Ramona Wadi

When humanitarian aid and death are intertwined in Gaza Humanitarian aid for Palestinians has always been a macabre game which the international community has played so well, to the point that aid and death have become intertwined. Not only did the UN R…

When humanitarian aid and death are intertwined in Gaza

by Ramona Wadi

A joint report released recently by Forensic Architecture and Earshot reconstructs Israel’s massacre of aid workers in March 2025.

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Archiving Gaza in the Present | Cassandra Voices A new book attempts to counter the myth of Gaza being a barren land ripe for colonisation by drawing attention to its artistic heritage. Review by Ramona Wadi.

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The History of US Meddling in Latin America is Long and Deadly The so-called Donroe Doctrine, Trump's version of the Monroe Doctrine, is the latest in a long history of US meddling in Latin America.

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Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina (Review) Karen Robert's book unearths how a deadly collaboration between the Argentine dictatorship and the Ford Motor Company stifled worker dissent.

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Stating there is no Plan B allows colonial violence to create one Rebuilding Gaza has always been the UN’s favourite part of Israel’s colonial, violent aftermath. The genocide Israel unleashed on Gaza after 7th October 2023 was no different at first in terms of r…

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What diplomats do not say about humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid is a catchphrase in diplomatic rhetoric. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas made statements to that effect while on a diplomatic visit to Egypt last week,…

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Israeli ministers are becoming unequivocally clear about colonialism in Gaza. Not that there was any shard of doubt since the start of the genocide in 2023 and even before.

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No One Knows Their Blood Type Unlike most Palestinian fiction, No One Knows Their Blood Type (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2024) does not prioritise the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance or portray its protagoni…

No One Knows Their Blood Type

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Silent Numbers: Achieving Accountability Amid Israel’s Genocide of Gaza If Israel’s intent is to continue the genocide, as recently reported, the international community remains many steps behind in preventing it. But if world leaders are complicit, where does accountabil...

Accountability in Gaza "starts with effective fact-finding efforts and access to sound data from within the Gaza Strip," writes @ramonawadi.bsky.social.

But Israel's deliberate attacks on the infrastructure reporting on deaths hampers efforts today.

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders Living between identities, or half identities, what does one embrace? Sara Aziza’s memoir, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders (Catapult Books, 2025) takes the reader through a journey …

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Aca les dejo un caso de Venganza según Evelyn Matthei. Fueron encontrados y reconocidos algunos huesos de las manos del director de orquesta Jorge Peña Hen, ejecutado por La Caravana de la Muerte a cargo de Sergio Arellano Stark en La Serena el 16 Octubre de 1973
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The maximalist politics of compromise Even in the context of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, calls for compromise have not abated. One recent call for compromise comes from Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emira…

The maximalist politics of compromise

by Ramona Wadi

The maximalist politics of compromise Even in the context of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, calls for compromise have not abated. One recent call for compromise comes from Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emira…

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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Israel killed the Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer on 7 December 2023, in the first months of the genocide in Gaza. The poem from which the book gets its title catapulted Alaeer into international…

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This Omar El Akkad’s book forces us to look at the savagery of Western imperialism through Israel’s genocide in Gaza. One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (Canongate books, 2025) spells a momen…

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The dangers of political ambiguity Israel has already violated the terms of the ceasefire, including imposing restrictions on the entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza and thus splintering the diplomatic focus of the ceasefire. Sta…

The dangers of political ambiguity

by Ramona Wadi

One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This Omar El Akkad’s book forces us to look at the savagery of Western imperialism through Israel’s genocide in Gaza. One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This (Canongate books, 2025) spells a momen…

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The EU has rendered itself irrelevant, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Euronews, basking in US President Donald Trump’s support for Israel’s genocide under the guise of a peace deal.

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Journalist Ramona Wadi writing for MEM (and others) observe accurately ; Without acknowledging genocide and the necessity for decolonisation - recognition simply means 'more of the same' - colonialism and denial

Anthony Albanese's a fraud, pretender, arguably as bad as Morrison & Abbott.

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The EU and Israel’s common ground The European Commission did not take long to capitulate to comments by Israel’s ambassador to the EU Avi Nir-Feldklein, who said that if the bloc wants to participate in the US plan for Gaza, it mu…

The EU and Israel’s common ground

by Ramona Wadi

The UK’s symbolic recognition of Palestine, like that of other countries who made this gesture without supporting decolonisation, is tied solely to the two-state politics.

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Unpacking Israel’s erasure of Palestine with Emile Badarin Book Club: Emile Badarin’s ’Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States’ shows how liberal recognition masks colonial violence and the erasure of Palestine

Unpacking Israel's erasure of Palestine with Emile Badarin
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The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and Time Israel’s erasure of Palestine is tackled through the looting of Palestinian archives and what remains of the colonial plunder in Azza El Hassan’s book The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Re…

The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and Time

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Preconditions, symbolic recognition and the ongoing erasure of Palestine September seems to be the month several Western countries have chosen to symbolically recognise the State of Palestine. The countdown to the hypothetical recognition, if it happens, will likely gen…

Preconditions, symbolic recognition and the ongoing erasure of Palestine

by Ramona Wadi

Who enabled the process of “Greater Israel”? In a recent interview with i24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he is “on a mission of generations” for “Greater Israel”. Meanwhile, the international community is still bleating a…

Who enabled the process of “Greater Israel”?

by Ramona Wadi

My article about the CIA's involvement in the setting up of Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities during Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship #Cuba

Who enabled the process of “Greater Israel”? In a recent interview with i24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he is “on a mission of generations” for “Greater Israel”. Meanwhile, the international community is still bleating a…

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