October 26, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he served so well. When challenged...
October 14, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Nothing irritates Israel’s apologists more than to see it being described as an “Apartheid state” even though its Palestinian citizens will confirm their second class status to anyone who...
October 12, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley On average we each tend to use around 16,000 words a day to communicate with one another, but there is one word which appears to be banned by the...
October 2, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The future of Israel is hanging in the balance as the number of immigrants has dropped by more than a third, according to the latest statistics. While the coronavirus...
September 30, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The Arab League has a reputation for being full of men overburdened by their own sense of importance. This, though, could be about to change because of one small...
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US September 26, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley When Al Jazeera’s hard-hitting documentary “The Lobby” exposed how the pro-Israel lobby had faked allegations of anti-Semitism and sought to influence British politics, it led to an apology from...
September 1, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Israel’s plans to wipe Palestine off the map are very real, especially Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to annex a huge section of the occupied West Bank. Such expansionism by the...
August 28, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley 'In the video, Sharif talks openly about how he was tortured, describing the crude methods adopted by HTS from the Assad regime. What is being done is not only torture and a war crime, but is also prohibited in Islam'
August 14, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The controversial American journalist who sued the US government for putting him on a “kill list” in war-torn Syria, was arrested yesterday by a Sunni Islamist militant group in...
August 11, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The ordeal of a British-born aid worker in Syria who was taken by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib took another twist on Tuesday when...
August 4, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley When Americans tell me that they are envious of Britain because of our Royal Family, I can sort of understand what they mean, especially when I look across the...
August 1, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley A direct action group in support of Palestine burst onto the scene in London this week by storming an Israeli arms company in the heart of the English capital...
July 28, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley This is a tale of two cities twinned by treachery. Syria’s Jabal Al-Zawiya might be 1,800 miles away from Sirte in Libya, but their fates are very much intertwined...
July 22, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The Palestinian people have drawn support from many legendary figures over the years. The universally admired Afro-American civil rights activist, writer and poet Maya Angelou was one of them....
July 13, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Apparently Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, is “very distressed” by the decision to revert the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia into a mosque; it has been a...
July 1, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Vocal human rights activist Malcolm X once said: “You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress” and...
June 25, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer sacked his shadow education secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, today after she tweeted praise for an interview in which the actor Maxine Peake described...
June 23, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley A British aid worker has been kidnapped in Syria by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib, it emerged on Monday night. Tauqir Sharif, 31, from...
June 8, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley I have deliberately avoided watching the video of the murder of George Floyd simply because I’ve seen so many similar images before on the streets of Palestine under Israel’s...
May 27, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Long before Sir Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors there were variations on the theme; the winners of any conflict get to write the definitive...
May 26, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Ever since President Donald Trump blundered blindly into the Middle East with his woefully inexperienced team of advisors, US foreign policy has swung wildly out of control. Predictably, it...
May 25, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Details are emerging about the kidnapping of two young people within Saudi Arabia which appears to be the latest desperate move by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to exert...
May 11, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Sportswashing and the billions of dollars it involves might mean very little to most Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as they go about their daily...
April 28, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley When it comes to Palestinians and peace in the Middle East, world leaders and Western journalists have taken their eye off the ball due to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
April 23, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Syrians Anwar Raslan and Eyad Al-Gharib are not very nice men, apparently, and we are about to find out, in horrifying detail, exactly why. Every torturer who has ever...
April 21, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The mantra “we are all in this together” has been said numerous times every day recently by politicians of various stripes around the world as the Covid-19 pandemic rips...
April 14, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Lockdowns come in many shapes and sizes, and the one that millions of us around the world are enduring today is in place for our own protection from the...
March 31, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley If ever a nation was prepared for the onslaught of the Covid19 virus and all the disruption and fear that comes with it, some might think that the Palestinians...
March 6, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Some people think that they can get away with shocking crimes in full view of a watching world because they have money, power or influence, or in the case...
March 3, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley Since the start of the 21st century, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 540 Palestinian athletes and other sportsmen and women. Many more have been wounded and crippled....
February 29, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO...
February 27, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley The spread of the coronavirus — Covid-19 — has now reached epidemic proportions, with cases in dozens of countries around the world, and growing alarm at the epicentre in...
![Palestinians gather at the tomb of Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, to commemorate the 14th anniversary of his death, on November 11, 2018 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181111_2_33368264_38934205.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he served so well. When challenged...![TikTok - a social media video app on 21 February 2020 [Mustafa Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200221_2_40967393_52376898.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Nothing irritates Israel’s apologists more than to see it being described as an “Apartheid state” even though its Palestinian citizens will confirm their second class status to anyone who...![Pedestrians walk in front of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) building in Toronto, Canada [GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CBC-building-in-Toronto-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On average we each tend to use around 16,000 words a day to communicate with one another, but there is one word which appears to be banned by the...![Image of Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel [lleewu/Flickr]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2009_2_2-israeli-airport.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The future of Israel is hanging in the balance as the number of immigrants has dropped by more than a third, according to the latest statistics. While the coronavirus...![Palestinians hold Qatar and Palestine flags during a demonstration in support of Qatar, in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 14 June 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170614_2_24231673_23151277.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Arab League has a reputation for being full of men overburdened by their own sense of importance. This, though, could be about to change because of one small...
When Al Jazeera’s hard-hitting documentary “The Lobby” exposed how the pro-Israel lobby had faked allegations of anti-Semitism and sought to influence British politics, it led to an apology from...![Palestinian Muslims await Friday prayers inside the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on 10 July 2020 [Muhammed Qarout Idkaide]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Al-Aqsa.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel’s plans to wipe Palestine off the map are very real, especially Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to annex a huge section of the occupied West Bank. Such expansionism by the...![Men fix up a banner on the side of a building calling for the release of Tauqir Sharif, a self-described aid worker stripped of his British nationality and detained by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists, at the premises of his charity organisation in the town of Atme in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on 1 July 2020. [OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1224650901.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
'In the video, Sharif talks openly about how he was tortured, describing the crude methods adopted by HTS from the Assad regime. What is being done is not only torture and a war crime, but is also prohibited in Islam'![Journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem [Bilal Abdul Kareem/Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bilal-Abdul-Kareem-e1597406501728.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The controversial American journalist who sued the US government for putting him on a “kill list” in war-torn Syria, was arrested yesterday by a Sunni Islamist militant group in...![Tauqir Sharif, 31 was kidnapped by a militant sunni group [Tauqir Tox Sharif/Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/34470527_956440761204331_4770994150801670144_o-1-e1592904867584.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The ordeal of a British-born aid worker in Syria who was taken by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib took another twist on Tuesday when...![UK’s Prince Andrew [Youtube]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TELEMMGLPICT000216421159_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqaivqAvBJWkUV8VzepAMjBUSXDVobHLbZZp-A_Kknc4M.jpeg?resize=480%2C300&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Americans tell me that they are envious of Britain because of our Royal Family, I can sort of understand what they mean, especially when I look across the...![A man looks at a display of rockets from Elbit Systems UK including the Predator Hawk (L) and the Extra (2L) as delegates enjoy drinks at the end of day one of the DSEI arms fair at ExCel on September 10, 2019 [Leon Neal/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1173612375-scaled-e1594049256349.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A direct action group in support of Palestine burst onto the scene in London this week by storming an Israeli arms company in the heart of the English capital...![Forces linked to Government of National Accord (GNA) attack Daesh positions during the operation ''Al Bunyan Al Marsous'' at the city of Sirte, Libya on 21 November 2016 [Hazem Turkia/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161121_2_20255555_16241757-e1551259376248.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This is a tale of two cities twinned by treachery. Syria’s Jabal Al-Zawiya might be 1,800 miles away from Sirte in Libya, but their fates are very much intertwined...![People attend the Mandela Festival, Southbank Centre, London, UK in 2015 [Image from Make Apartheid History]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Make-Apartheid-History.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestinian people have drawn support from many legendary figures over the years. The universally admired Afro-American civil rights activist, writer and poet Maya Angelou was one of them....![Hagia Sophia [Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/3904811506_37e505122d_k.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Apparently Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, is “very distressed” by the decision to revert the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia into a mosque; it has been a...![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at No. 10 Downing Street, in London, UK on 5 September 2019 [Kate Green/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190905_2_38057937_47312073-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Vocal human rights activist Malcolm X once said: “You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress” and...
Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer sacked his shadow education secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, today after she tweeted praise for an interview in which the actor Maxine Peake described...![Israelis gather to stage a demonstration to protest against Israel's annexation plan for the illegal settlements in West Bank and Jordan Valley, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2020 [Nir Keidar / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200607_2_42837367_55708332.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I have deliberately avoided watching the video of the murder of George Floyd simply because I’ve seen so many similar images before on the streets of Palestine under Israel’s...![A Palestinian mad holds the keys to his house in Bi'r Muin town, which he and his family were forced to leave during the Nakba, 12 May 2020 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nakba20200516_2_42469154_54980853.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Long before Sir Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors there were variations on the theme; the winners of any conflict get to write the definitive...![A Palestinian protestor seen during the weekly protest near the Gaza-Israel separation fence in the Gaza Strip on 11 November, 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_6938.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since President Donald Trump blundered blindly into the Middle East with his woefully inexperienced team of advisors, US foreign policy has swung wildly out of control. Predictably, it...![A portrait of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears during a show as a part of celebrations of the 88th Saudi National Day at the King Fahad stadium on September 23, 2018 in Riyadh [FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1038686482-scaled-e1590408731610.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Details are emerging about the kidnapping of two young people within Saudi Arabia which appears to be the latest desperate move by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to exert...![St James' Park, home of Newcastle United FC [Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/football-2868275_1920-e1589183836815.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Sportswashing and the billions of dollars it involves might mean very little to most Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as they go about their daily...![US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of the White House on 28 January 2020 in Washington, DC. [Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1197122212.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When it comes to Palestinians and peace in the Middle East, world leaders and Western journalists have taken their eye off the ball due to the coronavirus pandemic. The...![Image of Syrian President Bashar Assad on 14 April 2017 [Inform the world/Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_4_17-Bashar-AssadC86MgyKW0AEsfKV.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Syrians Anwar Raslan and Eyad Al-Gharib are not very nice men, apparently, and we are about to find out, in horrifying detail, exactly why. Every torturer who has ever...![A man carries a placard reading "What is Love" on the Republique square in Paris, during a banned demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people, on 26 July, 2014 [KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-452721890-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The mantra “we are all in this together” has been said numerous times every day recently by politicians of various stripes around the world as the Covid-19 pandemic rips...![Palestinian children stand in front of a graffitied wall April 27, 2002 in the West Bank town of Jenin. A United Nations fact finding mission is scheduled to be in Jenin tomorrow to asses the Israeli action within this West Bank town. [Darren McCollester/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1538808-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Lockdowns come in many shapes and sizes, and the one that millions of us around the world are enduring today is in place for our own protection from the...![A group of volunteer youth carry out disinfection work during the coronavirus pandemic in Gaza on 29 March 2020 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200329_2_41614143_53474291.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
If ever a nation was prepared for the onslaught of the Covid19 virus and all the disruption and fear that comes with it, some might think that the Palestinians...![Sheikha Shamsa Al-Maktoum, daughter of the UAE's Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, hasn't been seen in public since 2010 [latifa.info]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/0_SHAMSA-BINT-MOHAMMED-BIN-RASHID-AL-MAKTOUM-e1564840240270.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Some people think that they can get away with shocking crimes in full view of a watching world because they have money, power or influence, or in the case...![Palestinian players of Shabab Khan Younis football club celebrate after scoring a goal during the final football match of the Palestine Cup for the southern governorates with Shabab Rafah football club at Palestine stadium in Gaza city on 30 April, 2018 [Mahmoud Ajour/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/45300418_MJ_00-14-520x800.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Since the start of the 21st century, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 540 Palestinian athletes and other sportsmen and women. Many more have been wounded and crippled....![US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (R) shake hands after signing the peace agreement between US, Taliban, in Doha, Qatar on 29 February 2020. [Fatih Aktaş - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200229_2_41108174_52632536.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO...![Demonstrators take part in a demonstration against human rights violations of China on 27 December 2019 [Abdulhamid Hoşbaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191227_2_40054487_50735159.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The spread of the coronavirus — Covid-19 — has now reached epidemic proportions, with cases in dozens of countries around the world, and growing alarm at the epicentre in...