Stephen Zunes
Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and director of the Middle Eastern Studies program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” (2003) and co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution in Northwest Africa” (second edition, 2022).
Latest from Stephen Zunes
Putin’s Illegal Conquests Wouldn’t Be the First the White House Has Endorsed
The U.S. denounces Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian land, yet both Republican and Democratic administrations have tolerated illegal conquests by allies, such as Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara and Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and occupation of the West Bank. This double standard undermines the case against territorial concessions.
By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern
The administrations of both Joe Biden and now Donald Trump have vociferously denounced a growing international legal consensus that Israel has been violating the Genocide Convention. This follows a decades-long pattern of the U.S. government denying, downplaying and rationalizing genocide and related crimes against humanity by American allies.
Will Biden Cost Harris the Election?
Biden’s policy toward Israel is putting his vice president, Kamala Harris, in the same bind in which President Lyndon Johnson put the 1968 Democratic presidential nominee, his vice president Hubert Humphrey, who personally wanted to end the Vietnam War but had to continue to defend it.