July 9, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...
July 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn’t; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...
June 27, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...
June 24, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country’s history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...
June 19, 2020
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Asa Winstanley The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...
May 30, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...
May 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...
May 23, 2020
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Asa Winstanley David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied....
May 16, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine. Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally...
May 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley NSO Group has become one of Israel’s most notorious mercenary private spy agencies. For an eye-wateringly high fee, the firm flogs a malware suite called Pegasus in order to...
April 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...
April 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...
April 11, 2020
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Asa Winstanley So that’s it. Jeremy Corbyn is out. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. With the media’s attention rightly focused on the coronavirus pandemic, coverage of Corbyn’s departure...
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...
![BDS protesters [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/dddd.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...![Black Lives Matter protests take place in London on 7 June 2020 [Lauren Lewis/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6877.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn’t; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank on 20 May 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...![Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in London, UK on 10 June 2020 [Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200610_2_42895924_55809613.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country’s history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...![Palestinians attend the national products exhibition calling people to boycott Israeli goods in Gaza city on 3 December 2018. [Ashraf Amra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/030118_ASH_00-16-scaled-e1592562956623.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...![UK protests were held outside branches of HSBC bank over shares in an Israeli arms company accused of manufacturing internationally banned weapons [Manchester Palestine Action]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HSBC-Stop-Arming-Israel-National-Day-of-Actionmanc2-Manchester-Palestine-Action.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...![Logos of Telegram, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter are seen in Ankara, Turkey on January 12, 2020 [Raşit Aydoğan - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200114_2_40309772_51169524.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...![Palestinian-American civil rights activist Alex Odeh [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alex-Ode.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied....
Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine. Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally...![An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on 28 August 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. [JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Israeli-spyGettyImages-596871430.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
NSO Group has become one of Israel’s most notorious mercenary private spy agencies. For an eye-wateringly high fee, the firm flogs a malware suite called Pegasus in order to...![Locals inspect a two-storey building belonging to Palestinians after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Hebron, West Bank on 25 September 2019 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190925_2_38400153_47911910.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...![FBI investigators California, US on 8 November 2018 [ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FBI.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...![Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jeremy-CorbynDltgbZ3UUAAqUQz.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
So that’s it. Jeremy Corbyn is out. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. With the media’s attention rightly focused on the coronavirus pandemic, coverage of Corbyn’s departure...![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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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&zoom=1&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...