Asa Winstanley – Middle East Monitor

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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.

November 13, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Politicians are lying about the Palestine student protest at LSE

This week, students at the London School of Economics (LSE) protested on campus to oppose a lecture by Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. Their protest was not only entirely peaceful,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
October 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel - Unban the 6 human rights groups

Last Friday, Israel outright banned six leading Palestinian human rights groups. To do so, "Defence" Minister Benny Gantz and his government unilaterally designated them as "terrorist" groups. The Israelis...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 23, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Free Palestinian aid worker Mohammed El-Halabi

Mohammed El-Halabi is a senior Palestinian aid worker with the global Christian charity World Vision. He was kidnapped by Israeli army thugs in June 2016 during a routine trip...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 15, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Why Israeli fascists are more honest than liberal Zionists

The Palestinian citizens of Israel "are here by mistake—because Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and throw you out in 1948." That was the latest rant this week from fascist...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 12, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

David Miller's sacking is just the start

"Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the State of Israel and its advocates," David Miller wrote in February. Since then, almost as...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
September 29, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Apartheid responses show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby is a waste of time

It's rare for Israeli apartheid to be a topic of conversation in Britain's House of Commons, but from time to time it does happen. In May, for example, Labour...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 24, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Pro-Israel treason in Ireland

Treason is commonly defined as the betrayal of a trust or allegiance, especially to one's country or government. But what about when one faction of the government or establishment...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Ireland, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
September 18, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The limits of 'human rights' discourse in Palestine

In 2014, a large part of Ismail Ziada's family was wiped out. The lives of his mother, 70-year-old Muftia, his three brothers, Jamil, Yousif and Omar, his sister-in-law Bayan,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Netherlands, Opinion, Palestine
September 11, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's inevitable failure

Covering the topic of Israeli oppression against Palestinians and pro-Israeli propaganda in the West for a living is exhausting. Merely researching and writing about the issue is mentally and...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 3, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The Israeli-Egyptian siege of the Gaza Strip must end unconditionally without delay

So much for the Israeli army supposedly wanting to "reduce" the number of Palestinians it shoots. An Israeli soldier shot and killed another Palestinian child in the besieged Gaza...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 28, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Naftali Bennett lies his way to Washington DC

Online Palestinian outlet Quds News Network resurfaced a video clip this week from over a decade ago featuring current Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The video shows Bennett helping...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 21, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

After the Afghanistan exit, could the US ramp up aggression against Iran?

The Afghanistan debate in Parliament this week was nothing less than nauseating. Ministers, MPs and shadow ministers all united to ratchet up a bizarre form of rhetoric that somehow...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iran, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US
August 14, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's PR problems and the Palestinian Authority

Liberal Zionist newspaper Haaretz wrote an especially galling headline this week: "After String of Fatalities, IDF Chief Urges: Reduce Shooting of Palestinians," it read. In the article itself, the...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 9, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's lucrative lobby racket

The British comedian David Schneider is well known for his memorable bit parts in sitcoms and his writing for shows such as faux news bulletin "The Day Today". Unfortunately...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The plight of Palestinians is well understood, now action needs to be taken

"I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious." Those are the words of Mohammed El-Kurd, the renowned Palestinian activist...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 24, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's icy reception for Ben and Jerry's

A landmark victory in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement's (BDS) campaign against Israel came on Monday, with an announcement from Ben and Jerry's. After years of BDS campaign...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 10, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Marriage law vote proves that even 'left' Zionism is racism

This week, Israel's Parliament the Knesset failed to pass an extension to Israel's racist marriage law. The law bars the spouses of Palestinian citizens of Israel from receiving citizenship....

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 3, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

How Europe sustains Israel

Many people object when first learning that Israel participates in the Eurovision Song Contest. Why is such an obscenely violent and racist human rights-abusing regime allowed to participate in...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Don't look away from Palestine

If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month, it was a new sense of unity...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 27, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The 'Palestinian' Authority is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force

Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a...

Published in: Article, EU, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 19, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

'Death to the Jews' would have caused an international scandal, yet Israel's incitement gets a free pass

Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes. Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 13, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The Israeli political circus

Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn't bank on it quite yet, for two related reasons. Since 2019, there have been no less than...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Israeli Elections, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 26, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

A morning of victory in Jerusalem

Palestine awoke last Friday morning to a new reality. The death and destruction Israel had been visiting upon Gaza came to an end with a 2am ceasefire. More than...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 16, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Palestinians have a right to defend themselves

The scenes we've been witnessing on our screens coming out of occupied Palestine this week are unprecedented. What has been happening is a unified national uprising of the entire...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 10, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Progressive, but not on Palestine

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 1, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The long shadow of Israel's arm in Europe

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...

Published in: Article, EU, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 28, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Palestinians called Israel an apartheid state decades ago

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....

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 23, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's pogroms in Jerusalem

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...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 17, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The 'real' apartheid

"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...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 10, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The US empire is extorting Sudan into an unpopular recognition of Israel

"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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Sudan, US
April 1, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

It is necessary to be an anti-Zionist in order to reject anti-Semitism

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,...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
March 29, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Free in Israel, convicted spy Jonathan Pollard calls for more Americans to betray their country

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, US

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