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Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle.
He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out'. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter' and ‘The Last Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
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War, Doublethink, And The Struggle For Survival: Geopolitics Of The Gaza Genocide
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 4:51 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Arab world must escalate beyond mere statements, or the Middle East may endure further war, all to prolong Netanyahu’s coalition of extremists a little longer. More >>
Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity In Israel's Genocide
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 2:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The idea that Israel is brutalizing Palestinians simply because the Arabs are too weak to challenge the Benjamin Netanyahu government—or any government—implies that, in theory, Arab regimes could unite around Palestine. However, this view oversimplifies ... More >>
Reclaiming The Narrative: Why Palestinians Must Own The Means Of Content Production
Monday, 24 March 2025, 7:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
People’s history is an urgent necessity, especially in contexts like Palestine, where it is vital to communicate the empowered voices of the people to the rest of the world. More >>
Shifting Allegiances: The Role Of Palestine In US Domestic And Foreign Policy
Friday, 21 March 2025, 2:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Americans are increasingly viewing the situation in Palestine as a human rights issue, and one that is deeply relevant to domestic politics. Unlike Biden, whose support for Israel has been consistent, Trump’s stance has been confusing and contradictory. More >>
Beyond Western Hegemony: A Call For Middle Eastern Media Autonomy
Monday, 17 March 2025, 9:53 am | Ramzy Baroud
The problem is often compounded by the near complete absence of voices from the Global South, as if Middle Eastern media are simply duplicating the western media marginalization of all voices that operate outside their political hegemony. More >>
The Monkey’s Tail: How Netanyahu’s Ambitions Expose Israel’s Vulnerabilities
Friday, 14 March 2025, 8:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
By targeting Egypt, Israel aims to project an image of prowess, and that it is unafraid to confront the most populous Arab nation. Yet, in doing so, it inadvertently exposes its own weaknesses. This behavior is wholly consistent with Netanyahu's legacy of ... More >>
From Gaza To Syria: The Unyielding Reality Of Israeli Settler Colonialism
Monday, 10 March 2025, 11:57 am | Ramzy Baroud
The discourse of the erasure of the Palestinian people has been the shared foundation among all Israeli officials and governments, though it has been expressed in different ways. Israeli colonialism is in no way linked to Palestinian resistance, action or ... More >>
International Law At A Crossroads: Can Gaza Spark A Global Reckoning?
Friday, 7 March 2025, 10:09 am | Ramzy Baroud
Unfortunately, international law, which was in theory supposed to reflect global consensus, was hardly dedicated to peace or genuinely invested in the decolonisation of the South. More >>
The Lost 'Arab': Gaza And The Evolving Language Of The Palestinian Struggle
Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
Aside from the obvious problem that military occupations should not be described as 'conflicts' – a neutral term that creates a moral equivalence – the removal of 'Arabs' from the 'conflict' has greatly worsened matters, not only for Palestinians, ... More >>
Restoring Palestine To Its Rightful Owners: A Conversation With Mads Gilbert
Friday, 28 February 2025, 6:19 am | Ramzy Baroud
The iconic Norwegian emergency medicine doctor, Mads Gilbert, is fighting to decolonize the concept of solidarity in medicine—and, by extension, western solidarity as a whole. Since the start of the war, he has remained one of the most tireless voices More >>
Gaza Has Changed The Discourse On Popular Resistance, But Are We Truly Listening?
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 11:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began marching from south to north on January 27, they celebrated their return, defined as a collective victory against the Israeli war machine and a victory for the people themselves, who produced a new model of ... More >>
Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light For Ethnic Cleansing?
Monday, 17 February 2025, 11:09 am | Ramzy Baroud
The new US administration, however, seems oblivious to Palestinian history. Given the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, no Arab government—let alone the Palestinian leadership—would support another Israeli-US effort to ethnically cleanse ... More >>
The Great March Of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure
Friday, 7 February 2025, 2:01 pm | Ramzy Baroud
While many, including some sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, openly challenged the Gazans' view of their perceived 'victory,' they failed to appreciate the history of Palestine—indeed, the history of all colonized people who wrested their freedom ... More >>
Dear World: This Is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like
Friday, 31 January 2025, 1:58 pm | Ramzy Baroud
By cultural revolution, I mean the defiant and rebellious narrative evolving in Gaza, where people see themselves as active participants in the popular resistance, not just mere victims of the Israeli war machine. More >>
Gaza's Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective On The War And Its Aftermath
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 8:29 am | Ramzy Baroud
Gaza's history is one of both pain and pride. It stretches back to ancient civilizations and includes great resistance against invasion, such as the three-month siege by Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army in 332 BCE. More >>
Gaza Ceasefire At Last: How Israel's 'First Defeat' Will Shape The Country's Future
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 4:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Unlike previous military campaigns in Gaza—on a much smaller scale compared to the current genocidal war—there is no significant strand of Israeli society claiming victory. The familiar rhetoric of “mowing the lawn”, which Israel often uses ... More >>
The Fight For Dignity: Reshaping Gaza’s Post-War Narrative
Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 10:52 am | Ramzy Baroud
The latest Israeli war on Gaza was not ordinary, but then, no previous wars have been anything but destructive and lethal. For Israel, it was a genocide—a war aimed at exterminating Gaza's population through mass killings and driving the survivors ... More >>
The Gaza Genocide: The Fall Of Israel’s Immunity
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 3:46 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Numbers, though helpful, are rarely enough to convey collective pain. Using a new data-collecting method called ‘capture–recapture analysis’, the report indicates that by the first nine months of the war, between October 2023 and June 2024, 64,260 ... More >>
Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent
Monday, 13 January 2025, 8:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
The worst-case scenario has actualized in a way that even the most pessimistic estimates by Palestinian, Arab, or international groups could not have foreseen. Not only is Gaza now beyond "uninhabitable", but, according to Greenpeace, it will be "uninhabitable ... More >>
The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate
Friday, 10 January 2025, 9:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Netanyahu understands this well and seems to have concluded that his only path to political survival is the continuation of the Gaza war and the expansion of the conflict to engage multiple parties. More >>
