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Items by Ramona Wadi
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Are sanctions on Israeli settlers and organisations the best the EU can do?
Since 7 October, Gaza has been facing genocide and Israel is using several tactics to ensure the annihilation of the Palestinian population. The Israeli military continues its widespread bombing campaign, while Israeli settlers on the nominal Gaza border have organised themselves to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching the enclave,...
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The PA’s insinuations can be turned against itself
The Palestinian Authority is using the last dregs of its rapidly declining influence to instigate further divisions in Palestinian politics, this time using Israel’s genocide in Gaza to purportedly prove its point. Following Israel’s massacre targeting displaced Palestinians in a refugee camp in Mawasi, the PA issued a press...
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Is the international community as dehumanised as Israel has proved itself to be?
No one would have possibly dreamt that genocide and boredom can co-exist, until testimonies collected by +972 Magazine illustrated how the Zionist narrative managed to even construct a new meaning of genocide, or lose it altogether. With no rules of engagement, the Israeli military created a new form of dehumanisation....
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Netanyahu relies on normalising genocide
The UN has been stating that nowhere is safe in Gaza. Palestinians have been crying out the same, prior to the useless official statements. Those that remain have been displaced several times over, in a macabre spectacle that leaves one wondering who is next in Israel’s genocidal kill toll. “Counting...
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Settlement expansion, genocide and the two-state paradigm
As the Western-approved, slow genocide continues in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Zionist regime’s approval for 5,300 new settlement units as “thwarting the danger of a Palestinian state”. Meanwhile, the designated legitimising of five settlement outposts, according to Smotrich, are in retaliation for...
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Silencing statistics, silencing genocide, betraying Palestinian lives and memory
On Thursday last week, the US House of Representatives passed an amendment to prevent the US State Department from using Gaza’s Health Ministry statistics to cite the casualty figures for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israel regularly states that it has no information on the Palestinian civilians killed and wounded...
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Maintaining diplomatic appearances reinforces genocide
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to address a joint session of US Congress on 24 July, and speculations about the contents of his speech have been reported in Israeli media, albeit slightly contradictory. Senior Israeli aides to Netanyahu stated that the address would address the normalisation agreements between...
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Israel is forcibly disappearing future Palestinian generations
It is estimated that around 21,000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza, either buried under rubble or in mass graves, estranged from their families, detained or disappeared by Israel. The colonised are deprived of their voice, and the silence of colonised children is eerily loud, once the facts are...
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Humanitarian aid and Israel’s ‘voluntary migration’ scheme
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said earlier this week that, “We have offered ourselves to host injured people from Palestine but also children from Palestine to come to Europe and stay here until the war is over.” Israel would be thrilled at such an idea, for sure. “Voluntary migration”...
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Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
Leafing through this book upon receiving it, the discrepancy between the thriving life in Palestine before the Nakba and the Zionist narrative of the barren land was striking. Reading and becoming familiar with the content, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba (Haymarket Books, 2024), is...
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Genocidal intent, action and silence
While international institutions are still debating whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and Israel’s arms exports reached a record $13.1 billion in 2023, a report by AP details how the occupation state is killing “entire Palestinian families”. Genocide is happening and the international community is so impressed by...
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Weaponising aid beyond starvation
Israel’s raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed 274 Palestinians and wounded 700 more in order to free four healthy-looking Israeli hostages. The discrepancy was stark. However, what stands out in the murderous Israeli operation is the weaponising of aid to provide cover for the massacre. Denied by both...
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Genocide or forced transfer; Danon’s choice of colonial propaganda at the UN
“In the face of the diplomatic terror that rears its head these days, I am obliged to present the truth for the sake of the people of Israel and our common future in our homeland,” was Danny Danon’s response to being appointed Israel ambassador to the UN for a...
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The US role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
US President Joe Biden’s interview with Time magazine attracted the attention of mainstream and Israeli media due to one particular comment. “There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion,” he uttered in response to the question about whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “prolonging the war...
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How Israel perceives threats to its existence when there are none
The UN helped to create Israel with the 1947 Partition Plan, Resolution 181, but that is not enough for Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan. In an interview with Israel National News at the Jerusalem Conference in New York, Erdan embarked upon a tirade on the dangers...
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
“Israeli universities are not independent of the Israeli security state but, rather, serve as an extension of its violence.” Describing a raid by Shin Bet on Birzeit University in April 2022, Maya Wind sets the scene for her book Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian...
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Only decolonisation can stop Israel, not more futile resolutions
UN resolutions did not stop Israel’s colonial expansion or its violence. And neither will they stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As long as the international community fragments Israel’s violations into separate events in the same manner as news reporting, nothing will stop the genocide. On Tuesday, Algeria proposed a draft...
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Israel has killed displaced Palestinians since 1948, not just since 7 October
Israel’s latest bombing of Rafah, which killed at least 45 forcibly-displaced Palestinians, has rightly prompted an international outcry. It was a hypocritical response from the international community, though, which has contributed to, or watched passively, Israel’s slaughter of well over 35,000 Palestinians since October. Why do some air strikes...
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The ICC enables evasion of genocide indictments for Israel leaders
Only those in power are still unable to articulate the word ‘genocide’, and not for lack of knowledge. The illusion of acting without angering Israel too much has taken root so much that the International Criminal Court’s application for arrest warrants also fails to specifically mention genocide. According to a...
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Genocide, recognising a Palestinian State and the two-state paradigm
“President Biden … has been equally emphatic on the record that the two-state solution should be brought about through direct negotiations through the parties, not for unilateral recognition,” White House National Security adviser, Jake Sullivan, stated during a news briefing. Ireland, Spain and Norway’s decision to recognise a Palestinian...
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Diplomatic fatigue and heavy strain, but what about the genocide?
Anyone listening to EU officials speak about Gaza would think that the only problem that the enclave is facing is a disruption in the distribution of humanitarian aid. International law, however, describes what is happening in Gaza very clearly – genocide – so why can’t the EU High Representative...
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The macabre US reassurances approving of Israel’s genocide
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew spoke in terms of protecting genocidal action and complicity last Sunday when he explained that, “fundamentally, nothing has changed in the basic relationship” between the US and Israel. They are words which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t really need to hear, of...
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The US continues to provide cover for Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains set in his plans to invade Rafah, with or without US assistance. Responding to US President Joe Biden’s warning earlier this week that arms supplies will be limited if Israel invades Rafah, Netanyahu responded, “If we must, we shall fight with our fingernails.”...
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Australia’s warped view of violence excludes Israel’s genocide
Australia, a country with a colonial legacy that still needs to be reckoned with, is the latest to find fault with the decolonial Palestinian slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. The reasons given by Australian government officials for their opposition to the slogan are...