell Congress to say NO to more sanctions on Nicaragua One[…]

Germany Buries the Evidence of Complicity in Genocide; Nicaragua Exposes It

April 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Diplomacy, Genocide, Germany, Indigenous peoples, International Law, Israel, Nicaragua, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, US Meddling in Europe

by John Perry, published on AFGJ:NicaNotes, April 25, 2024 Nicaragua’s complaint at the ICJ against Germany for complicity in Genocide is a constructive follow-on to the earlier case brought by South Africa against Israel for committing Genocide in Palestine. Neither will have a final resolution any time soon, but when the time comes, Germany will be on the docket with[…]

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

April 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-War, Drone Warfare, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, War and Weapons, War Crimes

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April 16, 2024 The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian[…]

‘The Law Is Simple’: Israel’s Unregulated Nukes Mean Biden Must Halt Military Aid

April 25, 2024 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Nuclear War, Palestine, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, US Law, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Gerry Condon, published on Common Dreams, April 20, 2024 In a letter to President Joe Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace asserts that U.S. law requires the cutoff of all weapons shipments to Israel. The national organization Veterans For Peace is demanding that the Biden administration abide by U.S. law regarding the illegal possession of[…]

In Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide

February 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Political Analysis, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Jonathan Cook, published on Substack, January 30, 2024 There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main channel by which the UN disseminates food and welfare services to the most desperate and destitute[…]

Rebuttals to NYTimes and Tom Friedman’s Racism and Ignorance

February 4, 2024 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Propaganda

Rebuttal #1 (Racism): Tweet from Ahmed Eldin, a response to “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom” by Thomas L. Friedman, February 2, 2024, New York Times pic.twitter.com/iPi5IwaETP — AHMED | أحمد (@ASE) February 4, 2024 Rebuttal #2 (Ignorance): by Richard Rubenstein, published on Counterpunch, February 2, 2024, in Response to “A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway” by Thomas[…]

US Ramps Up War Crimes After ICJ Rules Against Israel

February 1, 2024 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, United Nations, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 31, 2024 The Biden administration colluded with Israel to slander the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine in anticipation of the ICJ ruling against Israel on the charge of genocide. Washington is attempting to cover up genocide by committing the war crime of collective punishment against the people of Gaza.[…]

Hamas Statement on the October 7 “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” Attack

January 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Political Prisoners, Resistance

Statement from the Hamas Press office on Al Aqsa Flood (a differently formatted version of this document was posted on Socialist Action, January 25, 2024)

Genocide, Sex Extortion, and a Peoples Movement

January 30, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, New World Visions, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mazin Qusiyeh, writing in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine, published on Popular Resistance, January 26, 2024 What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it? Read on for this serious[…]