Yvonne Ridley

British journalist and author Yvonne Ridley provides political analysis on affairs related to the Middle East, Asia and the Global War on Terror. Her work has appeared in numerous publications around the world from East to West from titles as diverse as The Washington Post to the Tehran Times and the Tripoli Post earning recognition and awards in the USA and UK. Ten years working for major titles on Fleet Street she expanded her brief into the electronic and broadcast media producing a number of documentary films on Palestinian and other international issues from Guantanamo to Libya and the Arab Spring.

July 27, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

The Taliban is steering the 'graveyard of empires' towards a new era

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...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, NATO, Opinion, UK, US
July 22, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

When winning at any cost is simply not worth it

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK
July 14, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Israel carried out the world's first airliner hijacking; the BBC needs to acknowledge this

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
July 1, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Syria's foreign fighters are told, 'Go home or join HTS'

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...

Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Syria
June 15, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Palestinian lives do matter

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 10, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

British pro-Palestine activists prove that direct action and BDS are effective

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...

Published in: Article, BDS, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
June 4, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 30, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Samira Mohyeddin: Remember her name

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,...

Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 19, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

The pro-Israel lobby fears that support could self-destruct over the bombing of Gaza

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 18, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Heroic Palestinian resistance from the river to the sea

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Canada, EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
May 2, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Gifted Palestinian dreamers defy Israel's occupation nightmare

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
April 23, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Macron's double standards will come back to haunt him

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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, France, Libya, Opinion
April 21, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Whistle-blowers targeting Israeli arms firm accuse Britain of intimidation

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....

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
April 20, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

The mighty US military has been humbled by the Taliban

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...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, UK, US
April 15, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Israel and Saudi Arabia buy influence in Britain as the lobbying scandal grows

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...

Published in: Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia
March 31, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

What was David Cameron thinking when he holidayed with Bin Salman post-Khashoggi murder?

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UK
March 29, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Jewish academics' new anti-Semitism definition challenges the IHRA draft

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
March 18, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

British Muslims boycott Prevent review over 'rigged' appointment of Friends of Israel founder

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
March 8, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Victory for BDS as judge SLAPPS down Zionist attempt to stifle free speech

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
March 1, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Ironically, this Zionist witch-hunt fails to protect Jews

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
February 26, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Direct action against Israel's war machine in Britain worries the occupation state

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
February 13, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

If democracy really is 'precious', President Biden, then let the Egyptians taste its fruits

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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Opinion, US, Videos & Photo Stories
February 3, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Bin Salman's plan backfires as trolls turn Khashoggi documentary into a sure-fire hit

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, US
January 26, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Biden really should reach out to Hamas

Credible reports are now emerging of failed plots by Donald Trump to subvert democracy in America and overturn the peoples' vote. That is why the recurrent theme of US...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
January 25, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Israel's apartheid regime is the work of a callous rogue state

Covid-19 can strike anywhere and anyone. We are all vulnerable, regardless of faith, nationality, ethnicity or culture. World leaders, politicians, royal families and philanthropists insist, as they always do...

Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 19, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

How much longer are we going to ignore Karim Younis and other Palestinian prisoners?

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
January 16, 2021 | Yvonne Ridley

Was the US Embassy move to Jerusalem actually a hoax?

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
December 29, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley

Dirty tricks could see Muslims lose control of Al Aqsa Mosque

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey, UAE
December 21, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley

Who's afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood, and why?

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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US
December 11, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley

Trump's insane decision about Western Sahara shows he still has time to wreak more havoc

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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Morocco, Opinion, US
December 10, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley

Saudi King Salman should keep his son on a tight rein

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...

Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia
November 30, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley

The Tariq Ramadan case exposes even more French double standards

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, France, Opinion, Switzerland, UK