
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.
Items by Ramona Wadi
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- February 11, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Israel’s attack on literature should not be normalised
Palestinian-related literature in colonised Palestine is in the crosshairs of Israel’s ongoing annihilation, as the recent raid on the Educational Bookshop in Occupied East Jerusalem portrayed. The attack should prompt the West into some profound introspection. The bookshop has been described as high profile and a stop for many visitors,...
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- February 6, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The world bears responsibility for the current phase of the US-Israeli alliance
US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza is the latest example of how much the international community has done nothing for Palestinians since Israel’s establishment in Palestine in 1948. Rhetorical outrage means nothing, except for the fact that several leaders are now worried that forced expulsion of...
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- February 6, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings
“Resistance, in its plethora of meanings and images, is what motivated Ghassan Kanafani to write,” Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi write in their introduction to Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings (Pluto Press, 2024). Its publication could not have been more timely as the world witnessed, first-hand, what ethnic cleansing...
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- February 4, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The PA renders the Palestinians vulnerable to Israel’s ethnic cleansing
On Sunday, Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council regarding Israel’s colonial violence in the Occupied West Bank, notably the targeting of Jenin and Tulkarem Refugee Camps. Like countless other times, Abbas requested international protection for Palestinians and pressure on Israel to...
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- January 31, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Incitement and action point towards an ongoing genocide
The relief over the brokered ceasefire was soon overshadowed by ‘coincidences’ which make one wonder about the oppression that Palestinians face relentlessly from Israel, the US and the international community. The ceasefire was agreed upon during the last dredges of the Biden administration, while Israel’s ban on the UN...
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- January 27, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The inheritance of colonisation plans and the US administrations
At the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Israeli government made no secret of its intention to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the enclave and urged the international community to support its plans for what it called ‘resettlement’. “Europe has a long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts,” Danny Danon...
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- January 23, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Trump’s return and the humanitarian paradigm
Throughout his first tenure, US President Donald Trump mounted a campaign against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) which included slander and defunding – the aim being to ultimately alter the definition of who can be classified as a Palestinian refugee and render the agency...
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- January 21, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Complacency and hypocrisy should not play a role in the genocidal aftermath
“Our UNRWA teams reported a good first day of the ceasefire; aid and some commercial supplies started flowing in smoothly,” the humanitarian aid agency’s Commissioner General Philipp Lazzarini stated in a post on X. The post went on to mention the release of three Israeli hostages prior to the generalised...
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- January 16, 2025 Ramona Wadi
What legitimacy is the PA talking about?
“While we are waiting for the ceasefire, it is important to stress that it won’t be acceptable for any other entity to govern the Gaza Strip but the legitimate Palestinian leadership and the government of the state of Palestine,” the Palestinian Authority’s Prime Minister, Mohammad Mustafa, stated during a...
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- January 14, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The PA strives to keep its own violations away from scrutiny
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s official news agency Wafa published details of a report describing testimonies of Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured and interrogated by Israel. Many detainees are suffering from ongoing physical and psychological trauma, the PA’s Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission’s report states. The details are horrifying. Prisoners scalded...
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- January 9, 2025 Ramona Wadi
When it comes to genocide and Palestine, the world is — deliberately — getting its priorities wrong
As Israel’s ban on the UN Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) looms closer, the language used by officials deals more with possibilities than realities. The reason, it seems, is to give Israel enough of an advantage in carrying out its genocide, while Palestinians remain trapped by...
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- January 7, 2025 Ramona Wadi
Celebrating revolution by annihilating it is Abbas’s style
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas should have stayed silent on the 60th anniversary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) launching its resistance against the Israeli occupation. Anniversaries, however, are too compelling for Abbas. Palestinians, therefore, were regaled with a speech that exploited the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle, while the Palestinian...
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- January 6, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth
Referring to Frantz Fanon in the preface to The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth (Verso Books, 2025), Andreas Malm ponders the exhibitionist nature of the coloniser. “Every suggestion of a limit to the destructive power of the settler colonial state is received as a questioning...
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- January 2, 2025 Ramona Wadi
The PA wants its repression hidden in plain sight
The Palestinian Authority cannot help making a fool of itself. Its recent decision to suspend Al Jazeera’s broadcasts, ostensibly because the news outlet was “broadcasting inciteful content, spreading misinformation, and interfering in internal Palestinian affairs,” is an example of the scale of the repression of his own people which...
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- December 31, 2024 Ramona Wadi
Israel’s humanitarian gimmicks and settler-colonial detachment
While continuing its genocide in Gaza, Israel still wants to play its faux humanitarian concern card. An article published by AP yesterday, which made its way to the Times of Israel albeit with some details regarding the kill toll edited out, is one recent futile attempt by Israel to...
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- December 27, 2024 Ramona Wadi
As clarity on Israel’s genocide grows, so does the int’l community’s silence
More proof of Israel’s genocidal intent and actions comes from an investigation conducted by the New York Times, which discovered that since 7 October 2023, the Israeli military issued an order that allowed the killing of up to 20 Palestinian civilians with each strike. In terms of an order,...
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- December 24, 2024 Ramona Wadi
The perks for genocide in Gaza
In “enemy territory” – Israel’s euphemism for Gaza – it is beyond satire to see the Israeli military destroying Gaza’s infrastructure in order to kill Palestinians, while building infrastructure for its soldiers. Ynet news has reported on the construction of a retreat for Israeli soldiers where they can relax,...
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- December 19, 2024 Ramona Wadi
The EU continues to protect Israel and its genocide of the Palestinians
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen marked the first anniversary of the Hamas cross-border incursion by saying: “On October 7, 2023, the world awoke to horrifying images of unspeakable savagery, scenes that will remain etched in our minds forever. On this tragic anniversary, I want to honour the...
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- December 17, 2024 Ramona Wadi
Genocide in the name of security, according to Israeli settler narratives
Israeli settler leaders are calling upon the Israeli government to emulate the genocidal strategy used against Palestinians in Gaza to displace and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. In a letter to the Israeli security cabinet, Yisrael Ganz, head of the Yesha Council which deals with settlement...
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- December 14, 2024 Ramona Wadi
Connecting the dots between Hebron and Gaza
As global attention remains focused on Gaza, although not to safeguard the Palestinians from genocide, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been facing increasing violence from Israeli soldiers and settlers. B’Tselem’s latest report, titled Unleashed: Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Soldiers in the Centre of Hebron, shows how...
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- December 10, 2024 Ramona Wadi
UNRWA, Palestinian children and the two-state diplomacy that works against children’s rights
According to UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini writing on X, “Wherever we work, @UNRWA is dedicated to helping children be children.” He noted the severe disruption of their education for Palestinian children in Gaza. No matter what anyone says, though, colonialism and genocide do not allow children to be...
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- December 8, 2024 Ramona Wadi
Amnesty Israel: for human rights or Israel’s political agenda?
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been up for debate for over a year and diluted to the point that even humanitarian pauses have evaporated into nothingness. The only sliver of concern that remains is securing the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. And the only reason the hostages still...
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- December 5, 2024 Ramona Wadi
The first signs of Jewish colonial resettlement in Gaza
Israel has demolished over 600 buildings to create a so-called buffer zone in what the Israeli military refers to as the Netzarim Corridor, which cuts Gaza in half and has been occupied militarily since November last year. The lack of clarification by the Israeli government over its plans for...
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- December 3, 2024 Ramona Wadi
An Old Carriage with Curtains
Ghassan Zaqtan’s impeccable weaving of Palestinian memory serves as a reminder of how far such memory can extend in a confined, ever-shrinking geopolitical space constantly eroded by Israeli colonialism and the ensuing military Occupation. The last book in a trilogy, An Old Carriage with Curtains (Seagull Books, 2023) does...