Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud is a jouranlist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, Atlanta). Dr. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University (IZU). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
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Views Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Netanyahu vs Gantz: Gaza Escalation as Reflection of Israel’s Political Rivalry Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would set free an unspecified number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons. Instead of the much-... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ‘People of the Cave’: Palestinians Take Their Fight for Justice to the Mountains Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil engineer from the northern West Bank village of Farasin, lives with his family in a cave. For many years,... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 21, 2020 ‘Palestine is Still the Issue’: UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true nature of Canada’s global position, particularly in the matter of its blind and unconditional support for Israel. On... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Hands Off Lebanon: Macron’s Self-Serving ‘New Pact’ Must Be Shunned French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French people have relentlessly been doing the same; both... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 01, 2020 Human Rights Defenders: Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier, Elor Azaria As illegal Jewish settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular resistance. One of the channels of resistance is Human Rights Defenders , "a grass-roots, non-partisan... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 27, 2020 'Let’s Feed a Bedouin': Roy Oz and Israel’s Outrageous Racism On July 11, a video footage, which showed a popular Israeli TV celebrity demeaning Palestinian children from the Bedouin community in the Naqab area, went viral on social media. “Let’s feed a Bedouin. Don’t you want to feed a Bedouin?” Israeli children TV host, Roy Oz, repeatedly asks his children... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 17, 2020 Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 09, 2020 The West Bank Is Already Annexed Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date, however, came and went and annexation was never actualized. "I don’t know if there will be a declaration of sovereignty today,"... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 17, 2020 The 'Palestinian Chair': Exposing Israel’s Direct Role in US Violence The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration in the fields of security and crowd-control. From California... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 26, 2020 Will the Coronavirus Change the World? We Must Be Very Careful How We Answer That Question The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II. Even before the ‘curve flattened’ in many countries that have experienced high death tolls—... Read more |