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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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Ending ‘West’s Neocolonial Oppression’: On The New Language And Superstructures
Saturday, 14 May 2022, 6:02 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Russia-Ukraine war has quickly turned into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this war is the very redefinition of the current world order, which has been in effect, at least since the collapse of the Soviet Union over three decades ... More >>
The Limits Of Israeli Intelligence: Does Israel Have A Yahya Sinwar Problem?
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 9:40 am | Ramzy Baroud
Like typical analyses offered by western intelligences when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on analyzing the attitudes and body language ... More >>
By Redefining UNRWA, Washington Destroys The Foundation For A Just Peace In Palestine
Thursday, 5 May 2022, 11:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA’s mission, which has been in effect since 1949, has done more than provide urgent aid and support ... More >>
Cost Of The Ukraine War Felt In Africa, Global South
Monday, 2 May 2022, 6:29 am | Ramzy Baroud
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these repercussions are discussed, disproportionate ... More >>
Bennett Must Tread Carefully: The ‘Sword Of Jerusalem’ Could Be Unleashed Again
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
Starting on April 15, the Israeli occupation army and police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection to provocative ‘ visits ’ by thousands of illegal Israeli Jewish settlers and ... More >>
Palestine Needs Immediate Attention To Stave Off Major Food Crisis
Thursday, 21 April 2022, 11:12 am | Ramzy Baroud
A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many already impoverished families are struggling to put food on the table. “Food prices are ... More >>
‘Towards A Multipolar World Order’: Is This The End Of US Hegemony?
Saturday, 16 April 2022, 1:12 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in the Chinese eastern city of Huangshan on March 30, is likely to go down in history as a decisive meeting in the relations between the two Asian giants. The ... More >>
Palestine’s Widening Geography Of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat The Palestinians
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 11:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. By doing so, the embattled Naftali Bennett’s government ... More >>
Can Israel Exist Without America: Numbers Speak Of A Changing Reality
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement be struck, Israel appeared on the list. The ... More >>
Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict A Platform For Racism And Rewriting History
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 6:18 am | Ramzy Baroud
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to that of Daesh. In a rare admission of ... More >>
From Korea To Libya: On The Future Of Ukraine And NATO’s Neverending Wars
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 6:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and the Global South. Less obvious ... More >>
Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse Than Anything We Have Ever Seen
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 12:59 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would start running in all directions to fill every tank, container ... More >>
Time Is Ticking: Israel’s Balancing Act In Ukraine Is Likely To Backfire
Monday, 28 March 2022, 6:54 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for years, not weeks or months. Eventually, Israel would have to make a choice. Alas, whatever that choice ... More >>
The Billion Dollar Deal That Made Google And Amazon Partners In The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine
Friday, 25 March 2022, 7:16 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories ... More >>
New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate An End To US Deadly Sanctions?
Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 7:12 am | Ramzy Baroud
How the tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on March 5 , hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. Venezuela, one of the world’s poorest countries partly due to US-Western sanctions is, for once, in the driving ... More >>
Weathering The Global Storm: Why Neutrality Is Not An Option For Palestinians
Thursday, 17 March 2022, 12:21 pm | Ramzy Baroud
A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances and resulting power paradigms. While it is too early to fully appreciate the impact of ... More >>
Politics And Sports Do Mix: On FIFA’s Hypocrisy In Palestine And The Need To Isolate Apartheid Israel
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 1:01 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself. For Palestinians, sports is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and since Palestinian culture itself is a target for the ongoing Israeli attack on Palestinian life in ... More >>
As ‘La Françafrique’ Comes To An End, Russia Is Ready To Replace France In West Africa
Sunday, 6 March 2022, 6:42 am | Ramzy Baroud
Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African nation, but will likely spread to the entirety of the Sahel ... More >>
On Palestine’s Everyday Victories: Why Israel Is No Longer The Exception
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 1:44 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures and subsequent change in attitude and behavior? Several events, in recent days, bring the question ... More >>
The Next Step In Palestine’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle Is The Most Difficult
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 3:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in the living room of my old home in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. ... More >>
