Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Yasmine el-Sabawi, published on Middle East Eye, March 24, 2025 Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a “lynch mob” of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south[…]
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by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 6, 2024 Will it be possible to proceed with the second phase of the ceasefire as agreed to and signed by Israel and Hamas in February? While exchanges of dozens of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned for years by Israel took place under phase one, Israel[…]
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UNAC Statement, February 2025 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns Trump’s planned new Nakba in Gaza. He plans to remove Palestinians from their home in Gaza and force them to some third country, and to have the US “own” Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” with lots of real estate development and profit for[…]
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by Lea Kayali, published on Workers World, December 4, 2024 Lea Kayali, representing the Palestinian Youth Movement, gave this speech to the National Day of Mourning on Nov. 28, 2024, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a Palestinian, every day for the last 419 days has been a day of mourning. In the last 24 hours, we mourned the 101 Palestinians martyred[…]
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by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, October 25, 2024 Philadelphia – Students, faculty and community activists came out for a Palestine Solidarity Vigil, with signs, banners, chants, speakers and musical instruments, on Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct 14. The vigil took place at the University of Pennsylvania campus, which sits on occupied Lenape territory, known as Lenapehoking. Highlights included a[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on LA Progressive, May 17, 2024 Rather than mark a red line in the sand demanding that Israel allow aid into Gaza via ground transportation, Biden’s inept diplomatic team sent out a plea for help to the U.S. military. While in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves for 29 years, I thought I had seen some[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, October 25, 2023 The U.S. has not only betrayed Egypt. It has made a deal to counter China and centralize India, but it requires the wealthy Arab states to normalize with Israel. Given the current situation, this may quickly fall apart. Maintaining the entire population of Palestine in a free fire zone may[…]
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Statement from Al Awda, The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, published on Workers World, October 8, 2023 We, the Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition, firmly stand in unwavering support of the Palestinian resistance, and we fervently urge our Palestinian people to mobilize in the face of colonial genocide. This ongoing struggle, born from a deep-seated yearning for justice and[…]
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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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