May 22, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’ long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
May 15, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...
May 15, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud In mainstream Israeli politics, history books, literature and collective imagination, the Palestinian Nakba never happened. If the pain and suffering of a nation is acknowledged, then the people themselves...
May 8, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Now that the Palestinian Islamic Movement, Hamas, has officially changed its Charter, one should not immediately assume that the decision is, in itself, an act of political maturity. Undoubtedly,...
May 1, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected...
April 24, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Israel has resorted to three main strategies to suppress Palestinian calls for justice and human rights, including the Right of Return for refugees. One is dedicated to rewriting history;...
April 17, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Back in the Middle East for a few months, I find myself astounded by the absence of the strong voices of Arab intellectuals. The region that has given rise...
April 10, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, 2017 is a year of significant anniversaries. While historians mark May 15th as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland...
April 3, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking centre stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently-concluded Arab League Summit in...
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US March 28, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli state has violated international law more than any other country, yet has rarely, if ever, been held accountable for its crimes and misconduct. Israel’s successful public relations...
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US March 20, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud When Terry Holdbrooks Jr. converted to Islam in 2003 he was inundated with death threats and labelled a “race traitor”. If a religious conversion ever deserves to be admired,...
March 14, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud “We must look back 25 years to realise how far Israel has fallen in world support,” wrote famed Jewish scholar, Harvard sociologist, Nathan Glazer in 1976. In the last...
March 6, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud At a glance, Israel appears a true democracy. Take a closer look and that facade of democracy will soon dissipate, turning into something else entirely. Tuesday 28 February was...
February 27, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud I have recently been asked to give a talk about “Being an American Muslim in the United States”. Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I...
February 21, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarise...
February 13, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or...
February 7, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud I fear that many of us are hating Donald Trump for the wrong reasons. Multitudes are being swayed by mainstream media-inspired demonization of the new US president, based on...
January 31, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect. ‘I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel,’ he boasted at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Presidential...
January 24, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with...
January 17, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud For some, the ‘manslaughter’ conviction – following the murder by Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, of already incapacitated Palestinian man, Fattah al-Sharif – is finally settling a protracted debate...
January 10, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Long before 28 December, when Secretary of State, John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington DC to pontificate on the uncertain future of the...
January 3, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as...
December 26, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday was an important and noteworthy event. True, the United Nations’ main chambers (the Security Council...
December 20, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud On 12 December, the British government officially adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes legitimate criticism of Israel. The definition was adopted earlier in the year by pro-Israeli...
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Asia & Americas,
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UK,
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US December 12, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud When a veteran war reporter like Robert Fisk constructs his argument regarding the siege of Aleppo based on ‘watching’ video footage, then one can truly comprehend the near impossibility...
December 5, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a “traitor” who “betrayed the interests of the Palestinian People.” Arafat loathed Abbas to the...
November 29, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) has designated the week, November 25 to December 3, as the ‘Biggest-Ever Campaign’ aimed at boycotting Israeli products and those of companies...
November 21, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as US President-elect, Donald Trump, is fortifying his transitional team with people capable of bringing about a nightmare scenario, not only for...
November 14, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud As I was growing up, I was always reassured by the sound of the ‘Muadhin’ making the call for prayer in our refugee camp’s main mosque in Gaza. Whenever...
November 8, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud The Fatah movement is involved in a massive tug-of-war that will ultimately define its future. Though the conflict is between current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and once Gaza...
November 1, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud On the 99th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Ramzy Baroud looks at the continuing impact of that letter
October 25, 2016
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Ramzy Baroud Did Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, actually read the full text of the UNESCO resolution on Palestine and Israel, before he raved with anger? “I think this is a...
![Iranian Jews attend a Shabbat service in Tehran, Iran on April 23rd 2013 [MIlad Alex/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2013_7_4-iranian-jews9206714491_35e98c5c3a_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’ long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...
In mainstream Israeli politics, history books, literature and collective imagination, the Palestinian Nakba never happened. If the pain and suffering of a nation is acknowledged, then the people themselves...![Leaders of Hamas in the Gaza Strip attend a meeting in which they express a new vision of Hamas in Doha, Qatar on March 1, 2017 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_1-Officials-in-Gaza-watch-as-Hamas-unveils-its-new-Charter-4O6A8088.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Now that the Palestinian Islamic Movement, Hamas, has officially changed its Charter, one should not immediately assume that the decision is, in itself, an act of political maturity. Undoubtedly,...![Palestinian protesters wave flags bearing the portrait of prominent prisoner and popular leader Marwan Barghouti during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in West Bank on 23 April, 2017 [Ayman Ameen / ApaImages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/230417_AA_00-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected...![Israeli security forces disperse media members during clashes with Palestinian protesters in West Bank on 4 April 2015 [Nedal Eshtayah/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/Israeli-security-forces-disperse-media-members-during-a-Palestinian-protest-against-Israeli-aggression-In-Nablus-West-Bank.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel has resorted to three main strategies to suppress Palestinian calls for justice and human rights, including the Right of Return for refugees. One is dedicated to rewriting history;...![Daesh militant holding their flag [file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/isis-soldier-runs-with-isis-flag-in-raqqa-syria-reuters.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Back in the Middle East for a few months, I find myself astounded by the absence of the strong voices of Arab intellectuals. The region that has given rise...![Palestinians protest to mark the 99th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 01, 2016 [Mohammed Asad /Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016_11_02-Palestinians-protest-to-mark-the-99th-anniversary-of-the-Balfour-Declaration-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For Palestinians, 2017 is a year of significant anniversaries. While historians mark May 15th as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland...
Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking centre stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently-concluded Arab League Summit in...![BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti [Arab48]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Omar-barghouti-e1490688053217.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Israeli state has violated international law more than any other country, yet has rarely, if ever, been held accountable for its crimes and misconduct. Israel’s successful public relations...
When Terry Holdbrooks Jr. converted to Islam in 2003 he was inundated with death threats and labelled a “race traitor”. If a religious conversion ever deserves to be admired,...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump during a joint news conference at the White House on February 15, 2016 [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/benjamin-netanyahu-with-donald-trump-in-washington-Feb-15-2017.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“We must look back 25 years to realise how far Israel has fallen in world support,” wrote famed Jewish scholar, Harvard sociologist, Nathan Glazer in 1976. In the last...
At a glance, Israel appears a true democracy. Take a closer look and that facade of democracy will soon dissipate, turning into something else entirely. Tuesday 28 February was...
I have recently been asked to give a talk about “Being an American Muslim in the United States”. Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I...
The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarise...![Palestinians wait to cross the Israeli checkpoint in West Bank [APA Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Israeli_checkpoint-2-e1483044943803.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or...![US President elect Donald Trump [Anadolu]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-27T015646Z_1_LYNXNPEC8Q047_RTROPTP_4_USA-ELECTION-DEBATE.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
I fear that many of us are hating Donald Trump for the wrong reasons. Multitudes are being swayed by mainstream media-inspired demonization of the new US president, based on...![Image of US President Donald Trump [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-09-30T223551Z_2_LYNXNPEC8T1J0_RTROPTP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect. ‘I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel,’ he boasted at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Presidential...
No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with...![Image of a demonstration against Elor Azaria [Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017_1_3-demostration-against-israeli-killer-Elor-Azaria-3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For some, the ‘manslaughter’ conviction – following the murder by Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, of already incapacitated Palestinian man, Fattah al-Sharif – is finally settling a protracted debate...![Worshippers outside Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dome-of-the-rock-al-aqsa-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Long before 28 December, when Secretary of State, John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington DC to pontificate on the uncertain future of the...![President Donald Trump [Bilgin S. Şaşmaz / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161214_2_20681784_16964142-e1482259834545.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as...
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday was an important and noteworthy event. True, the United Nations’ main chambers (the Security Council...![Image of the apartheid wall in West Bank and an Israeli military watchtower [Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/view-of-apartheid-wall-in-west-bank-and-israeli-watchtower.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On 12 December, the British government officially adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes legitimate criticism of Israel. The definition was adopted earlier in the year by pro-Israeli...
When a veteran war reporter like Robert Fisk constructs his argument regarding the siege of Aleppo based on ‘watching’ video footage, then one can truly comprehend the near impossibility...
In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a “traitor” who “betrayed the interests of the Palestinian People.” Arafat loathed Abbas to the...![Palestinian and foreign peace activists hold placards during a gathering to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on November 29 2011 [Wagdi Eshtayah/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2011_11_29-Palestinian-and-foreign-peace-activists-hold-placards-during-a-gathering-to-mark-the-International-Day-of-Solidarity-with-the-Palestinian-People-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) has designated the week, November 25 to December 3, as the ‘Biggest-Ever Campaign’ aimed at boycotting Israeli products and those of companies...![Silhouettes of worshippers in front of The Dome of The Rock in East Jerusalem [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/al-aqsa-mosque-close-up-shadow-of-prating-muslims.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As I was growing up, I was always reassured by the sound of the ‘Muadhin’ making the call for prayer in our refugee camp’s main mosque in Gaza. Whenever...
The Fatah movement is involved in a massive tug-of-war that will ultimately define its future. Though the conflict is between current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and once Gaza...![Palestinian flag [file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/palestinians-protest-for-hunger-striker-Bilal-Kayid-08.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On the 99th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Ramzy Baroud looks at the continuing impact of that letter![Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi [Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/Matteo-Renzi.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Did Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, actually read the full text of the UNESCO resolution on Palestine and Israel, before he raved with anger? “I think this is a...