Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books including: "These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons" (2019), "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story" (2010) and "The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle" (2006). 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 Saturday, May 01, 2021 Bottom-up Politics: Grassroots Activism Behind Pro-Palestine Shift in the US At a recent virtual J Street Conference, US Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren broke yet another political taboo when they expressed willingness to leverage US military aid as a way to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian human rights. Sanders believes that the US “must be willing to bring... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 16, 2021 The Ongoing Calamity: US Collective Punishment of the Venezuelan People Must End Recent statements made by US officials suggest that Washington will continue to pursue a hardline policy on Venezuela. The new Biden Administration, however, needs to urgently rethink its approach. US State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, remarked on February 3 that he "certainly" does not "... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 08, 2021 'Is This Who We Are?': Gitmo is America’s Enduring Shame "That's certainly our goal and our intention." This was the non-committal answer given by White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, when, on February 12, she was asked by a reporter whether the new Joe Biden Administration intends to shut down the notorious Guantánamo Bay Prison by the end of the... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 01, 2021 Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by military decree and the imposition of Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as an unelected ruler. However, despite the... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 29, 2021 B'Tselem's Historic Declaration: Israel's Open War on Its Own Civil Society “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. No matter how one is to interpret B’Tselem’s findings, the report is earth-shattering. The official Israeli response merely... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 24, 2021 The ‘Insurrection’ and Its Discontents: ‘American Exceptionalism’ Revisited History is being written in the United States today. Even the most pessimistic about the prospects of American democracy have rarely ventured out this far while offering a bleak analysis of America’s future, whether in terms of political polarization at home or global standing abroad. As shocking... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 18, 2021 By 'Force and Fraud': Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine? In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times , in 2015, former US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, vehemently denied that exporting democracy to Iraq was the main motive behind the US invasion of that Arab country 12 years earlier. Rumsfeld further alleged that “the idea that we could... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Covid-19 Under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous. Amnesty International, among many organizations, condemned the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 31, 2020 The US Money Tree: The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending for the rest of the fiscal year. As usual, US representatives allocated a massive sum of money for Israel. While unemployment, thus poverty, in the US is... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 18, 2020 The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies. That said, the treatment of the disease should not be a repeat of the same shameful... Read more |