Yvonne Ridley

Israel not only weaponizes humanitarian aid, but also criminalizes those who deliver it

Monday 17-March-2025

During Ramadan, I tend to put down my pen and spend most working hours supporting charities operating in Palestine.

There’s no cure for Israel’s terminal sickness as it destroys Gaza’s health sector

Tuesday 31-December-2024

Every woman has a special bond with her obstetrician, the person who delivers her babies. This was illustrated recently when the legendary singer Adele spotted her “baby doctor” in the audience at her Las Vegas concert.

Genocide is not a grotesque game by numbers; it is the worst of crimes

Monday 25-November-2024

There is a tsunami of blood red ink gushing forth from the incredulous pens of angry far-right defenders of the Zionist State of Israel.

Why does the West condone and forget Israel’s child abuse?

Friday 15-November-2024

I have seen many atrocities in my career as a journalist, and listened at inquests to appalling details of cruelty inflicted upon innocent children.

Sinwar chose life on the front lines and proved to be a ‘lion’ to the very end

Sunday 20-October-2024

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.

Israel is out of control as it pushes the world towards the nuclear abyss

Thursday 3-October-2024

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.

Erdogan calls for UN military action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Monday 30-September-2024

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.

Shameful diplomatic fail by G7 over war crimes in Gaza

Monday 12-August-2024

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.

The seeds of Gaza’s past will bloom in the future

Monday 3-June-2024

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.

Genocide Joe encourages Israel to treat international laws and conventions with contempt

Sunday 14-April-2024

Prostitution is said to be the oldest profession in the world. Sumerian records dating back nearly 5,000 years describe a temple brothel operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk, in modern-day Iraq on the border with what is now Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Will Joe Biden hear this US airman’s harrowing cry of ‘Free Palestine’?

Tuesday 27-February-2024

“Free Palestine” is an enduring phrase that will come to define the street chants of millions of angry citizens who’ve marched and protested in capital cities around the world against Israel’s brutal, genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

Why doesn’t the UN value Palestinian life above the city of Jericho?

Tuesday 19-September-2023

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has placed the ancient Palestinian city of Jericho on the World Heritage List.

Forest dump: How a Jewish charity hides Israeli war crimes

Tuesday 4-July-2023

Most war criminals are caught because of a failure to cover up their crimes. The Holocaust probably provides the grimmest example of this because Nazi Germany exterminated millions of European Jews Poles Roma and others but failed to hide the evidence.

Justice in apartheid Israel reflects the racist nature of the state

Saturday 24-June-2023

Expressing a negative opinion about Israel on social media can land you in prison if you happen to be a Palestinian in occupied Palestine which is not a good image to project when you claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East.

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

Monday 8-May-2023

Politicians are generally good at lying. Some of them like former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson simply can’t help themselves and are widely regarded as serial offenders while others are guilty of nothing more than ignorance.

Scotland new First Minister refuses to call Israel an apartheid state

Saturday 22-April-2023

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 the first Muslim to be elected as a leader in Western Europe.