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Articles Palestine/Israel

Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why does Israel Hate Him?

By Ramzy Baroud “They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle years, has come to represent the unified voice of the Palestinian Christian community everywhere. One […]

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On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again

By Ramzy Baroud What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture […]

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‘Elected by Donors’: The University of Cape Town Fails Palestine, Embraces Israel

By Ramzy Baroud It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On November 23, the senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied into reversing an earlier decision calling for the academic boycott of Israel. While the story may seem relevant in South Africa’s political and academic contexts, in […]

Articles Media Middle East Palestine/Israel

Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost

By Ramzy Baroud It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is […]

Books Reclaiming the Narrative

These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons

Palestinian prisoners are an essential element in the collective resistance against Israeli colonialism, apartheid and military occupation. Rather than being viewed as unfortunate victims, their steadfastness exemplifies the ongoing fight of the Palestinian people as a whole. Despite Palestinian factionalism and lack of a unified political movement, Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons serve as […]

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How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Getaway with Murder in Gaza

By Ramzy Baroud An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when”. The answer came on November 12, when […]

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Microsoft Should not Fund Israeli Spying on Palestinians

By Ramzy Baroud The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional Palestinian scarves that grew to symbolize Palestinian resistance – is far from being a fashion statement. Instead, it is a survival technique, without […]

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She Deserves our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children

By Ramzy Baroud n 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. Sabah was only 14 years old when the alleged attack took place. Another […]

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Administrative Torture: Free Heba al-Labadi, a Jordanian Citizen in Israeli Prison

By Ramzy Baroud 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. On September 26, Heba and seven other prisoners declared a hunger strike to protest their unlawful detention and horrific conditions in Israeli prisons. Among the prisoners is Ahmed Ghannam, […]

Articles Middle East

Israa Ghrayeb’s ‘Honor Killing’ Should Be Our Wake-up Call

By Ramzy Baroud The death of Israa Ghrayeb has ignited furious reactions regarding so-called “honor killings” in Palestine and throughout the Arab world. It has also caused confusion with respect to the jurisprudential foundation of such crimes, which are often committed in the name of protecting a family’s honor.  Israa, a 21-year-old makeup artist from the town […]

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Israel’s War on Innocence: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts

By Ramzy Baroud On July 29, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, was later denied by the Israeli police, more than likely in an attempt to lessen the impact of the PR disaster that followed. The Israelis are not […]

Articles Global Affairs

Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis

By Ramzy Baroud History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border cannot […]

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Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction

By Ramzy Baroud The Chief Military Advocate General of the Israeli army, Sharon Afek, and the US Department of Defense General Counsel, Paul Ney, shared a platform at the ‘International Conference on the Law of Armed Conflict’, which took place in Herzliya, Israel between May 28-30. Their panel witnessed some of the most misconstrued interpretations of international […]

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The Unfinished Gaza War: What Netanyahu Hopes to Gain from Attacking Palestinian Prisoners

By Ramzy Baroud The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to January 2. It was then that Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan declared that the “party is over.” “Every so often, infuriating pictures appear of cooking in the terrorist wings. This party is coming to an end,” Erdan was quoted […]

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Is There a plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?

By Ramzy Baroud An eerie video of a photo of one “Hajj Jamal Ghalaini” with a prayer on a backing track pops up occasionally on Facebook. The voice is that of an allegedly religious sheikh, praying for the well-being of the man in the photo for saving the Palestinian refugee youth of Lebanon by facilitating […]

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From Central America to Syria: the Conspiracy against Refugees

By Ramzy Baroud Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central America. In fact, no other country is as accountable as the United States for the ongoing chaos and resulting refugee crisis. So why, […]

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The Tide Is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts

By Ramzy Baroud The botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on 12 November is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilize its army as a tool to achieve Palestinian political concessions. Now that Palestinian popular resistance has gone global through the exponential rise and growing success of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, […]

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In Breach of Human Rights, Netanyahu Supports the Death Penalty for Palestinians

Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entirely related to Israeli politics. He has just given the green light to legislation that would make it easier for Israeli courts to issue death sentences against Palestinians accused of carrying out ‘terrorist’ acts. Netanyahu’s decision was […]

Ramzy Baroud News Videos

Ramzy Baroud at ‘Palestine: What’s Working, What’s Not’ Telesummit with Katie Miranda

Baroud explains why reclaiming the Palestinian narrative should be the driving force behind the struggle for Palestinian rights. Other guests included Hanan Ashrawi, Cindy and Craig Corrie, Haidar Eid, Jeff Halper, Sam Bahour, Max Blumenthal, and others.

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Israel is Afraid of Khalida Jarrar because She Shatters Its False Democratic Image

By Ramzy Baroud When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer Khalida Jarrar on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, she had been leading a Palestinian effort to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Her research on that very evening was related directly to the […]

Ramzy Baroud News Reclaiming the Narrative

Ramzy Baroud World Tour Continues: Hawai’i, London, Istanbul, Turin

Dear Readers, I am embarking on the second leg of my world tour that is set to take me to several countries, starting Nov 1. I am taking advantage of the publishing of my book THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY to shed light on a new take on the history of the Palestinian people, […]

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Ramzy Baroud (Translated) – Fine di una Egemonia: l’ONU Deve Riflettere il Mutato Assetto Mondiale

(Traduzione di Leopoldo Salmaso) C’è una spiegazione razionale del perché India e Brasile, due stati molto popolati e con grandi e crescenti economie, non sono membri permanenti del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite (UNSC). Il Consiglio – composto da cinque membri permanenti e dieci a rotazione – fu progettato per riflettere l’ordine mondiale partorito […]

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

Latest US-Israel Attack on Palestinian Refugees Will Prove Futile

By Ramzy Baroud The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the UN agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is part of a new American-Israeli strategy aimed at redefining the rules of the game altogether. As a result, UNRWA is experiencing its worst financial crisis. The gap in its budget is estimated at […]

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Baroud in Al Jazeera – Palestine: Diary on an UNRWA Kid

Maintaining one’s dignity while living a dismal existence in a refugee camp is not an easy feat. My parents fought hard to spare us the daily humiliations that come with living in Nuseirat – Gaza’s largest refugee camp. But when I turned six, and joined the UNRWA-run Nuseirat Elementary School for Boys, there was no […]

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Why Israel Demolishes: Khan Al-Ahmar as Representation of Greater Genocide

By Ramzy Baroud Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on Sep. 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are all-too-familiar. The strategic location of Khan Al-Ahmar makes the story behind the imminent Israeli demolition of the peaceful village unique amid the ongoing […]

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Ramzy Baroud (Translated): Ahed Tamimi e la Forza delle Donne Palestinesi

Lamia, Reem, Shaima e Dwlat sono donne palestinesi forti proprio come Ahed, ma le loro storie sono state ignorate. Ahed Tamimi, la diciassettenne militante palestinese del villaggio di Nabi Saleh in Cisgiordania, è un’icona di una giovane generazione ribelle di palestinesi che ha dimostrato di non tollerare le continue violazioni israeliane dei loro diritti e […]

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Ramzy Baroud (Translated) – Cuando la Enfermedad es una Sentencia de Muerte: La Victimización de las Mujeres de Gaza

Hanan al-Khoudari recurrió a Facebook como grito de ayuda cuando las autoridades israelíes rechazaron su petición de permitirle acompañar a su hijo de tres años, Louay, a su sesión de quimioterapia en Jerusalén Este. El niño sufre de un ‘sarcoma agresivo en el tejido blando’. Las autoridades israelíes justificaron su decisión basándose en la vaga […]

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When Illness Is a ‘Death Sentence’: The Victimization of Gaza Women

By Ramzy Baroud Hanan al-Khoudari resorted to Facebook in a cry for help when Israeli authorities rejected her request to accompany her three-year-old son, Louay, to his chemotherapy treatment in East Jerusalem. The boy is suffering from an ‘aggressive soft tissue sarcoma’. Israeli authorities then justified their decision based on a vague claim that one […]

Articles Global Affairs Middle East

Gaza without Cancer Medicine as Haley Blames Arabs for Washington’s Sins

By Ramzy Baroud On Sunday, August 12, news from Gaza was distressing: The Ministry of Health announced that it would no longer be able to treat cancer patients in the Israel-besieged Strip. “Colon and lung cancer, as well as lymphoma patients, cannot be provided with the necessary therapy now,” said Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiya, director […]

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Mission Accomplished: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed despite Failing to Break the Siege

By Ramzy Baroud When Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union in New Zealand, arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on 1 August, a group of people was anxiously waiting for him at the terminal with Palestinian flags and flowers. They hugged him, chanted for Palestinian freedom and performed the customary native […]