Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is &lsquoThese Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons&rsquo. 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).
Wednesday 13-April-2022
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location namely the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
Thursday 7-April-2022
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement be struck Israel appeared on the list.
Wednesday 30-March-2022
“The water is back” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic often very late at night.
Friday 25-March-2022
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military.
Tuesday 15-March-2022
A new global geopolitical game is in formation and the Middle East as is often the case will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances and resulting power paradigms.
Wednesday 9-March-2022
Israel’s war on Palestinian sport is as old as the settler-colonial state itself. Sport is a critical aspect of popular Palestinian culture and since culture itself is a target for the decades-old Israeli attack on Palestinian life in all of its manifestations sport and athletes have been targeted purposely as well.
Wednesday 2-March-2022
Can Israel be pressured? Or is it the only exception to international norms and the global political order in which every country big or small is subjected to pressures and subsequent changes in attitude and behavior?
Tuesday 22-February-2022
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11 1991 my family friends and neighbours followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in the living room of my old home in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday 15-February-2022
The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel’s observer status within the organization is emblematic of a larger conflict that has the potential to split the continent’s largest political institutions.
Friday 4-February-2022
A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners.
Wednesday 26-January-2022
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian response to the ongoing evictions in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Thursday 20-January-2022
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and suppress online content.
Saturday 15-January-2022
Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalized and oppressed groups late South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a few words and in a most inimitable style.
Tuesday 11-January-2022
As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities Israeli extremists led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir angrily raided the Assaf Harofeh Hospital where Abu Hawash was being held.
Sunday 2-January-2022
At the onset 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery.
Tuesday 28-December-2021
At the outset the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling.