Why is Israel allowed to own Palestinian history?
Tuesday 21-December-2021
An investigative report in Haaretz — “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew” — is a must-read.
Ramzy Baroud
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).
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On ‘Gassing the Arabs’ and other diseases: Is Israel a ‘Sick Society’?
Tuesday 7-December-2021
For whatever reason some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as liberal progressive and even ‘pro-Palestinian’.
Belgium is on the right track but Europe has failed Palestine
Wednesday 1-December-2021
The Belgian government’s decision on 25 November to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome although it will ultimately prove ineffectual.
We do exist: Why the Palestinian voice should take center stage
Wednesday 24-November-2021
At a recent New York event the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared before an approving audience that it is time “to reclaim the narrative on Palestine”.
How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global
Thursday 18-November-2021
The revelation a few years ago that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has reignited the conversation on governments’ misconduct and their violation of human rights and privacy laws.
Israel ravages the environment in Palestine
Wednesday 10-November-2021
Those who are not familiar with how Israel particularly with its military occupation of Palestine is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might conclude erroneously that Tel Aviv is at the forefront of the global fight against climate change.
The West’s role in Israel’s illegal settlement expansion
Wednesday 3-November-2021
The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could in theory force Israel to abandon its plans.
Has Biden Proved Different from Trump on Palestine?
Thursday 28-October-2021
When Joe Biden was declared the winner in the US elections last November expectations in Ramallah were high. A Biden Administration compared to the brazenly pro-Israel Trump Administration would surely be much fairer to Palestinians was the conventional wisdom at the time.
On Sally Rooney’s Decision to Boycott Israel
Thursday 21-October-2021
The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist Sally Rooney as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel ‘Beautiful World Where Are You’ to an Israeli-based publishing house”.
When being pro-Palestine becomes the new normal
Wednesday 6-October-2021
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel one that is inspired by the way in which many Americans especially young people view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation.
Should Hamas and Hezbollah learn from the Taliban?
Monday 27-September-2021
An urgent task is awaiting us: given the progression of events we must liberate ourselves quickly from the limits and confines placed on the Afghanistan discourse which have been imposed by US-centered Western propaganda for over 20 years and counting.
The unfinished war of Zakaria Zubeidi
Wednesday 22-September-2021
Zakaria Zubeidi is one of the six Palestinian prisoners who on 6 September tunneled their way out of Gilboa a notorious high-security Israeli prison.
Palestinians demolish Israel’s security myths
Wednesday 15-September-2021
Twenty-five years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine a Russian Jewish Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive if it exists “behind an iron wall” of defense.
How many more Palestinians must die for the sake of Israel ‘security’?
Tuesday 7-September-2021
A major Israeli army campaign is taking social media by storm. The unstated aim of the “#Untie_Our_Hands” initiative is the desire to kill with no accountability more Palestinian protesters at the nominal border with the Gaza Strip.
On Jenin and Israel’s Fear of an Armed Palestinian Rebellion
Friday 27-August-2021
The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on August 16 is a consequential event the repercussions of which are sure to be felt in the coming weeks and months.
Colonialism and solidarity define the decisive Israel-Palestine battle
Monday 23-August-2021
The decision by the African Union Commission last month to grant Israel observer status membership in the AU was the culmination of years of relentless Israeli efforts aimed at co-opting Africa’s largest political institution.