May 11, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley 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...
April 28, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley 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...
April 23, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley 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...
April 21, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley 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...
April 14, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley 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...
March 31, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley If ever a nation was prepared for the onslaught of the Covid19 virus and all the disruption and fear that comes with it, some might think that the Palestinians...
March 6, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Some people think that they can get away with shocking crimes in full view of a watching world because they have money, power or influence, or in the case...
March 3, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Since the start of the 21st century, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 540 Palestinian athletes and other sportsmen and women. Many more have been wounded and crippled....
February 29, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO...
February 27, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley The spread of the coronavirus — Covid-19 — has now reached epidemic proportions, with cases in dozens of countries around the world, and growing alarm at the epicentre in...
February 23, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley Tensions have risen rapidly in north-west Syria following the killing of yet another Turkish soldier by Russian-backed regime forces. The Turkish death toll is now heading towards 20 as...
February 21, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley British-born Jews are being told that they are "second class" citizens in an extraordinary letter written by a critic of the government decision to revoke citizenship from a number...
February 18, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley A shadowy campaign group with a hidden agenda appears to be exploiting Palestinian children from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Just when we thought that elements of...
January 26, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley There is an indelible link between the Holocaust and the current situation of the Palestinian people; to deny this simple fact exposes a deep-seated flaw in Zionist ideology. I...
January 24, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley There is likely to be a massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people unless Arab rulers step up to the plate on Syria and show real leadership. I...
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Yvonne Ridley We are approaching that time of year when people of many faiths and none come together in unity to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which serves as a stark reminder...
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Yvonne Ridley Iran is not given to knee-jerk reactions, but those who run the country are extremely unpredictable nonetheless. That is why it is so difficult to anticipate what will result...
December 31, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley It's that time of year again when vast amounts of money are spent on celebrating the New Year. Nowadays that often means wasteful firework displays with money quite literally...
December 24, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Once again the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is headline news around the world after a court in Saudi Arabia announced the death sentence for five men and long...
December 23, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Why does Israel consider itself to be above the law? And why do supporters of the Zionist state look the other way when its war crimes raise their ugly...
December 11, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Rabid Zionist Donald Trump has proved once again that you can stand up in a room full of Jewish supporters and spew out anti-Semitic tropes with complete immunity as...
December 3, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Around the same time that Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was pressed on his party's record on anti-Semitism, an American pastor and supporter of Donald Trump unleashed an...
November 25, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley There has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist than in the 21st century because the simple act of telling the truth can cost you your...
November 19, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley In the world of US President Donald Trump, the illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land with flagrant disregard for international law have been declared legal. The acquisition...
November 13, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley The seriously misnamed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and its supporters get very upset when members of the fifth largest army in the world are accused of targeting innocent women...
November 1, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley So, after a dramatic press conference presided over by Donald Trump, we are led to believe that Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi died in an underground tunnel "whimpering and...
October 25, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi arrived in the Gaza Strip last weekend with $180 million to distribute among Palestinians in need. In Gaza's case, that means virtually the whole population...
October 24, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley I'm bamboozled by all the hand-wringing over the retreat of US troops from Middle Eastern soil in recent weeks. Some American soldiers were pelted with rotten vegetables as their...
October 11, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rolled out the military offensive called "Operation Peace Spring" on his country's southern border with Syria, the big surprise was not the invasion...
October 1, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley Animal rights activists are furious that a zoo in the Gaza Strip which was shut down earlier this year because of the poor conditions has reopened with lions billed...
October 1, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley The first anniversary of the barbaric murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi is approaching, but most world leaders apparently wish that we would forget about it and move...
September 20, 2019 |
Yvonne Ridley The fall of the Zionist State of Israel is being forecast by a leading Israeli academic, but his prediction has nothing to do with the latest election crisis which...
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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...![US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of the White House on 28 January 2020 in Washington, DC. [Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1197122212.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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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...![Palestinian children stand in front of a graffitied wall April 27, 2002 in the West Bank town of Jenin. A United Nations fact finding mission is scheduled to be in Jenin tomorrow to asses the Israeli action within this West Bank town. [Darren McCollester/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1538808-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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If ever a nation was prepared for the onslaught of the Covid19 virus and all the disruption and fear that comes with it, some might think that the Palestinians...![Sheikha Shamsa Al-Maktoum, daughter of the UAE's Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, hasn't been seen in public since 2010 [latifa.info]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/0_SHAMSA-BINT-MOHAMMED-BIN-RASHID-AL-MAKTOUM-e1564840240270.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Since the start of the 21st century, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 540 Palestinian athletes and other sportsmen and women. Many more have been wounded and crippled....![US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (R) shake hands after signing the peace agreement between US, Taliban, in Doha, Qatar on 29 February 2020. [Fatih Aktaş - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200229_2_41108174_52632536.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO...![Demonstrators take part in a demonstration against human rights violations of China on 27 December 2019 [Abdulhamid Hoşbaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191227_2_40054487_50735159.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Tensions have risen rapidly in north-west Syria following the killing of yet another Turkish soldier by Russian-backed regime forces. The Turkish death toll is now heading towards 20 as...
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There is an indelible link between the Holocaust and the current situation of the Palestinian people; to deny this simple fact exposes a deep-seated flaw in Zionist ideology. I...
There is likely to be a massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people unless Arab rulers step up to the plate on Syria and show real leadership. I...![People hold banners as they stage a demonstration near the US Capitol building to protest against massacres carried out by the Myanmar military against Rohingya people one year ago, on 25 August, 2018 in Washington, United States [Yasin Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180826_2_32073902_36678501.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
We are approaching that time of year when people of many faiths and none come together in unity to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which serves as a stark reminder...
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It's that time of year again when vast amounts of money are spent on celebrating the New Year. Nowadays that often means wasteful firework displays with money quite literally...![Police barricade in front of the Saudi consulate as the waiting continues on the killing of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Turkey on 21 October 2018 [Muhammed Enes Yıldırım/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181021_2_33007856_38303897.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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The fall of the Zionist State of Israel is being forecast by a leading Israeli academic, but his prediction has nothing to do with the latest election crisis which...