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.

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
November 29, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The UN's Day of Solidarity for the Palestinians exposes its own impotence
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...
Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
November 17, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Journalist looks to judges to 'champion American ideals' in historic US court case
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....
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, US
November 11, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
White House theatrics are no laughing matter for the Palestinians
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
November 1, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
France should grow up and apply liberté, égalité, fraternité to all of its citizens
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, France, Opinion
October 26, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The Arab League and regional leaders will forget Arafat's warning at their peril
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...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UAE
October 14, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
TikTok calls time on Israel's extremists (well, some of them)
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...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 12, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is trying to wipe Palestine off the map
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Canada, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
October 2, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Desperate scare tactics suggest that the Zionist dream has become a nightmare
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 30, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Qatar's solidarity with Palestine shows that not all members of the Arab League are worthless
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...
Published in: Africa, Arab League, Article, Asia & Americas, Bahrain, Egypt, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US
September 26, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Scotland is being targeted by an anti-Palestine dirty tricks campaign
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
September 1, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The 'ban' on Emiratis praying in Al-Aqsa highlights the fact that treaties with Israel are worthless
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UAE, US
August 28, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
This shocking video exposes the truth about HTS torture in Syria
'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'
Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, Videos & Photo Stories
August 14, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Don't shoot the messenger
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, US
August 11, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
British-born aid worker rearrested in Syria
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK
August 4, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Pointless presidents, corrupt kings and playboy princes
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Spain, UK, US
August 1, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
British complicity in Israeli war crimes is being highlighted by pro-Palestine activism
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 28, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
A tale of two cities twinned by treachery
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...
Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Russia, Syria, Turkey
July 22, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Step into Palestinian shoes by watching this film and help Make Apartheid History
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....
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 13, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Hagia Sophia: Religious and political leaders are missing their own chances to right historical wrongs
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Opinion, Russia, Turkey, US
July 1, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Palestinians must not rely on back-stabbing Britain
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
June 25, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Labour leader's knee jerk reaction to knee-on-the-neck tweet is spineless
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
June 23, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
British aid worker kidnapped in Syria
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Syria, UK
June 8, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The Black Lives Matter movement can help to deliver justice for Palestinians and others
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 27, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
The Scottish politician who blames the Palestinians for the Nakba must be held to account
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
May 26, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Elections, a new leadership and BDS are pivotal for Palestine
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...
Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 25, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Kidnapping family members is Bin Salman's tactic to intimidate Saudi dissidents
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...
Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia
May 11, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Football must not provide cover for human rights abuses and war crimes
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UK
April 28, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Greater Israel is the objective as Netanyahu plans to wipe Palestine off the map
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
April 23, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Assad is in the dock as his henchmen go on trial for torture
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Germany, Middle East, Opinion, Syria
April 21, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
Israel ignores the Biblical command to 'love thy neighbour' at its peril
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...
Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 14, 2020 | Yvonne Ridley
We must never forget Israel's massacre in Jenin
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US