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 5-February-2020
After several postponements US President Donald Trump has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’ in a press conference in Washington on January 28.
Wednesday 22-January-2020
Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year and for many years in the foreseeable future.
Tuesday 14-January-2020
A seemingly ordinary news story published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on January 7 shed light on a long-forgotten yet crucial subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank.
Tuesday 7-January-2020
At long last Fatou Bensouda the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening of an investigation (into alleged war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) have been met”.
Friday 3-January-2020
At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018 I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of anti-Semitism which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere is to draw even closer to the Palestinian narrative.
Tuesday 31-December-2019
“They will run and not grow weary” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine.
Wednesday 25-December-2019
What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile a rudimentary rocket a demolished home an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets?
Saturday 21-December-2019
“All attempts at trying to limit UNRWA’s mandate or defund it or attack it have failed and we hope that the international community will continue to come to the rescue.”
Tuesday 17-December-2019
Three years ago the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favor and one abstention the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake.
Wednesday 11-December-2019
It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On 23 November the senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied into reversing an earlier decision calling for the academic boycott of Israel.
Tuesday 3-December-2019
Nothing seems to be working for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has tried every trick in the book to save his political career and avoid a possible prison sentence. Nevertheless for Israel’s longest-serving leader the end is almost certainly nigh.
Monday 25-November-2019
It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built in defiance of international law are somehow “consistent” with the said law.
Sunday 17-November-2019
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged impoverished Gaza Strip.
Saturday 9-November-2019
Benny Gantz the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics.
Tuesday 5-November-2019
The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades.
Thursday 31-October-2019
Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel.