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Netanyahu Vows to Build Fence along Jordan’s Border to Prevent ‘Infiltrators from Africa’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Netanyahu’s announcement comes just one day after clashes broke out between the Israeli police and hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, leaving at least 170 people injured. Israeli […]

BREAKING: Bloody Scenes in Tel Aviv as Israeli Police Cracks Down on Eritrean Protests
By Palestine Chronicle Staff At least 170 people were injured on Saturday during clashes between Israeli police and hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers in Tel Aviv. The majority of the wounded were Eritreans. However, […]

The Irony of ‘World Refugee Day’: ‘Celebrating’, then Blaming the Victims
By Ramzy Baroud Fadi, a Syrian teenager, with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in the modern history of the Mediterranean. Only 104 people […]

Humanity Without Borders – A Poem
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley In the face of adversity, they arrive, Immigrants seeking a chance to survive. They journey through hardships, far and wide, Leaving their homes with hope as their guide. They come […]

Brotherhood and Friendship in a Time of War: Reflections on ‘The Mercenary’ – Book Review
By Kathy Kelly Sometimes, I needed to pause and recall my own presumptive conclusions about experiences in prisons and war zones when I had recognized a defining reality, which was that we would eventually return […]

Hundreds of Palestinians Evacuated from War-Torn Sudan
The evacuation of Palestinians from war-torn Sudan continued today, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. Ahmed al-Deek, a Foreign Ministry official, said that the third phase in the evacuation of Palestinians […]

A Second Ghorba: Abu Hassan, We Are with You
By Alaois Abu Layth “You cannot take your olive tree with you into the ghorba.”* The words repeat in an internal monologue but rarely could they pause to absorb the meaning spoken by Duraid Lahham. […]

Israel: No More Money to Ukrainian Refugees
Thousands of immigrants who came to Israel citing the conflict in Ukraine will stop receiving special monthly payments in the coming months, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Friday. The Israeli government is currently sourcing […]

Gaza Civil Society Rejects UNRWA’s Concessions to Washington, Tel Aviv (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Joint Committee for Palestinian Refugees organized a vigil in front of the UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday, to protest recent statements made by the UN agency’s Commissioner-General […]

Israel to Restrict Number of Non-Jewish Ukrainian Refugees to Just 5,000
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked has announced its intention to cap the number of non-Jewish refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine at just 5,000, The New Arab reported. This is in addition to the 20,000 […]

Shaked: Israel Will Accommodate Thousands of Jewish Immigrants from Ukraine
Israeli interior minister Ayelet Shaked announced that her government would take a decision to set up seven to twelve new ‘residential areas’ in the Negev region “to house new Jewish immigrants,” Israeli media reported “We […]

Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise […]

Ukrainian Refugees Detained in Israel, Held at Airport, Ambassador Says
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk expressed “disappointment” at news that “Ukrainian refuge-seekers were being detained upon arrival in Israel,” the Israeli newspaper, The Times of Israel reported. “We were […]

The World ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Stories to Follow in 2022
By Ramzy Baroud Though 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues from the previous year that will linger for a bit, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news […]

The Other (Side) – A Poem
By Timothy McCord I wonder if you wonder how it would feel if the boot were on the other foot; would it make you shudder to be that other that is me? To know […]

Report: EU Spending over $100 Million in Israeli Surveillance Technology to Turn Refugees Back
In a new report, the Guardian has mapped out the surveillance and deterrent systems being used on EU borders to deter refugees. Last month Poland approved a $398 million, 18-foot-high wall, with cameras and motion […]

Heroes or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics on Refugees
By Ramzy Baroud 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. The wars in Syria, Libya, […]

Climate Change: Beyond the Tipping Point
By Jim Miles Twenty years and more ago climate talk concerned long-term global warming effects not really occurring until the mid-twenty-first century at earliest with most problems occurring toward the end of the century. I […]

On Spirituality and Low-Quality Entertainment: Ramadan Accentuates Inequality in the Arab World
By Ramzy Baroud Ramadan, the holy month of fasting in Islam, should be a time of spiritual reflection and a reordering of the Ummah’s collective priorities. Unfortunately, in the age of globalization, unmitigated consumption […]

A Palestinian Prayer for Ramadan: May the Voices of the Oppressed Be Heard
By Ramzy Baroud COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified in Britain. Gaza has always […]

86% of Asylum Seekers in Israel Suffer Food Insecurity
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv into “genuine hunger,” an official survey found, as experts said there is a “severe humanitarian crisis”. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, […]

Canada Approves $90m for UNRWA as Israel Tries to Close it Down
Canada has approved a $90 million humanitarian assistance package for Palestinian refugees through the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The package is intended to be what the […]

Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international […]

Triple Jeopardy for Palestinian Prisoners
By Richard Falk Double Jeopardy for Refugees/Migrants Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy […]

Death at the Greek Border: Syrian Refugees Should not Be Used as Political Pawns
By Ramzy Baroud In a surprising move, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on February 29 that he will be re-opening his country’s border to Europe, thus allowing tens of thousands of mostly Syrian refugees into […]

Forgetting 2019 – A Poem
By Richard Falk asphalt rain darkens green fields eco-extinction flares Amazon skies fake leaders slithering toward real dangers hither and yon seek safe havens gated nations hiding from truth screaming ‘no’ migrants fleeing despair pleading […]

‘This is Not a Border’: How Israel Has Turned the U.S.-Mexico Border into Gaza
By Benay Blend In the title quote, the words refer to a collection of readings from several years of the Palestine Festival of Literature, an annual literary event that allows performers to interact with Palestinians […]

EU Using Israeli Drones to Track Migrant Boats in the Mediterranean Sea
The European Union (EU) invested over $115 million in Israeli-made unmanned drones to police the Mediterranean Sea. The Observer discovered three contracts with Frontex, the EU’s border and coastguard agency, and the European Maritime Safety Agency, totaling […]

Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
By Ramzy Baroud History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran […]

The Moral Travesty of Israel Demanding Arab and Iranian Money for Its Own ‘Nakba’
By Ramzy Baroud The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews […]