September 19, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel’s plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for...
September 12, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Last week, US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...
September 5, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The release of leading Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work. When Nawajaa was kidnapped by...
August 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies” – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...
August 27, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...
August 18, 2020
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Asa Winstanley One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week’s news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...
August 8, 2020
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Asa Winstanley It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that “Israelis want peace” and do not support their government’s policies of oppression...
August 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley A nine-year-old boy shouts: “Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn’t scare me!” The boy’s home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...
July 31, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Earlier this month an Israeli court ruled that notorious cyberwarfare spyware firm NSO Group would retain its export licence. The ruling came despite the fact that lawyers for Amnesty...
July 22, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that’s how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...
July 9, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...
July 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn’t; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...
June 27, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...
June 24, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country’s history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...
June 19, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...
May 30, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...
May 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...
May 23, 2020
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Asa Winstanley David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied....
May 16, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine. Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally...
May 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley NSO Group has become one of Israel’s most notorious mercenary private spy agencies. For an eye-wateringly high fee, the firm flogs a malware suite called Pegasus in order to...
April 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...
April 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...
April 11, 2020
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Asa Winstanley So that’s it. Jeremy Corbyn is out. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. With the media’s attention rightly focused on the coronavirus pandemic, coverage of Corbyn’s departure...
April 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...
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US March 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic has...
March 20, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has caused an unprecedented global pandemic. This has spread fear, suffering and needless death around much of the world. Due to...
March 7, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Some of Israel’s most successful strategies are simply its intransigence and extremism. Even those of us opposed to Israeli war crimes – apartheid and occupation – should be honest...
February 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Today he may be sitting and rotting in an Israeli cell, but in 2012 Palestinian graphic designer Hafez Omar’s posters were setting the internet alight. On Facebook in particular,...
February 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of...
February 21, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Britain’s Labour leadership hustings held last week by the party’s internal pro-Israel lobby were a bizarre sight to behold. Organised jointly by the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends...
February 19, 2020
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Asa Winstanley In September 2016, the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain held a small barbecue to establish a new youth wing. Thanks to the fact that an undercover journalist from Al...
February 15, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Labour seems to now formally consider use of the blandly factual phrase 'Israel lobby' to be 'anti-Semitic'
![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=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel’s plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for...![US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the White House on 27 January 2020 in Washington, DC [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Netanyahu20200127_2_40538858_51582272.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Last week, US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...![Israeli forces detain 64 year old Palestinian Hayri Khanoun during a protest against the planned illegal Israeli settlement in the region, in Shufa village of Tulkarm city, West Bank on September 01, 2020 [Nedal Eshtayah / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Demonstration-against-the-construction-of-Jewish-settlements-in-the-West-Bank_9.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The release of leading Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work. When Nawajaa was kidnapped by...![Israeli Jews wave the Israeli flag outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on 2 June 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190602_2_36736153_45018434.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies” – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...![A damaged car and building are seen after a fire at a warehouse with explosives at the Port of Beirut led to massive blasts in Beirut, Lebanon, 14 August 2020 [Enes Canli/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200814_2_43886263_57416314.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...![Palestinian protesters prepare to tear apart a portrait of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on August 14, 2020 at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, during a protest against a US-brokered deal between Israel and the UAE to normalise relations [-/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1228044090-scaled-e1597492920331.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week’s news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...![Israeli settlers gather next to their flag on a rooftop of a house in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank on 12 June 2018 [Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018_8-12-settlers-in-BethlehemGettyImages-972211284.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that “Israelis want peace” and do not support their government’s policies of oppression...![Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the BDS movement, Mahmoud Nawajaa [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_3_24-Mahmoud-Nawajaa.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A nine-year-old boy shouts: “Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn’t scare me!” The boy’s home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...![An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on 28 August 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. [JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Israeli-spyGettyImages-596871430.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Earlier this month an Israeli court ruled that notorious cyberwarfare spyware firm NSO Group would retain its export licence. The ruling came despite the fact that lawyers for Amnesty...![Black Lives Matter protests take place in London on 7 June 2020 [Lauren Lewis/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6614.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that’s how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...![BDS protesters [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/dddd.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...![Black Lives Matter protests take place in London on 7 June 2020 [Lauren Lewis/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6877.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn’t; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank on 20 May 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...![Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in London, UK on 10 June 2020 [Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200610_2_42895924_55809613.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country’s history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...![Palestinians attend the national products exhibition calling people to boycott Israeli goods in Gaza city on 3 December 2018. [Ashraf Amra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/030118_ASH_00-16-scaled-e1592562956623.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...![UK protests were held outside branches of HSBC bank over shares in an Israeli arms company accused of manufacturing internationally banned weapons [Manchester Palestine Action]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HSBC-Stop-Arming-Israel-National-Day-of-Actionmanc2-Manchester-Palestine-Action.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...![Logos of Telegram, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter are seen in Ankara, Turkey on January 12, 2020 [Raşit Aydoğan - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200114_2_40309772_51169524.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...![Palestinian-American civil rights activist Alex Odeh [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alex-Ode.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied....
Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine. Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally...![Locals inspect a two-storey building belonging to Palestinians after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Hebron, West Bank on 25 September 2019 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190925_2_38400153_47911910.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...![FBI investigators California, US on 8 November 2018 [ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FBI.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...![Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jeremy-CorbynDltgbZ3UUAAqUQz.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
So that’s it. Jeremy Corbyn is out. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. With the media’s attention rightly focused on the coronavirus pandemic, coverage of Corbyn’s departure...![Yossi Cohen, director of Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad on 3 July 2017 [HEIDI LEVINE/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Yossi-CohenGettyImages-806649298.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...![A demonstator wearing a protective mask holds the Israeli flag and a black flag as he protests outside the Israeli Parliament on 23 March 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. Thousands of israelis gathered to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he is making anti-democratic steps during the Coronavirus outbreak. [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1208072952.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic has...![Israeli Paramedics of the Israel's National Emergency Pre-Hospital Medical Organisation at the coronavirus national operations center, perform a coronavirus test exercise on a volunteer on 26 February 2020 in the central Israeli city of Kiryat Ono [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1203461750.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has caused an unprecedented global pandemic. This has spread fear, suffering and needless death around much of the world. Due to...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds a press conference on Trump's so called peace plan in Ramallah, West Bank on 28 January 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020_1-1-Abbas20200128_2_40559391_51616205.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Some of Israel’s most successful strategies are simply its intransigence and extremism. Even those of us opposed to Israeli war crimes – apartheid and occupation – should be honest...![Hafez Omar, a Palestinian artist who was arrested by Israeli forces in March 2019 [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hafez-omar.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Today he may be sitting and rotting in an Israeli cell, but in 2012 Palestinian graphic designer Hafez Omar’s posters were setting the internet alight. On Facebook in particular,...![A tourist photographs a sign painted on a wall in the West Bank biblical town of Bethlehem on June 5, 2015, calling to boycott Israeli products coming from Jewish settlements [THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boycott-israel-GettyImages-475969836.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of...
Britain’s Labour leadership hustings held last week by the party’s internal pro-Israel lobby were a bizarre sight to behold. Organised jointly by the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends...![US Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at Queensbridge Park in New York, United States on October 19, 2019 [Tayfun Coşkun / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191019_2_38841657_48642428.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In September 2016, the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain held a small barbecue to establish a new youth wing. Thanks to the fact that an undercover journalist from Al...![UK Labour Party Logo [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/labour-party-logo.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Labour seems to now formally consider use of the blandly factual phrase 'Israel lobby' to be 'anti-Semitic'