Author: Yvonne Ridley

WTX News Diplomatic Editor Dr Yvonne Ridley is an award-winning journalist and an author. She is a WTX News champion and one of our premier journalists. She is the Diplomatic Editor and provides in depth, analytical pieces that everyone should read. In her early days she worked as a senior reporter with several well-known British newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and The Sunday Express. While working for the latter as Chief Reporter on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 she herself became the subject of international headlines when she was held by the Taliban. She is part of the core team that runs WTX News and ensures our work is always based on serving the readers. We absolutely love her work and hope you will too.

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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Cast disgraced Oxfam director adrift So former Oxfam director at the centre of a sex scandal allegations has finally broken his silence to say that media reports about him and his parties with prostitutes are “lies and exaggerations”. Really? Well before he tries convincing us he should work harder with his family because they want nothing to do with 68-year-old Roland Van Hauwermeiren who also admits that may be some of the details are correct. The allegations focus on his activities at a luxury villa rented for him by Oxfam while delivering aid in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Van…

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