March 1, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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US January 25, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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US December 5, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
September 1, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
August 27, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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
August 25, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
August 20, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
July 24, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
July 19, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
July 14, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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....
July 4, 2017
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Yvonne Ridley 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...
![A Palestinian child is seen outside her makeshift tent in Gaza City, Gaza [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.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://i1.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, Chief Mandla Mandela MP [BDS South Africa/Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017_11-26-Nelson-Mandela’s-grandson-ChiefDPkmjOoW0AA8t5V.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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://i1.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://i1.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://i2.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://i1.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://i0.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...![Palestinian students attend activities during a summer camp, organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at Zaitoun School in Gaza City, Gaza on 18 July, 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170718_2_24820051_24251896.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![Israeli soldier Elor Azarya (C), the Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter after shooting a prone and wounded Palestinian assailant in the head [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/000_9V4SX.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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![Palestinian youths take part during a rally, protesting against Israel's violations on Al-Aqsa Mosque in Gaza City on 27 July 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_29-Palestinian-youths-take-part-in-a-rally270717_MO_00-8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
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...![Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/nicola-sturgeon.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (C) arrives at Amman Civil Airport in Amman, Jordan on 27 March, 2017 [Bandar Algaloud/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170327_2_22664667_20350503.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![Activist from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest Israel's violations of Palestinian rights outside the Glasgow Sheriff Court, Scotland on 10 July 2017 [Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign/Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Scottish-Palestine-Solidarity-Campaign20017656_1319042584875162_8284618662839826474_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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....![A Palestinian man hangs Qatari and Palestinian flags to the window of a house after the owner donated it to the Doha-based Al Jazeera channel to show solidarity with Qatar in Ramallah, West Bank on 2 July 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170702_2_24517842_23688440.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...