Fri 20-September-2024

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.

Netanyahu and Bolsonaro find common ground

While the Amazon forest burns and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continues to trade insults and blame indigenous communities face displacement and annihilation.

US Is Facilitating Further Collective Betrayal of Palestinian Rights

Palestinians want their land and rights restored; it’s a simple demand which the international community has succeeded in mangling in order to promote colonial agendas.

Palestinian Prisoners Need Our Attention before They Die

Since 1967 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons.

The Road to EU Diplomacy in Palestine

​Recently the EU issued two press releases. One feigned belated concern at Israel’s demolition of Palestinian dwellings in Sur Baher and how the settlement expansion policy “undermines the viability of the two-state solution”.

Palestinian prisoners need our attention before they die

Since 1967 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa detained in June from his home in Beit Fajjar accused of purportedly having ties to Hamas.

Cutting ties with Israel might be impossible due to int’l complicity

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has suggested that the international community should consider cutting ties with Israel if it goes ahead with further colonial settlement expansion and annexation according to a report by Al Jazeera.

America is anything but an honest broker in Palestine-Israel

At Israel Hayom’s Forum on US-Israeli relations US envoy Jason Greenblatt made sure that references to the Palestinian people and their history were as obscure as possible.

The EU should be calling out Israeli colonialism for its violence

Palestinian school textbooks are once again under public scrutiny this time after a report published by Israel’s Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) claimed that material was “more radical than previously published”.

The UN Is a Mouthpiece for Israeli Propaganda

Only a few days before the Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 Nakba in which the indigenous people of Palestine were massacred displaced and ethnically cleansed to pave the way for the European Zionist colonial project.

Europe Holds No Moral High Ground in Protecting Israeli Colonialism

Discussions which frame Palestine’s precarious future within the context of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” versus the two-state compromise continue.

What defines the EU’s relations with Israel and the Palestinians?

As the Palestinian Authority’s financial deficit continues to get worse the European Union has announced that it will be assisting humanitarian endeavors for Palestinians with an additional $24.7 million of aid.

Europe holds no moral high ground in protecting Israeli colonialism

Discussions which frame Palestine’s precarious future within the context of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” versus the two-state compromise continue.

The EU fortifies its track record of aligning itself with Israel

A business seminar in Tel Aviv themed “Doing business with the European Union” leaves no doubts as to where the institution’s loyalties lie.

Humanitarian Aid and the Loss of Palestinian Rights

After the US withdrew financial support from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) it is the EU which became the largest donor to the organization.

Israel exports violence and human rights rhetoric to Africa

As part of Tel Aviv’s diplomatic strategy in Africa the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are providing military training to local troops in several countries.

Gantz and Ya’alon: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has aligned himself politically with Benny Gantz the former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff and chairman of the Israel Resilience party.