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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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The truth is out there, behind all the lies
There is nothing more noble than telling the truth, and yet for simply delivering nothing but the truth Palestinian journalists are being killed; they — and their families — are targeted by Israeli soldiers in Palestine and Lebanon. The death toll of journalists in Gaza alone has risen to 177,…
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Is the UK government creating a ‘Stasi’ police force to silence Israel’s critics?
Police forces in Britain are under fire following several incidents involving pro-Palestine campaigners and activists, as well as journalists, giving rise to fears that the police across the country have become tools of an increasingly repressive state. Mick Napier, a veteran pro-Palestine campaigner, was banned earlier this month from setting…
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Sinwar chose life on the front lines and proved to be a ‘lion’ to the very end
I am struggling to understand the Israeli culture and mindset following the broadcast of the grainy video showing Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s final moments on this earth. The scene reminded me of the execution video of Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein, moments before his demise. The point of releasing such videos…
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Political friends and foes alike mourn Scotland’s fearless son and friend of Palestine
Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond died suddenly on Saturday while speaking at a conference in North Macedonia. The political titan was 69, and probably the only Western leader of any substance to support Palestine. Salmond was the first European politician to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East…
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Backlash as UK slaps visa ban on Nelson Mandela’s grandson
The British government has stopped Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla, a staunch supporter of Palestine and its people, from coming to give a series of talks in the UK. Critics say that the government has cited spurious grounds for the visa ban. Chief Mandla Mandela has, until recently travelled freely around…
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Israel is out of control as it pushes the world towards the nuclear abyss
Nearly a year after Hamas’s audacious 7 October cross-border incursion, Israel has made it clear there are no red lines that it is not prepared to cross in order to exact its revenge. The Zionist state has so far justified the slaughtering of tens of thousands of innocent women, babies…
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Erdogan calls for UN military action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The outspoken Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has silenced his critics who said that he has not shown enough support towards Palestine since the Israeli-led genocide began in Gaza nearly a year ago. As he stood in the chamber of the UN General Assembly and addressed a global audience, Erdogan…
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A crisis at the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper has exposed the Zionist media web and the ‘Get Corbyn’ campaign
It seems that absolutely nothing is sacred or off limits for some of the most rabid Zionists and their supporters when it comes to leaving a trail of malicious devastation in their wake. I was reminded of this at the weekend when I attended an invitation-only conference in central London…
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Western hypocrites fiddle as Palestine and Yemen burn
Israel and Saudi Arabia have a couple of things in common: they both have very thin skins when it comes to criticism. And they are both in a blood-drenched league of their own when it comes to mass murder. Tens of thousands of children as well as innocent men and…
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Arab rulers ‘discuss’ the chaos, even as Gaza burns
When I first began to study Islam, I was overwhelmed by stories of honourable men and women from the Arabian Peninsula who surrounded and followed Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Like many aspiring converts, I made the mistake of believing that this honourable gene or characteristic was passed down…
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Israel is bad news, so why don’t we hear about it in the mainstream media?
At the beginning of this year, a global survey showed that the least trusted media in the world is in Britain. It was a damning survey. The influential Edelman Trust Barometer revealed how British journalism had plunged to the bottom of the annual ratings, with only 31 per cent of…
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The gloves come off as two-faced Israel and its lackeys search desperately for friends
As the war in Gaza escalates, Israel’s diplomatic wing is becoming more desperate and careless in its approach to winning friends and influencing people. Having frittered away international goodwill so brutally with its genocide of the Palestinians, its support on the world stage is dwindling, as are friends of the…
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Shameful diplomatic fail by G7 over war crimes in Gaza
The whole world is going to Hell in a handcart and there doesn’t appear to be a single leader who will stop the carnage and Israeli war crimes being carried out in occupied Palestine. Admittedly, it can look as if Israel gets the blame for everything these days, but then…
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Of mice and men, and Netanyahu
The murder of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is not a cause for celebration, no matter on which side of the political divide you sit. It was an international criminal act which has brought the whole world closer to the abyss of world war, but was initiated, I fear, to…
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Do you condemn Israel?
I’ve always tried to distinguish between the war crimes of the so-called Israel Defence Forces and the behaviour of ordinary citizens living in the occupation state. It is wrong to apply or even imply collective responsibility of a whole nation for the actions of a relative minority. Stereotyping huge swathes…
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France wins Olympic gold for hypocrisy
It took some heroic athletes from the Algerian Olympic team to pour cold water on the ghastly spectacle of a flotilla on the River Seine as French President Emanuel Macron tried to bask in a spectacle of French culture when Paris welcomed the world’s greatest athletes for a sporting extravaganza.…
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Our collective complicity and shame over Gaza is rooted in the Holocaust
Seeing the brutal Israeli war in Gaza continuing to unfold, I feel deeply ashamed on many levels as the Zionist State sinks deeper into the pits of Hellish behaviour and inhumanity. Like millions of others around the world, I fear that I may become inured to the suffering of the…
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The seeds of Gaza’s past will bloom in the future
Every single day I have spent in Gaza has been precious, but perhaps the most memorable experience there came on a special tour called the Night of the Martyrs. Our small group was privileged to visit the families and homes of those giants who may be gone but whose memories…
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Justice is coming for Israel’s genocide enablers
I feel slightly guilty over my impatience towards Karim Khan KC, the lion-hearted British lawyer who has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since 2021. Like many cynics weary of seeing Israel escape opprobrium or indeed any legal action from the international community for its continual violations of…
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Why is a global superpower under the influence of the tiny Zionist state?
On the world stage, the United States of America is the only country that fulfils the criteria to be considered a superpower, although China, the European Union, India and Russia are discussed academically as having the potential to attain such status. As a global superpower, the rest of the world…
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Frau Genocide and the feminists who betray Gaza
Whenever a woman crashes through a glass ceiling in any walk of life I usually punch the air in celebration of another barrier to women’s progress crashing to the ground. Often blaming male-dominated regimes for the chaos in the Middle East, I’ve always believed that the election of women to…
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Unremarkable peer recruited by Zionist lobby to stop Palestine Action
I have written many times about the heroic activities of Palestine Action, the protest group which burst onto the scene around four years ago using a blend of unrivalled direct action, anarchy and good, old-fashioned peaceful resistance to disrupt and wreck Israel’s war machine factories in the UK. Despite numerous…
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Why does Mahmoud Abbas want Marwan Barghouti to stay behind bars?
Traitors are vile, reptilian creatures and, in many ways, they are even more despicable than the most ruthless of enemies. The trouble is that those who betray the cause are usually hidden in plain sight; the one sitting silently at the table sharing and breaking bread with you and your…
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Golden oldies prepare for aid flotilla mission to Gaza
The training sessions have become more realistic, that’s for sure, even if the guns are cardboard. Virtually everything else is the same as before, though, as peace activists come together in Istanbul to embark on the latest Freedom Flotilla aiming to take humanitarian aid to the besieged and embattled Gaza…