
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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- May 6, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Civilisational unity, not clash: How Gaza challenged Samuel Huntington's fantasies
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and revision. For hundreds of years, the map of the Roman Empire seemed more Mediterranean and, ultimately, Middle Eastern than European – per the geographic, or even...
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- April 30, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
What should we expect from the US intifada for Gaza?
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about anti-Semitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and safety because of some pathological hatred of the Jewish people. They are doing so because...
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- April 24, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The ideological coup: How disciples of Kahane became the new face of Israel
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 election was a watershed moment...
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- April 22, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Feeding war, killing peace: Why the US vetoed ‘Palestine’?
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on 18 April was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a Palestinian state, the United States is not yet ready for this commitment. These are some of the reasons that the...
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- April 18, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
NATO’s never-ending war: The 75-year-old bully is faltering
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. Yet, that over-simplified discourse must be examined in order for the current decline of the organisation to be appreciated beyond the self-serving politics of NATO’s members. The history records...
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- April 17, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Cruelty of language: Leaked NY Times memo reveals moral depravity of US media
The New York Times (NYT) coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. US media is driven neither by facts nor morality, but by agendas, calculating and power-hungry. The humanity of 120 thousand...
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- April 16, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
When Namibia stands up to Germany, it shows that Gaza has revolutionised the Global South
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in terms of thousands of kilometres, but the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a strong stance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Namibia was colonised by the Germans in...
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- April 9, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Killing humanitarian workers as a strategy: Israel’s endgame in Gaza
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza on 1 April as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” of a kind that “happens in war”. Obviously, Israel was lying. In fact, this entire so-called war in Gaza — which is in reality a genocide...
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- April 2, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Irremediable defeat: Israel’s other unwinnable war
Historically, wars tend to unite Israelis, but not any more. It’s not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war aims; they simply do not believe that the prime minister is the man who can win this supposedly existential fight. Netanyahu’s war remains unwinnable simply because wars of liberation,...
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- March 29, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Beyond Political Saviors: The Biden-Trump Quandary
In his 2023 State of the Union address, US President Joe Biden, now 81, made lofty promises about tackling inflation, fighting climate change, reforming immigration policies and working for “more freedom, more dignity and more peace”. The implicit, but always obvious, message that Biden wanted to convey is that only...
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- March 26, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Complicit in genocide: Where Israel gets its weapons from
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of Israel’s war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest civilian population group killed by the occupation state, at an average of 37 per day since 7 October. These statistics, from the Palestinian Health Ministry...
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- March 25, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
On keffiyehs and watermelons: the meaning of Palestinian symbols
Those who criticise Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation, whether resistance is armed or otherwise, have little understanding of its psychological ramifications, such as a sense of collective empowerment, honour and hope. However, resistance does not simply mean a rifle or a rocket launcher. They are but two of...
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- March 19, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
US foreign policy is prolonging Israel’s genocide in Gaza
When a country’s foreign policy as large and significant as that of the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already happening in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, wounded or are...
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- March 12, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Words vs. action: A supplication for Gaza, and humanity
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza...
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- March 4, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
On solidarity and Kushner’s shame: How Gaza defeated US stratagem, again
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was later to become the US president, once attempted to teach Palestinians how to handle their own struggle for freedom. In 2020, he advised Palestinians to stop ‘doing terrorism’,...
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- March 1, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
To save Israel: The US is destroying the international system it once constructed
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonised nations that have won the legitimacy war have always won their freedom. Palestine is unlikely to be the exception. The Gaza war, however, is confronting the world with an unprecedented challenge, specifically to...
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- February 29, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Hypocrisy and genocide: how Gaza has exposed the West like never before
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. From the day that the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza began, following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, every moral or legal frame of reference that Washington and its Western allies supposedly...
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- February 27, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
United against Israel: Time to end the world’s longest occupation
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, though, some people, whether in ignorance or otherwise, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through “unconditional negotiations”. This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he cared...
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- February 26, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Netanyahu’s last battle promises no victory, just slaughter in Rafah
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not only older than Israel, it is also as old as civilisation itself. Rafah has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern. As...
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- February 20, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The ‘two-state solution’ is a distraction; the problem is Zionism
The problem in Palestine-Israel is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if the racist, exclusivist ideology of Zionism continues to define Israel, and impose that definition on the Palestinians? This ideology calls for the racial purity and dominance of...
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- February 17, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Breaking the mould’: How Facebook became the NYT of the digital age
“If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long,” famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in an essay published in Z Magazine in October 1997. The essay, “What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream”, appeared before social media took off to the point that it became...
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- February 14, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the right to commit genocide in Gaza
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit on 8 February aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.” If such a statement was made soon after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, the...
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- February 12, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Looking at the ‘day after’ the Gaza genocide, the PA has an unpromising future
In the first phase of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, it was clear that the Palestinian Authority was caught off guard. Its leadership neither anticipated that the Gaza Resistance would carry out such an operation as Al-Aqsa Flood, nor did they expect that the Israeli war...
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- February 5, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Breaching the ‘Iron Wall’: How Palestinians crushed Jabotinsky's century-old ideas
It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore”. Feiglin’s comments were made on 25 October, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which followed. The...