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...
January 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Neocon hawk John Bolton is a warmonger left over from the George W Bush administration who has returned to the centre of power in Washington DC. There, he continues...
January 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Ever since leading pro-Israel lobby financier Sheldon Adelson intervened in the 2016 election heavily in favour of Donald Trump, the now-president’s Middle East policies (if you can even call...
January 26, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death, without warning, in an Israeli airstrike
January 19, 2019
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Asa Winstanley An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win.” This saying is, broadly speaking,...
January 12, 2019
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Asa Winstanley It might not look like it, but in many ways Israel is in a bind. Of course, Israel is a fundamentally oppressive, racist, apartheid state which is increasingly in...
December 22, 2018
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Asa Winstanley The late, great Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash used to state that the road to the liberation of Palestine passed through the capitals of every Arab state. For decades,...
December 20, 2018
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Asa Winstanley 'CNN should reinstate Marc Lamont Hill without delay. The channel’s act of political and racist censorship should not be allowed to stand.'
December 19, 2018
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Asa Winstanley For a government which brashly boasts of being “the only democracy in the Middle East” Israel in reality has a lot of anti-democratic tendencies. The main one of these...
December 6, 2018
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Asa Winstanley Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely being disappeared from the internet. A renowned anti-Zionist Jew who has long been active in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the wider...
December 3, 2018
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Asa Winstanley As has been elucidated by many people – including my colleague Ben White in one of his excellent books, and myself in this column – Israel is an apartheid...
December 1, 2018
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Asa Winstanley In November, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement won its latest of many such victories against Israeli occupation and racism. After a sustained three-year BDS campaign, the popular...
November 30, 2018
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Asa Winstanley One of the tactics that Israel uses to launder its image around the world could be termed “aidwashing” or perhaps “bluewashing”, after the blue used by the UN in...
![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...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with White House National Security Adviser John Bolton as they meet on 6 January 2019, in Jerusalem, Israel. [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1078291324-e1547106616597.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Neocon hawk John Bolton is a warmonger left over from the George W Bush administration who has returned to the centre of power in Washington DC. There, he continues...![Sheldon Adelson attends Friends of The Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) gala in California, US on 1 November 2018 [Photo by Shahar Azran/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018_11-1-Sheldon-Adelson-GettyImages-1056175004.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ever since leading pro-Israel lobby financier Sheldon Adelson intervened in the 2016 election heavily in favour of Donald Trump, the now-president’s Middle East policies (if you can even call...![Two Gazan boys, 15-year-old Amir al-Nimra and 16-year-old Louay Kuhail, died in an Israeli air attack in Gaza, Palestine on July 14, 2018 [Qudns/Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DiNbUdSX0AAg1EQ-e1548509054541.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death, without warning, in an Israeli airstrike![People come together to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and to protest against Israeli violations on the Palestinian people [Stephanie Law/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2010_5-15-BDS-protest4677717346_57342f3bbf_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win.” This saying is, broadly speaking,...![Pro-Israel protesters try to disrupe a protest held to support the "Great March of Return" and mourn the Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border at Union Square in New York, United States on April 6, 2018 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180407_2_29683181_32468010.gif?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
It might not look like it, but in many ways Israel is in a bind. Of course, Israel is a fundamentally oppressive, racist, apartheid state which is increasingly in...
The late, great Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash used to state that the road to the liberation of Palestine passed through the capitals of every Arab state. For decades,...
'CNN should reinstate Marc Lamont Hill without delay. The channel’s act of political and racist censorship should not be allowed to stand.'![Israeli forces attack Palestinians during a demonstration against the construction of Jewish settlements in Nablus, West Bank on 25 August 2017 [Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017_8_25-Protest-in-Nablus20170825_2_25431716_25255209.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For a government which brashly boasts of being “the only democracy in the Middle East” Israel in reality has a lot of anti-democratic tendencies. The main one of these...
Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely being disappeared from the internet. A renowned anti-Zionist Jew who has long been active in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the wider...
As has been elucidated by many people – including my colleague Ben White in one of his excellent books, and myself in this column – Israel is an apartheid...![Airbnb Office [FlickR]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/27071084566_2933d8c540_b.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In November, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement won its latest of many such victories against Israeli occupation and racism. After a sustained three-year BDS campaign, the popular...
One of the tactics that Israel uses to launder its image around the world could be termed “aidwashing” or perhaps “bluewashing”, after the blue used by the UN in...