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 12-May-2020
‘Heinous racism’ is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon.
Saturday 2-May-2020
It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda.
Tuesday 28-April-2020
Shortly after an agreement to form a “national emergency government” in Israel leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party Benny Gantz tweeted triumphantly that ‘democracy’ in Israel has been ‘safeguarded’.
Thursday 23-April-2020
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move but the decision by Benny Gantz leader of Israel’s Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come.
Wednesday 15-April-2020
Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel however spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story.
Friday 10-April-2020
While the Coronavirus continues to ravage almost every nation on earth Arab countries remain unable or unwilling to formulate a collective strategy to help the poorest and most vulnerable Arabs survive the deadly virus and its economic fallout.
Monday 6-April-2020
Call it a ‘quarantine’ a ‘shelter-in-place’ a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’ we Palestinians have experienced them all though not at all voluntarily.
Wednesday 1-April-2020
Tunisia is the Middle East’s greatest success story according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019.
Friday 27-March-2020
The Middle East region battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless hungry and diseased is in urgent need for peace security and reconstruction.
Monday 23-March-2020
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent.
Wednesday 11-March-2020
I was only introduced to the term ‘Chilestinians’ last February at a conference in Istanbul during a presentation by the Director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile Anuar Majluf.
Tuesday 3-March-2020
What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip?
Thursday 27-February-2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s history.
Friday 21-February-2020
A precious moment has been squandered as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had the chance to right a historical wrong.
Monday 17-February-2020
Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist a lawyer educator and an elected parliamentarian.
Tuesday 11-February-2020
Just because the Donald Trump administration has declared international law null and void regarding the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees the status of occupied East Jerusalem or the illegality of Jewish colonies in the occupied territories does not mean that Israel has won and Palestinians have lost.