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.
Thursday 16-December-2021
Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state’s illegal settlement expansion.
Friday 10-December-2021
Israel’s allies are fond of adamantly asserting that they will oppose any efforts to delegitimize the settler-colonial state yet these “efforts” apart from singling out the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) are barely specified.
Friday 3-December-2021
Israel seems to have acquired another formidably biased ally in the latest US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Friday 26-November-2021
Labelling Israeli settlement products “strengthens extremists does not help promote peace in the region and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability” according to Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll.
Friday 19-November-2021
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has provided another reason why Palestinians should not rely on the international community for a political solution to the colonial-occupation of their land by Israel.
Friday 12-November-2021
Three weeks ago Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian civil society organizations as terror groups on account of links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Friday 5-November-2021
“Israel has been defined [for] too many years by the Israel-Arab conflict” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett complained in a recent interview with The Times.
Wednesday 20-October-2021
As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest Israel’s illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers.
Thursday 30-September-2021
Each year the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based.
Friday 17-September-2021
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international level.
Sunday 29-August-2021
There is a stark difference in the language used by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its April 2017 report which describes Israel as having committed crimes of apartheid and its more recent July and August reports on Gaza which cast doubt on whether Israel committed war crimes in its offensives against the enclave.
Sunday 22-August-2021
So “deeply concerned” is the UN at the Israeli raid of the offices of Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) that the belated official statement by the special rapporteurs suggests that Israel – a colonial military occupation and apartheid regime – should instead be protecting the organization and its work.
Friday 13-August-2021
Israel’s dependence on being able to act with absolute impunity through its military and other institutions as well as its illegal settlers continues to leave a trail of oppressive destruction for the people of occupied Palestine.
Saturday 7-August-2021
Palestine has been lost through decades of waiting while the UN sets the scene to aid Israel’s colonial plunder.
Friday 30-July-2021
Following the signing of last year’s Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration the international community woke up to the normalization of Israel’s colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse to this.
Friday 23-July-2021
When European diplomats visit the occupied Palestinian territories to observe the damage wrought by Israel’s home demolitions and forced displacement the only response is generally to “urge the Israeli authorities to cease such actions.”