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Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappe, is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out.” His other books include “My Father was a Freedom Fighter” and “The Last Earth.” He is a nonresident senior research fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net. 

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Latest published

Israel’s ‘great opportunity’ to annex the West Bank

Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising.

December 16, 2024

Genuine solidarity with Palestinians is not conditional

A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this unity is obvious: Gaza.

December 09, 2024

The roadmap to a just peace in Palestine

A major problem in American thinking relating to the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if even relevant at all, to the coveted peace and stability.

November 25, 2024

How Palestine has become a domestic US political issue

Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove the Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. Last week’s elections merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many other Americans as well.

November 11, 2024

Israel’s campaign against UNRWA precedes Oct. 7

The Israeli Knesset last week adopted two bills that will effectively ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from carrying out any activity in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

November 04, 2024

Israel’s ‘strategy’ of ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Under the slogan “Gaza is Ours, Forever,” a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border, on Oct. 20-21.

October 28, 2024

Why Israel is wrong to claim it is fighting on seven fronts

Israeli officials keep repeating that the country is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different.

October 21, 2024

On the murder of my sister and Israel’s war on hope

“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”

These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters.

October 14, 2024