Palestinian refugees are being marginalized by the focus on UNRWA
Saturday 16-April-2022
Can we speak of the sustainability of humanitarian aid in the face of ongoing colonial expansion and perpetual dispossession?
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.
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UN offers no protection to Palestinians per se let alone journalists
Sunday 10-April-2022
When the UN does nothing but perfunctory duties human rights and civil society organizations are brought to full stop; a dead end.
International community invalidates purported support for Palestine
Wednesday 6-April-2022
A recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) places Israel in 10th place when it comes to the share of global arms exports from 2017 to 2021 with its primary recipients being India Azerbaijan and Vietnam.
US should be reminded that Israel’s settlement expansion is war crime
Sunday 27-March-2022
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides engaged in further diplomatic contradictions as he fluctuated between asserting the Biden administration’s stance purportedly against Israeli settlement expansion yet making concessions for earlier encroachment upon Palestinian land.
Protection for Palestinians and international complicity with Israel
Sunday 20-March-2022
Calls for the international community to step in and protect the Palestinian people from Israeli violence are always juxtaposed against a complex web of complicity with Zionist colonization of their land.
Palestinian refugees are more politically isolated than ever
Wednesday 16-March-2022
Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling despite the renewed mandates and financial contribution pledges by world leaders.
UNRWA’s existence points to the UN’s failure to implement RoR
Thursday 10-March-2022
As important as the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is in terms of providing essential services for Palestinians its existence is also a stark reminder of the international community’s failure to implement the legitimate Palestinian right of return.
Int’l community’s opportunity to emphasize Israel’s colonial violence
Monday 28-February-2022
Israel’s human rights violations have become more prominent since human rights organizations have taken it upon themselves to speak of the settler-colonial state’s apartheid practices.
The EU’s report evades Israel’s settler-colonial origins
Monday 21-February-2022
Yet another report has been published portraying how Israel is increasing its destruction of Palestinian property and as a result continuing the cycle of dispossessing Palestinians.
America’s return to UNESCO will work in Israel’s favor
Wednesday 16-February-2022
In 2017 the Trump administration announced its withdrawal from the UN Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) citing “mounting arrears at UNESCO the need for fundamental reform in the organization and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO.”
UN’s Guterres ensures Palestinian independence remains elusive
Saturday 12-February-2022
“There is no Plan B.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ favorite catchphrase wormed its way into his address at the opening session of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
Publicizing the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar
Friday 28-January-2022
Israel has announced new plans for the village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank which has been demolished and rebuilt several times and which attracted international attention in 2018 after the Israeli Supreme Court approved its destruction.
Diplomatic protests mean nothing without action
Monday 17-January-2022
A diplomatic protest by European ambassadors against Israel’s settlement expansion was perceived as an attack on the state itself by the Deputy Director-General of its Foreign Ministry Aliza Bin Noun in December local media have reported.
Israel’s apartheid should have consequences for the colonial state
Wednesday 12-January-2022
While Palestinians have been calling out Israeli apartheid for years it was the non-governmental organization B’Tselem that made the headlines a year ago with its designation of Israel as an apartheid state.
UN war crimes probe tarnished by decades of support for Israel
Tuesday 4-January-2022
The UN will be funding an open-ended investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinians departing from this year’s aggression against Gaza.
Pointing out the UN’s culpability must start taking root
Wednesday 29-December-2021
Last week the UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk once again exposed the UN’s inaction over Israel’s international law violations.