Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Norman Finkelstein, published on his website, October 7, 2023 The crocodile tears have begun over Israeli hostages taken by Gaza militants. But Israel has held the 2.1 million people of Gaza, including one million children, hostage in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet for nearly 20 years. In fact, Israel was the only country in[…]
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by Chris Hedges, published on Chris Hedges Substack, October 8, 2023 The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier. Israel has spoken this blood-soaked[…]
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CODEPINK Statement on the Call for War in Palestine, October 8, 2023 CODEPINK strongly opposes Secretary Lloyd J. Austin’s just-announced plan to send troops to the Eastern Mediterranean – including U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and defense munitions. Escalating the violence in Palestine is not the path to peace, it’s the path to destroying any chance the Palestinians have for peace,[…]
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by Tareq S. Hajjaj and Mondoweiss Editors, published on Mondoweiss, October 7, 2023 At around 6:30 a.m., Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza launched a surprise attack on Israel from land, sea, and air, as thousands of rockets have been launched into Israel and reportedly dozens of Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed and abducted by the resistance. In the early[…]
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by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published on Popular Resistance, October 8, 2023 I received dozens of messages inquiring about my thoughts on what is going on now in Palestine and how we are doing and what is going to happen. I also did some TV & Radio interviews. It is really very simple: we have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of[…]
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Statement by Workers World Party, published on Workers World, October 8, 2023 The Israeli regime’s murders, seizures of territories, illegal settlements and occupation made a response from the Palestinian people and their liberation organizations as inevitable as it was justifiable. Palestinians have once again, under the most difficult circumstances, provided a heroic example for people longing for liberation from imperialism[…]
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Statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions, published on Labor Today, October 7, 2023 *Featured Image: Israeli removes the rubble from the police station that was overrun by Hamas fighters in Sderot as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (October 7, 2023). Src: AlManar
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by Miko Peled, published on Mondoweiss, September 14, 2023 The “Oslo Accords” are a personal matter for me, and here is why. From the moment the 1967 war ended, my father — who was one of the architects and executors of the war — dedicated his life to the two-state solution. The Oslo Accords were expected by many to be[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, August 4, 2023 There is no mention here, but it is interesting that the Anthropological Association is the one ready to boycott parallel Israeli institutions. Israel has, on numerous occasions, been accused of distorting or manufacturing anthropological data related to their insistence on having descended from the most significant tribe in ancient Palestine. […]
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by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, July 24, 2023 [Along with other intellectuals, I was asked by a New Zealand solidarity group to share a few ideas on what meaningful solidarity with Palestine entails. This talk inspired the article below.] It is a new era in Palestine. This new era is taking shape before our very eyes, through the blood,[…]
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