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.
Items by Yvonne Ridley
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- August 6, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
This triumvirate of evil has turned its sights on Kashmir
Russian revolutionary leader Lenin once said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” If we apply this to Narendra Modi and India, we can see that the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy counts among his closest allies both Israel and...
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- July 31, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Leading British Zionist says Labour's anti-Semitism definition is not fit for purpose
Two of Tony Blair’s closest political allies have joined-in with the ongoing row embroiling pro-Palestine leader Jeremy Corbyn over the Labour Party’s handling of anti-Semitism allegations, claiming that an “existential crisis” is looming due to his poor leadership. It is doubtful that it is entirely coincidental that the attacks...
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- July 26, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Jews are being used as human shields in the war of words over anti-Semitism
US President Donald Trump provoked outrage recently when he launched a blisteringly racist attack against courageous American Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, during which he basically told them to go back home. Many viewed his outburst on women of colour as a descent into...
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- July 22, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
The Saudis and UAE abandon Yemen crisis to sabotage Sudan's pro-democracy movement
Shameless is the only word I can find to describe the behaviour of the rulers of both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who five months ago basked in glory as praise was heaped upon them for jointly pledging well over one billion dollars in the largest ever...
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- July 1, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Trump's theatrics are bad news for Palestine
Whenever I have visited Palestine and speak to Palestinians I am always asked, “Why doesn’t the West care about our suffering?” It’s a question that I try to avoid answering, but the brutal truth is that many Westerners, their governments and media simply don’t care. The fact that a...
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- June 27, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Bolton and Pompeo are America's disastrous duo
It never ceases to amaze me how some of the most mediocre and uninspiring people somehow manage to reach the top of their profession. Among the most asinine, in my opinion, are the lacklustre US National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, men who are...
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- June 26, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ conference actually offers Palestine little hope
The Trump administration’s vision for a futuristic-looking Gaza Strip is like something dreamed up by a Hollywood theme park, with pristine beaches reaching out into the calm, blue waters of the Mediterranean. It ignores the fact that these are the same beaches where children playing football in the sand...
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- June 18, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Morsi’s death was a political assassination by a vindictive regime
Mohamed Morsi will forever be remembered as Egypt’s first democratically-elected President, something that his enemies can never take away from him. Yesterday, he collapsed and died in a Cairo courtroom just moments after he had addressed the hearing from a cage; he was facing ludicrous charges of espionage linked...
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- June 12, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Trump's ‘deal of the century’ is fraudulent
Donald Trump and his gullible team of foreign policy advisers have kept the rest of the world mildly entertained since the former reality TV host became the US President. The theatrics of Trump’s White House are indeed amusing as long as you are a casual observer with no direct...
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- May 29, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
3 million Syrians await an unknown fate in Idlib as Assad and his allies continue to bomb them
New evidence reveals that Bashar Al-Assad’s brutal regime is committing war crimes by deliberately targeting schools and hospitals in the last Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib. More than 20 have been bombed, shelled and destroyed this month alone by Assad and his allies Iran and Russia. Despite previous promises and...
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- May 26, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Why are we seeing such international apathy towards the Palestinians?
It is always refreshing to see the international community come together in emergencies when individual countries are blighted by man-made and natural disasters. Many European countries, for example, including Italy, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus, as well as Russia and Egypt, have responded with great urgency by sending firefighting aircraft...
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- May 21, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
T spells trouble as Zionists claim Palestine alphabet book is ‘anti-Semitic’
A public reading of the first-ever alphabet story book in the English language about Palestine has caused outrage among some American library patrons who claim that its contents are anti-Semitic. Now a literary event featuring the children’s book P is for Palestine and its author has been shelved until...
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- May 20, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Eurovision turns out to be a big hit for Palestine
It was the result that nobody predicted: the winner of Eurovision 2019 is… Palestine! Despite the organisers describing the Eurovision Song Contest as a non-political event, the issue of Palestine took back, front and centre stage in Tel Aviv over the weekend, which may make Israel come to regret its...
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- May 2, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Interpal is David to Israel’s Goliath in the struggle to help Palestinians in need
One of the most inspiring Biblical stories is the legendary battle between David and Goliath and it is often referenced as a moral lesson of how underdogs can triumph in the face of overwhelming odds. I was reminded of it the other day while attending a lunch to celebrate...
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- April 26, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Justice for the Mavi Marmara victims is the last chance for the ICC to prove its worth
Unless international law is to become meaningless, the time has come for political leaders around the world to step up and defend with some vigour and sincerity the principles that were laid down at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946. Such principles did, after all, deliver justice for millions of...
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- April 18, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
How can Israelis celebrate Passover while denying Palestinian Christians the right to travel?
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 years ago. This weekend the story will be recounted and reflected upon in Jewish households around the world as families...
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- April 10, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Weasel words and chutzpah can’t sustain the myth of democratic Israel, but nobody cares
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 that in Israel this week as triumphant right-wing blocs head to the Knesset after Tuesday’s General Election. Predictably, Benjamin Netanyahu has...
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- March 31, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Friends of Israel smears of brave Gaza paramedic Razan Al-Najjar and Christchurch Muslims are vile
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 who have paid the ultimate price for freedom over the past 12 months while taking part in the powerful peace...
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- March 22, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Israel’s US Lobby rocked by hate-filled tweets
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 sending out a string of hate-filled tweets aimed at two of America’s rising Muslim politicians, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. This...
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- March 18, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
A British Palestinian MP seeks recognition for Palestine in the home of the Balfour Declaration
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 what she says is probably the “most personal and poignant” piece of legislation she has submitted since arriving in Westminster. Rising...
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- March 11, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Wake up Westminster: Netanyahu is loud and proud about Israel the apartheid state
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 the Zionist State belongs to the Jewish people alone. In other words, the 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis are not equal...
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- February 28, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Israeli bombs and rhetoric are dropped on both Palestine and Kashmir
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 that the Zionist war machine is also at the heart of the rising tensions between India and Pakistan. Earlier this week,...
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- February 25, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
Britons who fight for Israel must also be held to account when they return to the UK
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 who ran away from home to join terror group Daesh in Syria. Thousands of young men and women from around...
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- February 21, 2019 Yvonne Ridley
The treatment of Shamima Begum and Asma Al-Assad reveals Britain’s double standards
'It seems that in Britain the law still operates in favour of the privileged elite, like Asma Al-Assad'...