- May 6, 2024
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The Paris Peace Gambit: Everyone Gains except the Palestinians
By Ramzy Baroud In their defense, the Israelis seem to have figured out the whole thing and opted out. But the hapless Palestinian leadership, along with their Arab League partners, joined by the French, EU and UN representatives, and even US Secretary of State, John Kerry, decided to play along. However, the French peace initiative-turned-conference […]
Israel’s Future is Terrifying
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly. Israel is now ‘ruled by the most extreme rightwing government in its history’ has grown from being an informed assessment to a dull cliché over the course of only a few years. […]
فلسطين في الإعلام.. متى أم كيف تحضر؟
قال الكاتب والأكاديمي رمزي بارود إن حضور فلسطين في الإعلام العالمي مكثف لأن البروباغندا الإسرائيلية أيضا مكثفة وتستهدف تقديم فلسطين سلبيا، مما يستوجب على الفلسطينيين والعرب والمناصرين للقضية تقديم توليفة مغايرة. وأضاف بارود خلال لقائه ببرنامج “في العمق” حلقة (6/6/2016) أن الصهاينة بدؤوا بتأسيس روايتهم لاحتلال فلسطين منذ مئة عام، بينما انتبه الفلسطينيون إلى ذلك […]
Israel’s Future is Terrifying: Moshe Ya’alon and Israel’s Disconcerting ‘Morality’
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly. Israel is now ‘ruled by the most extreme rightwing government in its history’ has grown from being an informed assessment to a dull cliché over the course of only a few years. […]
The Reductionist View of an Intifada
By Ramzy Baroud Associating the ongoing Palestinian intifada (uprising) with the number of stabbings or alleged stabbings carried out by Palestinian youths was a mistake from the start. An intifada is a collective movement, not individual acts of violence, no matter how frequent. The current intifada dates back to last October, when a large number […]
Time to End the ‘Hasbara’: Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
By Ramzy Baroud Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media […]
Ramzy Baroud in Conversation with Hawa Mayere
Ramzy Baroud speaks to Salaamedia’s, Hawa Mayere, at the Palestine International Forum for Media and Communications, Istanbul, Turkey – May 19, 2016.
Roots of the Conflict: Palestine’s Nakba in the Larger Arab ‘Catastrophe
By Ramzy Baroud On May 15th of every year, over the past 68 years, Palestinians have commemorated their collective exile from Palestine. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make room for a ‘Jewish homeland’ came at a price of unrelenting violence and perpetual suffering. Palestinians refer to that enduring experience as ‘Nakba’, or ‘Catastrophe’. However, […]
Ramzy Baroud on the Listening Post: Who will Tell the Yemeni People’s Story?
While the international news media has trained its lens on the war in Syria, another conflict is failing to get its share of the coverage – Yemen. Both sides in this war have stocked up on all the media ammunition available – to fight the propaganda war. Rebel forces took over state media to tell […]
A Palestinian Perspective on Britain’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Controversy
By Ramzy Baroud There is a witch-hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain’s Opposition party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, members who are mostly allied with the former Prime Minister, the largely […]
Yemen’s Polarized Propaganda War
Ever since Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen last year to push back against the Houthi rebels in the capital Sana’a, both the warring sides have stocked up their media arsenals to help push their version of this war. Talking us through the story are: Iona Craig, journalist; Nawal Al Maghafi, reporter and filmmaker; Ramzy Baroud, […]
The Spirit of Nelson Mandela in Palestine: Is His Real Legacy Being Upheld?
By Ramzy Baroud I had mixed feelings when I learned that Palestine has erected a statue of Nelson Mandela, the iconic South African anti-Apartheid leader. On the one hand, I was quite pleased that the unmistakable connection between the struggles of Palestinians and South Africans is cemented more than ever before. On the other hand, […]
By Sparing Israel, Abbas Deepens Palestinian Split
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinian National Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, is playing a very dangerous political game. At the same time as he is placing less pressure on the belligerent Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, he is keeping Palestinians further apart. Even when the 81-year-old leader no longer maintains his position, the legacy he has stubbornly […]
Did the Arabs Betray Palestine?
By Ramzy Baroud At the age of 21, I crossed Gaza into Egypt to pursue a degree in political science. The timing could have not been worse. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990 had resulted in a US-led international coalition and a major war, which eventually paved the road for the US invasion of […]
Ramzy Baroud Joins Team Palestine
It is my pleasure to join “Team Palestine for PCRF Washington State” and to direct some of my energy to raise awareness of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund’s commendable efforts aimed at providing urgent medical treatment for Palestinian children, in Palestine and all over the world. I plan to dedicate my 10th full marathon later this […]
PALESTINE: Healing Mother and Child – Ramzy Baroud to Speak At KinderUSA’s Annual Fund Raising Event in Los Angeles
PALESTINE: Healing Mother and Child Years of war in Gaza have broken the bond between mothers and children. Suffering from severe psychosocial trauma, mothers are unable to nurture their children. This year, KinderUSA focuses on restoring that bond and creating healthy interactions between parent and child.Another area of continued focus is the ever-present food insecurity. […]
At 80, Failed Abbas is Probed, Derided and Scapegoated
By Ramzy Baroud “We won’t act like them, we will not use violence or force, we are peaceful, we believe in peace, in peaceful popular resistance.” This was part of a message issued by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in October, only days after a few incidents took place in which Palestinian youth were […]
AFP SYMPOSIUM 2016: KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Ramzy Baroud (VIDEO)
The one-day Australians for Palestine Symposium “In the Eye of the Storm: Palestine and the New Media” was held in Melbourne, Australia at the Telstra Conference Centre on Thursday 31 March 2016 with keynote speakers Ali Abunimah and Ramzy Baroud (via video) and was followed by 3 sessions of panel presentations and discussions.
The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
By Ramzy Baroud “Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question,” said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as ‘barbaric’, ‘bestial’, who should not be […]
Non-violent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned
By Ramzy Baroud A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and determination,” as described by Antony Loewenstein, and featured top government officials, members of the […]
Israel Cannot Win the Fight with BDS
By Ramzy Baroud Serious efforts are being galvanized in Israel and outside to slow down the fast-moving momentum of the Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS). The latest of these efforts was a large, angry conference in occupied Jerusalem, which followed a series of conferences in the US. And more are being planned. This […]
Intifada for Dummies: Why a Popular Uprising is Yet to Take off?
By Ramzy Baroud The nature of the current uprising in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a testament to that claim. Previous uprisings were massive in their mobilization, clear in their message and decisive in their delivery. Their success or failure is not the point of this discussion, but the fact is that they […]
How Impunity Defines Israel and Victimizes Palestinians
By Ramzy Baroud Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif was killed. In the style typical of Israeli aggression against unarmed Palestinians, he was first wounded after allegedly attempting to stab an Israel occupation soldier in the occupied city of Hebron. He lies on his back, his arms stretched across the road, and his head moving about. A […]
Federalism is a Pandora’s Box; if Syria Succumbs to It, Others Will Follow
By Ramzy Baroud The apparently sudden Russian military withdrawal from Syria, starting on 15 March, left political commentators puzzled, but few of the analyses offered should be taken seriously. There is little solid information about why the Russian leader decided to end his country’s military push in Syria. The intervention, which began last September, was […]
Why BDS Cannot Lose: A Moral Threshold to Combat Racism in Israel
By Ramzy Baroud A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). On the […]
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Seattle, Town-Hall – KiinderUSA Fundraiser; March 11. 2016
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Seattle, Town-Hall – KiinderUSA Fundraiser; March 11. 2016
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