Ramzy Baroud

Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on October 29, the UN Special Rapporteur deviated from the typical line of other UN officials. She directed her statements to those in attendance. “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize … Continue reading “End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?”

Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well. The ones who cost the Democrats the elections are the Democrats themselves. Their humiliating … Continue reading “Voting Against Genocide – How Gaza Defeated the Democratic Establishment”

On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from carrying out “any activity” in Israel and occupied Palestine. Simply put, the decision is catastrophic, because UNRWA is the main international body responsible for the welfare of millions of Palestinians … Continue reading “Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel Is Delegitimizing the United Nations”

Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20-21. The group represented the who’s who in the Israeli right, far right and ultranationalists. They included Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir, May Golan and Bezalel Smotrich, … Continue reading “‘Gaza Is Ours, Forever’ – Israel’s Extremists Have a Plan for the Day after the Genocide”

Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the Palestinians. “The Palestinians look at everything from a broad, long-term perspective,” he said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2019. “They see that, at … Continue reading “The Long History of Palestine – Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War”

Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went as far as saying that his country is fighting on seven different war fronts, all driven by the objective of … Continue reading “Israel’s Biblical Wars of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth of the ‘Seven War Fronts’”

“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on Oct. 9, when Israeli warplanes … Continue reading “On the Murder of My Sister and Israel’s War on Hope”

Editor’s Note:  This was written before Ramzy got the news that an Israeli airstrike killed his only sister on Wednesday. No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe, would, once again rally for Palestinian … Continue reading “A Year of Genocide – Despite the Unbelievable Pain, Palestinians Emerge Stronger”

The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers in their own homes. This official explanation by the Israeli military was meant to justify the killing of 492 people and the … Continue reading “Words Kill: Why Israel Gets Away With Murder in Gaza and Lebanon”

Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its victims. Even a quick glance at headlines in international media reveals the depth of the Israeli dilemma. While Tel Aviv continues to carry out a genocidal war against … Continue reading “Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza, and Why It Will Fail”