Fri 2-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.

Int’l community’s opportunity to emphasize Israel’s colonial violence

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Last week the UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk once again exposed the UN’s inaction over Israel’s international law violations.

The US keeps turning a blind eye to Israel’s settlement expansion

Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state’s illegal settlement expansion.

Israel faces no delegitimization threats

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.

America’s pro-Israel diplomacy at the UN hits a new level

Israel seems to have acquired another formidably biased ally in the latest US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Can Belgium set a precedent by labelling Israel’s settlement products?

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.

The UN’s Guterres offers nothing but ‘hope’

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.

The UN prioritizes political compromise over Palestinian rights

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).

Israel cannot escape its legacy of violence

“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.

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