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'
February 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley As far as Zionist lobby groups are concerned, the verdict has finally sunk in: they defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to one of them at least; the...
January 31, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Click here to read Part One. The project to create a Jewish state in Palestine has always been a fundamentally racist one – and will always be so as...
January 30, 2020
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Asa Winstanley So the administration of US President Donald Trump finally published its “Ultimate Deal”, a document being trumpeted as a “peace plan”. But in reality, it is nothing of the...
January 25, 2020
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Asa Winstanley We are about to witness the third Israeli election in the space of one year. The elections for the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, which are coming in March, are being...
January 22, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue at hand. In the United States over the last...
January 18, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) – a group which used to take...
January 6, 2020
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Asa Winstanley A supposed Israeli “civil rights” lawyer once wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post under the headline “Israel needs to invade The Hague”. The writer was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,...
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US December 24, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Here’s a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, as it once again does its best to spoil the festive season for...
December 21, 2019
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Asa Winstanley You have to hand it to Donald Trump, he knows which side his bread is buttered. Spewing out disgusting remarks that some of the commentariat deemed only “controversial” at...
December 20, 2019
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Asa Winstanley A long-term strategic aim of the Zionist movement has been to foment sectarianism in Palestine and the wider region. It’s a classic trick out of the imperialist playbook: divide...
December 18, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting...
December 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley There’s no getting away from the fact that last Thursday’s General Election was a disaster for the left in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party lost almost as many seats...
November 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley A lot has been written about the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby over the years. Many take the view that the US and Britain have their foreign policy dictated to them...
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US November 29, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Here we are, with another General Election and another seemingly coordinated round of allegations to smear Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Labour has found it almost impossible during...
November 27, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is reversing previous policy which basically accepted that Israel’s...
November 22, 2019
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Asa Winstanley For the last decade and more, Omar Barghouti has been one of the world’s most important Palestinian public intellectuals. A co-founder of the BDS movement for boycott, divestment and...
November 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last weekend, Jordan announced that it would end the lease of two enclaves of land to Israel. As part of the unjust 1994 peace deal signed between Israel and...
November 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Khalida Jarrar is a leading Palestinian activist for women’s rights and prisoners’ rights. She is a socialist MP elected to the Palestinian Authority’s moribund legislative council, as part of...
October 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government,...
October 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Despite what you may have heard, the Palestinian Authority is not a “Palestinian government”. Indeed, “Palestinian Authority” is a misnomer, as the entity has no genuine authority, and does...
October 26, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced...
October 18, 2019
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Asa Winstanley So, another one bites the dust. Louise Ellman MP quit the Labour Party this week. The chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel is the latest in a line of...
October 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Considerable attention is paid by Western media to the governments of official enemies, when they lack democracy. The Western media’s long attention span for Syria’s democratic deficiencies, as one...
![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&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&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&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&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&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&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&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&ssl=1)
Labour seems to now formally consider use of the blandly factual phrase 'Israel lobby' to be 'anti-Semitic'
As far as Zionist lobby groups are concerned, the verdict has finally sunk in: they defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to one of them at least; the...![An elderly Palestinian and a child during the Nakba [Hanini/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-6_nakbaOldman_girl_nakba.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Click here to read Part One. The project to create a Jewish state in Palestine has always been a fundamentally racist one – and will always be so as...![US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [IsraeliPM/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NetanyahuDoB5VtyWsAENW3B.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
So the administration of US President Donald Trump finally published its “Ultimate Deal”, a document being trumpeted as a “peace plan”. But in reality, it is nothing of the...![Palestinian demonstrators protest against Jewish settlements in the West Bank on 8 September 2019 [Mosab Shawer/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019_9-8-protest-against-settlements080919_MSH_00-25.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
We are about to witness the third Israeli election in the space of one year. The elections for the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, which are coming in March, are being...![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech during the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, UK on 2 October 2019 [Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191002_2_38521588_48108754.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue at hand. In the United States over the last...![Israeli anti-occupation activist Jonathan Pollak is arrested by Israeli forces, 7 January 2020 [Roznama Quds/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Jonathan-Pollakjohn.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) – a group which used to take...![International Criminal Court building in The Hague on 30 July, 2016 in the Hague, Netherlands [Michel Porro/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-597691706-e1578301686668.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A supposed Israeli “civil rights” lawyer once wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post under the headline “Israel needs to invade The Hague”. The writer was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,...
Here’s a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, as it once again does its best to spoil the festive season for...![President Donald J. Trump greets the crowd in Chicago, Illinois, United States on 28 October, 2019 [Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191028_2_39035490_48941519.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
You have to hand it to Donald Trump, he knows which side his bread is buttered. Spewing out disgusting remarks that some of the commentariat deemed only “controversial” at...![Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (R), AKA Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the anti-Islam English Defence League (EDL), addresses supporters, one wearing a mask of US President Donald Trump (L), outside the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, in central London on October 23, 2018 [CHRIS J RATCLIFFE/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GettyImages-1052804518.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A long-term strategic aim of the Zionist movement has been to foment sectarianism in Palestine and the wider region. It’s a classic trick out of the imperialist playbook: divide...
Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting...![British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn in London, UK on 8 June 2017 [Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170608_2_24121792_22955086.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
There’s no getting away from the fact that last Thursday’s General Election was a disaster for the left in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party lost almost as many seats...![A small group holding Israeli flags were holding a counter protest as 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://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190330_2_35733044_43126938.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A lot has been written about the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby over the years. Many take the view that the US and Britain have their foreign policy dictated to them...![Supports of Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, attend a rally on 5th June 2017 [Ren/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017_6_5-corbyn-rally.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Here we are, with another General Election and another seemingly coordinated round of allegations to smear Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Labour has found it almost impossible during...![A segment of the Israeli Seperation Wall sean near Abu Dis, in the occupied West Bank on 15th April 2016 [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/israel-apartheid-seperation-wall-dome-of-the-rock-background-abu-dis.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is reversing previous policy which basically accepted that Israel’s...
For the last decade and more, Omar Barghouti has been one of the world’s most important Palestinian public intellectuals. A co-founder of the BDS movement for boycott, divestment and...![Jordanians protest outside the Israeli embassy [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/jordan-protests-outside-israeli-embassy-israeli-army-killed-jordanian-at-el-kerame-crossing-in-march-2014.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last weekend, Jordan announced that it would end the lease of two enclaves of land to Israel. As part of the unjust 1994 peace deal signed between Israel and...![Member of Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and former lawmaker at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Khalida Jarrar (C) is seen as she is welcomed by her supporters and relatives after she was released from detention lasted 20 months, at her house in Nablus, West Bank on 28 February 2019. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190228_2_35187520_42132780.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Khalida Jarrar is a leading Palestinian activist for women’s rights and prisoners’ rights. She is a socialist MP elected to the Palestinian Authority’s moribund legislative council, as part of...![Hacker [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hacker-computer-code.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government,...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) holds the first cabinet meeting with the newly announced government at the Presidential Office in Ramallah, West Bank on 13 April 2019. [Thaer Ghanaim / Palestinian Presidency / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190413_2_35975144_43546938-e1555317675383.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Despite what you may have heard, the Palestinian Authority is not a “Palestinian government”. Indeed, “Palestinian Authority” is a misnomer, as the entity has no genuine authority, and does...![Palestinians gather at a candle memorial for late South African President Nelson Mandela in an area of Jerusalem's Old City popular to Africans, on 07 December 2013. [Saeed Qaq-Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SQ_00-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced...
So, another one bites the dust. Louise Ellman MP quit the Labour Party this week. The chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel is the latest in a line of...
Considerable attention is paid by Western media to the governments of official enemies, when they lack democracy. The Western media’s long attention span for Syria’s democratic deficiencies, as one...