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.
Saturday 28-October-2023
Israel expects absolute control over the UN narrative. The international organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is facing calls to resign and accusations of supporting terror from Israeli diplomats and politicians.
Thursday 19-October-2023
The United Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) briefing on the ramifications of Israel’s atrocious bombing of Gaza reveals one prominent detail.
Tuesday 10-October-2023
Collective punishment is a war crime under international humanitarian law as per Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Wednesday 4-October-2023
In December last year the UN General Assembly passed a resolution that requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s military occupation only for the court to respond with statements that the UN itself has been regurgitating for decades yet never put into practice.
Monday 2-October-2023
Erasing Palestine is what the Zionist colonial project is about. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu illustrated the aim by showing a map of Greater Israel – completely eliminating the existence of Gaza and the occupied West Bank – the only remaining fragments of Palestinian land.
Monday 25-September-2023
The Israeli Government Press Office reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “change the attitude of the organizations institution towards the State of Israel.”
Monday 28-August-2023
In his recent briefing to the UN Security Council the international organizations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland noted that the current situation in the occupied West Bank is further impacted by the funding deficits and fiscal problems faced by the Palestinian Authority.
Saturday 19-August-2023
When former Israel Defense Forces General Amiram Levin said “I am not pitying the Palestinians I am pitying us” he provided some context to his statement about “absolute apartheid” in Israel.
Monday 14-August-2023
Australian diplomacy with regard to Palestine has recently veered towards clarifying Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories as well as clearly declaring settlement expansion to be a violation of international law.
Saturday 5-August-2023
Outgoing EU Envoy to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Sven Kuhn Von Burgsdorff attracted the wrong sort of attention when he paraglided off Gazas coast last month purportedly promoting a promise of freedom even as the EU persists in the moribund two-state narrative. Israel described the stunt as provocative while for Palestinians the distinction between diplomats freedom and the annihilation of their own freedom of movement was made all too apparent.
Saturday 29-July-2023
The EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Sven Koopmans is just one blatant example of why Israel fears nothing — and has nothing to fear — from international diplomats.
Sunday 23-July-2023
Israeli President Isaac Herzogs address to the US Congress on Wednesday was a mix of melodrama and colonial nostalgia.
Sunday 16-July-2023
Reiterating the obvious is one prerequisite for being a diplomat.
Friday 30-June-2023
If Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir can find excuses for the hilltop youth’s colonial violence how much more is the concept of settler-colonial presence as a form of violence normalized?
Friday 23-June-2023
A recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research detailed how Palestinians are largely in favor of armed resistance against Israel’s settler-colonialism.
Wednesday 7-June-2023
The Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine at the UN Riyad Mansour pointed out the unsustainability of donor funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the Pledging Conference in New York last Saturday.