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Yvonne Ridley

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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

  • When silence means monkey business in high office

    British Prime Minister David Cameron, his opposition number Ed Miliband and Middle East Peace Envoy Tony Blair are among those who have roundly condemned the head-chopping, limb-cutting activities of the self-styled Islamic State. No sane observer of the Middle East would disagree with them. However, the same trio also emulate...

  • Scotland is a safe haven for Jews and home of the kosher kilt

    A few years ago Scotland was referred to as “enemy territory” by a visiting Israeli Ambassador because of the hostile reception he and other representatives of the Zionist state were guaranteed to receive whenever they stepped north of the border. Hence, while Tel Aviv watched keenly the progress of...

  • Home Secretary Theresa May should resign over attacks on British values

    Theresa May likes talking tough and it’s an open secret that she harbours ambitions to be the Conservative Party’s next leader. The British home secretary devoted a large part of her speech at the party’s Birmingham conference this week targeting the Muslim community and talking up the threat of...

  • EXCLUSIVE: Shaikh Hassan Abboud's final interview

    “ISIS has been trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard,” claims late Syrian rebel leader. Just hours before an explosion wiped out the entire leadership of one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria, the head of Ahrar Al-Sham Brigade spent four hours talking to Yvonne Ridley about his vision for...

  • Israel's own goal in PR war

    As public support for Israel falls away I note that the Zionist PR machine is now trying a new tactic to win back friends and influence ordinary people in Britain. “What would you do if your cities came under attack,” is the question fired at increasingly weary news presenters who...

  • Blair makes money not peace

    How can a man bearing the title ‘Middle East Peace Envoy’ agree to advise the blood-drenched Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who seized power in a military coup last year after presiding over the slaughter of 2,500 protesters and the incarceration of more than 20,000 others? The shocking announcement comes...

  • Laddish Ed Husain wears veil of misogyny

    While many of us were still reeling in shock over the brutal murder of veiled Essex PhD student Nahid Almanea, the reaction of one man sitting in judgment thousands of miles away was to send out a tweet suggesting it was time for a “rethink” over the issue of...