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).
Monday 28-October-2019
In December 2018 17-year-old Palestinian teen Ayham Sabah was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Monday 21-October-2019
On October 9 the social media platform Facebook deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website the Palestinian Information Center (PIC).
Saturday 12-October-2019
On August 20 Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention.
Monday 7-October-2019
The Israeli Apartheid Wall which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation.
Tuesday 1-October-2019
On September 16 I visited South Africa a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity.
Monday 23-September-2019
Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception.
Monday 16-September-2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine and facing little or no resistance.
Tuesday 3-September-2019
On September 1 the Lebanese group Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim.
Saturday 31-August-2019
For years Kenya has served as Israel’s gateway to Africa. Israel has been using the strong political economic and security relations between the two states as a way to expand its influence on the continent and turn other African nations against Palestine.
Sunday 25-August-2019
Following the Israeli victory in the 1967 war it became impossible for Zionist ideologues to mask the true nature of their state – an unwavering colonial regime with an expansionist agenda.
Tuesday 20-August-2019
Jewish Israeli settlers are on a roll as they rampage across the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Thursday 15-August-2019
The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field of sports as well.
Thursday 8-August-2019
On 29 July 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem.
Monday 5-August-2019
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what [he] started with [US President] Donald Trump.”
Monday 22-July-2019
Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape.
Monday 15-July-2019
Writing in The Jewish Journal under the title “A Spillover Crisis: How Gaza’s Water Shortage Affects Israel” Dominik Doehler explains the direct link between Gaza’s water problems and Israel.