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...
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...
October 15, 2019
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Asa Winstanley “Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, apartheid and denial of basic human rights are a hard sell,...
October 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights is getting worse. That is down in part to the Labour...
September 28, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Israelis have just voted in favour of continuing to deny all Palestinians, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, equal rights.
September 27, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last week Israel launched its latest attack against Palestinian human rights workers. Israeli army thugs raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers...
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UK September 23, 2019
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Asa Winstanley A recent report on the US news site Politico revealed that in 2017, US intelligence agencies discovered several cell phone interception devices near the White House. They concluded that...
September 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The liberal Zionist “two state solution” supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they “condemn” and are “concerned” about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as...
September 11, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Political prisoner Amir Makhoul has been released after almost a decade in an Israeli dungeon. He has given his first interview to the anti-apartheid activist, Adri Nieuwhof, who has...
August 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Seventeen-year-old Ismail Ajjawi must have been giddy with excitement when he, a Palestinian refugee living in southern Lebanon, won a major scholarship to Harvard University. The prospect of a...
August 29, 2019
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Asa Winstanley In 2006, dissident Israeli historian Ilan Pappé published his most seminal work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Although far from the first book which told the truth about the...
August 28, 2019
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Asa Winstanley It is open season for Arab normalisation with Israel. The brutal absolutist monarchies which rule in the Arab Gulf countries have increasingly found common cause with Israel in recent...
US President Donald Trump added to his repertoire of racist comments this week, by making his latest, most openly anti-Semitic remark yet. “Any Jewish people that vote for a...
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US August 17, 2019
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Asa Winstanley UK MP Chris Williamson has begun legal action against Labour, the British political party which has suspended his membership. The treatment of Williamson by Labour’s bureaucrats has been totally...
August 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Last week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign revealed that a council in East London had banned the use of any of its parks by a charity bike ride for Palestinian...
July 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has come a long way since it was formed in 2005. Once known only to a relatively small group of activists, BDS...
![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...
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://i0.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...![American pop star and actress Demi Lovato [Instagram]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/demi-lovato-reaindo-israel-757364_widexl-e1570181980682.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
“Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, apartheid and denial of basic human rights are a hard sell,...![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_43126937.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights is getting worse. That is down in part to the Labour...![Israelis cast their votes during the Israeli legislative elections, at a polling station in Tel Aviv on 17 September 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019_9-17-Israeli-legislative-elections20190917_2_38253729_47651540.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israelis have just voted in favour of continuing to deny all Palestinians, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, equal rights.![Protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Embassy in central London, in support of Gaza's anniversary march of the 'Great March of Return', in London, UK on March 30, 2018 [Palestinian Forum in Britain]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PHOTO-2019-03-31-04-56-10_1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last week Israel launched its latest attack against Palestinian human rights workers. Israeli army thugs raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers...![White House sign and logo at the Press Room in White House is seen in Washington D.C., United States on 15 May 2019 [Yasin Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190515_2_36466778_44490160.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A recent report on the US news site Politico revealed that in 2017, US intelligence agencies discovered several cell phone interception devices near the White House. They concluded that...![Israeli forces demolish a restaurant belongs to Palestinians in the West Bank on 26 August 2019 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190826_2_37910661_47063068.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The liberal Zionist “two state solution” supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they “condemn” and are “concerned” about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as...
Political prisoner Amir Makhoul has been released after almost a decade in an Israeli dungeon. He has given his first interview to the anti-apartheid activist, Adri Nieuwhof, who has...![Harvard University [Joseph Williams/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/havardHarvard_University_Widener_Library.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Seventeen-year-old Ismail Ajjawi must have been giddy with excitement when he, a Palestinian refugee living in southern Lebanon, won a major scholarship to Harvard University. The prospect of a...
In 2006, dissident Israeli historian Ilan Pappé published his most seminal work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Although far from the first book which told the truth about the...
It is open season for Arab normalisation with Israel. The brutal absolutist monarchies which rule in the Arab Gulf countries have increasingly found common cause with Israel in recent...
US President Donald Trump added to his repertoire of racist comments this week, by making his latest, most openly anti-Semitic remark yet. “Any Jewish people that vote for a...![Jewish Voice for Labour supporters demonstrating against false claims of anti-Semitism, in London on 26 March 2018 [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/180328-jvl.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
UK MP Chris Williamson has begun legal action against Labour, the British political party which has suspended his membership. The treatment of Williamson by Labour’s bureaucrats has been totally...![The Big Ride for Palestine in London, on 27 July 2019 [Ovais Mughal]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/67837298_2257011431078359_3993466291242401792_n-e1564401248805.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Last week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign revealed that a council in East London had banned the use of any of its parks by a charity bike ride for Palestinian...![Palestinians in Gaza protest against German Parliament decision on BDS, in Gaza on 23 May 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/651A9984.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has come a long way since it was formed in 2005. Once known only to a relatively small group of activists, BDS...