Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books including: These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (2019), My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (2010) and The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (2006). Dr. Baroud is a non-resident senior research fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University (IZU). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net.
Ramzy's articles (13 total)
Don't forget the plight of Palestinian Christians
The brutal beating of a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem has caused revulsion. It should also remind us of the marginalisation of Christians in the Palestinian homeland.
Israel’s war obsession
Israel’s escalating wars reflect a long-standing strategy of military dominance, but recent conflicts are exposing its limits and internal contradictions.
From Gaza to Minab – children are paying the price of war
The scale of children killed, wounded and orphaned in modern conflicts demands more than outrage – it requires a refusal to accept their deaths as normal.
A war without headlines
The annihilation of Gaza has rendered the violence in the West Bank seemingly secondary in the global imagination.
The unvanquished will: Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centres on two core principles: grief and defiance.
From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage
If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideology and politics.
The price of genocide: How US funding sustains an unravelling Israeli economy
In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli companies.
Netanyahu’s endgame: Isolation and the shattered illusion of power
It remains uncertain how long Benjamin Netanyahu will remain in power, but his political standing has significantly deteriorated. He faces widespread domestic opposition and international condemnation.
Gaza’s unbreakable resistance: A historical perspective on the war and its aftermath
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events.
How Israel’s ‘First Defeat’ will shape the country’s future
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.”
The fall of Israeli impunity: The world is starting to hold Tel Aviv accountable for the Gaza genocide
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil.
Israel’s true objectives in Gaza, and why it will fail
Never in its history of war, and military occupation, has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its victims.
Cruelty of language — the NYT’s leaked Gaza Memo
Ramzy Baroud responds to revelations about The New York Times “guidance” on language about the Israeli mass slaughter in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7.