• November 21, 2024
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Articles Palestine/Israel

Restoring Psychological Deterrence – Torture of Palestinians as a ‘Systematic Strategy’

By trying to break the will of the Palestinians through torture, humiliation and rape, Israel wants to restore a different kind of deterrence, which it lost on October 7.

Articles Palestine/Israel

‘Painful March for Freedom’: The Triumphant Legacy of Palestinian Prisoners

For Palestinians, these are acts of resistance that demonstrate the power of the Palestinian people: even in prison, handcuffed to a hospital bed, denied every basic human right, a Palestinian can fight, and win. Awawdeh did.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating between the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim

This is not what Palestinians are expecting from the United Nations, an organization that supposedly exists to end armed conflicts and bring about peace and security for all.

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Palestinians ‘Are Bound to Win’: Why Israelis Are Prophesying the End of Their State

History has taught us that Muslims, Christians and Jews can peacefully coexist and collectively thrive, as they have done throughout the Middle East and the Iberian Peninsula for millennia. Indeed, this is a prediction, even a prophecy, that is worth striving for.

Articles Global Affairs Palestine/Israel

The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

While profit generation is understandably the main goal of companies like Google and Amazon, this goal can be achieved without necessarily requiring the subjugation of a whole people, who are currently the victims of the world’s last remaining apartheid regime.

Articles Global Affairs Palestine/Israel

How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online

While Israel is permitted, thanks to the deafening silence of the international community, to maintain its military occupation of Palestine, to cement its apartheid and to deepen its control of Palestinian life everywhere, it should not be permitted to expand this matrix of control to the digital realm as well.

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The Real ‘Doomsday Scenario’: How Palestinian Hunger Striker, Abu Hawash Forced Israeli Concession

It is quite a powerful imagery to think that a dying man, tied to a hospital bed, would force Israel to concede on such a crucial issue as that of the freedom of a Palestinian.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy: Three Possible Answers

It is true that Israel operates outside the minimum standards of international and humanitarian laws, but it is the responsibility of the international community to protect Palestinians, whose lives remain precious even if Israel disagrees.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

Why the Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage

Without that genuine and engaged Palestinian intellectual, the world’s priorities will continue to gravitate towards Israeli priorities, towards US interests and their subsequent fraudulent language about ‘peace,’ security’ and such.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

Banning of Palestinian NGOs: How Israel Tries to Silence Human Rights Defenders

Though it is ultimately the people who liberate themselves, international solidarity is essential to the process of national liberation. This was the case in South Africa, and will surely be the case in Palestine, as well.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

The Evolution of Apartheid: Why Israel is Becoming a Pariah State

No amount of Israeli propaganda and smear campaigns can turn the tide back in favor of Israel. While it may be too early to speak of a major paradigm shift, it is certainly no longer far-fetched to imagine that such a possibility is finally at hand.

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A Palestinian Prayer for Ramadan: May the Voices of the Oppressed Be Heard

Perhaps this Ramadan can serve as the opportunity for social justice to be finally enacted and for the oppressed to be heard so that their hymn of torment and hope may rise above the clouds.

Articles Global Affairs Palestine/Israel

Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?

While Palestinians remain cautious about the future of the investigation, hope is slowly rising that, this time around, things may be different and that Israeli war criminals will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. Time will tell.

Articles Global Affairs Middle East

The American Injustice Industry: Why Shutting Down Guantánamo is Not Enough

So, even if Biden is able to overcome pressure from the military, from the CIA, and from Congress to shut Guantánamo down, justice will still be absent, not only because of the numerous lives that are forever shattered but because America still refuses to learn from its mistakes.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

B’Tselem’s Historic Declaration: Israel’s Open War on Its Own Civil Society

Even in the eyes of many Israeli Jews, the Israeli government no longer possesses any democratic ideals. Indeed, as B’Tselem has succinctly worded it, Israel is a regime of Jewish supremacy ‘from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.’ 

Articles Palestine/Israel

Escalating the Demographic War: The Strategic Goal of Israeli Racism in Palestine

Israeli racism is the core of a sophisticated plan that aims at the political marginalization and economic strangulation of Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority within a constitutional, thus ‘legal’, framework.

Articles Palestine/Israel

‘They Tried to Freeze Me to Death’: Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons

Before I was brought to Nafha, I endured several long bouts of torture, each extending for 55 hours at a time. They had me stand blindfolded in the same position for 12 hours at a time. They placed me in a refrigerator-like room and kept lowering the temperature until I thought I was going to die from cold.

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Prof. Richard Falk: I Strongly Recommend Ramzy Baroud’s Book on Palestinian Prisoners

Let me strongly recommend Ramzy Baroud’s book, which really gives an insight into the torment of the prisoners and their struggle for dignity and how important they are as symbols of the most prolonged resistance to an unjust political situation in modern times.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Richard Falk: Palestinians are Winning the ‘Legitimacy War’

According to Professor Falk, history is clearly on the side of Palestinians, who are already “winning the legitimacy war”.

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Speaking to Prof. Richard Falk: On Palestine, Israel and International Law (PC TV)

Palestine Chronicle TV hosted Professor Emeritus of International Law Richard Falk. Professor Falk, an acclaimed author, was also the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights between 2008-14. 

Articles Palestine/Israel

Palestinians Are Not Numbers: On the Future of the Palestinian Discourse

It was refreshing to talk to Palestinians who are taking the decisive step of declaring that they are not numbers, because it is only through this realization and resolve that Palestinian youth can challenge all of us and assert their own collective identity as a people.

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VIDEO: ‘These Chains Will Be Broken’: Delving into the Heart of Palestinian Resistance

Watch this compelling video, share it, and obtain the book. There is a whole new Palestine waiting to be told. 

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Free My Son, The Humanitarian Hero: Father of Mohammed Al-Halaby Speaks out (Palestine Chronicle TV)

Mohammed’s father, Khalil Al-Halaby, joined Ramzy Baroud on Palestine Chronicle TV, on May 20, to speak about his son’s ordeal.

Articles Global Affairs

Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees

Neglecting the refugees while fighting to halt the spread of the coronavirus is as foolish as it is inhumane. The last few months have taught us that provisional and self-centered strategies do not apply in the cases of global healthcare crises.

Articles Global Affairs Middle East

Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports

Far greater focus should be placed on the fact that Israel is, itself, a notorious human rights violator that should be held accountable for its crimes against Palestinians, who are often used as guinea pigs in the testing stage of Israel’s technology of death.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

A Terrifying Scenario: Coronavirus in ‘Quarantined’ Gaza

What is needed is a fundamental and structural change that would emancipate the Palestinian healthcare system from the horrific impact of the Israeli occupation.

Palestine/Israel

Palestinian Prisoner Khalida Jarrar in her own Words: The Age of Freedom Will Come

By Ramzy Baroud Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian popular resistance in the occupied West Bank, enraging the Israeli occupation authorities that arrested her repeatedly. Despite her failing health, as she is suffering from multiple ischemic infarctions and hypercholesterolemia, the […]

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Video: Baroud Speaks at the Workshop ‘Palestinians in Diaspora between Theory and Practice’ in Istanbul (Arabic)

Palestinian author, journalist and Palestine Chronicle Editor, Ramzy Baroud delivers a speech in Arabic at the workshop: Palestinians in Diaspora between Theory and Practice: Role, Representation, and Challenges, in Istanbul, on February 1.

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These Chains Will Be Broken: New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World

On Monday, January  20, Clarity Press, Inc. of Atlanta announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud, and The Palestine Chronicle Editorial Team.  Bookended by a Foreword by Khalida Jarrar Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and an Afterword by […]

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‘These Chains Will Be Broken’: Make 2020 the Year of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

Friends, it is finally here. “THESE CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons” is the story of Palestine written by its foremost heroes and heroines, the true organic intellectuals of this noble struggle. Listening to Khalida Jarrar, Dareen Tatour and Mohammed al-Deirwai conveying their stories, and reading the words […]