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).
Tuesday 20-April-2021
Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine especially in the Gaza Strip have reached record highs largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified in Britain.
Wednesday 14-April-2021
The recognition of Palestine as a State by the Australian Labor Party on 30 March is a welcome move although it comes with many caveats.
Tuesday 6-April-2021
If imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti becomes the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) the status quo will change substantially.
Tuesday 30-March-2021
A “major setback” was the recurring theme in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s General Election last week.
Wednesday 24-March-2021
A Palestinian man Atef Yousef Hanaysha was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Tuesday 9-March-2021
Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare whether they support or reject the upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for May 22 and July 30.
Wednesday 3-March-2021
At a glance it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted the Arab body politic for many years.
Wednesday 24-February-2021
For Palestinians exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to return.
Tuesday 16-February-2021
The Pakistani government should never under any circumstances and no matter the pressure normalize with Israel.
Thursday 11-February-2021
Israeli anxiety was palpable when it was reported that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not contacted by the new American President Joe Biden for days after the latter’s inauguration.
Wednesday 3-February-2021
The claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly The Forward point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine and Israel.
Thursday 28-January-2021
“A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem.
Friday 22-January-2021
On January 11 the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker Mahmoud Bakri ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier.
Sunday 17-January-2021
Arab normalization with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few regional countries.
Wednesday 13-January-2021
Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many.
Tuesday 5-January-2021
With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019 interest in the plight of the world’s most vulnerable populations refugees began to wane.