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 24-January-2024
If what is currently happening in the Israeli-occupied West Bank took place before 7 October, our attention would have been fixated completely on that part of Palestine.
Wednesday 17-January-2024
Rule number one in the “law of holes” is that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Wednesday 10-January-2024
Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses would probably fail to explain.
Friday 5-January-2024
The current clashes between Hezbollah and Israel are the closest to an actual war that the Lebanon-Israel border has seen since the war of 2006, which resulted in a rushed Israeli retreat, if not outright defeat.
Monday 1-January-2024
It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own, and let alone sovereignty, would become the world’s most significant geopolitical spot on earth.
Wednesday 27-December-2023
The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on 7 October have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not.
Tuesday 19-December-2023
When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.
Wednesday 13-December-2023
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, decades-long brutal siege, facing one of the greatest military powers in the world. And yet, it refuses to be defeated.
Sunday 3-December-2023
Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide.
Wednesday 29-November-2023
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez and Alexander De Croo, appeared in a joint press conference at the Rafah Crossing.
Saturday 25-November-2023
Did you know that there was an international conference held in France on 9 November under the title ‘International Humanitarian Conference for Gaza’s Civilian Population’?
Friday 17-November-2023
The ongoing discussions about Israel’s military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether the settler-colonial state is planning a long or a short-term military reoccupation of the Strip.
Tuesday 14-November-2023
On Saturday Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital.
Tuesday 7-November-2023
On 20 October Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and besieged Gaza.
Monday 30-October-2023
History will not forgive those who have remained silent exhibited or expressed ‘balanced’ positions – or worse defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in an already besieged impoverished and overcrowded Gaza.
Tuesday 24-October-2023
“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.”