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Ramona Wadi

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When does observation become a humiliating spectacle?

When does observation become a humiliating spectacle?

Last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) led a virtual visit to Al Mawasi,...

16.07.2026 50

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What context is left out of humanitarian aid announcements?

What context is left out of humanitarian aid announcements?

Humanitarian aid, wherever it comes from is, is becoming murkier. The only clear aspect about humanitarian aid is that each scheme announced signifies...

14.07.2026 60

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Funding failed paradigms for Palestinians in Gaza

Humanitarian aid is a failed paradigm, be it the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or the Board of Peace’s scheming. UNRWA has...

09.07.2026 70

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Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

07.07.2026 70

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Colonial expansion is always accompanied by the international community’s unspoken consent

02.07.2026 70

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The international community is not opposing Netanyahu’s threat

“Another principle of the government, of the broad national government that I intend to lead, is that there is no room for two states. Between the...

01.07.2026 70

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The EU does not need to clarify its support for Israeli colonialism

25.06.2026 70

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Symbolism for Palestinians is impunity for Israeli colonialism

There is no disputing that human rights discourse safeguard the interests of former and current colonial powers. When the ceasefire was announced, it...

23.06.2026 70

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When the international community’s absolutes lead to genocide

18.06.2026 60

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The international community is fast losing its diplomatic relevance

16.06.2026 70

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The Board of Peace extends Israel’s security narrative

12.06.2026 70

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Settlers, sanctions and impunity

From 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2025, Israeli settlers killed 61 Palestinians and injured 3,778. The findings of the Independent International...

10.06.2026 90

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The US creates convenient loopholes for Israel

Seizing 70 percent of Gaza is not part of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Tuesday at the House...

04.06.2026 100

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As Israel encroaches upon Gaza, the UN should be reckoning with its colonial complicity

“A hundred percent of Gaza should be for the Palestinian people, right? That’s what we want to see. And we’ve been calling on Israel to pull...

02.06.2026 90

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The EU’s fragmented focus rewards colonial violence

28.05.2026 90

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Resolutions are disconnected from the Palestinian reality

26.05.2026 100

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Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices

Colonialism is dehumanising. It is something akin to a spectacle that several world leaders and ministers have partially woken up to that fact, after...

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Dishonouring Palestinian memory of the Nakba at the UN

Another Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli...

19.05.2026 100

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The Nakba between hypocritical remembrance and oblivion

On the eve of the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the silence around the world speaks volumes about oblivion. At the UN, a brief program,...

14.05.2026 100

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EU sanctions on settlers is turning a blind eye to colonialism

12.05.2026 100

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What has Guterres supported in Gaza?

07.05.2026 100

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Football is not ‘the beautiful game’ when it collaborates with genocide

FIFA President Gianni Infantino played an infantile game at the 76th FIFA congress when he encouraged the Palestinian Football Association President...

07.05.2026 100

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Who truly faces an existential threat?

30.04.2026 100

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How the UN maintains Gaza as an exception to the detriment of the Palestinian people

28.04.2026 100

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Is the EU willing to deconstruct colonialism and its role in maintaining it?

Sanctions, deemed effective by the EU when applied so swiftly to Russia and Iran, do not have the same effect when it comes to Israel, according to EU...

23.04.2026 100

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Europe still blurs the line between support and betrayal

“Europe is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian people,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee yesterday....

21.04.2026 100

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Beyond rhetoric, is there political will to move away from the two-state paradigm?

Europe’s stance on Palestine, although currently slightly shifting, remains “below the level required,”  Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen...

16.04.2026 100

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Cracks in Europe’s support for colonial violence and genocide

Spain was recently targeted by Israel’s antisemitism narrative after an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up in El Burgo, during...

14.04.2026 100

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Varying degrees of silence over colonialism and annexation

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a settlement in Benjamin, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel will expand in Gaza, the...

12.04.2026 100

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In Israel’s colonial ethnic cleansing, the world fails stand for decolonisation

08.04.2026 100

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A quest for justice through the wrong channels

In his last interview as UNRWA’s commissioner general, Philippe Lazzarini stated that he asked for a UN investigation into Israel’s killing of...

02.04.2026 100

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Separating land from the people supports Israel’s colonial expansion

31.03.2026 100

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The envisaged five stages of Israel’s next colonial phase

29.03.2026 100

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Torture, genocide and erasure

26.03.2026 100

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The UN leaves UNRWA isolated, and Palestinians prone to genocide

The most exalted UN creation – the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – is being isolated by the UN. While Israel destroyed...

24.03.2026 100

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Global attention must not lose sight of Palestine

For all Palestine, particularly Gaza, is reduced to visibility or invisibility depending on how it best serves the Israeli and Western narratives, the...

19.03.2026 100

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Making humanitarian aid work for everyone but the recipients

The EU yesterday confirmed  €458 million in humanitarian aid for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Palestine will receive €124 million...

17.03.2026 100

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Creating impunity through diplomatic statements

Settler violence in the occupied West Bank is unacceptable, the EU and the UK stated yesterday. “Impunity for such acts risks provoking further...

12.03.2026 100

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A colonial choice: The Board of Peace, or the UN?

11.03.2026 100

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Care packages, brought to Palestinians by colonialism

Nickolay Mladenov, former UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Affairs and now High Representative for the Board of Peace, is no stranger to...

05.03.2026 100

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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...

03.03.2026 150

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Obliterating Palestinian identity

Earlier this month, Palestinian footballers, clubs and rights groups submitted a 120-page file to the International Criminal Court accusing FIFA...

26.02.2026 100

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Reconstructing the details of Israel’s obliteration of Palestinians

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

24.02.2026 100

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Where is the international community’s accountability for Israel’s latest annexation phase?

The international community does not want to be held accountable  to history or its role in Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. With each...

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Continuing genocide, with full international approval

The international community has truly illustrated its fragmented approach to both international law, order and human rights. Not only did the UN...

17.02.2026 100

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France’s censorship of voices calling out international complicity with genocide

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has once again been targeted, this time by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot,...

13.02.2026 100

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Australia should not provide a platform for Israel’s security narrative

12.02.2026 100

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No international reaction to Israel’s admission of killing over 70,000 in Gaza

05.02.2026 100

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Supporting Israel’s security narrative puts aid workers at risk

03.02.2026 100

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Strengthening the UN? For what purpose?

29.01.2026 100

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