Jerusalem

Violence Will Not End in “Israel” Until the Occupation Ends

February 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 31, 2023 On January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a gunman shot ultra-Orthodox Jewish worshippers as they came out of the Ateret Avraham synagogue in the Neve Yaakov Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. The gunman was 21-year-old Khairi Alkam a resident of East Jerusalem. He was later shot dead by Israeli[…]

UNAC Statement on Palestine

January 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Israel, LandGrabs, Occupation, Palestine, Statement

UNAC statement on Palestine, January 20, 2023 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) stands in unconditional solidarity with the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people against the ongoing Nakba: the occupation and ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine by the Israeli regime. We firmly uphold Palestinians’ Right of Return to their national homeland – from the river to the sea –[…]

Netanyahu’s Ministers Aim to ’Empty the West Bank of Arabs’

January 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, January 19, 2023 Benjamin Netanyahu’s radical rightwing ministers’ agenda is to “empty the West Bank of Arabs.” And yet high Biden officials are meeting with Netanyahu today, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due out within a couple of weeks, all to give Biden’s blessing to the “unbreakable” bond between the two governments[…]

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story (Video)

November 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Palestine, Zionism

I found this documentary from Al Jazeera very moving. It was posted on twitter as a rebuttal to some moron who tweeted a photo of a sub-Saharan African village some time in the past with the text “Palestine, A land without a people …”. We often read that the Palestinians were indeed a society in their own right, but that[…]

In Response to President Trump

December 7, 2017 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples

by Sahar Qumsiyeh, originally published on her Blog on Dec. 6, 2017 As many of you know, President Trump today recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel. I feel many of the people in the US may not understand why Palestinians are upset about this decision, or may not know what this may lead to. I wanted[…]

Israeli demolition of entire Palestinian villages continues with no end in sight

November 24, 2017 UNAC Editor Palestine

Republished from If Americans Only Knew Stories keep pouring in of Israel demolishing Palestinian villages; many of the buildings destroyed were donated by EU organizations; schools have been razed; residents are often required to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the destruction of their own homes; nearly 160,000 Bedouins live in “unrecognized” villages built before 1948 that Israel has[…]