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).
Thursday 18-February-2016
The Israeli ‘Right’ as demonstrated by a scary coalition of rightwing nationalists ultranationalists and religious zealots deserves all the bad press it has garnered since its formation last May.
Wednesday 10-February-2016
It is not true that only three wars have taken place since Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Friday 5-February-2016
By Friday January 29 Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeq had spent 66-days on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Just before he fell into his third coma a day earlier he sent a public message through his lawyers the gist of which was: freedom or death.
Thursday 28-January-2016
“Ten years of hardship have taught us to be stronger to cope with life and to defeat the siege.”
Wednesday 16-December-2015
Throughout her hunger strike that of exactly 47 days Hana Shalabi never slept consistently for a number of hours.
Sunday 6-December-2015
Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman of “Ynet News” and Haviv Rettig Gur of the “Times of Israel” are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian collective struggle.
Tuesday 13-October-2015
This generation grew up oppressed confined and subjugated at complete odds with the misleading ‘peace process’ lexicon that has prolonged a strange paradox between fantasy and reality.
Wednesday 29-July-2015
As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (‘IS’) continues its unhindered march towards a twisted version of a Muslim caliphate.
Thursday 12-February-2015
Despite its success in repelling Israeli military advances in Gaza Hamas’s regional political manoeuvres of recent years are not bearing fruit.