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Daphna Baram

Daphna Baram is a Jerusalem-born former human rights lawyer, journalist and standup comedian, and a PhD researcher at Lancaster University. Her book Disenchantment: the Guardian and Israel was published in 2004 (Guardian Books)

October 2023

  • A mourner at the funeral of Colonel Roi Levy, killed after Hamas militants stormed Israeli towns, Monday 9 October.

    I was in Israel when Hamas attacked – now we must reflect on the senselessness of killing and being killed

    Daphna Baram
    For the sake of those who have died, we need to heed the call for peace, says Daphna Baram, a Jerusalem-born former human rights lawyer

July 2018

  • Felicia Langer.

    Felicia Langer obituary

    Holocaust survivor who became a human rights lawyer in Israel and defended Palestinians in the country’s courts

June 2013

  • Yoram Kaniuk

    Yoram Kaniuk obituary

    Israeli novelist who became disillusioned with his homeland

October 2010

  • Sderot, Israel

    A shared story offers hope to Israel

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: A row over a textbook that tells both sides of Israeli-Palestinian history shows a shift in some Israelis' thinking – but not others'

August 2010

  • Gaza aid flotilla

    liberty central
    Who will speak up for Israeli citizens' right to free speech?

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Liberal Israelis who dare to speak out against the treatment of Palestinians may soon be facing prosecution

June 2010

  • Binyamin Netanyahu

    Israelis must speak up for Gaza activists

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: The savage attack on the Gaza flotilla is a wake-up call for every Israeli and further proof of the government's growing paranoia

August 2009

  • Gay shooting inflames debate in Israel

    Daphna Baram

  • Cif belief
    Madonna's Kabbalah-lite

    Daphna Baram

June 2009

  • My heartstopping moment

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: As I had a heart attack outside Fitness First, no one at the gym was in the least bit interested because I wasn't inside at the time

April 2009

  • Life on the edges

    Review: Not the Enemy by Rachel Shabi: An analysis of the status of 'Arab Jews' in Israel impresses Daphna Baram

March 2009

  • The Knesset: many parties, one mind

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Intransigence, expansionism, racism and warmongering now seem to be the consensus across Israeli politics

February 2009

  • It's time to rethink Zionism

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: The desire for ethnic purity that drove out Palestinians and bars the way to democracy in Israel is the rotten fruit of an old debate

November 2008

  • Secular, but not so liberal

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Jerusalem's new mayor might look more kindly on gay pride parades, but he won't be stopping the bulldozers

May 2008

  • Olmert's bitter harvest

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Even those who believe he can bring peace have abandoned him. It's time for the Israeli prime minister to resign

April 2008

  • Against the grain

    Daphna Baram salutes Mike Marqusee's honest appraisal of his radical journey through religion and politics, If I Am Not for Myself

October 2007

  • Let's shed the cloak of anonymity

    Daphna Baram

  • A crime against us all

    Daphna Baram

September 2007

  • War, who is it good for?

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Far from promoting peace, the US seems to be cajoling Israel's damaged political leadership towards a manufactured confrontation with Syria.

June 2007

  • Full profile

    Daphna Baram is a freelance writer and journalist

February 2007

  • Single vile females

    Daphna Baram

    Daphna Baram: Notes on a Scandal contains some fine acting, but it also celebrates one of Hollywood's most misogynistic themes.

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