Ramona Wadi
@ramonawadi.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & book reviewer writing about Palestine & Latin America; the latter focusing on Chile, Cuba & Argentina. Open to commissions. www.ramonawadi.com
My latest book review @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation: 1948 – 1968 www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260801-pal... (@versobooks.bsky.social)
Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation: 1948 – 1968
Assassinated in Lebanon by Israel in 1972, Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani is mostly renowned for his anti-colonial resistance, political writings and works of literary fiction. Palestini…
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My latest #bookreview @thenewarab.bsky.social Who enabled Israel's genocide? Norman Finkelstein answers www.newarab.com/features/who...
Who enabled Israel’s genocide? Norman Finkelstein answers
Book Club: ’Gaza’s Gravediggers’ argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel’s genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity
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Israel shows there is no limit to the imagination of colonial violence www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260723-isr...
Israel shows there is no limit to the imagination of colonial violence
Forget the importance of preserving and protecting wildlife. For Israel, certain wildlife also serves a purpose in colonial violence. In December last year, Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvi…
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The road to normalising colonial expansion in Gaza www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260721-the...
The road to normalising colonial expansion in Gaza
Normalising genocide was a way to normalise colonial expansion in Gaza. Only three weeks after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed plans for three Israeli settlements, the Nachala se…
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What context is left out of humanitarian aid announcements? www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260714-wha...
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 a bid for political influence at the expense o…
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Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk by Ramona Wadi
Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk
Little exposure has been given to the Yellow Line and the Orange Line in Gaza. Given the genocide, Israel’s military occupation in Gaza should have generated equal scrutiny at the very least. Howev…
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Humanitarian aid, wherever it comes from is, is becoming murkier. #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260714-wha...
My latest book review @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social The Keys to my House: A Gaza Diary www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260629-the...
The Keys to my House: A Gaza Diary
Sami al-Ajrami’s account of the first six months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza starts with a tenacious link to home and homeland. A week after Hamas infiltrated Israel, al-Ajrami decides to leave hi…
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As Cuba cases reach the US Supreme Court, the Trump administration hopes to exploit them to deepen its economic attacks on Havana. By: @ramonawadi.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/us-legal-att...
US Legal Attacks are Part of Trump's Broader Assault on Cuba
In the US, court cases targeting Cuba are part of Trump's regime-change agenda and the broader American assault on Havana.
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In March, Israel "approved $730 million for its public diplomacy and information efforts, or hasbara," an historic investment, writes @ramonawadi.bsky.social. Israel is "losing the public opinion battle as it clings to its colonial subjugation of Palestine." Read more: dawnmena.org/hundreds-of-...
My latest #bookreview @nacla-report.bsky.social Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile (Review) nacla.org/music-and-po... #Chile
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile (Review)
Katia Chornik's book details how music was used as a form of torture and resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Another Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli officials called Nakba 2.0, the UN is determined to never mention colonialism. #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260519-dis...
Israel's historic new investments in public diplomacy (hasbara) stem from its collapsing support globally, writes @ramonawadi.bsky.social. "Israeli leaders fear a loss of political support in the West far more than any physical threat to their country."
Hundreds of Millions Spent, Support Lost: Israel’s Uphill Battle to Shape Global Opinion - DAWN
The most impactful consequence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, outside of the impacts on Palestinians themselves, is the rapid loss of public support across Western publics, particularly in the United S...
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My latest @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social: Dishonouring Palestinian memory of the Nakba at the UN
Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnother Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli officials called Nakba 2.0, the UN is determined to never mention colonialism. #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260519-dis...
My latest #bookreview @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Story Telling in Palestine www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260518-ong...
Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Story Telling in Palestine
“The geography of Palestine is one, from the river to the sea. The settler military works in different ways to create a fragmented reality for Palestinians,” Rana Barakat writes in the preface to h…
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino played an infantile game at the 76th FIFA congress when he encouraged the Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub and Israel’s FA Vice President Basim Sheikh Suliman to shake hands #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260506-foo...
In March this year, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had stated that the UN is “cooperating actively with structures created by the Board of Peace.” #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260507-wha...
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La CIA entrenó a los torturadores de Batista en Cuba - Jacobin Revista
El Buró para la Represión de las Actividades Comunistas de Fulgencio Batista tenía un sangriento historial de torturas y asesinatos políticos antes de la revolución de 1959. Archivos desclasificados m...
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“Lebanon cannot be another Gaza,” the UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said last week in response to a question during a press briefing regarding Israel’s war in Lebanon. #Blog by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260428-how...
Who truly faces an existential threat? www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260430-who...
Who truly faces an existential threat?
“What I saw today is the existential threat to the State of Israel,” former Mossad director Tamir Pardo stated after a visit to Palestinian villages that have been targeted by Israeli settlers in t…
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The US decision to expand consular services to illegal Israeli settlements in February 2026 is a "subtle move [that] may appear incremental, but it aligns closely with Israel’s annexation plans," writes Ramona Wadi. Read more: dawnmena.org/how-trump-is...
My latest #bookreview @thenewarab.bsky.social Olive Growing in Palestine: Roots of resistance in occupied land (@ugapress.bsky.social) www.newarab.com/features/oli...
Olive Growing in Palestine: Roots of resistance in occupied land
Book Club: ’Olive Growing in Palestine’ is a rigorous study of how Palestinian farmers negotiate survival under Israeli settler-colonial conditions
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My latest @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social The envisaged five stages of Israel’s next colonial phase www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260329-the...
The envisaged five stages of Israel’s next colonial phase
Nickolay Mladenov, the former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, now the Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza, is misrepresenting Gaza to the full capability of Wester…
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My latest book review @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social The Spectral Palestinian: Presence Before Politics (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social) www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260323-the...
The Spectral Palestinian: Presence Before Politics
Language in Western discourse abandoned the Palestinian people. In a global framework that renders Palestinians invisible unless visibility is required to satisfy the mainstream narrative, the West…
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My latest @wrmea.bsky.social HRW's Stance Compromises the Palestinian Right of Return www.wrmea.org/israel-pales...
HRW’s Stance Compromises the Palestinian Right of Return
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2026, pp. xx-xx Special Report By Ramona Wadi IN RECENT YEARS, particularly during the first presidency of Do...
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My latest article @inkstickmedia.com Why the US is Ramping Up Attacks on Cuba’s Medical Brigades inkstickmedia.com/why-the-us-i...
Why the US is Ramping Up Attacks on Cuba’s Medical Brigades
For decades, Cuba's medical brigades have helped provide care to people across the world. Washington wants that to end.
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When humanitarian aid and death are intertwined in Gaza by 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…
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A joint report released recently by Forensic Architecture and Earshot reconstructs Israel’s massacre of aid workers in March 2025. #BLOG by Ramona Wadi Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260224-rec...
My latest book review in Cassandra Voices: cassandravoices.com/current-affa... (@saqibooks.bsky.social)
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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