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Ramzy Baroud is a widely published and translated author. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. He has authored several books and contributed to many books, anthologies and academic journals. His books include "Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion" and "The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle". His latest book is "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story" (Pluto Press, London). Visit his website: ramzybaroud.net.

Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott

Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott

It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. …

The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears

The most painful part of this tragedy is that it was completely preventable, but perhaps neither the government nor Walmart and many others find the issue urgent enough for decisive…

Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars

The anti-Islam tirade received another boost following the Boston Marathon Bombings of April 15, 2013, which were blamed on two American-Chechen brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev…

A Hundred Deir Yassin and Counting: Beit Daras and the Buried History of Massacres

Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives…

Gaza’s Siege Intensifies: The Plan to ‘Moderate’ Hamas, Control Gaza

Gaza’s Siege Intensifies: The Plan to ‘Moderate’ Hamas, Control Gaza

When Israel imposed a siege on Gaza following Hamas’ election victory in 2006, it mattered little that Egypt and Gaza had a shared border. …

Turkey’s Unsustainable Politics in the Middle East: Israel vs. The Rest

Turkey’s Unsustainable Politics in the Middle East: Israel vs. The Rest

It is likely that Ankara will try to maintain a balanced position, but, as Erdogan himself knows, in issues of morality and justice, middle stances are simply untenable.…

Obama’s Peace Antics in Israel – Four More Years of This?

Obama’s Peace Antics in Israel – Four More Years of This?

At the precise moment US President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, persisting illusions quickly began to shatter. …

Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy

Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy

Ten years after Rachel Corrie’s death, the US government is yet to hold Israel to account. Neither is justice expected anytime soon.…

Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Hypocritical EU Must Make a Stand

Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Hypocritical EU Must Make a Stand

Western powers, led by the United States, have brought little pressure to bear on Israel to cease its illegal activities.…

Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live

Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live

This injustice needs to be known to the world and serious, organized and determined efforts must follow to bring the persecution of the Rohingya people to an end.…

Turkey’s Difficult Choice in Palestine, Israel

Turkey’s Difficult Choice in Palestine, Israel

An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the1990s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater…

Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually Want

Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually Want

All that victims in photos hope to achieve is for their oppression to end, not for the victimization itself to become such an accepted state of affairs and end in…

Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion

Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion

The future of Iraq is currently being determined by various forces and almost none of them are composed of Iraqi nationals with a uniting vision. …

Bulldozers and More Talks: Paving the Road for a New Status Quo

Bulldozers and More Talks: Paving the Road for a New Status Quo

Until Palestinians find an alternative to this sorry trio of Israel-US-PA peacemakers, all they can expect is more of the same…

No Security Firms for African Refugees: Opportunities and War in Mali

No Security Firms for African Refugees: Opportunities and War in Mali

From Libya to Mali a typical story is forming, coupled with lucrative contracts and massive opportunities of all sorts.…

Exploited and Misused: The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’

Exploited and Misused: The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’

To advance our understanding of what is transpiring in Arab and other countries in the region, we must let go of old definitions.…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada

The perks of the Oslo culture have sprouted over the years creating the Palestinian elite, whose interest and that of the Israeli occupation overlap beyond recognition of where the first…

History of the People: Articulating ‘Palestine’ Despite Israeli Hasbara

History of the People: Articulating ‘Palestine’ Despite Israeli Hasbara

We could try offering historical perspectives which attempt to see the world from the viewpoint of the oppressed.…

The Iranians Are Coming!

The Iranians Are Coming!

Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama would instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Apparently, barbarians coming from…

Nakba Revisited: Tragedy of Syria’s Palestinians and Centrality of Right of Return

Palestinians are once more dying and on the run and all sincere actions have to be geared towards helping those refugees cope with the conflict in Syria and return to…

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