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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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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...
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Bin Salman’s plan backfires as trolls turn Khashoggi documentary into a sure-fire hit
It seems that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is prepared to go to any lengths at home and abroad to silence his critics. The barbaric killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 was proof of that, but the de facto ruler’s attempts to hide the...
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Biden really should reach out to Hamas
Credible reports are now emerging of failed plots by Donald Trump to subvert democracy in America and overturn the peoples’ vote. That is why the recurrent theme of US President Joe Biden’s inauguration day was that democracy is precious. Trump is said to be inconsolable about losing the election. It...
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Israel’s apartheid regime is the work of a callous rogue state
Covid-19 can strike anywhere and anyone. We are all vulnerable, regardless of faith, nationality, ethnicity or culture. World leaders, politicians, royal families and philanthropists insist, as they always do in times of adversity, ad nauseam, that “we are all in this together”, but that isn’t true; you just have...
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How much longer are we going to ignore Karim Younis and other Palestinian prisoners?
How many people have heard of Karim Younis? If his name means very little to you, that’s probably because you were a child or not even born when he was arrested by Israeli security forces. Or you have compassion fatigue. You shouldn’t; it’s time to wake up, because Karim...
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Was the US Embassy move to Jerusalem actually a hoax?
There will be a collective sigh of relief from Palestinians when disgraced President Donald Trump finally leaves the White House for good on Wednesday, because no single nation has suffered more as a result of US foreign policy under this man. However, is it possible that some of Trump’s...
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Dirty tricks could see Muslims lose control of Al Aqsa Mosque
If you want to divert attention away from your own criminal behaviour, nothing works better, it seems, than starting a fire in someone else’s backyard. Even better if you can find some useful idiots to light the match. Israel is an expert at this, and it is with the...
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Who’s afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood, and why?
I’ve often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands of political prisoners drawn from the leadership and membership of the movement, which is also banned as a “terrorist organisation”...
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Trump’s insane decision about Western Sahara shows he still has time to wreak more havoc
The words and wisdom of the late, great South African leader Nelson Mandela are often invoked to illustrate a point when confronted by injustice and how to deal with it. Although his heart and soul were anchored in South Africa, Mandela’s outlook was global, and there seemed to be...
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Saudi King Salman should keep his son on a tight rein
Even though Donald Trump has still not accepted that he lost the US presidential election, I hear that his imminent departure from the White House is causing great concern in the marbled corridors of power in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and his cabal were staking...
