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.
Friday 17-February-2023
The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has described succinctly all that is wrong in politics with regard to Palestine and Palestinian refugees in a complicit manner of course.
Monday 6-February-2023
Israel is up against renewed collective action in terms of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance.
Friday 27-January-2023
The former Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon has told a Likud faction meeting that “illegal Palestinian construction” in the occupied West Bank is “rampant”. He wasn’t being honest.
Sunday 22-January-2023
Tying in to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that “the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the land of Israel” is the recent order by Israel’s Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to remove Palestinian flags that are publicly displayed.
Sunday 15-January-2023
The EU could have availed itself of an opportunity to hold Israel accountable for its violations but instead. it opted for the lesser value of requesting financial reparation for the structures funded by the bloc in the Occupied West Bank and destroyed by the settler-colonial enterprise.
Friday 30-December-2022
When former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman insisted that annexation of the occupied West Bank was merely suspended not cancelled much emphasis was made on how the Abraham Accords would usher in a new chapter with benefits for Palestinians.
Thursday 15-December-2022
Rhetoric about alleged anti-Israel bias at the UN despite how unfounded the allegations are will never cease to reverberate.
Friday 2-December-2022
The Israeli government is portraying itself as being worried about international delegitimization at the UN.
Sunday 27-November-2022
Further proof of US President Joe Biden reneging on his electoral promises with regard to Palestine is the ongoing refusal to reopen the US Consulate in occupied Jerusalem for use by Palestinians and opting instead for creating a new role of Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs which has been given to Hady Amr.
Friday 18-November-2022
Israel is once again albeit temporarily under the spotlight for the targeted killing in May of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Saturday 12-November-2022
With Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to return as Israeli prime minister US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas spouting yet another round of futile rhetoric about improving the quality of life for Palestinians and of course reaffirming Washington’s adherence to the — surely defunct — two-state paradigm.
Monday 7-November-2022
What the Palestinian people want is far removed from what is being decided by governments and UN officials.
Wednesday 2-November-2022
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland extended the illusion of equivalence in speaking about the colonizer and the colonized.
Wednesday 26-October-2022
Israel’s colonial expansion has taken almost all of Palestine and yet the UN is still wasting time on telling everyone what should be and really is blindingly obvious.
Monday 17-October-2022
In another nod to former US Donald Trump’s legacy the Biden administration has outlined its approach to Israel and Palestine in the 2022 National Security Strategy.
Tuesday 11-October-2022
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has once again exposed how the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the Palestinian refugees themselves are subject to a cycle of exploitative violence which does more to serve the international organization’s humanitarian paradigm.