Articles By Ramzy Baroud

 

The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel An American Issue, And Lost

Shababeek: Opening The Window To Palestinian Refugees

The New Cold War Is Happening In Africa: 'New Colonialism' - Distortions of Africa

Foreign Policy For Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance With Israel

'Whitewashing' Genocide in Myanmar: Part Of 'A Cheerleading Squad For The Government'

The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget

'Race Law' Takes Jerusalem a Step Closer to Being a Jewish-Only City

Shadow Armies: The Unseen, But Real US War in Africa

Year In Review: Will 2018 Usher In A New Palestinian Strategy?

Year in Review: Will 2018 Usher in a New Palestinian Strategy?

Palestine: It Is Time for a New Beginning

Decades of US Diplomacy Has Failed: Why the US Wants to Shut the PLO Office

70 Years Of Broken Promises: The Untold Story Of The Partition Plan

The Trials of Benjamin Netanyahu: Corruption in Israel is Not Just an Israeli Issue

'Creeping Annexation': Why Israel Shelved the 'Greater Jerusalem Law'

How Britain Became An Obstacle To Peace

Palestinian Bedouins Refuse To Surrender 116 Times

Power to the People: Why Palestinian Victory in Jerusalem is a Pivotal Moment

How Trump and Netanyahu pushed the Palestinians into a corner: ....More violence is likely to follow

Paris and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East

Azaria Case Leaves Israel Exposed

The Balancing Act is Over: What Elor Azaria Taught Us about Israel

Why the Fear-mongering? Only One Democratic State is Possible in Palestine and Israel

A Blessing in Disguise? The Trump Presidency May be Better for Palestine

Palestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe

For Palestinians, Zionism only Means One Thing

Navigating War: Has the War in Syria also Destroyed Journalism?

Where is Fatah Headed after Its Seventh Congress?

Hold Your Applause, Fatah, the Palestinian Body Politic is Rotten to the Core

Less Symbolism, More Action: Towards Meaningful Solidarity with Palestine

On Palestine, Obama and Trump Are All the Same

What Should Palestinians Expect - Can Trump Be Any Worse?

Israel Cannot Silence Prayer Calls

Praying for Freedom: Why Is Israel Silencing the Call for Prayer in Jerusalem?

The Infamy of the Palestinian Elites: An Imminent Split within Fatah?

Why Palestinians Want to Sue Britain

Jerusalem and Its Walls: UNESCO Refuses to Bow to Israeli Pressure

The War on UNESCO: Al-Aqsa Mosque is Palestinian and East Jerusalem is Illegally Occupied

The Convoluted Discourse: Was The Women's Boat to Gaza an Existential Threat?

Shimon Peres, An Israeli Brand without Substance

Ban Ki-moon's Legacy in Palestine: Failure in Words and Deeds

Honoring Aylan Kurdi by Ending the War in Syria

Is Israel Pushing for a Palestinian Civil War?

The Native American, the Palestinian: A Spirited Fight for Justice

Lieberman's War on Everything Palestinian - and Why He Will Fail

Divide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine is Killing Prospects for Freedom

Divide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine is Killing Prospects for Freedom

Of Hajah Zainab - Is Palestine Still the Central Issue for Arabs?

Farewell to Yarmouk: A Palestinian Refugee's Journey from Izmir to Greece

People above Politics: Political Deal will not Hamper the Turkish-Palestinian Bond

Will Brexit Help the Palestinian Cause in the EU?

Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War

Israel's Future is Terrifying: Moshe Ya'alon and Israel's Disconcerting 'Morality'

The Reductionist View of an Intifada

Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story

Roots of the Conflict: Palestine's Nakba in the Larger Arab 'Catastrophe

A Palestinian Perspective on Britain's 'Anti-Semitic' Controversy

The Spirit of Nelson Mandela in Palestine: Is His Real Legacy Being Upheld?

By Sparing Israel, Abbas Deepens Palestinian Split

Did the Arabs Betray Palestine?

At 80, Failed Abbas is Probed, Derided and Scapegoated

The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World

Non-violent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned

Israel Cannot Win the Fight with BDS

Intifada for Dummies: Why a Popular Uprising is Yet to Take Off?

How Impunity Defines Israel and Victimizes Palestinians

Why BDS Cannot Lose: A Moral Threshold to Combat Racism in Israel

Politics Not as Usual: Is This the Age of American Fascism?

'Plan B' - Not an Enigma: Why the West is Keen on Dividing the Arabs

Why We Must Transcend the Clinton-Sanders Debate: The Middle East in US Foreign Policy

'Good Labor - Bad Likud': Dispelling the Myth of 'Democracy' within Israel's Political Establishment

Next Onslaught in Gaza: Why the Status Quo is a Precursor for War

The Logic of Hunger Striking Palestinians: When Starvation Is a Weapon

Why is Trauma Missing from Syria Refugee Debate?

Gaza Speaks: This is What the Decade-long Siege Has Done to Us

Defined by Nakba and Exile: The Complex Reality of 'Home' for Palestinians

Palestine after Abbas: The Future of a People at Stake

An Open Letter to Young Muslims Everywhere: The Seed of Triumph in Every Adversity

Beware 'Sunni-Stan': Neocons are Back and Their 'Vision' is Darker than Ever

Hungry Warrior: The Untold Story of Hana Shalabi

Open Rafah Now: Siege on Gaza is a Cruel and Political Failure

Reclaiming Palestine: How Israeli Media Misread the Intifada

Forget Daesh: Humanity is at Stake

Rohingya vs the Generals: How To Forge A Democracy And Get Away With It

Remaking the Middle East: How the US Grew Tired and Less Relevant

Sorry, JK Rowling, You're Wrong over The Israel Boycott

Confronting the Obvious Truth: Palestinian Authority vs. the People

Of Course, It Is An Intifada: This Is What You Must Know

Listen to Syrians: The Media Jackals and the People's Narrative

Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda - What is There to Celebrate?

Israel's High-Stake Game in Al-Aqsa and Why Netanyahu May Prevail

How Yarmouk Came About: Israel's Unabashed Role in the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Palestine's Crisis of Leadership: Did Abbas Destroy Palestinian Democracy?

'Islamic State' Pretence and the Upcoming Wars in Libya

Misreading the Refugee Crisis: Question Whether European Countries Lack Sympathy

Shifting Priorities: The Rise and Fall of Arab Revolutionary Discourse

Missing Link in Palestinian Baby's Murder

The Palestinian Bubble and the Burning of Toddler, Ali Dawabsha

Why Palestinians Fight Back: The Logic of Life and Death in Gaza

No 'Crisis in Islam': Just Apathy of So-called 'Historians'

Baskin's Generous Offer: Making Peace with Israeli Occupation

The B Vocabulary: The Western Left and Its Sterile 'Field of Ideas'

Beyond the Middle East: The Rohingya Genocide

Just Politics: Iran, Like the Rest, Is Not Blameless

Stuck in Area A: How We Were Duped into Disowning the Palestinians

My Missing Family in Syria: Naming and Shaming in Yarmouk

My Missing Family in Syria: Naming and Shaming in Yarmouk

No Arab Bolivars: As Region Implodes, Arab Socialism Fizzles out

The Collapse of the Obama Doctrine: Yemen War as an Opportunity?

Eight Urgent 'Musts' Needed for Palestinians to Defeat Apartheid

Netanyahu the Mythbuster: 'Special Relationship' No More

'Islamic State' as a Western Phenomenon: Reimagining the IS Debate

The Secret History of My Geography Teacher, Also Co-founder of Hamas

The Arab Intellectual is Resting, Not Dead: History Without The Moral Leadership Of Intellectuals Is Devoid Of Meaning

Obama's Admission Not Enough: US Spin on Middle East Violence Must Change

Parking Space Terrorism: Time for Action after Killing of Three US Muslims

Mending 'Axis of Resistance': Hamas Goes Back to Square One

The 'Great War' of Sinai: How to Lose a 'War on Terror'

Dear Syria: From One Refugee to Another - The Gusts Of Cold Wind Are But Of A Passing Storm

Lessons that Hollande Failed to Learn from Bush's Blunders

Whitewashing CIA Torture: 'We Are (Not So) Awesome' After All

'I Can't Breathe': Racism and War in America and Beyond

The Mockingjay of Palestine: 'If We Burn, You Burn With Us'

Talk of a Third Intifada: Where to from Here, Palestine?

Phantoms Of The Past: Britain's Vote On Palestine Is A Nonstarter

The Missing Context: 'Islamic State' Sectarianism is Not Coincidental

What if 'Islamic State' Didn't Exist? Flexible Language, Foreign Menace, US-western Motives, Al-qaeda Connection - IS Must Exist

Nakhwa Without Borders: Gaza and the End of 'Arab Gallantry'

Convenient Genocide: Another Failed War to Re-Arrange the Middle East

Losing the Plot: Israel's Premier to Face New Gaza Reality - Disastrous War

Netanyahu vs. Abu Ubaydah: On Victory and False Victory

Fearing Political Islam: Why Arabs Betrayed Gaza

Gaza Changed Everything: Things Cannot Stay the Same after Israeli Genocide

Hashtag Genocide: Why Gaza Fought Back - Not About Mere Resistance Strategies, But Their Very Survival

On Heroes and Preachers: Gaza's New Resistance Paradigm

Recruiting to Kill - It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza: US War on Gaza, EU Duplicity, Israeli-western War

Israel Awakens the Palestine It Tried to Crush

'Prince of Darkness' Disowns Iraq's Tragedy

Ramadan, Socialism and the Neighbour's Beat-up Car

Reverting to the Ummah: Who is the 'Angry Muslim' and Why

ISIL and Iraq's Pandora's Box: Dark Forces of Sectarianism, Ongoing US War and Maliki Regime

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Iraq's Pandora's Box

Missing Settlers Become Weapons in a War on Unity

Why True Palestinian Unity Remains Elusive: Palestinians Yet To Achieve National Unity

The Lost Voices of the Arab Revolutions: Not Have To Set Themselves Ablaze

Haftar Leads A Coup: A General's Odd War on the Muslim Brotherhood

66 Year Nakba: I Saw Yafa, Land of Oranges

A Kuffiya for Tony Benn - The British Warrior Who 'Matured with Age'

Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath

Tears of Yarmouk - The Palestinian Lesson that Every Syrian Should Know

Omar and the Checkpoint: Everyday a Nightmare

The Libyan Bedlam: General Hifter, the CIA and the Unfinished Coup

Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women

Iraq Near Implosion: The 'Bad Years' Are Back

Principles to Guide the Young Activist: About Palestine, Its People And Its Ongoing Struggle For Freedom And Rights

The Strange But 'Stable' Alliance: US Senate Await Israeli Instructions

The Whitewashing of Ariel Sharon: The Dead Former Israeli Leader Was No Hero

Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria

2014: Failure of Palestinian Authority, BDS Success to Continue

2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt - The War Continues

BDS: Permanent Address for Palestinian Solidarity

Beit Sahour: Boycott is Historically Palestinian

From the Middle East to Lausanne: Arabic Thoughts Amidst The Alps

With Leaders Like These: Yet a New Threshold for Gaza's Misery

The War In Mali: Stability At Stake In West Africa - A Long-drawn New "War On Terror"

Understanding Hamas at 25: Beyond The Tired Language

Palestine's New Status: A History Rerun Or A New Palestinian Strategy

Of 'Symbolic' Victories And Real Defeats: Alarming To The US, Israel And, Of Course, The Traditional PLO Leadership

A Different War In Gaza, And The War Ahead

Netanyahu's High-stakes Game in Gaza: Same Time, Same Place

Lip Service to Peace: EU as an Enabler of Netanyahu's Colonial Policies

Palestine Entangled: The Politics of Money

Palestinian Refugees From Syria Lost And 'Betrayed'

Fighting Apartheid in Palestine: South Africa's Unfinished Business

Arrigoni's Murder Trial in Gaza: Answers Not Just a Verdict -- Vittorio Utopia Arrigoni: ''History is us'

The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News

US Realists, Neocons And The War In Syria

Shifting Truths In Sinai: Who Stands To Gain From Carnage?

Neocons vs. the 'Arab Spring': Back on the Warpath

Democracy And Slaughter In Burma: Gold Rush Overrides Human Rights

Rohingya People Killed as the World Watches: Traditional Bounds Of Cruelty

Hamas and Jordan: Winds of Change, Uncertainty

Gaza Experiment: Mere Words Will Not Help Solve Gaza Crisis

Sectarian Divide Takes Alarming Turn: Civilians Remorselessly Butchered In Al Houla

Gaza Border 'Opening' is Just Rhetoric: Played Over And Over Again

Gates & NATO: Misery Loves Company - Not Having So Many Men Under Arms

One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza

Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited

Welcome to Gaza: Revolution and Change at the Rafah Border

US Rethinks Strategy: War as Opportunity in Libya

War on Palestinian Memory: Israel Resolves Its Democracy Dilemma

For the Love of Egypt: When Besieged Palestinians Danced

Civil Society and Palestine: The Growing Power of the Ordinary

Mixed Messages: Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara

Till September: The PA's Meaningless Deadlines

Hurriya Is Arabic For Freedom: Just Listen To Egypt Roar

Palestine Papers: The Palestinians' 'Generous Offer'

The Palestine Papers: Offering Palestine, Selling Out Its Refugees

Generalizing Tunisia: Context Overrides Story

Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope And Failure

Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall

Whitewashing Defeat: Obama's Indecisiveness Defines His Presidency

Insisting on Their Humanity: 'The Plight of the Palestinians'

WikiLeaks Indicts, Vindicates U.S. Diplomats

Lebanon At Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards

A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint

Conned By Democracy: The Middle East's Stagnant 'Change'

Such Is the Peace Process: Obama As A Salesman

The Violence Debate: Teaching the Oppressed How to Fight Oppression

'Dying To Win': Newt Gingrich's 'Terrorism' - Embodied In The Ill-defined 'War On Terror'

Farewell To Arms: Jenny, Iraq And The Next War

Why Mitchell Said 'No': Hamas is Not Ready to be 'Engaged'

Regarding US Muslims: A Misguided Debate - Facing Increasing Levels Of Hostility And Fear

The Photo before the Storm: Peace Talks Already Failed

Behind The Israeli Wall: A Lesson In Reality - Situation Seems So Helpless

Trapped At Ground Zero: Obama Rhetoric Of Change, Hope And Audacity

Rebranding Iraq: Playing with Numbers and Human Lives

Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching For Meaning In A Refugee Camp

Why Muslims Should Rethink Palestine: Muslims Must Stand, Hand In Hand

Smoke On A Bridge: Lebanon Awaits A Verdict

Redundant But Dangerous Language: Talking Zionism To The Zionists

Beyond Violence and Non-Violence: Resistance As A Culture

Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives: Efficient Killing, Profits and Human Rights

Millennium Goals Revisited: Noble Ideas, and Feel-Good Moments

Turkey Accepts The Challenge: With Firm Intentions Of Breaking The Siege

The Old Gaza Boy And The Sea: Denied The Right To Visit Palestine

Facebook And Muslim Outrage: Blasphemy, Freedom Of Expression - What Freedom?

'The Internet Is A Game Changer' - A Paperless World

'Overcoming The Bush Legacy': New Language Is Not Enough

Karazai's Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar

Yemen's Sorrowful Options: 'Revolt, Migrate or Die' - In Face Of The World Order

The South Reduced: How the News Promotes a Mistaken View of the World

From Neptune to Gaza: Palestinian From Places That No Longer Exist

Dispatch From China: Number 15 Has Left the Building

Indispensable IslamOnline Must Not Fail: Muslims Needing A Common Platform

The Lobby vs. America: On Netanyahu's Lies and the Spineless Politicians

The Lobby vs. America: On Netanyahu's Lies and the Spineless Politicians

My Children, Ralph Nader and the South China Sea

Activism Is Change, Not Academic Squabbles And Bickering

Alternative Reading Of The Al-Mabhouh Murder: Enough Of Israeli Stories

Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On

Challenging History: Why the Oppressed Must Tell Their Own Story

Western Media, Not Israeli Hasbara: Aiding Zionist Oppressors Against The Palestinians

The Useless Logic Of Round Numbers: War Is Criminal Any Day

Gaza And Lebanon: Beware The Iron Wall, The Coming War

It's Not A New Turkey, It's The Right Time

Iran And Latin America: The Media States Its Case

An Odyssey For Justice: Resisting Zionists - A Bold Assertion

Media Vultures Are Coming: Freedom Of Expression At Risk

On Gaza Drivers, Rumours and Egypt's Steel Wall

Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe's Identity Crisis - Islamophobia

The Lobby Within: America The Proven Enemy Of Liberating The Palestinians

The Hypocrisy Of Al-Demoqratia: So This Is How Democracy Works?

Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture

How Israel Won the Settlement Battle Again: Freedom for Occupied, Oppressed Palestinians

No Emergency Summits for Arab Human Development Crisis

Taking Flight: Memories of Diaspora - Gaza's Untold Story

Mayhem In Jerusalem While Politicians Mumble

Taking Flight: Memories of Diaspora -Allah Comes To The Side Of The Oppressed

War, Negation And Muslim Identity Revisited: Religious Progression

Abbas And The Goldstone Report: Our Shame Is Complete - The Arabs

Obama's Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin America

Iran's Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention

Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?

Perpetual Grief Over September 11th: An American Plethora Of Feelings Of Sorrow?

US Audacity Of Hope Falters: Outcome Of The Obama-Netanyahu Battle Of Wills

Fighting For The Right To Walk: Zionism Paralyzing The Palestinian

Gaza's Kite Runners: The Message About Resilience, Defiance, Pride And Hope

Israeli Conundrum: 'How To Deal With Iran' - Plans Of Large-scale Military Attack

The Real Tragedy - Who Killed Yasser Arafat and Why?

Gaza And The Language Of Power: The Unchanged Post-Gaza Massacre World

Hamas' Political Impasse: Between Principal And Necessity

Ahmadinejad Re-elected: Israel and Obama's Iran Puzzle

Obama's Speech: Great Oratory, Wrong Message - Misreading The Conflict

Can Obama Work His Magic on Arabs? Or So Naïve To Woo By Mere Rhetoric

Netanyahu's New Quest: The Game is On: Separating Palestinians From Their Land

Gaza Disowned: The Pope, Israel and 'Reconciliation' - 2,000 Catholics In Gaza Not Important For The 'Cut'?

The Drones Are Coming: New War On Civilians - Obama, Zardari And Karzai

War without Context: Fatah, Hamas and Flawed Language

Media Scrutiny Knows No Diplomat: The Audacity To Masquerade

Gaza: The Untold Story - More To The Gaza Strip Than 1.5 million Hungry Palestinians

Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World's Unfinished Business

Iraq's 'Remarkable' Security Charade: The Gruesome Crimes

Gaza: Salvation In A News Broadcast - Bulletining Aired Disaster

The Rights of Women as Casualties of War: Health, Economics And Politics

Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections

Bush's Last Bullet: Why The US Attacked Syria - States Terrorism

A Third Palestinian Intifada In The Making: People Changing Roles

World Food Day: Global Crises' Double Standards: Most Tumultuous Times On Record

Europe And The Middle East: Will EU Be A More Just Mediator?

The Palin- Biden Debate: High Time to Move Beyond Clichés

Life After Bush: Forecasting Peace In Palestine - Any Measurable Difference?

Marathon For Children: Running For The Right To Play

Palestinian Economy: From Bad To Wretched - Operation Starving The People

Palestinian Unity: Goal or Mantra? The Painful-to-watch Bickering

The Syria-Israel Peace Gambit: Zionists' Golan Heights True Objective

A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War?

Global Realignment: How Bush Inspired a New World Order

The Saakashvili Experiment: Georgia, US, Russia And The Billions Of Barrels Of Oil In The Caspian Basin

Olympic Follies and Triumphs: Refusing To Kneel To Adversity Or Surrender To Despair

ICC and al-Bashir: Ocampo's Justice: Politicising Of The Crisis And The Selectiveness

Family Politics And the New Gaza Crisis: Blindfolding, Stripping Down Palestinian Men

United by Misery: Two Boys from Gaza and Nilin

Obama Joins The Club: What Is Ahead Under The Next US President; More Of The Same

A Kodak Moment: The Not-So-Historic Talabani-Barak Handshake

Journalistic Imperatives: Saying What Others Mightn't

Why Should Barack Obama's Religion Matter? African-American Mere America

Palestine in the American Imagination: Religion, Politics and Media

On Humiliation, And Gaza's Dying Children: Helpless Palestinians Are Victimised Daily

Legalizing Occupation: Bush's Last Manoeuvre in Iraq - Still Continuously And Unrelenting A Bloodsucker