
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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- January 30, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
What keeps Palestinians strong? History, olive trees and football
Despite the horrific war in Gaza and the unprecedented number of casualties, millions of Palestinians in the Middle East and around the world took a brief respite from their collective pain to watch their national football team make history in Doha. The Palestinian team, also known as Fada’ii — the...
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- January 29, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Europe exposed: Is the EU a direct partner in the Israeli genocide in Gaza?
Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word ‘genocide’ quickly replaced the earlier reference to the ‘Israel-Hamas war’ which starting on 7 October. Those familiar with Europe’s...
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- January 23, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The genocide in Gaza is an opportunity for Ben-Gvir to get what he wants in the West Bank
If what is currently happening in the Israeli-occupied West Bank took place before 7 October, our attention would have been fixated completely on that part of Palestine. The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, however, has distracted us from the important events underway in the West Bank, which is now...
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- January 18, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
John Pilger was a friend of Palestine and all other oppressed people
The only time that I met John Pilger in person was in 2018. I was invited to deliver a speech at the Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Among the large crowd were many that I knew and respected: a former foreign minister, socially conscious MPs, morally...
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- January 16, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
After 100 days and counting, legendary Palestinian resistance will be Netanyahu’s downfall
Rule number one in the “law of holes” is that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Rule number two is that if you are not digging, you are still in a hole. These adages sum up Israel’s ongoing political, military and strategic crises, 100 days since...
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- January 9, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
From Gaza to Congo: Zionism and the unlearned history of genocide
Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses would probably fail to explain. On 3 January, though, it was revealed that the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is actively discussing proposals to...
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- January 3, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
As a genocidal maniac, what is Netanyahu’s ultimate goal in the Middle East?
This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh Al-Arouri, in Beirut on 2 January. The assassination is a further illustration of the Israeli government’s desire to escape the consequences of its disastrous war in Gaza, by igniting a regional conflict. The...
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- January 2, 2024 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The US will one day pay the price for its unquestioned support for Israel
The Czech writer Franz Kafka said famously, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.” The same principle, I believe, applies to other powerful feelings, including resentment, hate, anger, even rage. American officials should know this well as...
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- December 29, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Gaza, Saudi, Iran, Venezuela and more: Some of the most significant geopolitical events of 2023
It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own, let alone sovereignty, would become the world’s most significant geopolitical spot on earth. The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and the legendary resistance of the Palestinian...
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- December 27, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘We will come to you in a roaring flood’: The untold story of the 7 October attacks
The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on 7 October have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not surprised. Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on 7 October; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – as done in 2006 –...
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- December 19, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Urinating on prisoners: Why humiliation is functional in Israel’s war on Palestinians
When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians. Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonour of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonour to the whole community. This...
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- December 14, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Sons of Salah Al-Din: Shuja'iyya is not just a neighbourhood, it’s a legacy
Shortly before Palestinian fighters killed and wounded many Israeli soldiers in the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on Tuesday, that very group of soldiers had a meeting on the outskirts of the town. A video, which circulated widely on social media, showed one of the officers – later killed – vowing...
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- December 12, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Let it be a tale’: On Refaat Alareer and the martyrdom of the Gaza intellectual
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, decades-long brutal siege, facing one of the greatest military powers in the world. And yet, it refuses to be defeated. Not even the legendary tenacity of Leo Tolstoy’s...
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- December 9, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia ready for a major shift in its Middle East policy?
Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the Middle East on 6 December. Some news reports referred to the trip as “rare”, especially since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. We know that the situation in Gaza,...
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- December 5, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Dying to be free: Releasing Palestinian captives is not a numbers game
There is a reason why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so...
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- December 1, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
History of Gaza: On conquerors, resurgence and rebirth
Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. And they can hardly be blamed. On 3 November, the UN Development Programme and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced that 45 per cent of Gaza’s...
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- November 28, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
United for Gaza: Time now for Palestinians to protect their collective sumud
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez and Alexander De Croo, appeared in a joint press conference at the Rafah Crossing. While Sanchez described “what is happening (as) a disaster,” De Croo called for a...
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- November 23, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
One small, red triangle: Palestine, we are finally looking
Did you know that there was an international conference held in France on 9 November under the title ‘International Humanitarian Conference for Gaza’s Civilian Population’? According to the French Foreign Ministry website, the conference “involved states, main donors, international organisations and NGOs active in Gaza” with the declared objective of...
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- November 22, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
As a struggle for indigenous people’s rights, Gaza has united the world
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of the worldwide struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national liberation movements were, by definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective rights for freedom, equality...
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- November 21, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
In both the old and new Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians must be rejected
It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or as many as possible, Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Sinai is a new idea, compelled solely by recent events. Displacing Palestinians — or their “transfer”, as it is known in Israeli political circles —...
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- November 14, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Strip is already occupied: The two Gazas that Israel cannot break
The ongoing discussions about Israel’s military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether the settler-colonial state is planning a long or a short-term military reoccupation of the Strip. Israelis themselves are fuelling this conversation, with 41 per cent of them wanting to leave Gaza following the war, and...
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- November 14, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
Rape, Daesh, Mein Kampf and other lies: How Israel lost all credibility
On Saturday, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital. The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context...
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- November 7, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
There will be repercussions: The West is collectively responsible for Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On 20 October, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not the only international figure to travel to the Gaza border, hoping to mobilise the international community in the face of an ongoing genocide,...
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- October 31, 2023 Dr Ramzy Baroud
‘Turning Gaza into ashes': Israel propaganda vs the world
Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of the ongoing devastating war are likely to alter the political equation in the entire Middle East and to re-centre Palestine as the world’s most urgent political crisis for years to come. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948,...