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President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Israel's P
Features / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
BREAKING POINT: Israelis take part in a protest against Prim
Features / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Buildings destroyed during the Israeli air and ground offens
Features / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
Israel’s crimes in Gaza have forced a reckoning with international law’s selective application as Western nations sanction ICC prosecutors and attack UN officials who demand accountability, writes RAMZY BAROUD
West Bank
Features / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
Will 2025 be a year of combat for Israel, as promised by the new IDF chief of staff, wonders RAMZY BAROUD
Displaced Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in th
Features / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
RAMZY BAROUD explains why, despite horrific losses and destruction, many Palestinians talk of return to their homes as a victory
MOVING SCENES: Displaced Palestinians return to their homes
Features / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
As Gazans return to the ruins of their homes, their chants and songs and moving spirit of defiance point the way to a new Palestinian future, by and of the people, writes RAMZY BAROUD
BARBARITY: A man looks at smoke rising following an explosio
Features / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Though justice for Israel’s war crimes may be delayed, as long as there are pursuers like the Hind Rajab Foundation, it will someday be attained, argues RAMZY BAROUD
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Features / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
The Israeli PM has won political favour by repeatedly playing the victim card – but when the war on Gaza ends this kind of manoeuvring will no longer suffice in order to maintain his coalition, says RAMZY BAROUD
The Israeli settlement of Har Homa, seen from the West Bank
Features / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
RAMZY BAROUD explains that with the world already unable or unwilling to confront Israel’s murderous devastation of Gaza, it is likely to seize the opportunity to annex the larger but equally vulnerable West Bank territory
Activists protest outside the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Dev
Features / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
RAMZY BAROUD offers a penetrating, if blunt, insight on the changing nature and role of international solidarity for Palestine
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Features / 22 November 2024
22 November 2024
Israel’s right-wing government refuses to acknowledge its military failures and declining global legitimacy, while allowing itself to entertain delusional expansion plans fuelled by religious extremism, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Features / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
RAMZY BAROUD argues that while Donald Trump’s victory offers no solution, voters’ rejection of US support for Israeli genocide shows the potential for sustained political pressure on the Palestine issue going forward
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvi
Features / 22 October 2024
22 October 2024
Rejecting its painfully dishonest claim of self-defence, RAMZY BAROUD warns that the biblical language being used by the Israeli regime is evidence of its deepening commitment to a ‘greater Israel’ created by violent expansionism
Dr Soma Baroud
Features / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
Dr Soma Baroud’s life and death embody the tragedy facing the people of Gaza, writes her brother RAMZY BAROUD, sharing her last words of resilience and love in the face of unimaginable loss
Members of the Al-Rabaya family break their fast during the
Features / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Israel's brutal war on Gaza has exposed it to potential legal accountability and failed to silence Palestinian resistance. Instead, the conflict has recentred the Palestinian cause globally, and revealed the limits of Israeli military power, writes RAMZY BAROUD
12 - IDF in Gaza
Features / 28 September 2024
28 September 2024
RAMZY BAROUD details the brazen scheme to recruit African asylum-seekers to fight in the IDF, a desperate measure that lays bare Israel’s deep systemic racism — and mounting recruitment crisis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
RAMZY BAROUD dissects the Israeli PM’s cartographic deceit, exposing how the erasure of Palestinian territories reflects a broader strategy of denial, displacement and eventually the extermination of an entire people
10 - settler violence
Features / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
RAMZY BAROUD exposes the growing rift between Israel’s religious zealots and its security establishment, as Kahanist ideology and growing settler violence begin to destabilise the delicate balance of the occupation regime
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Features / 28 August 2024
28 August 2024
Israel has had a long and troubled history with the United Nations and other UN-linked institutions, writes RAMZY BAROUD
West Bank
Features / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
The war in Gaza is being used as the perfect smokescreen to finalise old colonial plans in the West Bank, argues RAMZY BAROUD
11 - IDF captives
Features / 14 August 2024
14 August 2024
Leaked videos, starving prisoners and biblical revenge – RAMZY BAROUD peels back the layers of Israel’s desperate bid to restore fear after October 7 shattered its myths
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pictured before
Features / 30 July 2024
30 July 2024
The Israeli PM has lost his status as a ‘modern-day prophet,’ including among Israelis, as opinion polls now tell us, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A Palestinian girl reacts as a child is carried from the rub
Features / 23 July 2024
23 July 2024
RAMZY BAROUD exposes the systematic targeting of UN facilities in Gaza, explaining how this is part of a broader strategy of erasing Palestinian refugee rights and history while blocking international aid
Joe Biden
Features / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
As Israel’s onslaught continues, nations like Spain and Ireland are breaking ranks with Washington’s unwavering support. The US now faces a legitimacy crisis that could reshape the world order, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike
Features / 4 June 2024
4 June 2024
Spain’s deputy prime minister declares ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ as Europe finally catches up with global support for Palestinians, while Israel's language turns to existential fears, writes RAMZY BAROUD
refugees
Features / 10 May 2024
10 May 2024
It is clear now beyond any doubt that Israel aims to destroy Gaza and annex the West Bank. As the Palestinian resistance has shown this is not possible, will the West start listening to the Palestinian people, asks RAMZY BAROUD
8 - settler violence
Features / 24 April 2024
24 April 2024
RAMZY BAROUD traces the roots of today’s extremists who are now setting up private militias in Israel back to the murderous Kahanist movement — and warns they are playing the long game when it comes to political power
WCK
Features / 10 April 2024
10 April 2024
RAMZY BAROUD explains that Israel isn’t making mistakes, even due to callous carelessness — killing aid workers is part of a wider plan to make life in northern Gaza impossible, to facilitate ethnic cleansing
protest
Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Just as the IDF faces an impossible task in Gaza, unable to commit to an indefinite war like the local resistance fighters are, Netanyahu faces the downfall of his coalition — however the war develops, explains RAMZY BAROUD
10 - IDF tanks
Features / 29 March 2024
29 March 2024
Far from ‘standing alone’ Israel is fully supplied with military hardware from various Western and non-Western countries, writes RAMZY BAROUD
10 - Biden Netanyahu
Features / 21 March 2024
21 March 2024
US officials admit over 25,000 Palestinian civilians killed, yet shipments of weapons to Israel continue. But now Biden’s private frustration with Netanyahu is starting to become impossible to hide from the public, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Jared Kushner
Features / 6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Biden’s laughably inadequate political ‘deals’ face surging global solidarity: China defends our right to armed struggle, and even Europe condemns Israel's war crimes. We are winning support like never before, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Ceasefire New York
Features / 27 February 2024
27 February 2024
The overwhelming majority of world opinion continues to defy the US’s support of Israel — now it is time to end the world’s longest occupation by finally turning these words into action, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Ursula von der Leyen
Features / 31 January 2024
31 January 2024
While Washington is safely isolated geographically, it is in Europe's interests to develop a backbone about the crimes happening on its doorstep — and finally force Israel to take it seriously, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, wears a p
Features / 4 January 2024
4 January 2024
RAMZY BAROUD says it is as if the legacy of the US’s own ‘war on terror’ has been completely forgotten, or ignored — but the faltering superpower will not escape accountability for the billions and bombs it has given Israel to kill Palestinians
Palestinian Fairuze Salameh is greeted after she was release
Features / 4 December 2023
4 December 2023
Despite the enormous price paid in retaliation, the principle of freeing those held in Israeli prisons goes to the heart of reasons why Palestinians resist in the way they do, writes RAMZY BAROUD
IDF soldier
Features / 13 November 2023
13 November 2023
The pro-war, pro-occupation sections of Israeli society should remember how the last attempts to hold Gaza went; the truth is there is no military solution for the IDF in Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
ROLES REVERSED: Smoke rises from Ashkelon, Israel, after a r
Opinion / 11 October 2023
11 October 2023
As Israel searches for answers as to how they were quickly overrun, it is no surprise that volunteers for such a massive operation were found among the millions trapped in Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Features / 7 September 2023
7 September 2023
Not a single Israeli military or government official has been held accountable in an international court for the deliberate targeting of minors in an ever-increasing roll call of death, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A Palestinian boy rides a donkey through dry land in the nor
Features / 18 August 2023
18 August 2023
The decline of the Western bloc led by the US and the rise of the global South give Palestinians fresh hope – especially the rapid rise of old ally China – but will their leadership act on it, asks RAMZY BAROUD
A man walks by destroyed cars in Jenin refugee camp in the W
Opinion / 11 July 2023
11 July 2023
A new generation has buried the ghosts of the past, its irrelevant, unenforced peace pacts and bitter, factional infighting, and embraced a new era of Palestinian resistance, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Asylum seekers on a beach
Features / 20 June 2023
20 June 2023
Too many lavish dinners will be catered in the name of the refugees in many Western capitals and embassies around the world – but little will change and the real culprits will avoid censure, says RAMZY BAROUD
IDF soldiers stand guard as Jewish settlers rebuild the prev
Features / 29 May 2023
29 May 2023
By trying to appease his far-right coalition partners and their desire for all-out religious war on what is left of Palestine, Netanyahu is provoking an armed uprising in the West Bank, writes RAMZY BAROUD
SUMUD: Unarmed Palestinians face down IDF soldiers close to
Features / 27 April 2023
27 April 2023
RAMZY BAROUD argues that the Nakba is not a single historical incident to be debated or bargained over — it is an injustice that continues to this day, and continues to unite all Palestinians
AU and Israel
Features / 22 March 2023
22 March 2023
Claiming it would revitalise local economies and fight desertification, Israel was looking to make money and political friends – in Addis Ababa, that dream just came crashing down in spectacular fashion, reports RAMZY BAROUD
Monsour UN
Features / 2 March 2023
2 March 2023
If the US joining criticism of Israel's expansion into the West Bank at the UN sounds too good to be true, that is because it is — and Palestinians will not be tricked into celebrating this empty gesture, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestinians in East Jerusalem stand watch at a weekly prote
Features / 11 January 2023
11 January 2023
The world court is likely to rule that every Israeli action in Palestine since 1967 has been illegal – the strongest UN indictment yet. But don’t expect change under Israel’s new extreme-right government, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Home truths about Cumbria's new coal mine
Features / 4 January 2023
4 January 2023
The howls of outrage over the new far-right ministers are a form of whitewashing of Tel Aviv’s long anti-democratic history, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Lion's Den Palestine
Opinion / 18 December 2022
18 December 2022
New militants who originated in a single West Bank city are now spreading, defying not only Israel but the Palestinian Authority. The popularity of a fresh armed revolt against the occupation now is undeniable, reports RAMZY BAROUD
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Features / 11 December 2022
11 December 2022
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Israel nuke
Features / 28 November 2022
28 November 2022
As Israel has descended further into right-wing extremism and away from sensible diplomacy, just what it might class as an 'existential threat' justifying the use of nuclear weapons is an increasingly terrifying prospect, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Jerusalem
Features / 24 October 2022
24 October 2022
With Australia dropping former PM Scott Morrison’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, it is clear that Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ was not an irreversible historical event, writes RAMZY BAROUD
NOT FORGOTTEN: A 2003 demonstration commemorating the Sabra
Features / 12 September 2022
12 September 2022
When the survivors of one of the most infamous crimes against the Palestinian diaspora took Israel to court in Belgium, the US used its influence to block the case — but the struggle for justice does not end there, writes RAMZY BAROUD
UNBOWED: Imprisoned Palestinian hunger striker Khalil Awawde
Features / 5 September 2022
5 September 2022
By demonstrating that even at your weakest you can still fight back, the resistance behind bars has always been a uniquely powerful part of the overall national liberation movement, explains RAMZY BAROUD
Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, sits nex
Features / 11 July 2022
11 July 2022
It is no surprise that as Israeli politics is increasingly dominated by right-wing bigotry that governments are holding together for less and less time — and this turmoil is a fitting reflection of widely-held extremist beliefs, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A Palestinian demonstrator holds a national flags in front o
Features / 8 June 2022
8 June 2022
Last year redefined how Palestinians fight against their occupiers, overcoming years of factional division and arbitary standards imposed on them from outside — the 'Unity Intifada' shows no sign of fading, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestine needs immediate attention to stave off a major foo
Features / 18 April 2022
18 April 2022
Even if the Russia-Ukraine war ended tomorrow, Palestine’s food insecurity would not — it is the product of a deliberate policy by occupying Israel to drive us to starvation while just avoiding outright murder, explains RAMZY BAROUD
Features / 10 April 2022
10 April 2022
Perhaps US aid in 1981 was almost 10 percent of Israel’s economy — in 2020, the nearly $4 billion donation was closer to 1 per cent. Those struggling against the occupation of Palestine must recognise our oppressor’s growing independence, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Gaza Land Day
Features / 28 March 2022
28 March 2022
Almost all of Gaza’s water is not fit for human consumption because of a deliberate Israeli strategy. RAMZY BAROUD explains
Features / 8 March 2022
8 March 2022
A wave of measures against everything Russian from music to cats and of course, sports, has Palestinian heads spinning — where are the sanctions against the country that has illegally occupied them for over 50 years, ask RAMZY BAROUD
prison
Opinion / 1 February 2022
1 February 2022
Instead of freeing Palestinian prisoners, a new scheme aims at punishing their families, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Morality cannot be divided: how Netanyahu’s corruption has
Features / 24 January 2022
24 January 2022
During his time as the longest-serving PM, he turned corruption into common practice — his impending slap-on-the-wrist sentence will cement it into the heart of the nation's political decline, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Features / 18 January 2022
18 January 2022
Deputy prime minister Gideon Sa’ar is trying to pass a Bill through the Knesset to give the Israeli state the power to remove any social media posts its considers 'inflammatory,' reports RAMZY BAROUD
Palestinians attend a protest in solidarity with Hisham Abu
Features / 10 January 2022
10 January 2022
RAMZY BAROUD explains how one Palestinian hunger striker forced historic Israeli concessions from his prison bed
Features / 24 November 2021
24 November 2021
The historic unity that has emerged since May has given rise to a generation of Palestinian intellectuals who are being received internationally with an unprecedented level of sympathy, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Workers clear the rubble  of a building in Gaza that was des
Features / 8 November 2021
8 November 2021
A possible Israel-Bill Gates working group on climate change ignores Tel Aviv’s appalling record of destruction of Palestinian wells, poisoning of trees and demolition of entire ecosystems to make space for Israel’s apartheid wall, says RAMZY BAROUD 
Sally Rooney
Features / 18 October 2021
18 October 2021
RAMZY BAROUD takes issue with criticisms of Sally Rooney’s decision to boycott Israel
Migrant boat in the med
Features / 14 October 2021
14 October 2021
Language is politics and politics is power — this is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price, writes RAMZY BAROUD
The quiet rebellion: why US Jews turning against Israel is g
Features / 16 August 2021
16 August 2021
In the US Israel has long relied on right-wing Evangelical Christians — to win back Jews, many of whom support progressive causes like BLM, it would have to end its military occupation, dismantle its apartheid regime and reverse its racist laws, writes RAMZY BAROUD
The funeral of Imad Dwekat, 37, killed by Israeli security f
Features / 10 August 2021
10 August 2021
There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known: it is a water war, which has been in the making for decades, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Wesam Abu Rmilah of Palestine, top, and Dominic Ressel of Ge
Features / 3 August 2021
3 August 2021
The international sporting festival is intensely political for my besieged and occupied nation — a rare moment of recognition and a chance to recognise those that share our struggle and our pain, writes RAMZY BAROUD
STOLEN LIVES: A local child hurries past invading Israeli po
Features / 28 June 2021
28 June 2021
Despite the new adminisration’s bombastic talk of military victories over in Gaza, a long-term Palestinian uprising with specific demands and a unified leadership remains the greatest threat to Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A man celebrates in front of a poster showing former Israeli
Features / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
By courting the support of the US Christian fundamentalist movement at the expense of the more traditional sympathy from liberals, Netanyahu has permanently muddled the politics of the two countries, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Benjamin Netanyahu
Features / 8 June 2021
8 June 2021
In his long reign, Benjamin Netanyahu dragged politics to the right – now his nationalist tough-man image has been broken not by political rivals, but by the unprecedented unity of the Palestinian resistance, writes RAMZY BAROUD
GAZA UNDEFEATED: A boy sits in the ruins of a neighbourhood
Features / 1 June 2021
1 June 2021
In a watershed moment, the new wave of Palestinian resistance has overcome the factional division, classism, political chaos and inertia created by the Oslo Accords, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Gaza
MIDDLE EAST / 21 May 2021
21 May 2021
The Palestinian people are at last united – and their voice is now piercing through the international silence, compelling the world to hear a single chant for freedom, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Ben Gvir
Features / 15 May 2021
15 May 2021
It is not a handful of extremist settler organisations that are brazenly stealing homes on camera, but an entire legal system — an entire state — built for that purpose, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestine flag
Opinion / 6 May 2021
6 May 2021
The decision on April 30 by the Palestinian Authority President to to stall holding the first vote in 15 years will deepen division and could signal the collapse of the Fatah movement in its current form, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Sanders and Palestine
Features / 26 April 2021
26 April 2021
After decades of suffocation by the Israel lobby, pro-Palestine sentiment is blossoming among ordinary Democrats — and their elected representatives are catching up, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A young boy waves a Palestinian flag
Features / 14 April 2021
14 April 2021
Although it commits it to nothing concrete, the party’s new policy is still a stance that Palestine can use in its quest to legitimise its struggle, writes RAMZY BAROUD
vaccine
Features / 11 January 2021
11 January 2021
RAMZY BAROUD exposes the shocking refusal by apartheid Israel to withhold crucial Covid-19 medicine from the population it subjects to military occupation
Netanyahu
Features / 9 December 2020
9 December 2020
The President of the Palestinian National Authority is prioritising a return to US patronage and funding for supporting bogus 'peace deals' over political unity between Fatah and Hamas, warns RAMZY BAROUD
the strategic goal of Israeli racism in Palestine
Features / 2 November 2020
2 November 2020
RAMZY BAROUD explains the purpose behind behind new legal measures to remove citizenship from Arab-Israelis, as the state panics in light of a united Arab-Palestinian list becoming the third-largest political party
arab idol singer mohammad assaf
Features / 27 October 2020
27 October 2020
RAMZY BAROUD argues that the banning of the singer from Gaza who won ‘Arab Idol’ from ever returning to perform in his homeland is not a new outrage but a continuation of a long-running war on the cultural existence of indigenous Arabs in the region
Barbed Wire
Features / 12 October 2020
12 October 2020
The incarceration of Palestinians has over the years been reduced to a mere humanitarian, rather than political, subject, argues RAMZY BAROUD
biden and blm
Features / 5 October 2020
5 October 2020
The shambolic and confused opening debate between Biden and Trump certainly confirmed one thing: the ruling cliques in the US are either unconcerned by racism or only ‘play the race card’ during elections, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Features / 15 September 2020
15 September 2020
Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz escalates Israel’s macabre war on the dead by witholding the corpses of those killed by the occupation, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Benjamin Netanyahu
Features / 25 August 2020
25 August 2020
Israel's Prime Minister and the Defence Minister — the leader of his government’s main coalition partner — are locked in a battle for political survival: war on Gaza is a tried and tested method of gaining public support ahead of an electoral showdown, writes RAMZY BAROUD
The apartheid wall between Israel and Palestine
Features / 19 August 2020
19 August 2020
For many years, the Amarneh family has attempted to build a proper home in the West Bank, but their request has been denied by the Israeli military every time. Now they live in a cave – which Israel wants to demolish. RAMZY BAROUD reports
Benjamin Netanyahu
Opinion / 11 August 2020
11 August 2020
Shocking outbursts almost endorsing the Beirut explosion have betrayed continuing belligerence by many Israeli politicians. But without any real territorial ambitions, its main aim is to remain a regional player — by war alone, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestine
Features / 7 July 2020
7 July 2020
Don’t get sucked in by Israel’s bizarre definitions: whether it officially grabs more Arab land or not, it is – and always has been – a fully fledged colonial nation, rather than an ‘occupying power’
French colonial poster
Features / 2 July 2020
2 July 2020
RAMZY BAROUD explains why Tunisia and many other African nations must take this moment to demand a French apology for centuries of brutal colonialism
Greece-Turkey border
Features / 17 March 2020
17 March 2020
Syrian refugees should not be used as political pawns in a costly and dirty political game in which they have no interest or choice, says RAMZY BAROUD
A pro-Palestine march in Chile
Features / 9 March 2020
9 March 2020
The divided and demoralised movement in Palestine itself could learn a lot for Chile’s emigrant community — home to the Deportivo Palestino football club, writes RAMZY BAROUD