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.
Wednesday 6-November-2019
Since allegations about the misconduct and corruption of some staff members at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) came to light both defenses and criticism of the agency have shielded the UN from its role in enabling the mandate’s renewal.
Friday 1-November-2019
It would be good if the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov
Sunday 20-October-2019
The Zionist erasure of Palestinians from their landscape is no longer contested in the international arena. The dispossession of Palestinians is treated as a historical fact removed from their legitimate right of return and ongoing human rights violations.
Monday 14-October-2019
The European Union’s incoming Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has already signalled a continuation of the bloc’s prevailing politics when it comes to Palestine – preserve the two-state compromise by ensuring funding to the Palestinian Authority.
Wednesday 2-October-2019
The torture suffered by Palestinian prisoner Samer Arabeed at the hands of Israel’s Shin Bet interrogators has proved once again that the prohibition of such treatment as enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention the Rome Statute and the UN Convention Against Torture is little more than a series of reference points used by human rights groups as reminders to the torturers.
Friday 20-September-2019
The closest the international community ever got to an unequivocal condemnation of Israel’s settlement expansion since 1967 was through the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) albeit containing the usual flaws which spare Israel’s colonial presence since 1948 not to mention the ubiquitous endorsement of the two-state compromise.
Saturday 14-September-2019
If elected again Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to annex parts of the occupied West Bank and the international community is scrambling to issue statements pointing out that such a move would have no legal effect.
Sunday 8-September-2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Hebron a few days ago follows the plans to increase the settler presence in the city.
Wednesday 4-September-2019
Despite financial setbacks caused by political agendas and misconduct allegations the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) ensured that its schools opened on time for the new academic year.
Friday 30-August-2019
While the Amazon forest burns and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continues to trade insults and blame indigenous communities face displacement and annihilation.
Saturday 17-August-2019
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.
Saturday 10-August-2019
Since 1967 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons.
Sunday 4-August-2019
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”.
Friday 19-July-2019
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.
Saturday 13-July-2019
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.
Thursday 4-July-2019
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.