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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.

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
March 19, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's war against Palestinian minds

There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...

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

Don't let the Israeli lobby fire David Miller

I first met sociology professor David Miller a decade ago. His depth of knowledge and thoughtful research impressed me right away. At the time, I was reporting on the...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
March 5, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The Benjamins may be losing their ability to get US politicians to toe the Israeli line

As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist....

Published in: Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US
February 27, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's vaccine apartheid is a violation of international law

The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and...

Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
February 20, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Could Israel invade the Hague?

It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the...

Published in: Article, ICC, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
February 13, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Kahanism is now Israel's mainstream

Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing. He openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the river and the sea –...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
February 8, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Biden's cybersecurity pick is a threat to US security

Just after Christmas, Jonathan and Esther Pollard were flown on a private jet from New Jersey to Tel Aviv. After touching down, Jonathan kissed the tarmac and was greeted...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, US
January 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

What is a former Israeli spy doing in the British Labour Party's head office?

Last week when I broke the story of Assaf Kaplan, a recent Labour Party hire, the main feedback – often objection – I received on social media went along...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, UK
January 23, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Why Israel is a settler-colony

When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 22, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

B'Tselem didn't go far enough; Israel has always been an apartheid state

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an...

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

Jonathan Pollard's release shows that Israel is unrepentant about spying on its 'allies'

On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
December 24, 2020 | Asa Winstanley

Britain should end, not extend, its military cooperation with Israel

Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
December 18, 2020 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's war against European aid for Palestinians

Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...

Published in: Article, EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Region
December 16, 2020 | Asa Winstanley

Torturing children is normal for Israel

In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
December 5, 2020 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's $16 billion siege on Gaza

A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that the economic...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine

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