January 19, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley How many people have heard of Karim Younis? If his name means very little to you, that's probably because you were a child or not even born when he...
January 16, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley There will be a collective sigh of relief from Palestinians when disgraced President Donald Trump finally leaves the White House for good on Wednesday, because no single nation has...
December 29, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley If you want to divert attention away from your own criminal behaviour, nothing works better, it seems, than starting a fire in someone else's backyard. Even better if you...
December 21, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley I've often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands...
December 11, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley The words and wisdom of the late, great South African leader Nelson Mandela are often invoked to illustrate a point when confronted by injustice and how to deal with...
December 10, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Even though Donald Trump has still not accepted that he lost the US presidential election, I hear that his imminent departure from the White House is causing great concern...
November 30, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or...
November 29, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley The United Nations declared 29 November to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People more than 40 years ago. Sadly, it has become just another date...
November 17, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem yesterday challenged his inclusion on a US government "kill list" even though he is thousands of miles away in a rebel-held prison in Syria....
November 11, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Millions of people around the world are watching in astonishment at the bizarre spectacle of Donald Trump's end days as US president which is turning America into a laughing...
November 1, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley It looks as if French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for a way out of the mess he has created with his fiery rhetoric and attack on the Muslim...
October 26, 2020 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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...
![Karim Younis, the longest-serving political prisoner who has been incarcerated by Israel since 1983 [Ma'an News Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019_1-1-Karim-YounisDacPGxUX0AImYdJ.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
How many people have heard of Karim Younis? If his name means very little to you, that's probably because you were a child or not even born when he...
There will be a collective sigh of relief from Palestinians when disgraced President Donald Trump finally leaves the White House for good on Wednesday, because no single nation has...
If you want to divert attention away from your own criminal behaviour, nothing works better, it seems, than starting a fire in someone else's backyard. Even better if you...![Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood protesting in Cairo, Egypt on 11 November 2016 [Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/111116_STR_00-13-e1608543483717.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I've often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands...![Women carrying Saharan flags and dressed in Malahfas take part in a demonstration to demand the end of Morocco's occupation in Western Sahara, in support of the Polisario Front and to demand solutions from the Spanish government on 16 November 2020 in San Sebastian, Spain. [Gari Garaialde/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1286116877.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The words and wisdom of the late, great South African leader Nelson Mandela are often invoked to illustrate a point when confronted by injustice and how to deal with...![King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman (L) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 9 December 2018 [Bandar Algaloud/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181209_2_33838882_39743538.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Even though Donald Trump has still not accepted that he lost the US presidential election, I hear that his imminent departure from the White House is causing great concern...![Swiss leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan arrives at the Palais de Justice (Law Court) of Paris, 13 on February 2020. [THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1200518020-e1606726066220.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or...
The United Nations declared 29 November to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People more than 40 years ago. Sadly, it has become just another date...![American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem in Idlib, Syria [BilalKareem/Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/American-journalist-Bilal-Abdul-Kareem.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem yesterday challenged his inclusion on a US government "kill list" even though he is thousands of miles away in a rebel-held prison in Syria....![Palestinians protest against the plans by US President Donald Trump to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on 19 January 2017 [Nedal Eshtayah/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017_1-19-palestinians-protest-against-proposed-plans-by-trump-to-remove-the-embassy190117_NE_00-3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Millions of people around the world are watching in astonishment at the bizarre spectacle of Donald Trump's end days as US president which is turning America into a laughing...![A women's clothing store uses French President Emmanuel Macron's photos on social distance labels in response to Macron's anti-islam remarks at Ain Zara town in Tripoli, Libya on October 28, 2020 [Mücahit Aydemir / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201028_2_45068901_59267734.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It looks as if French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for a way out of the mess he has created with his fiery rhetoric and attack on the Muslim...![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...