Thu 1-May-2025

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.

The IDF’s legacy 75 years on

While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine’s ethnic cleansing and colonization the same cannot be said for the origins of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Humanitarian paradigm act of political violence against Palestinians

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini recently made another appeal for funding this time to the Arab League.

The EU really values Israel’s colonial enterprise

The EU Delegation in Israel only has a problem with Itamar Ben-Gvir Israel’s Minister of National Security and not with the existence and continuation of Israel as a colonial enterprise.

Khader Adnan’s legacy will alter Palestinian politics among the people

Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails have suffered unprecedented levels of exploitation.

Covering up Israel’s settler-colonial foundations

With no reference to the political turbulence that Israel is currently experiencing within its settler-colonial society let alone the horrors perpetrated by Zionist terror groups during the 1948 Nakba to establish the colonial enterprise on Palestinian land US President Joe Biden has extended greetings to Israelis on the 75th anniversary of their ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Memory and oblivion in Israel

To commemorate the 75th anniversary since the establishment of Israel’s colonial enterprise the National Library of Israel has embarked upon a new project themed “Operation Diary: the Founding Generation for Israel’s 75th”.

The international humanitarian paradigm keeps failing Palestinians

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been operating since 1 May 1950 under repeatedly renewed mandates in the absence of a political solution.

Israel’s new cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians

US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel’s settlement expansion.

The US feigns being ‘disturbed’ by Israeli settler violence

Last week US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the current Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian people following a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant.

Israel isn’t anti-pogrom it just doesn’t want collateral damage

“What happened in Huwara was a pogrom carried out by law-breakers” said Major General Yehuda Fuchs who is in charge of the Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.

The compromised nature of humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees

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.

Israel security claims & the int’l community’s humanitarian paradigm

Israel is up against renewed collective action in terms of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance.

Calls for Khan Al-Ahmar’s demolition speak of colonial violence

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.

Ben Gvir’s efforts in the erasure of Palestinian identity

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.

How the EU constructs Israel impunity

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.

Netanyahu returns to the suspended annexation plans

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.

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