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Yvonne Ridley

Yvonne Ridley

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Clear aerial message exposes Saudi sportswashing at Newcastle United FC

A spectacular aerial stunt designed to prick the conscience of the publicity-shy Saudi Arabian regime was carried out in front of 52,000 eyewitnesses...

09.05.2023 30

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Political ignorance and lies hide the truth of the two-state solution

Politicians are, generally, good at lying. Some of them, like former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, simply can't help themselves and are widely...

02.05.2023 20

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UAE backs winners and losers in Sudan

The outbreak of civil war in Sudan is a sad story of two out-of-control Generals at odds with each other, both trying to convince us all this is...

28.04.2023 10

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Scotland's new First Minister refuses to call Israel an apartheid state even though he has family in Gaza

Scotland is one of the smallest countries in the world but you would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know that last month Humza Yousaf became...

18.04.2023 20

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The Ottoman soldier who sacrificed his freedom to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque 

Procrastination is the thief of time and I have idly spent the last few hours disappearing down different rabbit holes following odd facts and bits of...

12.04.2023 40

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Spare us the crocodile tears, Zionists; legitimate criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism

The deliberate targeting and persecution of academics who are put through the "Zionist wringer" shows no sign of abating, even though the latest...

03.04.2023 40

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Israelis are now at war with themselves

Israel has gone to war yet again, but this time it's on home turf: Israelis are fighting with Israelis. The eyes of the world are on the Zionist state...

27.03.2023 20

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Unpunished and unrepentant: the war criminals who get away with murder

When the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush flouted international law and unleashed Shock and Awe on Iraq in March...

23.03.2023 10

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FIFA Women's World Cup woes for Saudi Arabia's prince of darkness on Mother's Day

Mother's Day in the Arab world is celebrated on the first day of spring, March 21, and for many children, it is the most important day of the year so...

20.03.2023 20

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Sportswashing: when money talks, everyone listens

No one likes to be ignored, but before it can happen, you have to be heard in the first place. In many ways, that makes the deliberate turning of a...

28.02.2023 10

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Jimmy Carter: the first (and only) US president to identify Israeli apartheid

As Jimmy Carter, at 98 the longest-lived US president, spends his final days with his family in "home hospice care", obituary writers will be busy...

20.02.2023 40

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Supporting Newcastle United is not all black and white when it comes to human rights

The odious Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is in a league of his own when it comes to using the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, according to a new...

01.02.2023 30

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Sweden's hypocrisy could cost it NATO membership, warns Erdogan

Sweden is one of the largest countries in Europe in terms of land mass, but it has a relatively small population of around ten million. It is...

01.02.2023 90

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UN 'outrage' was empty words to describe an empty 'cavity' in Gaza 

Readers of my columns will know that I've never been a big fan of the United Nations because of its sheer inability to hold too many of the world's...

02.12.2022 50

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Dirty tricks, lies and collusion with lawmakers are employed to protect Israel at any cost

In April last year, Israel reeled and railed against a Human Rights Watch report in which the Zionist State was revealed to be committing the crimes...

01.12.2022 20

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Qatar has delivered the FIFA World Cup, now let it bring peace to Palestine

The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA, is a flawed governing body which has chosen to ignore a whole raft of corruption...

30.11.2022 30

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The real cost of Palestinian resistance

There is a depth of sadness in the deep brown-eyed gaze of Islam Asalya that makes the observer uncomfortable, because you just know that there is a...

23.11.2022 20

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