Romana Rubeo

Romana Rubeo is an Italian writer and the managing editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Her articles appeared in many online newspapers and academic journals. She holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, and specializes in audio-visual and journalism translation.

‘A Game Changer’: Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the One Democratic State Campaign

“It is a game-changer which will force everyone in the region – and in the world – to look very differently at the Palestine Question.” –Ilan Pappe

Ramzy Baroud
Romana Rubeo
By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
One State Solution Feature photo

As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel’s political discourse on Palestine, the Israeli government of right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may feel that it, alone, is capable of determining the future of the Palestinian people.  This conclusion is, perhaps, gleaned from Israel’s behavior in recent years and months.

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A UN Vote Exposed Canada’s Blind and Unconditional Support for Israel

While Canada’s support for Israel is, to a certain extent, consistent with Canada’s own colonial past and present interventionist foreign policy, the Canadian people and the international community remain major obstacles, challenging the toxic affinity between Ottawa and Tel Aviv.

Ramzy Baroud
Romana Rubeo
By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
Israel Canada Feature photo

The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true nature of Canada’s global position, particularly in the matter of its blind and unconditional support for Israel. On June 17, Canada lost its second bid for the

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What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of War Crimes in Occupied Palestine

Considering the number of UN resolutions that Israel has violated throughout the years – the perpetual occupation of Palestine, the siege on Gaza, and the elaborate system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians, finding Israel guilty of war crimes, among others “serious crimes” should be a straightforward matter.

Romana Rubeo
Ramzy Baroud
By Romana Rubeo
And Ramzy Baroud
Gaza fights for freedom feature photo

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. On April 30, Bensouda released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for that decision, concluding that “the Prosecution

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Coronavirus: How Are European Countries Treating Refugees Amid the Pandemic?

Neglecting the refugees while fighting coronavirus is as foolish as it is inhumane. The last few months have taught us that self-centered strategies do not apply in the cases of global healthcare crises.

Romana Rubeo
Ramzy Baroud
By Romana Rubeo
And Ramzy Baroud
Europe Refugees Coronavirus Feature photo

As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international groups, sounded the alarm that refugees and migrants are particularly vulnerable to the deadly disease. “We strongly emphasize the need for inclusive national

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A New Global Order? How Coronavirus Will Change the World Forever

The post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II.

Romana Rubeo
Ramzy Baroud
By Romana Rubeo
And Ramzy Baroud
Coronavirus globalization

The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II. Even before the ‘curve flattened’ in many countries that have experienced high death tolls - let alone economic devastation - as a result of

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Israel’s Fingerprint Are All Over the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

The fingerprints of Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, are unmistakably present in the assassination. It is plausible that the attack at Soleimani’s convoy was a joint CIA-Mossad operation.

Ramzy Baroud
Romana Rubeo
By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
Soleimani Protest Feature photo

By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled – the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney

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Anti-BDS Laws and Pro-Israeli Parliament: Zionism Is Winning in Italy

Italy’s anti-Fascist, anti-military occupation and revolutionary past is being overlooked by self-serving politicians, growingly beholden to the pressures of a burgeoning pro-Israel lobby.

Ramzy Baroud
Romana Rubeo
By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
A Mural by students at the University of Cagliari in n Cagliari, Italy.

Analysis -- A proposed law at the Italian Parliament is set to punish the boycott of Israel. In the past, such an initiative would have been unthinkable. Alas, Italy, a country that had historic sympathies with the Palestinian cause has shifted its politics in a dramatic way in recent years. Most surprisingly, though, the Left is as implicated as

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