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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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There’s no cure for Israel’s terminal sickness as it destroys Gaza’s health sector
Every woman has a special bond with her obstetrician, the person who delivers her babies. This was illustrated recently when the legendary singer Adele spotted her “baby doctor” in the audience at her Las Vegas concert. In scores of videos posted on social media, the Grammy Award-winner walks through...
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The FBI's mysterious case against Dr Aafia Siddiqui
The website of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is brimming with advice and useful information should you need help. There’s even a bright red button to press if you want to report a crime. I pressed it and reported the crime of perjury involving the complex case of...
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Stand aside for Syria’s women
Good news can bring joy and happiness except on social media, where naysayers, pessimists and the bitter anti-capitalist and radical left have tried to push a rancorous narrative about what we hope will be the end of the civil war in Syria. Yes, there are many imponderables, but I...
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Western civilisation is in terminal moral decline
A Labour MP called Kim Leadbeater made history in the UK parliament last week when her proposed new piece of legislation passed its first hearing. If it becomes law, her bill will allow terminally ill adults to seek help to end their own life. The Assisted Dying Bill (some call...
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Genocide is not a grotesque game by numbers; it is the worst of crimes
There is a tsunami of blood red ink gushing forth from the incredulous pens of angry far-right defenders of the Zionist State of Israel who are reeling from the shock of the unprecedented legal action taken against Israel’s leaders by the International Criminal Court: arrest warrants issued against Israeli...
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AIPAC-bought-and-paid-for moonbat calls on US to invade The Hague over ICC arrest warrants
The term “moonbat” is a pejorative political epithet originating in the 19th century and used widely in the US. It is normally used to insult those on the political left, but I think it is eminently suitable to describe Tom Cotton, the Republican US Senator for the state of...
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Why does the West condone and forget Israel's child abuse?
I have seen many atrocities in my career as a journalist, and listened at inquests to appalling details of cruelty inflicted upon innocent children. All of this has been man-made and many cases have been impossible to ignore because the suffering has produced headline news and resulted in the...
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The truth is out there, behind all the lies
There is nothing more noble than telling the truth, and yet for simply delivering nothing but the truth Palestinian journalists are being killed; they — and their families — are targeted by Israeli soldiers in Palestine and Lebanon. The death toll of journalists in Gaza alone has risen to...
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Is the UK government creating a 'Stasi' police force to silence Israel's critics?
Police forces in Britain are under fire following several incidents involving pro-Palestine campaigners and activists, as well as journalists, giving rise to fears that the police across the country have become tools of an increasingly repressive state. Mick Napier, a veteran pro-Palestine campaigner, was banned earlier this month from setting...
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Sinwar chose life on the front lines and proved to be a ‘lion’ to the very end
I am struggling to understand the Israeli culture and mindset following the broadcast of the grainy video showing Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s final moments on this earth. The scene reminded me of the execution video of Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein, moments before his demise. The point of releasing such videos...
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Political friends and foes alike mourn Scotland's fearless son and friend of Palestine
Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond died suddenly on Saturday while speaking at a conference in North Macedonia. The political titan was 69, and probably the only Western leader of any substance to support Palestine. Salmond was the first European politician to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East...
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Backlash as UK slaps visa ban on Nelson Mandela's grandson
The British government has stopped Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla, a staunch supporter of Palestine and its people, from coming to give a series of talks in the UK. Critics say that the government has cited spurious grounds for the visa ban. Chief Mandla Mandela has, until recently travelled freely around...
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Israel is out of control as it pushes the world towards the nuclear abyss
Nearly a year after Hamas’s audacious 7 October cross-border incursion, Israel has made it clear there are no red lines that it is not prepared to cross in order to exact its revenge. The Zionist state has so far justified the slaughtering of tens of thousands of innocent women,...
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Erdogan calls for UN military action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The outspoken Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has silenced his critics who said that he has not shown enough support towards Palestine since the Israeli-led genocide began in Gaza nearly a year ago. As he stood in the chamber of the UN General Assembly and addressed a global audience,...
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A crisis at the world's oldest Jewish newspaper has exposed the Zionist media web and the ‘Get Corbyn’ campaign
It seems that absolutely nothing is sacred or off limits for some of the most rabid Zionists and their supporters when it comes to leaving a trail of malicious devastation in their wake. I was reminded of this at the weekend when I attended an invitation-only conference in central...
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Western hypocrites fiddle as Palestine and Yemen burn
Israel and Saudi Arabia have a couple of things in common: they both have very thin skins when it comes to criticism. And they are both in a blood-drenched league of their own when it comes to mass murder. Tens of thousands of children as well as innocent men and...
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Arab rulers ‘discuss’ the chaos, even as Gaza burns
When I first began to study Islam, I was overwhelmed by stories of honourable men and women from the Arabian Peninsula who surrounded and followed Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Like many aspiring converts, I made the mistake of believing that this honourable gene or characteristic was passed...
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Israel is bad news, so why don’t we hear about it in the mainstream media?
At the beginning of this year, a global survey showed that the least trusted media in the world is in Britain. It was a damning survey. The influential Edelman Trust Barometer revealed how British journalism had plunged to the bottom of the annual ratings, with only 31 per cent...
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The gloves come off as two-faced Israel and its lackeys search desperately for friends
As the war in Gaza escalates, Israel’s diplomatic wing is becoming more desperate and careless in its approach to winning friends and influencing people. Having frittered away international goodwill so brutally with its genocide of the Palestinians, its support on the world stage is dwindling, as are friends of...
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Shameful diplomatic fail by G7 over war crimes in Gaza
The whole world is going to Hell in a handcart and there doesn’t appear to be a single leader who will stop the carnage and Israeli war crimes being carried out in occupied Palestine. Admittedly, it can look as if Israel gets the blame for everything these days, but...
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Of mice and men, and Netanyahu
The murder of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is not a cause for celebration, no matter on which side of the political divide you sit. It was an international criminal act which has brought the whole world closer to the abyss of world war, but was initiated, I fear,...
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Do you condemn Israel?
I’ve always tried to distinguish between the war crimes of the so-called Israel Defence Forces and the behaviour of ordinary citizens living in the occupation state. It is wrong to apply or even imply collective responsibility of a whole nation for the actions of a relative minority. Stereotyping huge swathes...
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France wins Olympic gold for hypocrisy
It took some heroic athletes from the Algerian Olympic team to pour cold water on the ghastly spectacle of a flotilla on the River Seine as French President Emanuel Macron tried to bask in a spectacle of French culture when Paris welcomed the world’s greatest athletes for a sporting...
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Our collective complicity and shame over Gaza is rooted in the Holocaust
Seeing the brutal Israeli war in Gaza continuing to unfold, I feel deeply ashamed on many levels as the Zionist State sinks deeper into the pits of Hellish behaviour and inhumanity. Like millions of others around the world, I fear that I may become inured to the suffering of...