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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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America and its allies helped the Taliban on the road to victory
Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace which has left military strategists gasping. Within 24 hours of making his “I am staying” speech, President Ashraf Ghani fled...
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The African Union’s back door invite to Israel has betrayed the Palestinians
The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly. Israeli celebrations may be premature as Algeria, one of Palestine’s strongest supporters in Africa, garners support to oppose the colonial state’s affiliation. News began to emerge last week that Israel had...
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The Taliban is steering the 'graveyard of empires' towards a new era
Let’s stop all the hand wringing and angst over Afghanistan. Now. It’s fooling no one. America, Britain and their NATO allies have had 20 years to help put the country back on its feet, deliver human rights, female equality and a democratic government free of corruption. They’ve failed. Despite the...
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When winning at any cost is simply not worth it
There was a time when football was just a beautiful game with 22 players kicking a leather ball from one end of the pitch to another while supporters cheered on their team in the hope of victory. Now it’s become a complex, multi-billion dollar affair mired in greed, politics...
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Israel carried out the world's first airliner hijacking; the BBC needs to acknowledge this
The BBC has become embroiled in a fact-checking row with demands for an apology over a presenter’s claims that Libya was the first nation to carry out a state-sponsored hijacking of an airliner in the Middle East. According to the broadcaster’s flagship radio show, “The Long View”, the assertion...
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Syria's foreign fighters are told, ‘Go home or join HTS’
Hundreds of frontline foreign fighters have been told to fall under the direct control of the main rebel group leading the Syrian civil war in the Idlib region or get out of the country. The blunt order was issued by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) amid some of the heaviest...
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Palestinian lives do matter
Around the same time that international footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on a football pitch on Saturday during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match against Finland, Ibtisam Kaabneh collapsed and lay dying at an Israeli military checkpoint in Qalandiya, north of occupied Jerusalem. Eriksen’s collapse was headline news, with dramatic real-time footage...
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British pro-Palestine activists prove that direct action and BDS are effective
Pro-Palestine supporters were celebrating victory last night after Scotland lived up to its reputation of being “enemy territory” for Zionists, with the country’s last local authority pension fund announcing that it has divested from the controversial Israeli Bank Hapoalim. Years of campaigning and pressure, led by the Scottish Palestine...
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The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein
It doesn’t take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who predicted the demise of the fledgling state when he was asked to help raise funds for its terrorist cells. Ten years before the state...
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Samira Mohyeddin: Remember her name
Samira Mohyeddin, the Palestinian woman known to millions as the widow of legendary Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, has died of Covid-19 in Jordan. She leaves behind a legacy of love, wisdom and kindness. Like her late husband (1941-1989), she had a great impact on anyone privileged enough to meet her...
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The pro-Israel lobby fears that support could self-destruct over the bombing of Gaza
The influential pro-Israel lobby in America was reeling last night after it emerged that the US government may halt the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel. US politicians, normally supportive of the Zionist state, are divided about giving their usual approval to such a deal. Anything less than...
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Heroic Palestinian resistance from the river to the sea
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals have made a serious error of judgement by launching their latest military offensive against the people of Palestine. Far from terrorising the civilian population, they have galvanised the 73-year Palestinian struggle for liberation, freedom and statehood. In their hate-induced myopia, Netanyahu and Co....
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Gifted Palestinian dreamers defy Israel’s occupation nightmare
Palestinian engineer Loay Elbasyouni is a remarkable man, not least because he is an integral part of the NASA team which made history last week by developing the technology to fly a helicopter on Mars. Born and educated in the Gaza Strip, like so many gifted students from the...
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Macron’s double standards will come back to haunt him
The hypocrisy of one of Europe’s leading Islamophobes, French President Emmanuel Macron, appears to be without limits with his call for all mercenaries to quit Libya in a bid to help the fledgling Government of National Unity (GNU). Many of the mercenaries were sent there by France in the...
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Whistle-blowers targeting Israeli arms firm accuse Britain of intimidation
Whistle-blowers never fare very well when trying to shine a light on wrongdoing, and the latest pro-Palestinian group of activists to emerge in Britain appears to be no exception. Palestine Action, which has targeted Israel’s largest arms company’s factories and offices in Britain, has now accused the police of...
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The mighty US military has been humbled by the Taliban
The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their allies in the past 100 years. The Taliban, though, will be celebrating what they see as a historic victory when...
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Israel and Saudi Arabia buy influence in Britain as the lobbying scandal grows
Corruption in Britain is reaching startling new heights as lobby scandals threaten to engulf the government in a tsunami of sleaze. Leading the way, it seems, are both Israel and Saudi Arabia, each ruthless in the pursuit of backdoor access to the highest echelons of power in order to...
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What was David Cameron thinking when he holidayed with Bin Salman post-Khashoggi murder?
Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown Prince as being the man who ordered the death of dissident Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018. The jaunt...
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Jewish academics’ new anti-Semitism definition challenges the IHRA draft
A war of words has erupted after more than two hundred Jewish academics launched the most damning indictment to date of a controversial definition of anti-Semitism which has itself been adopted by thirty-four countries, countless universities, political parties and hundreds of various institutions and authorities. In drawing up a...
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British Muslims boycott Prevent review over 'rigged' appointment of Friends of Israel founder
An unprecedented coalition across the British Muslim community is opposing the British government’s decision to appoint one of the founding members of the Friends of Israel Initiative to lead a review of a discredited anti-radicalisation programme. More than 450 Muslim civil society groups plus 100 leading figures have said...
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Victory for BDS as judge SLAPPS down Zionist attempt to stifle free speech
An Israeli soldier who launched a $6 million defamation action in America against a Palestinian Christian has seen her legal efforts backfire spectacularly. Although her lawyer urged the US judge to apply Israeli defamation law, which punishes criticism of the Zionist State by up to one year in prison,...
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Ironically, this Zionist witch-hunt fails to protect Jews
Anti-Semitism is very real, of that there is no doubt, but the greatest threat to Jewish people today comes not from those on the political left who criticise the Zionist state of Israel. It comes from those on the far right whose pernicious influence is spreading across North America...
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Direct action against Israel’s war machine in Britain worries the occupation state
One of the most active pro-Palestine groups in Britain has now teamed up with a global environmental movement which uses nonviolent civil disobedience in order to exert pressure on governments and authorities. Palestine Action made an impact after its launch last year by targeting the arms factories across Britain...
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If democracy really is ‘precious’, President Biden, then let the Egyptians taste its fruits
The hand-wringing, angst and tears which flowed unashamedly as US politician after US politician lined up to speak during the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump was nauseating for many of us watching the charade. Without exception, they spoke passionately about the fragility of democracy. The Muslim world, especially where...