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 18, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s new occupation zone in Syria

Perhaps the most woefully under-covered fact of the war in Syria has been Israel’s role, and the fact that it has been supplying armed groups allied with Al-Qaeda. The...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria
July 14, 2017 Asa Winstanley

With no charge or trial, Israel interns socialist MP – again

A little over one year after she was released from an Israeli jail, the Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar once again languishes behind bars. She was arrested by Israeli...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
July 4, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s friends in the north

Theresa May finally signed her deal with the Democratic Unionist Party this week. The electoral alliance promises her new allies £1 billion of extra government spending in Northern Ireland,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 1, 2017 Asa Winstanley

The refugees’ return to Palestine is a must

In just under a year’s time, Palestinians will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Catastrophe that marks their expulsion from Palestine. More than 750,000 Palestinians, most...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 30, 2017 Asa Winstanley

The Saudi war of words on Qatar

The recently launched land, air and sea blockade of the tiny nation of Qatar is manifestly not what its perpetrators claim it to be. Led by the fanatical and...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK
June 29, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Palestinians are being arrested by Israel for posting on Facebook

One of the more insidious aspects of Israel’s military dictatorship in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is its blanket monitoring of Palestinian social networks and other forms of...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 23, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Journalist Hasan Safadi has been detained without trial for speaking against Israel’s occupation

It is with a sense of depressing familiarity that I am, once again, writing about yet another defender of Palestinian human rights imprisoned without trail by Israel. Hasan Safadi’s...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
June 17, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Britain is on the verge of a political revolution

Britain’s general election has changed everything. Over the past two years since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, history has been moving at a frenetic pace....

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Opinion, UK
June 1, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Eurovision has shown us BDS reaches Israeli psyche

A long-standing question from Eurovision viewers has been, how come Israeli musicians take part in the competition when it is not even in Europe? Well, fact fans, here’s the...

Published in: Article, BDS, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 31, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Norwegian unions’ full BDS policy leads the way

The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) voted through a ground-breaking motion earlier this month. It pushes the boundaries in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel....

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 19, 2017 Asa Winstanley

How Lonely Planet and Airbnb are burnishing Israeli occupation

Three of the world’s most famous travel websites are treating the illegally occupied Golan Heights as if it were genuinely a part of Israel, research by a Syrian human...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria
May 18, 2017 Asa Winstanley

This secretive report exposes the vacuum at the heart of Israel’s war against BDS

A leaked report last month revealed the lengths to which Israel is going to undermine and sabotage the Palestine solidarity movement. The report, a copy of which has been...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, UN, US
May 12, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Mahmoud Abbas goes to Washington

Last week Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was received at the White House by US President Donald Trump. The whole thing was an entirely pointless spectacle – a meeting...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 6, 2017 Asa Winstanley

The new Hamas charter and Palestinian consensus

Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – has finally revealed its new charter. The document was launched by the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, at a...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar
April 29, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike for fundamental human rights

Saturday marks the thirteenth day of the latest mass hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails. Palestinian human rights groups announced earlier this month that...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 28, 2017 Asa Winstanley

Israel’s ‘cyber mercenaries’ are hacking into smart phones around the world

Earlier this month a new high-tech espionage threat was discovered by Google and cyber security research company Lookout. The Chrysaor malware is thought to have been created by the...

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