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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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On ‘Gassing The Arabs’ And Other Diseases: Is Israel A ‘Sick Society’?
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 9:06 am | Ramzy Baroud
For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive and even ‘pro-Palestinian’. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially Zionist and anti-Palestinian newspaper ... More >>
Belgium Is On The Right Track, But Europe Has Failed Palestine
Thursday, 2 December 2021, 9:34 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Belgian government’s decision on November 25 to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual. Belgium has historically shown solidarity with Palestine if compared to other European ... More >>
Elitism Is Not The Answer To Populism: On ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ And Mistrust In Government
Saturday, 27 November 2021, 6:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
While “anti-vaxxers” continue to clash with police in various European cities, a whole media discourse has been formulated around the political leanings of these angry crowds, describing them in matter-of-fact terms as conspiracy theorists, populists ... More >>
We Do Exist: Why The Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:37 am | Ramzy Baroud
At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared, before an approving audience, that it is time “to reclaim the narrative on Palestine”. This phrase - ‘reclaiming the narrative’ - is relatively new ... More >>
Raids, Arrests And Death Threats: Israel’s Strategy Of Silencing Human Rights Defenders
Monday, 22 November 2021, 8:42 am | Ramzy Baroud
On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorist organizations’. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation ... More >>
From Pegasus To Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment In Palestine Became Global
Thursday, 18 November 2021, 7:41 am | Ramzy Baroud
The revelation, a few years ago, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has reignited the conversation on governments' misconduct and their violation of human rights and privacy laws. ... More >>
The People Vs. COP26: Time For Politicians, Billionaires To Listen
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 5:56 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Of all the speeches and political grandstanding at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the words of Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, were the most profound and least hypocritical. Lopez Obrador raged ... More >>
Bill Gates Should Know Better: How The Israeli Occupation Ravages The Environment In Palestine
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 9:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
Those who are not familiar with how Israel, particularly the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might reach the erroneous conclusion that Tel Aviv is at the forefront of the global fight against ... More >>
Words Without Action: The West’s Role In Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 9:54 am | Ramzy Baroud
The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its ... More >>
The West’s China Complex: Beijing As The Enemy And The Savior
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 7:06 am | Ramzy Baroud
“Could China’s economy collapse?” was the title of an October 15 article published by QUARTZ magazine. The article makes an ominous case of a Chinese economic crash and its impact on China’s and global economies. This is one of numerous reports ... More >>
Jerusalem’s ‘Liveliest Parties’: Has Biden Proved Different From Trump On Palestine?
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 9:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
When Joe Biden was declared the winner in the US elections last November, expectations in Ramallah were high. A Biden Administration, compared to the brazenly pro-Israel Trump Administration, would surely be much fairer to Palestinians, was the conventional ... More >>
Political Islam And Democracy Crisis In North Africa
Monday, 25 October 2021, 7:23 am | Ramzy Baroud
When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), has been trounced in the latest elections , held in September, official media mouthpieces in Egypt celebrated the news as if the PJD's defeat was, ... More >>
The Cultural Genocide In Palestine: On Sally Rooney’s Decision To Boycott Israel
Thursday, 21 October 2021, 7:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ ... More >>
Empty Gestures Or Substantive Change? On The Nobel Prize In Literature And Its Discontents
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 7:12 am | Ramzy Baroud
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if intellectual creativity is largely confined ... More >>
Heroes Or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics On Refugees
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 7:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern, Asian and African ... More >>
Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes The New Normal
Friday, 8 October 2021, 8:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, a change that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially the youth, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet ... More >>
Trudeau’s Parliamentary ‘Victory’ May Cost Him The Next Elections
Monday, 4 October 2021, 11:55 am | Ramzy Baroud
Canada’s unpopular general election of September 20 is increasingly recognized as a mistake by the country’s leading political analysts. However, this mistake could potentially prove to be the very undoing of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party ... More >>
On Afghanistan And Legitimate Resistance
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 9:17 am | Ramzy Baroud
An urgent task is awaiting us: considering the progression of events, we must quickly liberate ourselves from the limits and confines placed on the Afghanistan discourse, which have been imposed by US-centered Western propaganda for over 20 years, and ... More >>
The Untold Story Of Why Palestinians Are Divided
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:02 am | Ramzy Baroud
The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and must not be reduced to convenient claims about the ‘Hamas-Fatah split’, elections, the Oslo accords and subsequent disagreements. The division is linked to events that preceded all ... More >>
One Man As A Whole Generation: The Unfinished War Of Zakaria Zubeidi
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 11:01 am | Ramzy Baroud
Zakaria Zubeidi is one of six Palestinian prisoners who, on September 6, tunneled their way out of Gilboa, a notorious, high-security Israeli prison. Zubeidi was recaptured a few days later. The large bruises on Zubeidi’s face told a harrowing story, that ... More >>
