August 17, 2019
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Asa Winstanley UK MP Chris Williamson has begun legal action against Labour, the British political party which has suspended his membership. The treatment of Williamson by Labour’s bureaucrats has been totally...
August 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign revealed that a council in East London had banned the use of any of its parks by a charity bike ride for Palestinian...
July 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has come a long way since it was formed in 2005. Once known only to a relatively small group of activists, BDS...
July 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Recent news reports have shed light on the lengths to which Israel’s security establishment is going in order to cover-up the history of the country’s war crimes against Palestinians....
July 26, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers
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Videos & Photo Stories July 20, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Unemployment in the Gaza Strip now stands at more than 50 per cent. Enforced joblessness is “as high as 69 per cent in the under-26 age bracket,” according to...
July 15, 2019
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Asa Winstanley A recent move by an Israeli mayor to ban Palestinian Arab citizens from a public park has prompted many to ask if Israel is moving towards the imposition of...
July 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Right from the opening, there were glaring signs that Wednesday night’s “Panorama” would be anything but the impartial public broadcasting that the BBC claims to champion. The hour-long special...
June 29, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Spare a thought for the human rights groups in Palestine committed to documenting, holding to account, and otherwise having to deal with Israel’s racist regime. Groups such as Al...
June 28, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The Haifa-based Palestinian human rights group Adalah has done a lot of important work over the years. Its name is Arabic for “justice”. Much of Adalah’s work focuses on...
June 22, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The views of Katie Hopkins represent a particularly British form of fascism. Similar in some ways to US President Donald Trump, she rose to national fame through reality TV....
June 21, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Egypt’s only elected President, Mohamed Morsi, is dead. He died in court, apparently of a heart attack. But the reality is that the Egyptian dictatorship murdered him, and thus...
June 19, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Here we go again. The shadow of war is again cast over the Persian Gulf. Having already destroyed Iraq over the past decade and more, the US is now...
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US June 15, 2019
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Asa Winstanley A new World Heath Organization report on Gaza this month made for shocking reading. But as usual when it comes to our hopelessly Israel-sympathetic media, there was barely a...
June 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley As I write, the latest episode of the “Labour anti-Semitism crisis” is playing out with depressing predictability on social and news media. Pete Willsman, a left-wing member of Labour’s...
May 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley One of the primary targets of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement over the past year was the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest that took place in Tel...
May 25, 2019
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Asa Winstanley For three years after Donald Trump narrowly won 2016’s elections, much of America’s establishment corporate press was obsessed with the “Russiagate” conspiracy theory. This was a relentless deluge of...
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Videos & Photo Stories May 18, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Headlines this week about an apparent rift between top British and US military officers over Iran were a reminder of just how embedded the UK’s military is within the...
May 11, 2019
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Asa Winstanley There is seemingly no stopping deluded prospectors digging for nuggets of gold in the empty mine of Palestinian leaders’ capitulation. True, that mine once contained rich seams. Small, but...
May 4, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The Eurovision song contest is set to take place in Israel later this month. The Israeli government is treating the event as a major propaganda opportunity, with full support...
May 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The “nation-state” basic law passed in the Israeli parliament last year was denounced widely in the West. The law states that Israel does not belong to all its citizens,...
April 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last year, AirBnB declared that it would withdraw listings on its site from Israeli settlers based in Jew-only colonies in the West Bank
April 25, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Islamophobia has become the leading identifier of far-right groups all around the world. Fascism always requires an “other”, a demonised minority group that can be scapegoated and blamed for...
April 20, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Labour’s Shadow Justice Minister Richard Burgon expressed regret this week for having stated in a speech some years ago that Zionism is the “enemy of peace”. He should not...
April 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Some years ago, I met a landlord briefly who was an Iraqi. After volunteering to tell me his land of origin, he began to explain his theory that ISIS...
April 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, was hauled by force out the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. British secret police snatched him at the invitation of the embassy,...
April 2, 2019
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Asa Winstanley ‘Everybody knows that Kahane was right’
March 29, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Now that the United States has given the imperial stamp of approval to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, what does the future hold? Well, the move announced...
March 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Another one bites the dust. Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is the latest prominent Labour figure to be thrown to the wolves. On Thursday he was suspended from the party...
February 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...
February 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because...
February 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Drawing on religious terminology, Israel claims to be a “light unto the nations”, an example for the rest to follow. In past eras, this spin had a certain degree...
![Jewish Voice for Labour supporters demonstrating against false claims of anti-Semitism, in London on 26 March 2018 [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/180328-jvl.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
UK MP Chris Williamson has begun legal action against Labour, the British political party which has suspended his membership. The treatment of Williamson by Labour’s bureaucrats has been totally...![The Big Ride for Palestine in London, on 27 July 2019 [Ovais Mughal]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/67837298_2257011431078359_3993466291242401792_n-e1564401248805.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign revealed that a council in East London had banned the use of any of its parks by a charity bike ride for Palestinian...![Palestinians in Gaza protest against German Parliament decision on BDS, in Gaza on 23 May 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/651A9984.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has come a long way since it was formed in 2005. Once known only to a relatively small group of activists, BDS...
Recent news reports have shed light on the lengths to which Israel’s security establishment is going in order to cover-up the history of the country’s war crimes against Palestinians....![More than 1,000 Israeli settlers including children are their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound backed by Israeli police officers, at the Al-Aqsa Complex in Jerusalem on 22 July, 2018 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180722_2_31571988_35847981.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers![Hundreds of protesters gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in central London in solidarity with Palestinian people who are holding large "Great March of Return" and "Palestinian Land Day" rallies across Gaza border, in London, United Kingdom on March 30, 2019 [Hasan Esen / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190330_2_35733044_43126939.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Unemployment in the Gaza Strip now stands at more than 50 per cent. Enforced joblessness is “as high as 69 per cent in the under-26 age bracket,” according to...![Apartheid and Cultural Boycott: Then and now | Palestine Book Awards 2016 [Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-palestine-book-awards-generic-image-books-4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
A recent move by an Israeli mayor to ban Palestinian Arab citizens from a public park has prompted many to ask if Israel is moving towards the imposition of...
Right from the opening, there were glaring signs that Wednesday night’s “Panorama” would be anything but the impartial public broadcasting that the BBC claims to champion. The hour-long special...
Spare a thought for the human rights groups in Palestine committed to documenting, holding to account, and otherwise having to deal with Israel’s racist regime. Groups such as Al...
The Haifa-based Palestinian human rights group Adalah has done a lot of important work over the years. Its name is Arabic for “justice”. Much of Adalah’s work focuses on...![Katie Hopkins [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/katie-hopkins.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The views of Katie Hopkins represent a particularly British form of fascism. Similar in some ways to US President Donald Trump, she rose to national fame through reality TV....
Egypt’s only elected President, Mohamed Morsi, is dead. He died in court, apparently of a heart attack. But the reality is that the Egyptian dictatorship murdered him, and thus...![On the eve of the renewed sanctions by US, an Iranian protester burns a dollar banknote during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on 4 November 2018 [ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-1057221400.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Here we go again. The shadow of war is again cast over the Persian Gulf. Having already destroyed Iraq over the past decade and more, the US is now...![Palestinian medics carry away an injured protestor during a weekly "Great March of Return" demonstration near the Israel-Gaza border, on March 22, 2019 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-3-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
A new World Heath Organization report on Gaza this month made for shocking reading. But as usual when it comes to our hopelessly Israel-sympathetic media, there was barely a...![Right-wing Israeli protesters hold flags and placards during a demonstration held near the family home of Nashat Melhem, an Arab Israeli who killed three people in a Jan. 1 shooting attack. [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-19T120143Z_1_LYNXNPEC8I0MH_RTROPTP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As I write, the latest episode of the “Labour anti-Semitism crisis” is playing out with depressing predictability on social and news media. Pete Willsman, a left-wing member of Labour’s...![People hold placards during a protest against the Eurovision Contest demanding the removal of Israel's blockade on Gaza in Tel Aviv on 14 May 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019_5-14-Anti-Eurovision20190514_2_36451248_44460693.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One of the primary targets of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement over the past year was the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest that took place in Tel...![U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (R) show members of the media the proclamation Trump signed on recognising Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights after their meeting outside the West Wing of the White House 25 March 2019 in Washington, DC. [Alex Wong/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GettyImages-1138217403-e1553952812209.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For three years after Donald Trump narrowly won 2016’s elections, much of America’s establishment corporate press was obsessed with the “Russiagate” conspiracy theory. This was a relentless deluge of...
Headlines this week about an apparent rift between top British and US military officers over Iran were a reminder of just how embedded the UK’s military is within the...![One of the participants will represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Isreal in May 2019 [Gina Wetzler/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-1126275756.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Eurovision song contest is set to take place in Israel later this month. The Israeli government is treating the event as a major propaganda opportunity, with full support...![A bloodied Israeli flag hangs on the main building at the University of Cape Town, South Africa [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/apartheid-israel-Google-Search.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The “nation-state” basic law passed in the Israeli parliament last year was denounced widely in the West. The law states that Israel does not belong to all its citizens,...![Photo illustration of Airbnb is displayed on the screen of an iPhone placed on a map [Chesnot/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_2-11-Airbnb-GettyImages-1128954358.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last year, AirBnB declared that it would withdraw listings on its site from Israeli settlers based in Jew-only colonies in the West Bank![Protesters demonstrate against the rise of Islamophobia after the recent acid attacks on Muslims in London, UK on 5 July 2017 [Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170705_2_24573401_23772855-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Islamophobia has become the leading identifier of far-right groups all around the world. Fascism always requires an “other”, a demonised minority group that can be scapegoated and blamed for...![A protest against Zionism [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_17-zionism-is-the-problemDC6agMIWAAAfvMA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Labour’s Shadow Justice Minister Richard Burgon expressed regret this week for having stated in a speech some years ago that Zionism is the “enemy of peace”. He should not...
Some years ago, I met a landlord briefly who was an Iraqi. After volunteering to tell me his land of origin, he began to explain his theory that ISIS...![A protester holds a banner reading "Free Speech - Except War Crimes" during a protest outside Westminster Magistrates court, in London, United Kingdom on 11 April 2019. [Kate Green - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190411_2_35943455_43488213-e1555056102600.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, was hauled by force out the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. British secret police snatched him at the invitation of the embassy,...![Late anti-Arab rabbi, Meir Kahane [Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Meir-Kahane.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
‘Everybody knows that Kahane was right’![President Donald Trump holds up an executive proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory at the White House in Washington DC, Monday, 25 March, 2019 [Getty]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ap.trump_.netanyahu.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Now that the United States has given the imperial stamp of approval to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, what does the future hold? Well, the move announced...![Labour Party conference 2017 in Brighton, UK [Cllr Tamoor Tariq/Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_9_27-Labour-Party-conferenceDKwL4OFXUAAJj1M.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Another one bites the dust. Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is the latest prominent Labour figure to be thrown to the wolves. On Thursday he was suspended from the party...![Israel soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron on 16 November 2012 [ Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2012_11-16-israeli-forces-hebronMW_00-8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...![Comedian Roseanne Barr attends the premiere of ABC's "Roseanne" at Walt Disney Studio Lot on March 23, 2018 in Burbank, California [Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-937215066-e1547994960558.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because...![People take their seats as the Eurovision song contest begins [fotospielwiese/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eurovision5778252651_621c3e2164_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Drawing on religious terminology, Israel claims to be a “light unto the nations”, an example for the rest to follow. In past eras, this spin had a certain degree...