Palestinians

Decolonization : Survival : Water : Life

October 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Palestine, Protest, US Hypocrisy, Visions of a Future

by Steven Salaita, published on Mondoweiss, October 11, 2021 During the summer of 2016, thousands of people representing dozens of nations converged on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in the American state currently known as South Dakota. They arrived to prevent the destruction of land and water by a foreign oil company. Energy Transfer Partners of Dallas, a regular in[…]

The Movement to Suppress and Impoverish Critics of Israel is Racist

December 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Israel-Palestine

Photo: Melbourne Protest, Zionist Criminals End the Holocaust in Palestine, John Englart, January 4, 2009 by Paul Larudee, from Dissident Voice,December 11, 2018 Marc Lamont Hill, Tim Anderson, Steven Salaita, Rabab Abdulhadi, Hatem Bazian, Ahlam Muhtasib, Norman Finkelstein and other academics have all been targets of the movement to silence their criticisms of Israel and their defense of Palestinians. This[…]

UNAC Statement on the CNN Firing of Marc Lamont Hill

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Featured, Palestine, Resistance

Temple University professor and CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN after giving a powerful speech at the United Nations in support of Palestinian rights. The Nov. 29, 2018, U.N. meeting was to commemorate the 70th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The meeting also fell on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when 700,000 Palestinians[…]

If There Are No Refugees . . .

September 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Refugees

Image: Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against a U.S. decision to cut aid, outside its offices, in Gaza City, on Aug. 02 2018. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajour/ APA Images) If there Are No Refugees, There Will Be No One to Return: Understanding Trump’s War on UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees by Marilyn[…]

On the Liberation of Yarmouk Refugee Camp

June 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Palestine, Syria

On Tuesday, the Al-Eis crossing in the southern Aleppo countryside witnessed the entry of Hayyat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) militants from the Yarmouk camp in Damascus to the countryside of Idlib as part of recently-reached agreement with the government. ~ AlAlam by Ken Stone of Syria Solidarity Movement The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), allied Palestinian militias, and the government of Syria[…]