Thu 1-May-2025

Yvonne Ridley

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 victim Lara Sheehi has been cleared of spurious claims of inciting hatred of Jews.

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.

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 most prolific human rights offenders to account. At times its silence on such matters has been deafening.

Rogue state Israel is licensed to kill

Israel has become a law unto itself and unless the international community stands up to the rogue state it will continue to use the world as its own backyard in order to plot against and kill its enemies.

PUMA sportswear urged to axe football sponsorship in apartheid Israel

Europe’s largest sportswear manufacturer Adidas has ended its lucrative boot deal with French footballer Kurt Zouma after the English Premier League player was shown to kick and slap his pet cat in a video clip uploaded by his brother onto social media.

Let’s be honest Zionist Israel is built on a tissue of lies

Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews but say anything negative about the political ideology of Zionism or speak in favor of Palestine and the chances are regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them you will end up being accused of anti-Semitism.

Bannockburn’s other battle over the reality of racist Israel

The site of Scotland’s most historic battle is at the center of a war of words after a schoolgirl’s essay highlighted the injustices faced by Palestinians in the 21st century.

The AU’s back door invite to Israel has betrayed the Palestinians

The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly.

Palestinian lives do matter

Around the same time that international footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on a football pitch on Saturday during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match against Finland Ibtisam Kaabneh collapsed and lay dying at an Israeli military checkpoint in Qalandiya north of occupied Jerusalem.

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.

The CBC is trying to wipe Palestine off the map

On average we each tend to use around 16000 words a day to communicate with one another but there is one word which appears to be banned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Palestine.

The Zionist dream has become a nightmare

The future of Israel is hanging in the balance as the number of immigrants has dropped by more than a third according to the latest statistics.

Remember too that the Nakba is an indelible part of Israel’s history

There is an indelible link between the Holocaust and the current situation of the Palestinian people; to deny this simple fact exposes a deep-seated flaw in Zionist ideology.

The crisis in Gaza Strip shames the world as ‘unlivable’ 2020 arrives

It’s that time of year again when vast amounts of money are spent on celebrating the New Year. Nowadays that often means wasteful firework displays with money quite literally going up in smoke.

Will the ICC actually hold Israel to account over war crimes?

Why does Israel consider itself to be above the law? And why do supporters of the Zionist state look the other way when its war crimes raise their ugly head?

Israel’s precision hasbara tries to justify the slaughter of innocents

The seriously misnamed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and its supporters get very upset when members of the fifth largest army in the world are accused of targeting innocent women and children.