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Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is it an ethereal notion, a sentiment, a poetic verse. It is all of this […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Palestinian boycott of Israel is not racist, it is anti-racist

The Palestinian boycott of Israel is not racist, it is anti-racist

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly The Forward, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine and Israel. Yang is a former Democratic Presidential candidate and is vying for […]

Israel/ Palestine
B'Tselem's historic declaration, "A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid"

B’Tselem’s historic declaration, “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid”

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. No matter how one is to interpret B’Tselem’s findings, the report is earth-shattering. The official Israeli response merely confirmed […]

Israel/ Palestine
"One State for Israel and Palestine is a Game Changer": A conversation with Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the one democratic state campaign

“One State for Israel and Palestine is a Game Changer”: A conversation with Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the one democratic state campaign

Ramzy Baroud

By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | – ( Middle East Monitor) – 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, […]

Displaced and Refugees
In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestinian territories: Refugee camps contain the hidden victims of Covid-19

In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestinian territories: Refugee camps contain the hidden victims of Covid-19

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, interest in the plight of the world’s most vulnerable populations, refugees, began to wane. A year later, and it is as if the refugee crisis has disappeared completely. It hasn’t, though. In fact, the world’s erstwhile leading humanitarian crisis has […]

Israel/ Palestine
“Master Swindler” Netanyahu isn’t the Cause of Israel’s Instability or Ruinous Colonization of Palestine, but the Symptom

“Master Swindler” Netanyahu isn’t the Cause of Israel’s Instability or Ruinous Colonization of Palestine, but the Symptom

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – It is convenient to surmise that Israel’s current political crisis is consistent with the country’s unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat defensible, it is also hasty. Israel is currently on the cusp of a fourth general election in less than two […]

Israel/ Palestine
Moving past apartheid: A one-state Solution for Israel-Palestine is not ideal justice, but it is just and possible

Moving past apartheid: A one-state Solution for Israel-Palestine is not ideal justice, but it is just and possible

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”. This position was communicated by EU Foreign Affairs Chief, Josep Borrell, on November 19, during a video-conference with Palestinian Authority Foreign […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Political Goal of Israeli systemic anti-Palestinian Racism

The Political Goal of Israeli systemic anti-Palestinian Racism

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of a new government-espoused agenda that is designed to […]

China
For 30 Years, US global Clout has been Unopposed:  With Rise of Chinese Superpower, that is about to Change

For 30 Years, US global Clout has been Unopposed: With Rise of Chinese Superpower, that is about to Change

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, in order for it to sustain its economic growth unhindered, it has to develop the necessary tools to […]

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