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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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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 >>
Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’
Monday, 6 January 2025, 10:16 am | Ramzy Baroud
It may seem strange that none of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by checking on me, and my children. More >>
Fighting Israel’s War In Jenin: Can The Palestinian Authority Be Saved?
Thursday, 2 January 2025, 6:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In the face of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and unprecedentedly violent crackdowns on Palestinians in the West Bank, the betrayal of the PA has been laid bare for all to see. The latest operation in Jenin is a clear manifestation of how Israel uses ... More >>
A Palestinian Year In Review: Genocide, Resistance And Unanswered Questions
Sunday, 29 December 2024, 1:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
2025 could, indeed, represent that watershed moment. This remains to be seen. However, as far as Palestinians are concerned, even with the failure of the international community to stop the genocide & reign in Israel, their steadfastness, sumoud, will ... More >>
The West Bank's Men Of The CIA - Why Is The PA Killing Palestinians In Jenin?
Wednesday, 25 December 2024, 8:52 am | Ramzy Baroud
It could be argued that the PA was structured since its establishment in 1994 as a body whose existence catered to benefit the Israeli occupation. Evidence that substantiates this claim includes the arrests, torture and killing of dissenting Palestinians soon ... More >>
The World Owes Palestine This Much - Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices
Saturday, 21 December 2024, 5:23 am | Ramzy Baroud
In the specific case of social media censorship in Gaza, lives are literally being lost as a result of politically motivated decisions. The censorship takes a dark, deadly turn as it could make the difference between people dying under the rubble ... More >>
