Author: Yvonne Ridley

My days – or rather nights – of sitting through the wee hours until daybreak watching election results unfold are more or less over. I prefer a good night’s sleep and then sit back and enjoy the analysis of who won what, why and where. And so for England’s council elections I opted for a good night’s sleep and woke to listen to the BBC Today programme on Radio Four. It was obvious from snatched conversations as I whizzed around getting ready for the day that Labour must have had a bad night. Switching on BBC TV, the analysis was…

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Why Jewish Voices for Peace are targeting FB’s Zuckerberg I’ve just received an interesting piece of information from the US-based Jewish Voices for Peace, an excellent organisation which easily dispels the myth that all Jews are Zionists, they’re not. In fact many Jews do not agree with Israel or are part of the pro-Israeli lobby. JVP has dozens of grassroots groups across America and they’re all dedicated to opposing anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab bigotry and oppression and are working tirelessly to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem among other aims in the region. Today Ari…

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