Asa Winstanley – Middle East Monitor

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.

September 24, 2018 Asa Winstanley

It’s official; Israel has armed extremists in Syria to extend its control of occupied Golan

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Russia, Syria, UN
September 15, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Chomsky and the dishonesty of the two-state ‘solution’ in Palestine

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....

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 1, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s smear campaign will not stop until Jeremy Corbyn fights back

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...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
August 31, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israel wants to act with even more impunity by banning the filming of its murderous soldiers

Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
August 29, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The pro-Israel Lobby’s pressure against Al Jazeera’s exposé should be ignored

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US
August 17, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israel takes out ‘BDS insurance’ to protect Eurovision

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...

Published in: Article, BDS, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria
August 2, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Arab people will never accept Israel

“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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
August 1, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Silicon Valley’s war against Palestine

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...

Published in: Article, BDS, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 24, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Saudi-Qatari media war

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US
July 21, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Zionist extremists are now the mainstream in Israel

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...

Published in: Africa, Article, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, South Africa
July 12, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How Israel armed the drugs cartels – part 2

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
July 11, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How Israel armed the drugs cartels – part 1

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
June 28, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israeli innovation is based on theft

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
June 26, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Palestinian village where Israel forbids everything

Nabi Samwil is a small Palestinian village located in the West Bank, which has been targeted since 1967 by the Israeli forces

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
June 22, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How Israel helped Latin America’s death squads – part 2

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
June 21, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How Israel helped Latin America’s death squads – part 1

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
June 20, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Macron’s embrace of Israel is a throwback to France’s imperial past

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,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, France, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
June 19, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Is Israel now seeking US recognition of its occupation of Syria’s Golan?

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...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria
May 31, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Christian Zionist narrative helping to boost Trump

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...

Published in: Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 30, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Islamophobia industry and the Israel lobby

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.

Published in: Article, EU, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US, Videos & Photo Stories
May 26, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The ongoing Nakba and its forthcoming defeat

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...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 5, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Abbas’s speech was only the latest example of anti-Semitism by Israel’s supporters

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....

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 1, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Saudi-Israeli embrace will doom both regimes

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, US, Yemen
April 27, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Front companies and Israel’s global terrorist network

A common tactic for intelligence agencies is the use of front companies. In books about Israeli spy agencies, the tactic is a frequent reappearance. Former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky’s...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Ethiopia, Europe & Russia, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey, US
April 26, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How Israel has aided America’s neo-colonialism in Africa

One of the perennial debates about the nature of the pro-Israel lobby in western countries such as the US and Britain is the degree of influence that it wields...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UK, US
April 25, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s murder of a Palestinian academic should be condemned unequivocally

Assassins from an Israeli spy agency gunned down a Palestinian academic from the University of Kuala Lumpur in cold blood on the streets of Malaysia last weekend, according to...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 24, 2018 Asa Winstanley

It’s time to admit that Israel is an apartheid state

One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and...

Published in: Africa, Article, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, South Africa, UN
March 31, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Palestinians have started their Great March of Return

As I write this, Palestinians in Gaza have begun what one of their leaders has called a major new phase towards the liberation of Palestine and the return of...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
March 17, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Cut the bluster; the West also endorses political assassinations

We do not know for sure who carried out the chemical weapon attack in the small English city of Salisbury last week. Although it is said that Russia was...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
March 16, 2018 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s online incitement of violence against the Palestinians

A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”. The idea behind it is that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is so self-defeating, so irrational, that...

Published in: Africa, Article, BDS, Egypt, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
March 13, 2018 Asa Winstanley

The Kingdom of corruption

Crown prince and defence minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was in the UK last week for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May. The visit was intended to...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, Yemen
March 1, 2018 Asa Winstanley

How the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals

The Central Intelligence Agency portrays itself as a protector of Americans and their freedoms. It claims to act in the best interests of the people and their government. The...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Inquiry, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US

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