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Ramona Wadi
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Freelance journalist & book reviewer writing about Palestine & Latin America; the latter focusing on Chile, Cuba & Argentina.
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My latest #bookreview @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

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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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October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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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October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The maximalist politics of compromise

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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…
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October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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…
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October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Also, my review of #RefaatAlareer's anthology, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose (@orbooks.bsky.social)
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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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October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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My latest book review @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251020-one... (@canongate.co.uk)
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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October 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The dangers of political ambiguity

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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…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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My latest book review @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This
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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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October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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.

#BLOG by Ramona Wadi

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October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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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September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The EU and Israel’s common ground

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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…
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October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Unpacking Israel's erasure of Palestine with Emile Badarin
My latest #bookreview @thenewarab.bsky.social

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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
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September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and Time

BOOK REVIEW by Ramona Wadi
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…
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August 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Preconditions, symbolic recognition and the ongoing erasure of Palestine

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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…
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August 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Who enabled the process of “Greater Israel”?

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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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August 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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
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Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution.

Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques.
The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba
Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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My latest @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social
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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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August 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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My article @jacobinmag.bsky.social about the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (BRAC) during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista
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The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba
Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nur...
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August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A DEEP DIVE INTO ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA CATASTROPHE
A great new review of The Gaza Catastrophe
in The New Arab by Ramona Wadi
[Read a previous review by The Irish Times here:
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A deep dive into Israel’s genocide in The Gaza Catastrophe
Book Club: In ’The Gaza Catastrophe’, Israel’s genocide is shown to be rooted in history, fuelled by global backing for its military power and colonial project
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July 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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My latest #bookreview for NACLA:

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Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile and the South American Cold War (Review)
Burns's book brings South American history to the fore, explaining the regional dynamics and economic turmoil that led to Salvador Allende’s downfall and the beginnings of Operation Condor.
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August 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The EU’s colonial approach to human rights
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The EU’s colonial approach to human rights
The EU’s failure to even partially stop Israel’s participation in the Horizon Europe programme speaks volumes about the bloc’s commitment to Israel’s security narrative and complicity in genocide. …
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August 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilisation (@haymarketbooks.org)

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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilisation
Drawing upon philosophy and literature, Hamid Dabashi exposes the roots of Western colonial savagery and its entire manifestation in Israel as a Western colonial project currently engaged in exterm…
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July 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Saving the humanitarian paradigm does not save Palestinians from Israeli colonialism

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Saving the humanitarian paradigm does not save Palestinians from Israeli colonialism
Earlier this month, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres outlined four options that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) currently faces. A potential collapse of the agenc…
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July 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Israel controls the narrative on ethnic cleansing

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Israel controls the narrative on ethnic cleansing
Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert made headline news upon calling the planned humanitarian transit areas “concentration camps”. No disputing Olmert’s statement: “If [the Palestinians] are …
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July 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM