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May 10, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to...
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May 1, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. As a self-proclaimed "outpost of civilisation in the jungle", Israel has been supported by...
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April 28, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley In 1965, Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. The short booklet was published by the PLO Research Centre in Beirut....
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April 23, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as "a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority". That...
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April 17, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places...
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April 10, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "No conciliation, no coexistence and no negotiations with Israel" – those were the famous "Three Nos" of the August 1967 Khartoum summit of the Arab League. This was a...
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April 1, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley One of the most common misunderstandings about the Israeli occupation of Palestine is that it is a "conflict" between two countries, "Israel" and "Palestine". Such language is highly misleading,...
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March 29, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading. The newspaper is owned by...
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March 19, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...
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March 13, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley I first met sociology professor David Miller a decade ago. His depth of knowledge and thoughtful research impressed me right away. At the time, I was reporting on the...
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March 5, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist....
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February 27, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and...
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February 20, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the...
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February 13, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing. He openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the river and the sea –...
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February 8, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Just after Christmas, Jonathan and Esther Pollard were flown on a private jet from New Jersey to Tel Aviv. After touching down, Jonathan kissed the tarmac and was greeted...
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January 30, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Last week when I broke the story of Assaf Kaplan, a recent Labour Party hire, the main feedback – often objection – I received on social media went along...
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January 23, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These...
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January 22, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an...
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January 9, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...
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December 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...
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December 18, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...
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December 16, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often...
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December 5, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that the economic...
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November 27, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that's exactly what Western governments...
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November 26, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Although it is only one of Israel's many injustices, the case of Mohammed El-Halabi is a particularly egregious example of the colonial-settler state's criminality. El-Halabi was a leading Palestinian...
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November 21, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...
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November 14, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...
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November 7, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...
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October 28, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...
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October 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...
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October 17, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...
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October 10, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...
One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to...![An Israeli flag is set next to a European Union flag at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2016 [THIERRY CHARLIER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-542400090-scaled-e1592315929511.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. As a self-proclaimed "outpost of civilisation in the jungle", Israel has been supported by...![A girl shouts slogans during a demonstration organised by young Palestinians in Hebron on September 3, 2017, against a recent decision by Israel to boost the powers of the settlers in the occupied West Bank city [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-842149998-scaled-e1619598492256.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In 1965, Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. The short booklet was published by the PLO Research Centre in Beirut....![Israeli forces intervene Palestinian young Muslims, who gathered after performing Tarawih prayer, with water cannon vehicles and sound bombs and fanatic Jews arrive in Damascus Gate in Eastern Jerusalem on 18 April 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210419_2_47881781_64370841.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as "a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority". That...![Israeli forces at a Palestinian protest in the West Bank, Palestine on 5 June 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200605_2_42811480_55652425.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places...![Sudanese people rally against their country's recent signing of a deal on normalising relations with Israel, outside the cabinet offices in the capital Khartoum, Sudan on January 17, 2021 [Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210117_2_46410641_61658086.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"No conciliation, no coexistence and no negotiations with Israel" – those were the famous "Three Nos" of the August 1967 Khartoum summit of the Arab League. This was a...![Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britains Labour Party on 4 September 2018 in London, England. [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1026619918.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
One of the most common misunderstandings about the Israeli occupation of Palestine is that it is a "conflict" between two countries, "Israel" and "Palestine". Such language is highly misleading,...![Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York court house following his release from prison early on Friday after 30 years on November 20, 2015 in New York, New York [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-498040224-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading. The newspaper is owned by...![A view of the entrance of Rafah in Gaza on 9 February 2021 [Ali jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210209_2_46779812_62343752-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...![University of Bristol academic David Miller [Youtube screengrab/CAGE]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/University-of-Bristol-academic-David-Miller.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I first met sociology professor David Miller a decade ago. His depth of knowledge and thoughtful research impressed me right away. At the time, I was reporting on the...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, on 12 May 2015. [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-473058964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist....![Vaccine of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Tel Aviv on 13 January 2021 [Nir Keidar/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210113_2_46345344_61523971.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and...![International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, addresses a press conference in Kampala on February 27, 2015 [ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-464629660-scaled-e1613573698567.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the...![Candles burn with the image of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane at his grave in a cemetery on the outskirts of Jerusalem 9 November 2006 [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Meir-Kahane.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing. He openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the river and the sea –...![US President Joe Biden on February 05, 2021 in Washington, DC [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1300570639.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Just after Christmas, Jonathan and Esther Pollard were flown on a private jet from New Jersey to Tel Aviv. After touching down, Jonathan kissed the tarmac and was greeted...![Assaf Kaplan [Facebook]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kaplan.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Last week when I broke the story of Assaf Kaplan, a recent Labour Party hire, the main feedback – often objection – I received on social media went along...![Graffiti saying Welcome to Apartheid Street, following the adoption of the Nation State Law [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nation-state-law-Twitter-Search.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These...![Palestinians take part in a rally against apartheid in the West Bank town of Hebron on 14 September 2012 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2012_9-14-protet-against-ApartheidMW00-6-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an...![Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York court house on 20 November 2015 [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Jonathan-Pollard.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...![#ShutDownElbit - Protesters in the UK for closure of arms factory exported to Israel [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/stop-arming-israel.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...
Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...![Palestinian children at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza on May 15, 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170517_2_23724244_22185763.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often...![Gazans wait in line with their vehicles at the Rafah border crossing, on November 02, 2020 in Gaza City, Gaza [Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201102_2_45150129_59417529.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that the economic...![Israeli soldiers throw smoke grenades at a group of people including journalists, near a gate leading to Hebron's main al-Shuhada street,, during an annual demonstration in memory of the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, in Hebron, on 22 February 2019. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1126740088-e1608994645287.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that's exactly what Western governments...![Tehani Zakkut delivers a speech as Palestinian protesters hold posters of Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision International's manager of operations in Gaza, who was arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Gaza on 28 March 2017 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170328_2_22685178_20387782.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Although it is only one of Israel's many injustices, the case of Mohammed El-Halabi is a particularly egregious example of the colonial-settler state's criminality. El-Halabi was a leading Palestinian...![US President Donald Trump in Fayetteville, US on 2 November 2020 [Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201102_2_45160061_59432082.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...![Supporters of Joe Biden gather in Florida, US on 15 October 2020 [Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_2_44856577_58929971.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...![Protest to denoucne spycops in the UK [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/spycop.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...![A pile of newspapers and magazines on 14 January 2015 [MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NEWSPAPER.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...![Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel - Cartoon [Cartoon Latuff/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/latuff.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...![Gaza's Ministry of Prisoners held a protest outside the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City in support of hunger striking prisoner Maher Al-Akhras who is now on the 78th day of his strike on 12 October 2020 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6Z8A1119.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...![Palestine Action activists stage a protest against Israeli defence company 'Elbit System' in London, UK on 5 September 2020 [Palestine Action]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Palestine-Action-Elbit-demonstration-_5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...