Asa Winstanley

Asa Winstanley

Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He has been visiting Palestine since 2004 and is originally from south Wales. He writes for the award-winning Palestinian news site The Electronic Intifada where he is an associate editor and also a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor.

September 15, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Netanyahu is the Israeli Trump

The Zionist white supremacist alliance continues apace. It is quite hard to keep track of the increasing connections, both in the US and in Israel. The increasing scandal over...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 12, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s war against the United Nations

In Israel’s propaganda narrative, the apartheid state attempts to portray itself as upholding law and order in the “rough neighbourhood” that is the Middle East. In explicitly racist terminology,...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
September 2, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israeli propaganda and the alliance with Islamic extremists

Probably the most common Israeli propaganda tactic is the smear: an attempt to discredit enemies by making spurious associations and linkages, as well as outright fabrication of allegations of...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria, US
August 31, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Arab collaborators not exempt from Israeli racism

As long as there have been national liberation struggles and resistance movements, there have been collaborators. The phenomenon is an old one. The oldest strategy in the proverbial Book...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
August 30, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Zionism’s ongoing love-in with neo-Nazis

While most right-thinking people were condemning Donald Trump’s coddling of the American neo-Nazi movement in Charlottesville, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister was backing him all the way....

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
August 19, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Zionists give supporters of Israel a free pass for their anti-Semitism

The fact that an obnoxious, racist and sexist columnist wrote something for the Sunday Times is not exactly news. Last month, though, one of them, Kevin Myers, came out...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
August 7, 2017 Asa Winstanley

‘Populism’ and the Zionist left – part 2

Read part one of this article here. Unlike both Trump and Macron, who have both ultimately done their best to suppress voter turnout, a genuine political revolution, such as...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, France, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 5, 2017 Asa Winstanley

‘Populism’ and the Zionist left – part 1

Millionaire former telecoms chief executive Avi Gabbay has become the new leader of the Israeli Labor party. For some on the pro-Israel right in the UK’s Labour Party, Gabbay...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, US
July 28, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Jordan should stop bowing to Israel

With the Israeli-induced crisis over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem this past week it may have been easy to miss a deadly incident that took place in Amman,...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 26, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s love-in with Hungary’s anti-Semites exposes the ugly core of Zionism

The official ideology of the state of Israel, Zionism, has always been an anti-Semitic political project. While Zionism projects itself as a solution to European anti-Semitism, in reality it...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Hungary, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
July 23, 2017 Asa Winstanley

A year after Chilcot, Tony Blair is still not in jail. He should be

One year ago this month Sir John Chilcot, a leading former civil servant, finally published the report of his long-awaited enquiry into the British role in the illegal and...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, UK
July 23, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s covert terror campaign against human rights groups says a lot about the regime

Last month, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon made a disgusting and dangerous speech to the media outside the Security Council. In it, he continued a long-running campaign...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 18, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s new occupation zone in Syria

Perhaps the most woefully under-covered fact of the war in Syria has been Israel’s role, and the fact that it has been supplying armed groups allied with Al-Qaeda. The...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria
July 14, 2017 Asa Winstanley

With no charge or trial, Israel interns socialist MP – again

A little over one year after she was released from an Israeli jail, the Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar once again languishes behind bars. She was arrested by Israeli...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
July 4, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s friends in the north

Theresa May finally signed her deal with the Democratic Unionist Party this week. The electoral alliance promises her new allies £1 billion of extra government spending in Northern Ireland,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 1, 2017 Asa Winstanley

The refugees’ return to Palestine is a must

In just under a year’s time, Palestinians will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Catastrophe that marks their expulsion from Palestine. More than 750,000 Palestinians, most...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine