Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a widely published and translated author, an internationally syndicated columnist and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter (2015), and was a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB. Visit his website at  www.ramzybaroud.net.

Urinating on Prisoners: Why Humiliation is Functional in Israel’s War on Palestinians

The Israeli military continues to act as it did during the Nakba, when it employed torture in a bid to crush the spirit of Palestinian resistance, perceiving the humiliation of Palestinians as an expression of dominance, power, and supremacy.

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By Ramzy Baroud
Israel forces strip and detain a group of men

When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians. Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor to the

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Dying to Be Free: Releasing Palestinian Captives is Not a Numbers Game

While Israelis see their captives, whether civilians or military, held in Gaza in terms of numbers, Palestinians approach the issue from an entirely different perspective.

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By Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian captives Feature photo

There is a reason why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza? Even if

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History of Gaza: Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

What is taking place in Gaza now is but an episode, a traumatic and a defining one, but nonetheless, a mere chapter in the history of a people who proved to be as durable and resilient as history itself.

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By Ramzy Baroud
Gaza Ancient History Feature photo

Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. And they can hardly be blamed. On November 3, the UN Development Programme and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced that 45 percent of Gaza’s housing units had been destroyed or damaged

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Gaza’s Call to the World: Unveiling the Silent Message of the Red Triangle

The origins of the small red triangle do not matter. Maybe it was intended to represent something or was simply a technical choice made by a young, tech-savvy Palestinian fighter to let us know where we needed to look. What truly matters is its deeper meaning.

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By Ramzy Baroud
Red Triangle Symbol Feature photo

Did you know an international conference was held in France on November 9 under the title 'International Humanitarian Conference for Gaza's Civilian Population'? According to the French foreign ministry website, the conference "involved states, main donors, international organizations and NGOs active in Gaza" to promote "compliance with

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Rape, ISIS, Mein Kampf and other Lies: How Israel Lost All Credibility

A whole generation, if not more, has already built a perception of Israel as a genocidal regime, and no number of future lies, Hollywood movies, or Maxim Magazine spreads will ever lessen that in any way.

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By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
Mein Kampf Hamas

On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital. The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context

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Gaza’s Hiroshima: The Collective West’s Silence Speaks Volumes

Gaza has been turned into a Hiroshima as a result of Western bombs and the blank political check handed to Israel by Western governments and leaders from the onset of the war, which, in fact, began 75 years ago.

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By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli airstrike Feature photo

On October 20, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not the only international figure to travel to the Gaza border, hoping to mobilize the international community in the face of an ongoing genocide in an already impoverished and

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‘Turning Gaza into Ashes’: Israeli Hasbara vs the World

As the bodies of thousands of Palestinian civilians, thousands of whom are children, pile up at Gaza hospitals’ morgues and, tragically, in the streets, Israel’s narrative is finally being challenged.

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By Ramzy Baroud
'Turning Gaza into Ashes': Israeli Hasbara vs the World

Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation in the entire Middle East and to re-center Palestine as the world’s most urgent political crisis for years to come. Since the establishment of Israel, facilitated by Britain and protected by the

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