
Dr Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist 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). Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and also at the Afro-Middle East Center (AMEC). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
Items by Dr Ramzy Baroud
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- November 23, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Expansion and mass eviction: Israel 'takes advantage' of Trump's remaining days in office
In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel. “These days are an irreplaceable opportunity to establish our hold on the Land of Israel, and I’m sure that our friend, President...
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- November 19, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Total reset’ is wishful thinking: The daunting task of reordering US foreign policy
A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of US President-elect, Joe Biden: “The Total Reset”. Many headlines have already promised that the Biden Presidency is ready to ‘reset’ US foreign policy across the globe, as if the matter is dependent solely on an...
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- November 17, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
As Israel destroys EU projects in Palestine, European foreign policy remains impotent
Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel’s destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay compensation for the unwarranted destruction. The Israeli response was swift: a resounding ‘no’. The diplomatic row is likely to fizzle out...
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- November 13, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The future of American democracy: Inequality, polarisation and violence
In January 2017, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index downgraded the state of democracy in the United States from “full” to “flawed”. The demotion of a country that has constantly prided itself not only on being democratic, but also on championing democracy around the world, took many by surprise....
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- November 10, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Playing for time’: The non-strategy of Mahmoud Abbas
“If we are going to live another four years with President Trump, God help us, God help you and God help the whole world.” These were the words of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, during a virtual meeting with European legislators on November 3. While some may agree with...
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- November 4, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Escalating the demographic war: The strategic goal of Israeli racism in Palestine
The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of a new government-espoused agenda that is designed to...
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- November 2, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Macron’s incitement: ‘Crisis in Islam’ or French politics?
There is no moral or ethical justification for the killing of innocent people, anywhere. Therefore, the murder of three people in the French city of Nice on October 29 must be wholly and unconditionally rejected as a hate crime, especially as it was carried out in a holy place,...
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- October 29, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘They Tried to Freeze Me to Death’: Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons
Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba’, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab desert. Mohammad was arrested by the Israeli army at a military checkpoint in central...
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- October 27, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
What does Israel have against Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf?
Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, announced that Assaf’s special permit to enter the occupied Palestinian West Bank would be revoked. Assaf, originally from Gaza, now lives with his family in the United Arab Emirates....
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- October 23, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The world is changing: China launches campaign for superpower status
The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, in order for it to sustain its economic growth unhindered, it has to develop the necessary tools to protect...
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- October 20, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
European hypocrisy: empty words for Palestine, deadly weapons for Israel
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the tragic status quo created by 53 years of Israeli military occupation, the EU continues to advocate a negotiated settlement that...
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- October 13, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Dying alone: When we stopped caring for Palestinian prisoners
“No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian prisoners and their families. Whenever I conduct an interview regarding this crucial and highly sensitive topic, I am told, repeatedly,...
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- October 9, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Zionist War on Palestinian Festival in Rome is Ominous Sign of Things to Come
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel. The sad truth is that, although Italy is not often associated with a ‘powerful’ pro-Israel lobby as is the case...
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- October 8, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Despite ambiguity in international law, Palestinians are winning the ‘legitimacy war’
‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the Israeli wars and siege on Gaza, the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank or the encroaching apartheid...
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- October 5, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Black lives should always matter: Delinking social justice from seasonal US politics
After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America’s ruling elites. Following the debate between US President, Donald Trump, and Democratic Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, most analyses focused mainly on the personal insults and name-calling, which,...
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- September 29, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
In lieu of a liberation strategy: Palestinian elections are designed to buy time
It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians. The rushed agreement between his party, Fatah and Hamas in Istanbul on September 24, and the Palestinian leader’s speech at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly...
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- September 27, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Fight over the Mediterranean: France’s Proxy War and the Budding Turkish-Russian Alliance
Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced, on September 12, that Athens has made a “robust” arms deal that will “reinforce the armed forces” and create a...
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- September 21, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are not numbers: On the future of the Palestinian discourse
Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant to tell the story of the human condition, nor should they ever serve as a substitute for emotions. Indeed, the stories...
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- September 18, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following the discovery of several COVID-19 cases outside designated quarantine areas. Since then, over 1,000 cases have been identified and ten...
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- September 16, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
How do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel?
The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent on discrediting the other at every opportunity, unbiased information regarding the two parties’ actual stances on internal and external issues...
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- September 15, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The proposal was made by the country’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz. Gantz is the main political rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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- September 7, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
As Washington retreats, Eastern Mediterranean conflict further marginalises NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military union between mostly Western countries is faltering. The current Turkish-Greek tension is only one facet of a much larger conflict involving,...
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- September 1, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s friends at the RNC: ‘Christian Zionists’ dictate the agenda of the Republican Party
It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to Israel than any other US administration in history, Donald Trump has provided Israel with a blank check of seemingly endless...
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- August 28, 2020 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Dying to fish’: How Israeli piracy destroyed Gaza’s once thriving fishing industry
On August 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take their chances by fishing within a mere two or three nautical miles off the Gaza shore. No sooner had they cast their nets,...