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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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Chilcot should be Exhibit A in Tony Blair’s trial
I can barely contain the anger I feel towards Tony Blair over the war in Iraq. It’s a rage which has simmered for more than a decade and a rage from which there is no apparent closure. So if I, as a mere observer, am feeling like this today,...
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Can Turkey deliver for the Gaza Strip?
As we move into the final days of Ramadan, millions of Muslims around the world are giving money to charity. As usual, Gaza is up there amongst the neediest of causes. This has been the situation for the past decade because of the crippling siege imposed by Israel and...
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Has Myanmar’s iconic leader taken genocide lessons from Israel?
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the most famous women in the world. She is a holder of the Nobel Peace Prize and hailed as “the Mandela of Asia” because of her human rights record. However, when we look at her continual lack of concern about the...
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New York’s governor is not against boycotts in principle, just those against Israel
The move by the controversial governor of New York to blacklist organisations that support the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been met with anger from pro-Palestine activists in the state who are calling for global action. Around 200 campaigners from across New York, spearheaded by Jewish...
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Palestinians mourn boxing legend and their greatest supporter
Boxing legend Mohammed Ali is dead. Known universally as “The Greatest”, his loss will be marked by millions of people of faith and no faith around the world, but Palestinians will be among the chief mourners because in their eyes he was the greatest fighter against Zionism. To show...
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US Jewry forces Israel's hand over two-state solution
Palestinians are constantly accused of being the real obstacle to peace in the Middle East but a new initiative by a group of America’s most influential Jews may just prove otherwise this week. For decades, various Western politicians have talked about a two-state solution. It has been on just...
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The price of principles and Palestine
Ramadan is approaching and the annual argument over the selling and buying of dates grown on lands stolen from Palestinians is well under way. Boycotting Israeli dates is probably more of a symbolic than a commercially successful tactic but it does highlight and underline the injustices meted out to...
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Israel embraces more hate
One of the biggest Zionist propaganda claims is that the Palestinian people hate life and use their children as human shields. Having experienced Palestine first hand from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip I can tell you that this is a wicked lie. The precious love of a...
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Why Israel views peaceful activism as a threat
World leaders like Barak Obama, Angela Merkel and David Cameron have all invoked the memory of the greatest peace activist of all – Mohandas K Gandhi – in recent times, as they lecture us about the power of peaceful activism. Gandhi fought courageously for India’s independence from the mighty...
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Israel is bad but the Arab leadership is worse
Palestinian suffering and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli occupation occurs on a daily basis and has done ever since the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of 1948, when the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine began in the run-up to the creation of the state of Israel. The human rights abuses...
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Revisionist Gove airbrushes Israel’s apartheid crimes
Nelson Mandela is probably the world’s best known resistance fighter. The late South African president knew the value of the global boycott movement which helped in his people’s struggle to dismantle the country’s brutal and racist apartheid regime. His legacy is so powerful today that few world leaders heap...