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October 12, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley France's Donald Trump wannabe is leading the country's Islamophobic charge by promising to ban children from being named Muhammad if he becomes president. The meteoric rise of Eric Zemmour...
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September 30, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Smartphone technology has revolutionised our lives in many ways that go well beyond telephone calls for the millions who use them. Many of us have become amateur photographers, capturing...
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September 28, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Tens of thousands of Afghan mothers will quite possibly not be able to wave their children off to school in 2022 because their youngsters will have starved to death...
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September 20, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Palestine Action is, as its name implies, involved in direct action against some of the arms trade's most deadly production lines, notably Israel's Elbit Systems. Since it burst onto...
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September 8, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The site of Scotland's most historic battle is at the centre of a war of words after a schoolgirl's essay highlighted the injustices faced by Palestinians in the 21st...
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September 1, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Journalism is a powerful weapon, which is why most tyrants and despots like either to control or ban the media. Even in so-called democracies, governments are well aware of...
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August 20, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The hashtag #womensrights has been trending on social media ever since the Taliban swept dramatically into the Afghan capital Kabul in what was an almost bloodless takeover. Aside from...
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August 16, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace...
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August 2, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly. Israeli celebrations may be premature as Algeria, one of Palestine's...
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July 27, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Let's stop all the hand wringing and angst over Afghanistan. Now. It's fooling no one. America, Britain and their NATO allies have had 20 years to help put the...
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July 22, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley There was a time when football was just a beautiful game with 22 players kicking a leather ball from one end of the pitch to another while supporters cheered...
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July 14, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The BBC has become embroiled in a fact-checking row with demands for an apology over a presenter's claims that Libya was the first nation to carry out a state-sponsored...
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July 1, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Hundreds of frontline foreign fighters have been told to fall under the direct control of the main rebel group leading the Syrian civil war in the Idlib region or...
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June 15, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Around the same time that international footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on a football pitch on Saturday during Denmark's opening Euro 2020 match against Finland, Ibtisam Kaabneh collapsed and lay...
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June 10, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Pro-Palestine supporters were celebrating victory last night after Scotland lived up to its reputation of being "enemy territory" for Zionists, with the country's last local authority pension fund announcing...
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June 4, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley It doesn't take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who predicted the demise...
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May 30, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Samira Mohyeddin, the Palestinian woman known to millions as the widow of legendary Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, has died of Covid-19 in Jordan. She leaves behind a legacy of love,...
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May 19, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The influential pro-Israel lobby in America was reeling last night after it emerged that the US government may halt the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel. US...
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May 18, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals have made a serious error of judgement by launching their latest military offensive against the people of Palestine. Far from terrorising the...
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May 2, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Palestinian engineer Loay Elbasyouni is a remarkable man, not least because he is an integral part of the NASA team which made history last week by developing the technology...
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April 23, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The hypocrisy of one of Europe's leading Islamophobes, French President Emmanuel Macron, appears to be without limits with his call for all mercenaries to quit Libya in a bid...
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April 21, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Whistle-blowers never fare very well when trying to shine a light on wrongdoing, and the latest pro-Palestinian group of activists to emerge in Britain appears to be no exception....
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April 20, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...
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April 15, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Corruption in Britain is reaching startling new heights as lobby scandals threaten to engulf the government in a tsunami of sleaze. Leading the way, it seems, are both Israel...
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March 31, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown...
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March 29, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley A war of words has erupted after more than two hundred Jewish academics launched the most damning indictment to date of a controversial definition of anti-Semitism which has itself...
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March 18, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley An unprecedented coalition across the British Muslim community is opposing the British government's decision to appoint one of the founding members of the Friends of Israel Initiative to lead...
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March 8, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley An Israeli soldier who launched a $6 million defamation action in America against a Palestinian Christian has seen her legal efforts backfire spectacularly. Although her lawyer urged the US...
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March 1, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Anti-Semitism is very real, of that there is no doubt, but the greatest threat to Jewish people today comes not from those on the political left who criticise the...
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February 26, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley One of the most active pro-Palestine groups in Britain has now teamed up with a global environmental movement which uses nonviolent civil disobedience in order to exert pressure on...
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February 13, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The hand-wringing, angst and tears which flowed unashamedly as US politician after US politician lined up to speak during the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump was nauseating for...
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February 3, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley It seems that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is prepared to go to any lengths at home and abroad to silence his critics. The barbaric killing of...
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France's Donald Trump wannabe is leading the country's Islamophobic charge by promising to ban children from being named Muhammad if he becomes president. The meteoric rise of Eric Zemmour...![Shoppers check their smartphones whilst waiting for transport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 2 December 2016 [Simon Dawson/Bloomberg/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Riyadhs-Kingdom-Centre-Shopping-Mall.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Smartphone technology has revolutionised our lives in many ways that go well beyond telephone calls for the millions who use them. Many of us have become amateur photographers, capturing...
Tens of thousands of Afghan mothers will quite possibly not be able to wave their children off to school in 2022 because their youngsters will have starved to death...![Palestine Action activists climbed on the fences of the Excel exhibition centre in London dyed-red blood security tent and threw red and green flares on Sunday, Sept 12, 2021 [VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VXP-VX_Staff-20-DSEI-arms-fair-at-ExCeL-London-September-12-2021-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestine Action is, as its name implies, involved in direct action against some of the arms trade's most deadly production lines, notably Israel's Elbit Systems. Since it burst onto...![A demonstrator raises her hand, painted with the colours of the Palestinian flag, during a demonstration by Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem's Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on 30 July 2021. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1234323808.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The site of Scotland's most historic battle is at the centre of a war of words after a schoolgirl's essay highlighted the injustices faced by Palestinians in the 21st...![People stage a protest in support of Afghan people in Berlin, Germany on 28 August 2021 [Abdulhamid Hoşbaş /Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210828_2_49803950_68284289.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Journalism is a powerful weapon, which is why most tyrants and despots like either to control or ban the media. Even in so-called democracies, governments are well aware of...![Women graduates celebrate after more than 100 Afghan students from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) receive their diplomas at a graduation ceremony on campus on 21 May 2019, in western Kabul, Afghanistan. [Scott Peterson/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1154955022.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The hashtag #womensrights has been trending on social media ever since the Taliban swept dramatically into the Afghan capital Kabul in what was an almost bloodless takeover. Aside from...![Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance of the green zone area in Kabul on August 16, 2021 [WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1234709707-scaled-e1629107717595.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace...![Protesters gather and hold Palestinian flags in central Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021, as they take part in a counter protest in solidarity with Palestinians in response to a demonstration organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation. [MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1233062991.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly. Israeli celebrations may be premature as Algeria, one of Palestine's...![A picture obtained by AFP from the Iranian news agency Tasnim on January 31, 2021, shows Iran' Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C) of the Taliban in Tehran [TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1230894809-e1619007370131.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Let's stop all the hand wringing and angst over Afghanistan. Now. It's fooling no one. America, Britain and their NATO allies have had 20 years to help put the...![St James' Park Newcastle [Wikipedia]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/St_James_Park_Newcastle_south_west_corner.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There was a time when football was just a beautiful game with 22 players kicking a leather ball from one end of the pitch to another while supporters cheered...![A general view outside the BBC Studios on 27 May 2021 in England [Nathan Stirk/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bbcs-news.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The BBC has become embroiled in a fact-checking row with demands for an apology over a presenter's claims that Libya was the first nation to carry out a state-sponsored...![Fighters from the former al-Qaeda Syrian affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) drive through the village of Hamameyat on the border between Hama and Idlib provinces on July 11, 2019. [OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-1155035630.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Hundreds of frontline foreign fighters have been told to fall under the direct control of the main rebel group leading the Syrian civil war in the Idlib region or...![A demonstrator displays a placard reading: "Palestinian Lives Matter" during a pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin on May 19, 2021 [JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1232984348-scaled-e1623760368952.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Around the same time that international footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on a football pitch on Saturday during Denmark's opening Euro 2020 match against Finland, Ibtisam Kaabneh collapsed and lay...![Palestine Action activists target the headquarters of LaSalle Investment Management, drenching the site in blood-red paint, preventing entry and covering the site in ‘war crime scene’ tape, on 9 June 2021 [Pal_action/Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/British-pro-Palestine-activists-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Pro-Palestine supporters were celebrating victory last night after Scotland lived up to its reputation of being "enemy territory" for Zionists, with the country's last local authority pension fund announcing...
It doesn't take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who predicted the demise...![Samira Mohyeddin [Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Samira.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Samira Mohyeddin, the Palestinian woman known to millions as the widow of legendary Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, has died of Covid-19 in Jordan. She leaves behind a legacy of love,...
The influential pro-Israel lobby in America was reeling last night after it emerged that the US government may halt the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel. US...![A Palestinian protester throws a stone in the occupied West Bank, on May 17, 2021 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1232953948-scaled-e1621325903482.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals have made a serious error of judgement by launching their latest military offensive against the people of Palestine. Far from terrorising the...![Loay Elbasyouni [Loay Elbasyouni/Facebook]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Loay-Elbasyouni.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinian engineer Loay Elbasyouni is a remarkable man, not least because he is an integral part of the NASA team which made history last week by developing the technology...![French President, Emmanuel Macron seen during a joint news conference with the President of the Council of Ministers of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki (not seen) prior to talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on March 17, 2021 [Julien Mattia / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210317_2_47382124_63460945.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The hypocrisy of one of Europe's leading Islamophobes, French President Emmanuel Macron, appears to be without limits with his call for all mercenaries to quit Libya in a bid...![Activists from Extinction Rebellion North and Palestine Action protest outside the Elbit Ferranti factory in waterhead, Oldham in north-west England on February 1, 2021 [PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1230911066-scaled-e1619019400799.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Whistle-blowers never fare very well when trying to shine a light on wrongdoing, and the latest pro-Palestinian group of activists to emerge in Britain appears to be no exception....![US President Joe Biden walks through Arlington National cemetary to honor fallen veterans of the Afghan conflict in Arlington, Virginia on April 14, 2021 [BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1232318989-scaled-e1618932236573.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, UK on 17 March 2021 [David Cliff/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210317_2_47377536_63452643.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Corruption in Britain is reaching startling new heights as lobby scandals threaten to engulf the government in a tsunami of sleaze. Leading the way, it seems, are both Israel...![David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister, discusses his new memoir, 'For the Record' at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2019 on October 5, 2019 [David Levenson/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1173853709-scaled-e1617179453709.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown...![Demonstrators hold placards as they protest against antisemitism in central London on September 4, 2018 [DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1026625572-scaled-e1617006369118.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A war of words has erupted after more than two hundred Jewish academics launched the most damning indictment to date of a controversial definition of anti-Semitism which has itself...![William Shawcross in London, UK on 10 March 2011 [Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/William-Shawcross.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An unprecedented coalition across the British Muslim community is opposing the British government's decision to appoint one of the founding members of the Friends of Israel Initiative to lead...![Suhair Nafal [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Suhair-Nafal.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An Israeli soldier who launched a $6 million defamation action in America against a Palestinian Christian has seen her legal efforts backfire spectacularly. Although her lawyer urged the US...![Members of Neturei Karta attend a demonstration against Israel's plan to construct Jewish settlements in Salfit's Er-Ras region , West Bank on 3 December 2020. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201203_2_45677819_60297718.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Anti-Semitism is very real, of that there is no doubt, but the greatest threat to Jewish people today comes not from those on the political left who criticise the...![Activists occupy the Israeli-owned arms 'Elbit System' factory in Oldham, UK on 22 February 2021 [Palestine Action media team]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/blood-soaked-elbit-building.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
One of the most active pro-Palestine groups in Britain has now teamed up with a global environmental movement which uses nonviolent civil disobedience in order to exert pressure on...![An Egyptian anti-goverment holds his national flag as he shouts slogans against President Hosni Mubarak at Cairo's Tahrir Square on 10 February 2011 [PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-153184150.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The hand-wringing, angst and tears which flowed unashamedly as US politician after US politician lined up to speak during the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump was nauseating for...![A protestor wears a mask of depicting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman with red painted hands next to people holding posters of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashogg on October 25, 2018 [YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1053441558-scaled-e1612290056789.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It seems that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is prepared to go to any lengths at home and abroad to silence his critics. The barbaric killing of...