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.

El caos empeora: la inestabilidad política de Israel es ahora la norma

Incluso si un primer ministro supuestamente centrista o incluso izquierdista se encuentra al frente del gobierno, los resultados no cambiarán cuando la Knesset, de hecho, la mayor parte del país, esté gobernada por una mentalidad militarista, chovinista y colonial.

Ramzy Baroud
Por Ramzy Baroud
Naftali Bennett

The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett’s coalition government consisted of eight parties, welding together arguably one of the oddest

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15 años de experimentos fallidos: mitos y realidades sobre el asedio israelí a Gaza

“La idea es poner a dieta a los palestinos, pero no hacerlos morir de hambre”. – Dov Weisglass, asesor del primer ministro israelí Ariel Sharon

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Por Ramzy Baroud
Gaza siege Feature photo

Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades in history. The Israeli government had then justified its siege as the only way to protect Israel from Palestinian “terrorism and rocket attacks”. This

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Chomsky sobre el apartheid israelí, los activistas famosos, el BDS y la solución de un solo estado

Chomsky cree que llamar a las políticas israelíes hacia los palestinos “apartheid” es en realidad un “regalo a Israel”, al menos, si por apartheid uno se refiere al apartheid al estilo sudafricano.

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Romana Rubeo
Por Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
Chomsky Israel Feature photo

This is, according to the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the ‘interregnum’- the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new conflicts and struggles ensue. The Gramscian ‘interregnum, however, is not a smooth transition, for these profound changes often embody a

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Los palestinos 'no son animales en un zoológico': redefiniendo el papel de la 'víctima intelectual'

Para que la narrativa palestina sea verdaderamente relevante, los palestinos deben asumir el papel del intelectual gramsciano, como "proveedores de conciencia" y abandonar por completo el papel de "víctima intelectual".

Ramzy Baroud
Por Ramzy Baroud

Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972. Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, U.S. media introduced many new characters, promoting them as “experts” who helped ratchet up propaganda, ultimately allowing the U.S.

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Los palestinos "están obligados a ganar": por qué los israelíes profetizan el fin de su Estado

Dado que Israel siempre se ha definido a sí mismo como un Estado judío, su futuro está vinculado principalmente a su capacidad para mantener una mayoría judía en la Palestina histórica.

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Por Ramzy Baroud
Palestanian stone thrower feature photo

While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component of Israel’s perception of itself, and of the state’s relationship to other groups, especially Christian messianic groups in the United States and

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El nuevo modelo de resistencia de Palestina: cómo el año pasado redefinió la lucha por la libertad

Una nueva encuesta reveló que el 60% de los palestinos apoya “un regreso a los enfrentamientos armados y la Intifada” en la lucha contra la ocupación de Israel.

Ramzy Baroud
Por Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian resistance Feature photo

What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilization against the Israeli occupation, resistance in Palestine is no longer an ideological, political or regional preference. In the period between the signing of the Oslo

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La limpieza étnica de Masafer Yatta: la nueva estrategia de anexión de Israel en Palestina

En lugar de anexar el 40% de Cisjordania de una sola vez, Israel ahora está anexando extensiones de tierra y regiones más pequeñas, como Masafer Yatta, por separado.

Ramzy Baroud
Por Ramzy Baroud
Masafer Yatta

The Israeli Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta, located in the southern hills of Hebron, is to be entirely appropriated by the Israeli military and that a population of over 1,000 Palestinians is to be expelled. The Israeli Court decision, on May 4, was hardly shocking. Israel’s military occupation does not

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