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 13-April-2023
By ordering a brutal attack against Palestinian worshippers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque on the 14th day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew very well that the Palestinians would retaliate.
Tuesday 4-April-2023
When I shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team at the Under-20 FIFA World Cup scheduled from 20 May 20 to 11 June in Indonesian cities some readers were unimpressed.
Thursday 30-March-2023
By his own admission Israel’s new Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is a “fascist homophobe”.
Thursday 23-March-2023
The sight of Israeli Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li and other Israeli delegates being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on 18 February was historic.
Tuesday 14-March-2023
As hundreds of thousands throughout Israel joined anti-government protests questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect or possibly merge into the wider struggle against the Israeli military occupation and apartheid in Palestine.
Wednesday 8-March-2023
The following text message tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.”
Wednesday 1-March-2023
Rarely does the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN make an official comment expressing happiness over any official proceedings concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Sunday 26-February-2023
On 20 February the United Nations Security Council approved a statement described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
Wednesday 15-February-2023
Israel has struggled for a whole year to articulate a clear and decisive position regarding the Russia-Ukraine war.
Wednesday 8-February-2023
Though Israel’s past wars on Gaza have often been justified by Tel Aviv as a response to Palestinian rockets or generally as acts of self-defense the truth is different.
Tuesday 31-January-2023
The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine.
Thursday 26-January-2023
The words uttered in Hebrew by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014 are telling.
Friday 20-January-2023
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017 Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as “an astonishing moment of religious restraint”.
Friday 13-January-2023
Once more the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to offer a legal opinion on the consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Monday 9-January-2023
Even before the new Israeli coalition government was officially sworn in last week angry reactions emerged not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments but also among Israel’s allies in the West.
Monday 2-January-2023
Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle – nationally regionally and internationally.