April 18, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley One of the greatest religious stories shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims is the Exodus of Moses and the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt more than 3,000...
April 10, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley The word “chutzpah” has its roots in the old Hebrew “ḥutspâ” and, as adopted by Yiddish, basically means “audacity bordering on downright cheek”. We’ve seen and heard plenty of...
March 31, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Four more Palestinians, three of them teenagers, have sacrificed their lives and been killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. They have been added to the 190 others...
March 22, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley One of the most influential donors to the powerful AIPAC pro-Israel lobby group will not be speaking at its annual conference this weekend after being taken to task for...
March 18, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Britain’s first Member of Parliament of Palestinian descent is preparing for a historic debate on Friday to have the government give official recognition to the state of Palestine in...
March 11, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have driven a coach and horses through the implied claim of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism by announcing that...
February 28, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley While Israel is still dodging questions about why it has been secretly arming the genocidal Myanmar military regime during its ethnic cleansing operations against Rohingya Muslims, it has emerged...
February 25, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley The thorny issue of foreign soldiers serving in the Israeli military is back in the headlines, triggered by the debate over the future of Shamima Begum, the British schoolgirl...
February 21, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley 'It seems that in Britain the law still operates in favour of the privileged elite, like Asma Al-Assad'
February 3, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad must be buoyed by the support that he has these days across the Arab world. Such support includes the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), the Palestinian...
January 30, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley I was privileged to be invited to speak at a Holocaust Memorial Day event last week. Taking my duties as a speaker seriously, I researched the subject and decided...
January 19, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley There are fears that anti-Assad activists around the world are being targeted for assassination by the Syrian regime following the brutal murder of a prominent businessman now living in...
January 18, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Do its member states take the UN Charter seriously any more? The United Nations was originally set up “to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations...
January 12, 2019
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Yvonne Ridley Kidnapped from Idlib in November 2018, British aid worker Muhammad Shabir's kidnappers demanded a $4 million ransom for his release
December 31, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley US President Donald Trump is a purveyor of fake news and a man who enjoys a long distance relationship with the truth; he hates the New York Times. Regarded...
December 27, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has chosen the Christian festive season to launch an independent review to examine what the British government can do to stop the persecution of Christians...
December 17, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Israel breaks international law with sickening and often deadly regularity. This is pointed out frequently by detractors of the Zionist State, which just as frequently attracts accusations of “anti-Semitism”;...
December 12, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley The pro-Israel lobby’s ongoing efforts to weaponise anti-Semitism has been dealt a major blow after a prestigious American university refused to sack one of its professors for showing solidarity...
November 29, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Supporting Palestine isn’t just about heroic resistance with little more than sticks and stones in the face of one of the most technologically-advanced armies in the world. Nor is...
November 22, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Layla Moran, the first British Member of Parliament of Palestinian descent, has urged the UK to “step up to the plate and lead” over the issue of Palestine given...
November 14, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Timing is everything in international politics, so as 70 world leaders descended on Paris at the weekend to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice that brought World War One...
November 3, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley An international Jewish pressure group has launched a blistering attack on the pro-Israel lobby and Israel’s Ambassador to the United States over their comments comparing Palestinian supporters with white...
October 28, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley When America’s largest supermarket chain, Walmart, advertised an Israel Defence Forces children’s party costume there was outrage and the stores withdrew the fancy dress outfit. That was three years...
October 18, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Palestinian victims of the 1948 Nakba could benefit from a landmark legal ruling by a French court which ordered a painting to be returned to the family of the...
October 16, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Israel does not owe its existence to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War but, without a doubt, the Holocaust played a significant role in speeding...
October 2, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley I am delighted that Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been given the red carpet treatment by Spanish football giants Real Madrid following her release from an Israeli prison, where...
October 1, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley This time of year is always a period of personal retrospection for me, ending in trips down memory lane. It was, for example, when I became a cub reporter...
September 18, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley The anniversary of the start of the Western war against Afghanistan is fast approaching and I remember it as though it was yesterday. The opening salvo from the US...
September 16, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley As the row over what constitutes anti-Semitism rages in Britain, the very real fear that freedom of speech is being threatened has already been realised in America, according to...
September 1, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley The UN has finally used the g-word in accusing the Myanmar regime of genocide against the ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims. Now it needs to go one step further, by...
August 30, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Shortly before he was assassinated, US President Abraham Lincoln said that it was best to avoid popularity if you want peace. Like so many public figures he realised that...
August 15, 2018
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Yvonne Ridley Benjamin Netanyahu has dived headlong into the furore engulfing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, revealing the most blatant meddling to-date by Israel in British politics. What’s more, he’s done...
One of the greatest religious stories shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims is the Exodus of Moses and the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt more than 3,000...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) waves to supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on 10 April 2019. [Thomas COEX / AFP /Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007491.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The word “chutzpah” has its roots in the old Hebrew “ḥutspâ” and, as adopted by Yiddish, basically means “audacity bordering on downright cheek”. We’ve seen and heard plenty of...![Supporters of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who is judged for shooting a wounded Palestinian in his head in West Bank's Hebron, gather outside of the court to show their support to him during the trial in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 04, 2017 [Daniel Bar On / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20170104_2_21110519_17660926.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Four more Palestinians, three of them teenagers, have sacrificed their lives and been killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. They have been added to the 190 others...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an AIPAC conference in Washington, US on 6 March 2018 [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-GettyImages-928042942.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One of the most influential donors to the powerful AIPAC pro-Israel lobby group will not be speaking at its annual conference this weekend after being taken to task for...![Layla Moran, British Member of Parliament of Palestinian descent [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Layla-Moran.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Britain’s first Member of Parliament of Palestinian descent is preparing for a historic debate on Friday to have the government give official recognition to the state of Palestine in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have driven a coach and horses through the implied claim of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism by announcing that...
While Israel is still dodging questions about why it has been secretly arming the genocidal Myanmar military regime during its ethnic cleansing operations against Rohingya Muslims, it has emerged...![Israel soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron on 16 November 2012 [ Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2012_11-16-israeli-forces-hebronMW_00-8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The thorny issue of foreign soldiers serving in the Israeli military is back in the headlines, triggered by the debate over the future of Shamima Begum, the British schoolgirl...
'It seems that in Britain the law still operates in favour of the privileged elite, like Asma Al-Assad'![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=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad must be buoyed by the support that he has these days across the Arab world. Such support includes the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), the Palestinian...![A protest against Zionism [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_17-zionism-is-the-problemDC6agMIWAAAfvMA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
I was privileged to be invited to speak at a Holocaust Memorial Day event last week. Taking my duties as a speaker seriously, I researched the subject and decided...![President of Syria Bashar Al-Assad is welcomed by Russian President Vladimir Putin (not seen) in Sochi, Russia on 17 May, 2018 [Kremlin Press Office/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180517_2_30434049_33842460.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There are fears that anti-Assad activists around the world are being targeted for assassination by the Syrian regime following the brutal murder of a prominent businessman now living in...![People protest outside the White House in Washington on 19 November 2018 [Win McNamee/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-20_binsalmanbonesawBin-Salman-butcher.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Do its member states take the UN Charter seriously any more? The United Nations was originally set up “to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations...
Kidnapped from Idlib in November 2018, British aid worker Muhammad Shabir's kidnappers demanded a $4 million ransom for his release![The paramedic Razan al-Najjar, who was killed by an Israeli sniper at the Gaza border on 1 June, 2018 [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/razan-al-najjar.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
US President Donald Trump is a purveyor of fake news and a man who enjoys a long distance relationship with the truth; he hates the New York Times. Regarded...![The illuminated Christmas Tree and sparkling lights are seen glittering over streets and avenues near the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on 1 December 2018. [Issam Rimawi /Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-5_bethlehem-christmas20181201_2_33712324_39516444.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has chosen the Christian festive season to launch an independent review to examine what the British government can do to stop the persecution of Christians...
Israel breaks international law with sickening and often deadly regularity. This is pointed out frequently by detractors of the Zionist State, which just as frequently attracts accusations of “anti-Semitism”;...![Commentator Marc Lamont Hill in New York City, US on 7 December 2016 [Bennett Raglin/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2016_12-7-Moderator-Marc-Lamont-HillGettyImages-628431688.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The pro-Israel lobby’s ongoing efforts to weaponise anti-Semitism has been dealt a major blow after a prestigious American university refused to sack one of its professors for showing solidarity...![People take their seats as the Eurovision song contest begins in Duesseldorf, Germany on 14 May 2011 [Noel Slevin/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2011_5_14-Eurovision-Song-Contest.5741479266_428e49d5eb_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Supporting Palestine isn’t just about heroic resistance with little more than sticks and stones in the face of one of the most technologically-advanced armies in the world. Nor is...![a ball of fire and smoke rise above the building housing the television station al-Aqsa TV during an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on 12 November 2018 [Mahmoud Ajjour/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-13_al-aqsaal-aqsa.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Timing is everything in international politics, so as 70 world leaders descended on Paris at the weekend to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice that brought World War One...
An international Jewish pressure group has launched a blistering attack on the pro-Israel lobby and Israel’s Ambassador to the United States over their comments comparing Palestinian supporters with white...![Product image for "Dress Up America Israeli Soldier Costume For Kids" being sold on Amazon. The Hebrew phrase reads "Tzhal", meaning “Joy; Israel defense forces” [Amazon.co.uk]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/514u6decJZL._SL1000_-e1540724212229.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
When America’s largest supermarket chain, Walmart, advertised an Israel Defence Forces children’s party costume there was outrage and the stores withdrew the fancy dress outfit. That was three years...
Palestinian victims of the 1948 Nakba could benefit from a landmark legal ruling by a French court which ordered a painting to be returned to the family of the...![Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar, heading to Bangladesh on 10 October, 2017 [Stefanie Glinski/Thomson Reuters Foundation]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10_17-Rohingyas-fleeing-Myanmar-heading-to-Bangladesh2017-10-17T142116Z_1_MTZSPDEDAHZ17E7R_RTRFIPP_4_ROHINGYA-MYANMAR-BANGLADESH-JOURNEY-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel does not owe its existence to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War but, without a doubt, the Holocaust played a significant role in speeding...![Ahed Tamimi met with Emilio Butragenio, a former striker for Real Madrid, who gave her a team jersey with her name and number nine printed on its back [Ma'an News Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ahed.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
I am delighted that Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been given the red carpet treatment by Spanish football giants Real Madrid following her release from an Israeli prison, where...![Palestinian women mourn during a funeral ceremony of Aws Muhammad and Saad Nasser who were killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, West Bank on 12 July 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170712_2_24691116_23988395.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
This time of year is always a period of personal retrospection for me, ending in trips down memory lane. It was, for example, when I became a cub reporter...![Heavily damaged buildings are seen after the Assad Regime carried out air strikes in Idlib Syria [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Idlib.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The anniversary of the start of the Western war against Afghanistan is fast approaching and I remember it as though it was yesterday. The opening salvo from the US...
As the row over what constitutes anti-Semitism rages in Britain, the very real fear that freedom of speech is being threatened has already been realised in America, according to...
The UN has finally used the g-word in accusing the Myanmar regime of genocide against the ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims. Now it needs to go one step further, by...
Shortly before he was assassinated, US President Abraham Lincoln said that it was best to avoid popularity if you want peace. Like so many public figures he realised that...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the UK on 6 February 2017 [Kate Green /Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017_2_6-Israeli-PM-Benjamin-Netanyahu-in-London20170206_2_21695824_18644739.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Benjamin Netanyahu has dived headlong into the furore engulfing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, revealing the most blatant meddling to-date by Israel in British politics. What’s more, he’s done...