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November 9, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the despotic Saudi regime has sent waves of revulsion around the world’s media. Much of this condemnation is hypocritical. The same mainstream media...
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October 30, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Google's dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for Palestinians
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October 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley
All the hype about Russia aside, the special investigation in the US by Robert Mueller has shed light on something concrete: the real story is IsraelGate. Israel’s covert influence...
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October 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley
As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the region and its indigenous peoples, Israeli political and military planners are obsessed with what they term “strategic threats”....
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October 11, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The apparent kidnapping and possible murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is a shocking indictment of a regime entirely without redeeming features. He walked into the Saudi...
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October 2, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Part 2 Read part 1 here One of the lobbyists working for Qatar in the US last year was Nick Muzin, who at one stage was paid an eye-watering...
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October 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Over the past year or so, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has been getting increasingly close to pro-Israel figures from the United States. Things are so bad that...
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September 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Ayman Nasser, a Palestinian human rights activist, has been jailed indefinitely by Israel with neither a trial nor even formal charges being filed against him. This is a bitter...
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September 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Are there valid comparisons to be made between Israel and Nazi Germany, or with other examples of fascist states in history? Just asking this question could get you into...
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September 24, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Jerusalem Post briefly published an article earlier this month stating that the Israeli army has now admitted “that it provided large amounts of cash, weapons, and ammunition to...
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September 15, 2018
Asa Winstanley
I first visited Palestine at the end of 2004. As well as being much younger then, my views were quite different in some respects to what they are today....
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September 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
I am one of very few journalists on the left to have covered the Labour Party’s supposed “anti-Semitism crisis” from its beginning three years ago, if not the the...
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August 31, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif
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August 29, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Under pressure from abroad, the government of Qatar has shelved an important Al Jazeera film. The TV network’s investigative unit went undercover for months in the US to expose the...
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August 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley
There’s perhaps no greater barometer to measure the lengths to which Israel will go to defame, attack and sabotage the global movement for Palestinian rights than its attitude towards...
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August 2, 2018
Asa Winstanley
“Israel was imposed on us” – those are the words of a Jordanian activist who filmed a recent video showing construction of the Israel-Jordan gas pipeline. The video, posted...
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August 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The tech giants in Silicon Valley are no friends to democracy. Knowledge of this basic fact is necessary to understand the modern world. The social media and other internet...
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July 24, 2018
Asa Winstanley
For such a small country, the Gulf emirate of Qatar has had a large influence over Arabic media. Beginning back in 1996, the renowned 24/7 satellite TV channel Al...
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July 21, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Zionist movement has always been a schizophrenic one. The mainstream ruling factions of the movement, and later of the state of Israel, once claimed to be “socialist” in...
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July 12, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Read part 1 here The Medellin Cartel’s military leader was Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, who set up “self-defence” squadrons to protect his “ranchers” from left-wing guerrillas like the FARC, which...
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July 11, 2018
Asa Winstanley
When I lived in the West Bank a decade ago, I heard from Palestinians in both Hebron and Jerusalem more than once that the Israeli occupation forces tolerate or...
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June 28, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Israel is a settler-colonial state. Maintaining its status as the “Jewish state” in a land whose population is mostly non-Jewish requires a regime of complete and utter brutality. It...
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June 26, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Nabi Samwil is a small Palestinian village located in the West Bank, which has been targeted since 1967 by the Israeli forces
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June 22, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Read part 1 here When the PLO sailed out of Beirut and into a second exile in Tunisia, its fighters left most of their weapons behind. Israel managed to...
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June 21, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announced on Wednesday that the country was pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. Trump-appointee Haley accused the council of...
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June 20, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has, to an extent, changed his country’s foreign policy towards Israel, making it more favourable. This is part and parcel of Macron’s neoliberal,...
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June 19, 2018
Asa Winstanley
After Donald Trump’s recognition of the illegal Israeli annexation of Jerusalem by moving his country’s embassy to the city, the next prize that some in American and Israeli political...
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When you think of US President Donald Trump, the last thing that probably comes to mind is the image of a religious man. Unlike some previous presidents, Trump clearly...
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The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry's incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such violence.
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Tuesday, 15 May, marked the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinian people term Youm al-Nakba, or the Day of Catastrophe. The Nakba is the defining event that formed and...
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Too many people within the Labour Party, and even some within Britain’s Palestine solidarity movement, either fundamentally misunderstand or refuse to see the true nature of the Palestinian Authority....
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Last month The Intercept came out with an interesting report which suggested that US presidential advisor (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner was even closer to the ruling elite in Saudi...
![People hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/E2BCDC6A-A3F2-439F-9DC6-FF3C0FB74BDD_w1023_r1_s.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the despotic Saudi regime has sent waves of revulsion around the world’s media. Much of this condemnation is hypocritical. The same mainstream media...![The global search engine Google and Google Maps have changed the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem [Google]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12_08-Google-recognises-Jerusalem-as-Capital-of-Israelgoogle.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Google's dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for Palestinians![A group of pro-Israelis open both American and Israeli flags and catcall the demonstrators from across the street during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, at the Times Square in New York City, United States on December 09, 2017 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171209_2_27402029_28651728.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
All the hype about Russia aside, the special investigation in the US by Robert Mueller has shed light on something concrete: the real story is IsraelGate. Israel’s covert influence...
As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the region and its indigenous peoples, Israeli political and military planners are obsessed with what they term “strategic threats”....![Police set up barricade in front of Saudi consulate as the waiting continues on the disappearance of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 October 2018 [Ahmet Bolat/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Disappearance-of-Prominent-Saudi-journalist-Jamal-Khashoggi20181011_2_32808478_37992391.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The apparent kidnapping and possible murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is a shocking indictment of a regime entirely without redeeming features. He walked into the Saudi...
Part 2 Read part 1 here One of the lobbyists working for Qatar in the US last year was Nick Muzin, who at one stage was paid an eye-watering...
Over the past year or so, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has been getting increasingly close to pro-Israel figures from the United States. Things are so bad that...![Ayman Nasser Karajeh, Palestinian human rights defender [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ayman-Nasser-Karajeh.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ayman Nasser, a Palestinian human rights activist, has been jailed indefinitely by Israel with neither a trial nor even formal charges being filed against him. This is a bitter...
Are there valid comparisons to be made between Israel and Nazi Germany, or with other examples of fascist states in history? Just asking this question could get you into...![Image of Israeli and UN forces at the Golan Heights border [Escla/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2012_3_26-Border-crossingpoint-Golan-highs.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Jerusalem Post briefly published an article earlier this month stating that the Israeli army has now admitted “that it provided large amounts of cash, weapons, and ammunition to...
I first visited Palestine at the end of 2004. As well as being much younger then, my views were quite different in some respects to what they are today....
I am one of very few journalists on the left to have covered the Labour Party’s supposed “anti-Semitism crisis” from its beginning three years ago, if not the the...![Settlers look on as Israeli forces evacuate the body of Abdel Fattah Al-Sharif, killed by Israeli army medic Elor Azaria in Hebron , Israel on March 24 2016 [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/settlers-look-on-in-aftermath-of-Abdel-Fattah-Al-Sharif-killed-hebron-March-24-2016.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif![Al Jazeera office [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/al-jazeera-office.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Under pressure from abroad, the government of Qatar has shelved an important Al Jazeera film. The TV network’s investigative unit went undercover for months in the US to expose the...![People take their seats as the Eurovision song contest begins in Duesseldorf, Germany on 14 May 2011 [Noel Slevin/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2011_5_14-Eurovision-Song-Contest.5741479266_428e49d5eb_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There’s perhaps no greater barometer to measure the lengths to which Israel will go to defame, attack and sabotage the global movement for Palestinian rights than its attitude towards...![Jordanians shout slogans during a protest against the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Amman, Jordan on 15 July 2017 [Salah Malkawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_15-Protest-against-the-closure-of-the-al-Aqsa-Mosque-in-Jordan20170715_2_24769879_24145762.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“Israel was imposed on us” – those are the words of a Jordanian activist who filmed a recent video showing construction of the Israel-Jordan gas pipeline. The video, posted...![Social Media apps [Wall Boat/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018_1-8-social-media39544135772_ac89c118fe_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The tech giants in Silicon Valley are no friends to democracy. Knowledge of this basic fact is necessary to understand the modern world. The social media and other internet...![Cartoon showing bot armies of Qatar and Saudi/UAE facing off [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/qatar-saudi-media-war.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For such a small country, the Gulf emirate of Qatar has had a large influence over Arabic media. Beginning back in 1996, the renowned 24/7 satellite TV channel Al...
The Zionist movement has always been a schizophrenic one. The mainstream ruling factions of the movement, and later of the state of Israel, once claimed to be “socialist” in...![Image of drugs [Dimitris Kalogeropoylos/Flickr]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2011_6_20-drugs5851768737_8f87134bf2_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Read part 1 here The Medellin Cartel’s military leader was Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, who set up “self-defence” squadrons to protect his “ranchers” from left-wing guerrillas like the FARC, which...
Israel is a settler-colonial state. Maintaining its status as the “Jewish state” in a land whose population is mostly non-Jewish requires a regime of complete and utter brutality. It...
Nabi Samwil is a small Palestinian village located in the West Bank, which has been targeted since 1967 by the Israeli forces
Read part 1 here When the PLO sailed out of Beirut and into a second exile in Tunisia, its fighters left most of their weapons behind. Israel managed to...
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announced on Wednesday that the country was pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. Trump-appointee Haley accused the council of...
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has, to an extent, changed his country’s foreign policy towards Israel, making it more favourable. This is part and parcel of Macron’s neoliberal,...![The border between Israeli occupied Golan Heights and Syria [Facebook]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Golan-Heights-23172553_10155946412021518_483668402063127333_n.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
After Donald Trump’s recognition of the illegal Israeli annexation of Jerusalem by moving his country’s embassy to the city, the next prize that some in American and Israeli political...
When you think of US President Donald Trump, the last thing that probably comes to mind is the image of a religious man. Unlike some previous presidents, Trump clearly...![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://i0.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)
The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry's incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such violence.
Tuesday, 15 May, marked the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinian people term Youm al-Nakba, or the Day of Catastrophe. The Nakba is the defining event that formed and...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas seen at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 [Mustafa Yalçın / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20170227_2_22094486_19331857-e1489318857941.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Too many people within the Labour Party, and even some within Britain’s Palestine solidarity movement, either fundamentally misunderstand or refuse to see the true nature of the Palestinian Authority....
Last month The Intercept came out with an interesting report which suggested that US presidential advisor (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner was even closer to the ruling elite in Saudi...