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An Icon of the Second Intifada – Who is Zakaria Zubeidi? – PROFILE
By Robert Inlakesh Zakaria Zubeidi, an iconic figure of the Second Intifada and a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is set to be released as part of the prisoner-exchange deal. An icon of […]

‘No Grads in Gaza’ – Stanford University Students Walk Out of Grad Ceremony in Support of Palestine
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Students held placards reading ‘No Grads in Gaza’, ‘Free Palestine. Stanford Divest,’ and ‘Disclose. Divest. Amnesty Now.’ More than 400 students walked out of their graduation ceremony at Stanford University […]

‘Great Intifada’: Israeli Settler Killed, Soldier Wounded, Hebron Declared ‘Closed Military Zone’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Hebron has been declared a ‘closed military zone’ by the Israeli army. An Israeli Jewish woman settler was killed, and another critically wounded on Monday in a shooting attack near […]

The Armed Revolt: Why Israel Cannot Crush the Resistance in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud Numbers can be dehumanizing. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such as why is Occupied Palestine at the threshold of […]

A Man Without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank
By Ramzy Baroud For Netanyahu, the frequent deadly raids on Palestinian towns and refugee camps translate into political assets that allow him to keep his extremist supporters happy. But this is short-term thinking. After […]

Tulkarm Brigade to Join Lions’ Den, Jenin Brigade in Armed Resistance
The Tulkarm Brigade announced via a video message on its Telegram channel that “rapid response groups” have been assembled to respond to Israel’s massacre in the occupied West Bank, The New Arab reported. The phrase […]

Lions’ Den is Not a Fleeting Phenomenon: On Palestine’s Looming Armed Revolt
By Ramzy Baroud Just when Israel, and even some Palestinians, began talking about the Lions’ Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of fighters belonging to the newly-formed Palestinian group marched in […]

Israel’s Relentless War against the Children of Palestine
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” Preamble, UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) More than half of the population […]

Difficult Months Ahead: Why Israel is Afraid of the Lions’ Den
By Ramzy Baroud This headline in the Israeli newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, only tells part of the story: “The Lions’ Den, Other Palestinian Groups are Endless Headache for Israel, PA.” It is true that […]

Israeli Analyst Says Lions’ Den’ is among ‘Dangerous Challenges’ Facing Israel
The recently-formed Lion’s Den armed Palestinian group is among the “dangerous challenges” facing Israel, an Israeli analyst said on Monday. Michael Milstein, the Head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle […]

Palestine’s New Resistance Model: How the Last Year Redefined the Struggle for Palestinian Freedom
By Ramzy Baroud 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 […]

‘If the Singer is Silenced’: Music of the Unity Intifada
By Louis Brehony As the May 2021 rebellion across historic Palestine struck back at colonialist violence and ripped apart the artificial seams of a terrorized, subordinate coexistence, two worlds came into view, colliding in physical […]

Fawwadnak: Song of Resistance and Representation (VIDEO)
By Haidar Eid 2021 was a tough year for Palestine; more criminal wars on besieged Gaza, more settlements in the West Bank, and more racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. This, however, raised […]

First Intifada Anniversary Today: Three Poems for Palestinian Resistance
By Palestine Chronicle Staff December 8 marks the anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada (Uprising). On that day, in 1987, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to protest against the brutality of Israeli […]

Palestinian Unity & Popular Resistance: A New Intifada? (VIDEO)
Presented by the Education-Visibility Committee of Jewish Voice for Peace – Los Angeles, the webinar was focused on the nature of the new Palestinian resistance today throughout Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. What ignited […]

‘Globalize Intifada’: Pro-Palestine Protesters March in New York
Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched on Friday to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan waving the Palestinian flag and holding “Globalize Intifada” banners, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The march was […]

‘Blood for Blood’: On Jenin and Israel’s Fear of an Armed Palestinian Rebellion
By Ramzy Baroud The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on August 16, is a consequential event, the repercussions of which […]

Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’
By Ramzy Baroud On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mohammad Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the […]

‘What Binds Us Together’: On What It Means to Support Indigenous Liberation
By Benay Blend In a recent interview with Michael Arria, Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean discuss their book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (2020). The collection argues that socialism should be viewed as an important element […]

When the People Rose up: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud December 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, however hastily. It was on this day, thirty-three […]

‘The People Are Rising, the Soldiers Are Coming’: Anniversary of the First Intifada (EXCERPTS)
By Ramzy Baroud Editor’s Note: Today, Tuesday, December 8, marks the 33rd anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada. On this day, in 1987, the uprising broke out throughout occupied Palestine, generating massive solidarity for […]

WATCH: ‘Palestinian: Beyond Conflict’ – Featuring Ramzy Baroud (Identity International)
Ramzy Baroud discusses the complexities of Palestinian identity in today’s world with Misbah Khan from Identity International, in Episode 1 of “Palestinian: Beyond Conflict”. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, author and internationally syndicated columnist, […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Withdraws from Commemoration of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez withdrew on Friday from an event commemorating the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin following criticism against her planned participation. A spokesperson confirmed in an email to Aljazeera that the New York […]

Liberation Through a Pen: Education in Occupied Palestine, Turtle Island and Cuba
By Benay Blend In a recent Facebook post, author Susan Abulhawa said that it’s hard not to believe that “with all their privilege and resources, cannot imagine a single alternative to educating their children except […]

‘Optimism of the Will’: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
By Ramzy Baroud In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now, but that […]

‘Piracy and Theft’: Israeli Court Orders PA to Pay $150 million in Damages
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Piracy and theft of Palestinian money,” is how a Palestinian Authority official described the decision by an Israeli Court on Friday to confiscate $150 million of Palestinian funds in order […]

Today Marks 32nd Anniversary of First Palestinian Intifada (VIDEO)
On this day in 1987, the First Palestinian Intifada broke out across occupied Palestine. The uprising, which lasted for over six years, witnessed the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces and the […]

The Israel Project ‘On Its Way to Being Shut Down’
Due to difficulties collecting donations that led to its bankruptcy, The Israel Project (TIP) on Wednesday closed its office in Israel, Haaretz reported yesterday. The US NGO has faced a severe budget crisis and, according to […]

Palestinian Sports: Decades before and after the Nakba
By Issam Khalidi Most of sport sociologists believe that nothing awakens national feeling so easily and strongly as sporting success. Glorious history, royalty, a splendid army, democracy and the welfare system, ancient ideals and traditions […]

That Single Line of Blood: Nassir al-Mosabeh and Mohammed al-Durrah
By Ramzy Baroud As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, September 28, history was repeating itself most tragically. Little Nassir was not just another number, a ‘martyr’ […]