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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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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...
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The Tariq Ramadan case exposes even more French double standards
Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron’s government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or video images of police officers behaving badly. As we know from recent experience, nothing riles the French more than a...
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The UN’s Day of Solidarity for the Palestinians exposes its own impotence
The United Nations declared 29 November to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People more than 40 years ago. Sadly, it has become just another date in the ever growing timeline of misery inflicted on the people of Palestine. The reality is that ever since the stain...
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Journalist looks to judges to ‘champion American ideals’ in historic US court case
American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem yesterday challenged his inclusion on a US government “kill list” even though he is thousands of miles away in a rebel-held prison in Syria. The US Federal Court heard how the controversial New Yorker believes that he has been targeted by at least five...
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White House theatrics are no laughing matter for the Palestinians
Millions of people around the world are watching in astonishment at the bizarre spectacle of Donald Trump’s end days as US president which is turning America into a laughing stock. This, though, is no One Man Show. Trump’s ongoing refusal to accept the result of the election on 3 November...
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France should grow up and apply liberté, égalité, fraternité to all of its citizens
It looks as if French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for a way out of the mess he has created with his fiery rhetoric and attack on the Muslim world and his Turkish counterpart, one of the most popular Muslim leaders. Of course, it is hard to tell if...
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The Arab League and regional leaders will forget Arafat's warning at their peril
I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he served so well. When challenged by him, the members of the Arab League were either in awe, fear or a combination of both, which led...
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TikTok calls time on Israel's extremists (well, some of them)
Nothing irritates Israel’s apologists more than to see it being described as an “Apartheid state” even though its Palestinian citizens will confirm their second class status to anyone who asks. There are dozens of laws on Israel’s statute book which legitimise discrimination against non-Jews. The treatment of the Palestinians...
