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.

January 13, 2018 | Yvonne Ridley
Palestinian leaders must be brave and bold
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
December 26, 2017
‘The world is creating another Palestine’
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...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Bangladesh, Myanmar, News
December 23, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The child who knows too much about cruelty in this world
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Opinion
December 14, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Has Trump just delivered Middle East unity?
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 —...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, OIC, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey, US
December 5, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Susiya village has become a real test of Israel’s moral fibre
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, EU, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
November 30, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
A tale of two tweets
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,...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
November 27, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Palestinians and South Africans are united in their struggle for freedom
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...
Published in: Article, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
November 7, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Patel-Israel scandal grows as May tries to weather the storm
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
November 3, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Sitting Priti as minister is protected by Tel Aviv
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
October 31, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
South African students are giving Israel a lesson in honesty, integrity and morality
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...
Published in: Africa, Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, South Africa
October 16, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Forgiveness must be part of the Palestinian armoury
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...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 11, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Women Wage Peace, but who knew?
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...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 3, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Racist America runs out of excuses as a marathon man from Palestine is banned
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 27, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The pro-Israel lobby is losing its grip on Westminster
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
September 24, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Looking at Myanmar, it is clear that the ICC is not fit for purpose
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, ICC, Myanmar, Opinion, UN
September 20, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Peace One Day… but probably without Trump
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
September 15, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Millions of Palestinians have good reason to remember Peres
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
September 1, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The education of Palestinian children is an act of resistance
In this year of significant anniversaries — the Balfour Declaration; Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the Israeli-led siege of Gaza — another is creeping up...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Pakistan, Palestine
August 27, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Censorship of photographic exhibition exposing Israeli brutality angers Scots
Whenever they are confronted with irrefutable evidence of Israeli brutality it seems that the only options for supporters of the Zionist State are censorship, abuse and intimidation
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
August 25, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Palestine is no country for old men
Millions of us around the world have supported the Palestinian cause for decades. In our calls for justice for the people of Palestine we have stood alongside some political...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 20, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Does Britain have a secret travel ban against Arabs?
Britain stands accused of operating a secret travel ban against Arabs after it emerged that a large number of internationally renowned academics, religious leaders, musicians, artists and performers from...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria, UK
July 24, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Disbelief is growing as Scotland’s First Minister backs Israel’s dark arts
Scotland has a proud record of standing up with persecuted minorities, including those who are targeted purely for their faith, ethnicity or culture. It is the only European country...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 19, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The hemline that hit the headlines: it could only happen in Saudi Arabia
To say that the Middle East is in turmoil is a major understatement when you consider the suffering and hardship endured by millions of ordinary Arab men, women and...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
July 14, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Opposing Zionism is not racism, rules Scottish court
In yet another landmark legal victory, members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign emerged from court victorious today after being accused of racism. Their “crime”? Standing up to Zionism....
Published in: Article, BDS, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 4, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The Palestinians can learn from the blockade of Qatar
There are many lessons that the Palestinians can take from the crisis in the Gulf which has seen four Arab states impose an air, land and sea blockade on...
Published in: Article, Bahrain, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
June 24, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Qatar is giving Saudi and the UAE a masterclass in international diplomacy
When it comes to international diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and its friends in the Gulf have the grace of a ballerina wearing hobnailed boots. Weighed down by their own sense...
Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
June 21, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Pity the poor, and pity the poor Palestinians
Here in Britain, the horrific tower block blaze which proved to be the deadliest in London since World War Two is still making front page headlines one week after...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 14, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Invisible Qataris trapped in no man’s land
A family of eight are trapped in no man’s land between warring neighbours Qatar and Saudi Arabia, it emerged last night. Conditions for members of the Al-Marri family are...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
June 5, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
The Saudis may have bought our weapons, but should not have bought our silence
We need to talk about Saudi Arabia. We won’t, though, because this is something that both the British and American governments refuse to do, although they will talk endlessly...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, US
May 27, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Do you know who is talking to your son?
I am haunted by the Manchester bomb attack. Like many other people I’m angry, sad and confused, and have endured a rollercoaster of other emotions as I try to...
Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK
May 26, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
An online hate campaign is trying to get a Palestinian cultural festival cancelled
An unprecedented hate campaign has been unleashed on the social networks aimed at wrecking a ground-breaking two day event to celebrate Palestinian life and culture. Palestine Expo 2017 is...
Published in: Article, BDS, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
May 19, 2017 | Yvonne Ridley
Football fans and players everywhere demand justice for Palestine
Football is a beautiful game; full of passion, it is a sport which has ingrained itself in many national cultures bringing out the very best in human nature, and...
Published in: Article, BDS, FIFA, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, UN