The number of British MPs from both the Labour and Conservative parties who appear to be concerned about the education of Palestinian children should be heart-warming. However, the focus...
With all the skill and showmanship of a fairground hustler about to introduce us to the bearded lady, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whipped up his audience to heightened...
April 20, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Dozens of conflicting columns about the chemical weapons attack on Douma have been churned out by a whole range of individuals, from untrained bloggers and Assad apologists to highly...
April 7, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Young Palestinians turn to the internet as one of the few places where they can roam freely in a virtual reality world. However, even that is now under attack...
April 1, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Be in absolutely no doubt about the significance of the start of the peaceful Great Return March which began in Gaza on Friday and led to 17 Palestinians being...
March 21, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Fifteen years ago this month, the invasion of Iraq began despite months of global protests as US President George W Bush and his willing accomplice, British Prime Minister Tony...
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Yvonne Ridley The torture victim stood in front of her tormentor wondering what treatment would be meted out this time in the notorious Branch 215, also known as Raid Brigade run...
March 8, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a blistering attack on world leaders from East to West on Wednesday as he met an international delegation of women in a demonstration...
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Yvonne Ridley The headline news in Britain for the past few days has been about the “Beast from the East” and the Siberian blast which has turned the UK snow white,...
February 26, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Dear Asma, I was shown an old photograph the other day of a couple of children messing around in a paddling pool in the back garden of a pebble-dashed...
February 22, 2018
Yvonne Ridley As the world looks on while a Srebrenica-style massacre unfolds in eastern Ghouta, news of another dark side to the brutality of the Syrian regime is also beginning to...
February 4, 2018
Yvonne Ridley So the US government has labeled Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “specially designated global terrorist” and imposed a raft of sanctions against him, which basically means freezing any...
January 31, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Think tanks and commentators around the world have analysed and evaluated US President Donald Trump’s decision to accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the American Embassy from Tel...
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Yvonne Ridley Whenever I talk about feminism, the f-word makes some people bristle. I really don’t know why, because feminism is all about equality and justice; it seeks an even playing...
January 23, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a master of fiery rhetoric and more than a match for US President Donald Trump when it comes to delivering uncompromising, table-thumping speeches. However, unlike...
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US January 13, 2018
Yvonne Ridley Palestine’s leaders are gathering in Ramallah to thrash out a response to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump made his announcement 32 days ago; what has...
The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle...
December 23, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Millions of children around the world will wake up on Christmas Day and rip open their presents and parcels with an enthusiasm that only a child can display. The...
December 14, 2017
Yvonne Ridley You have to hand it to Donald Trump. It seems that the US President has brought a degree of unity to the Middle East that no one expected —...
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Yvonne Ridley Pressure is mounting on Israel as politicians, diplomats and religious leaders around the world have come together to condemn the Zionist state over its planned demolition of the village...
November 30, 2017
Yvonne Ridley There is an ongoing furore over a series of tweets which expose the double standards employed in the general reaction to them and the resultant fall out. As usual,...
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US November 27, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Nelson Mandela’s grandson arrived in Palestine on Sunday morning for a historic visit to the nation that the late President of South Africa so admired. During his time in...
November 7, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Quite how long Priti Patel can hold on to her job as a Secretary of State remains to be seen after she has been exposed as a liar over...
November 3, 2017
Yvonne Ridley The British Parliament is in a crisis, engulfed by yet more sleaze and sex scandals which have already led to the departure of one high profile secretary of state...
October 31, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Some observers get very touchy at the mention of a pro-Israel lobby sweeping the corridors of power to influence opinion formers, politicians and media in order for them to...
October 16, 2017
Yvonne Ridley The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation in Cairo has silenced critics as the decade-long rift between the two main Palestinian factions ended — we hope finally — a few days ago. Among...
October 11, 2017
Yvonne Ridley If tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis joined forces and set off on a two-week march for peace through the Biblical deserts you’d think that it would be...
October 3, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Serious questions need to be asked about America’s suitability to host any international sporting event after the US authorities denied entry to a well-known Palestinian-born marathon runner in the...
September 27, 2017
Yvonne Ridley This has not been a good week for Israel, especially in Britain, where the Zionist lobbyists have spent millions in recent years oiling the cogs in Westminster to persuade...
September 24, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Nobel Peace laureates and other luminaries are queueing up to berate Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to intervene in the genocide unfolding in Myanmar. There are, however, bigger...
September 20, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Famous film producer and Hollywood executive Richard A. Rowland coined the phrase about “lunatics taking over the asylum” when a group of rebel actors led by the legendary Charlie...
September 15, 2017
Yvonne Ridley Tel Aviv loves nothing more than a good excuse for a memorial or a ceremony of some sort to divert international attention from the injustices it metes out on...
The number of British MPs from both the Labour and Conservative parties who appear to be concerned about the education of Palestinian children should be heart-warming. However, the focus...![Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a piece of wreckage he claims is from an Iranian drone that was shot down by Israel on February 10, at the 54th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Germany on 18 February, 2018 [Andreas Gerbert/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/netanyahu-at-munich-conference-2018-e1519139153174.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
With all the skill and showmanship of a fairground hustler about to introduce us to the bearded lady, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whipped up his audience to heightened...![Syria’s chlorine chemical attack struck the Damascus suburb of Douma on 7 April, 2018 [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018_04_09-Syria’s-chlorine-chemical-attack-that-struck-the-Damascus-suburb-of-Doumarrrr.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Dozens of conflicting columns about the chemical weapons attack on Douma have been churned out by a whole range of individuals, from untrained bloggers and Assad apologists to highly...![Mark Zuckerberg seen delivering the keynote at the 2008 Facebook Developers' Conference, f8, on July 23, 2008 [Brian Solis / briansolis.com]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2696198607_a6f3f7cd02_o-e1523097502826.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Young Palestinians turn to the internet as one of the few places where they can roam freely in a virtual reality world. However, even that is now under attack...![Bloody Friday in Gaza was the Palestinians' own Sharpeville massacre at the hands of their own Apartheid oppressors, and the next six weeks could prove to be a turning point for the 70-year-long injustice inflicted upon them [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/madiba-e1543837614990.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Be in absolutely no doubt about the significance of the start of the peaceful Great Return March which began in Gaza on Friday and led to 17 Palestinians being...
Fifteen years ago this month, the invasion of Iraq began despite months of global protests as US President George W Bush and his willing accomplice, British Prime Minister Tony...
The torture victim stood in front of her tormentor wondering what treatment would be meted out this time in the notorious Branch 215, also known as Raid Brigade run...![The Conscience Convoy in Istanbul, Turkey on March 1, 2018 [Yvonne Ridley/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/3a38d973-9e57-4256-8c25-8121334374fc.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a blistering attack on world leaders from East to West on Wednesday as he met an international delegation of women in a demonstration...![A Palestinian child is seen outside her makeshift tent in Gaza City, Gaza [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018_2-15-Homeless-families-take-shelter-in-makeshift-tents-in-Gaza20180215_2_28723536_30789127.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The headline news in Britain for the past few days has been about the “Beast from the East” and the Siberian blast which has turned the UK snow white,...![Bashar Al-Assad with Asma Al-Assad [file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/asma-al-assad-with-bashar-al-assad.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Dear Asma, I was shown an old photograph the other day of a couple of children messing around in a paddling pool in the back garden of a pebble-dashed...
As the world looks on while a Srebrenica-style massacre unfolds in eastern Ghouta, news of another dark side to the brutality of the Syrian regime is also beginning to...
So the US government has labeled Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “specially designated global terrorist” and imposed a raft of sanctions against him, which basically means freezing any...![Demonstrators take part in a protest against Trump's announcement on Jerusalem outside the US Embassy in London, England on December 08, 2017. [Ray Tang / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171208_2_27380922_28628926.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Think tanks and commentators around the world have analysed and evaluated US President Donald Trump’s decision to accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the American Embassy from Tel...
Whenever I talk about feminism, the f-word makes some people bristle. I really don’t know why, because feminism is all about equality and justice; it seeks an even playing...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a master of fiery rhetoric and more than a match for US President Donald Trump when it comes to delivering uncompromising, table-thumping speeches. However, unlike...![Israeli occupation forces fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters in the besieged Gaza Strip on 12 January 2018 six weeks after US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital [Mohamed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018_1-12-Palestinians-protest-near-the-Gaza-border-fence-16.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestine’s leaders are gathering in Ramallah to thrash out a response to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump made his announcement 32 days ago; what has...![[left to right] Bouzid Chenouf, Yvonne Ridley, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Yousef Adjissa & Mamdooh Kamal Ali Badawi](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Yvonne-2-in-Bangladesh-Dec-2017-1-e1514308813877.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle...![Yvonne Ridley [right] with Mohammed Shofique, 11 year old Rohingya refugee currently residing at the Thainkhali Camp in Bangladesh](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/11-year-old-Mohammed-with-Yvonne-Ridley-e1514039905776.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Millions of children around the world will wake up on Christmas Day and rip open their presents and parcels with an enthusiasm that only a child can display. The...
You have to hand it to Donald Trump. It seems that the US President has brought a degree of unity to the Middle East that no one expected —...
Pressure is mounting on Israel as politicians, diplomats and religious leaders around the world have come together to condemn the Zionist state over its planned demolition of the village...
There is an ongoing furore over a series of tweets which expose the double standards employed in the general reaction to them and the resultant fall out. As usual,...
Nelson Mandela’s grandson arrived in Palestine on Sunday morning for a historic visit to the nation that the late President of South Africa so admired. During his time in...
Quite how long Priti Patel can hold on to her job as a Secretary of State remains to be seen after she has been exposed as a liar over...
The British Parliament is in a crisis, engulfed by yet more sleaze and sex scandals which have already led to the departure of one high profile secretary of state...![A group of students hold a Palestinian flag during a protest against Israel's policies at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa on March 8, 2017 [Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170308_2_22284501_19655892.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Some observers get very touchy at the mention of a pro-Israel lobby sweeping the corridors of power to influence opinion formers, politicians and media in order for them to...![Palestinian Fatah movement leader Azzam Al-Ahmad (R) and Deputy Chairman of the Movement's Political Bureau Saleh Al-Arouri (L) shake hands after signing the reconciliation agreement to build a consensus in Cairo, Egypt on 12 October 2017 [Ahmed Gamil/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10-12-Reconciliation-talks-between-Hamas-and-Fatah-organizations20171012_2_26244816_26741859.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation in Cairo has silenced critics as the decade-long rift between the two main Palestinian factions ended — we hope finally — a few days ago. Among...![Palestinian and Israeli women march to call for, Israeli–Palestinian conflict to be resolved in a peaceful process and renegotiate, near Jordan border in Jericho, West Bank on 8 October, 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10_10-Palestinians-and-Israelis-women-march-for-Peace20171008_2_26164704_26604452.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
If tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis joined forces and set off on a two-week march for peace through the Biblical deserts you’d think that it would be...![Mohammad Alqadi, Palestinian-born marathon runner [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10_03-Mohammad-Alqadifvvvv.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Serious questions need to be asked about America’s suitability to host any international sporting event after the US authorities denied entry to a well-known Palestinian-born marathon runner in the...
This has not been a good week for Israel, especially in Britain, where the Zionist lobbyists have spent millions in recent years oiling the cogs in Westminster to persuade...![Rohingya Muslims who fled from the ongoing military operations in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, line up for food aid at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on September 20, 2017 [Safvan Allahverdi / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170920_2_25840842_26043666.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Nobel Peace laureates and other luminaries are queueing up to berate Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to intervene in the genocide unfolding in Myanmar. There are, however, bigger...![Image of US President Donald Trump om 29 October 2016 [Gage Skidmore/Flickr]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2016_10_29-trump30020836983_181ebce05e_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Famous film producer and Hollywood executive Richard A. Rowland coined the phrase about “lunatics taking over the asylum” when a group of rebel actors led by the legendary Charlie...
Tel Aviv loves nothing more than a good excuse for a memorial or a ceremony of some sort to divert international attention from the injustices it metes out on...