January 19, 2019
Asa Winstanley An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win.” This saying is, broadly speaking,...
January 12, 2019
Asa Winstanley It might not look like it, but in many ways Israel is in a bind. Of course, Israel is a fundamentally oppressive, racist, apartheid state which is increasingly in...
December 22, 2018
Asa Winstanley The late, great Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash used to state that the road to the liberation of Palestine passed through the capitals of every Arab state. For decades,...
December 20, 2018
Asa Winstanley 'CNN should reinstate Marc Lamont Hill without delay. The channel’s act of political and racist censorship should not be allowed to stand.'
December 19, 2018
Asa Winstanley For a government which brashly boasts of being “the only democracy in the Middle East” Israel in reality has a lot of anti-democratic tendencies. The main one of these...
December 6, 2018
Asa Winstanley Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely being disappeared from the internet. A renowned anti-Zionist Jew who has long been active in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the wider...
December 3, 2018
Asa Winstanley As has been elucidated by many people – including my colleague Ben White in one of his excellent books, and myself in this column – Israel is an apartheid...
December 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley In November, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement won its latest of many such victories against Israeli occupation and racism. After a sustained three-year BDS campaign, the popular...
November 30, 2018
Asa Winstanley One of the tactics that Israel uses to launder its image around the world could be termed “aidwashing” or perhaps “bluewashing”, after the blue used by the UN in...
November 29, 2018
Asa Winstanley Despite powerful and globally coordinated Israeli attacks against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, BDS is not simply surviving; it is thriving. That is the conclusion of a new...
November 23, 2018
Asa Winstanley The excellent American journalist Eli Clifton revealed last week that notorious anti-Palestinian Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has taken a $120,000 “consulting” fee from the Gatestone Institute. This “right-wing”...
November 9, 2018
Asa Winstanley The murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the despotic Saudi regime has sent waves of revulsion around the world’s media. Much of this condemnation is hypocritical. The same mainstream media...
October 30, 2018
Asa Winstanley Google's dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for Palestinians
October 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley All the hype about Russia aside, the special investigation in the US by Robert Mueller has shed light on something concrete: the real story is IsraelGate. Israel’s covert influence...
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Videos & Photo Stories October 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the region and its indigenous peoples, Israeli political and military planners are obsessed with what they term “strategic threats”....
October 11, 2018
Asa Winstanley The apparent kidnapping and possible murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is a shocking indictment of a regime entirely without redeeming features. He walked into the Saudi...
October 2, 2018
Asa Winstanley Part 2 Read part 1 here One of the lobbyists working for Qatar in the US last year was Nick Muzin, who at one stage was paid an eye-watering...
October 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley Over the past year or so, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has been getting increasingly close to pro-Israel figures from the United States. Things are so bad that...
September 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley Ayman Nasser, a Palestinian human rights activist, has been jailed indefinitely by Israel with neither a trial nor even formal charges being filed against him. This is a bitter...
September 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley Are there valid comparisons to be made between Israel and Nazi Germany, or with other examples of fascist states in history? Just asking this question could get you into...
September 24, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
September 15, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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....
September 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
August 31, 2018
Asa Winstanley Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif
August 29, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
August 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
August 2, 2018
Asa Winstanley “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...
August 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
July 24, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
July 21, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
July 12, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
July 11, 2018
Asa Winstanley 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...
![People come together to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and to protest against Israeli violations on the Palestinian people [Stephanie Law/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2010_5-15-BDS-protest4677717346_57342f3bbf_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win.” This saying is, broadly speaking,...![Pro-Israel protesters try to disrupe a protest held to support the "Great March of Return" and mourn the Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border at Union Square in New York, United States on April 6, 2018 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180407_2_29683181_32468010.gif?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
It might not look like it, but in many ways Israel is in a bind. Of course, Israel is a fundamentally oppressive, racist, apartheid state which is increasingly in...
The late, great Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash used to state that the road to the liberation of Palestine passed through the capitals of every Arab state. For decades,...
'CNN should reinstate Marc Lamont Hill without delay. The channel’s act of political and racist censorship should not be allowed to stand.'![Israeli forces attack Palestinians during a demonstration against the construction of Jewish settlements in Nablus, West Bank on 25 August 2017 [Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017_8_25-Protest-in-Nablus20170825_2_25431716_25255209.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For a government which brashly boasts of being “the only democracy in the Middle East” Israel in reality has a lot of anti-democratic tendencies. The main one of these...
Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely being disappeared from the internet. A renowned anti-Zionist Jew who has long been active in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the wider...
As has been elucidated by many people – including my colleague Ben White in one of his excellent books, and myself in this column – Israel is an apartheid...![Airbnb Office [FlickR]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/27071084566_2933d8c540_b.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In November, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement won its latest of many such victories against Israeli occupation and racism. After a sustained three-year BDS campaign, the popular...
One of the tactics that Israel uses to launder its image around the world could be termed “aidwashing” or perhaps “bluewashing”, after the blue used by the UN in...
Despite powerful and globally coordinated Israeli attacks against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, BDS is not simply surviving; it is thriving. That is the conclusion of a new...![Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018_10-28-iAlan-DershowitzDsY5GqWUcAANv3i.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The excellent American journalist Eli Clifton revealed last week that notorious anti-Palestinian Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has taken a $120,000 “consulting” fee from the Gatestone Institute. This “right-wing”...![People hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/E2BCDC6A-A3F2-439F-9DC6-FF3C0FB74BDD_w1023_r1_s.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the despotic Saudi regime has sent waves of revulsion around the world’s media. Much of this condemnation is hypocritical. The same mainstream media...![The global search engine Google and Google Maps have changed the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem [Google]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12_08-Google-recognises-Jerusalem-as-Capital-of-Israelgoogle.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Google's dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for Palestinians![A group of pro-Israelis open both American and Israeli flags and catcall the demonstrators from across the street during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, at the Times Square in New York City, United States on December 09, 2017 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171209_2_27402029_28651728.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
All the hype about Russia aside, the special investigation in the US by Robert Mueller has shed light on something concrete: the real story is IsraelGate. Israel’s covert influence...![Police set up barricade in front of Saudi consulate as the waiting continues on the disappearance of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 October 2018 [Ahmet Bolat/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Disappearance-of-Prominent-Saudi-journalist-Jamal-Khashoggi20181011_2_32808478_37992391.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The apparent kidnapping and possible murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is a shocking indictment of a regime entirely without redeeming features. He walked into the Saudi...
Part 2 Read part 1 here One of the lobbyists working for Qatar in the US last year was Nick Muzin, who at one stage was paid an eye-watering...
Over the past year or so, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has been getting increasingly close to pro-Israel figures from the United States. Things are so bad that...![Ayman Nasser Karajeh, Palestinian human rights defender [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ayman-Nasser-Karajeh.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ayman Nasser, a Palestinian human rights activist, has been jailed indefinitely by Israel with neither a trial nor even formal charges being filed against him. This is a bitter...![Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel - Cartoon [Cartoon Latuff/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/latuff.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Are there valid comparisons to be made between Israel and Nazi Germany, or with other examples of fascist states in history? Just asking this question could get you into...![Image of Israeli and UN forces at the Golan Heights border [Escla/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2012_3_26-Border-crossingpoint-Golan-highs.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
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....
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...![Settlers look on as Israeli forces evacuate the body of Abdel Fattah Al-Sharif, killed by Israeli army medic Elor Azaria in Hebron , Israel on March 24 2016 [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/settlers-look-on-in-aftermath-of-Abdel-Fattah-Al-Sharif-killed-hebron-March-24-2016.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif![Al Jazeera office [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/al-jazeera-office.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![People take their seats as the Eurovision song contest begins in Duesseldorf, Germany on 14 May 2011 [Noel Slevin/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2011_5_14-Eurovision-Song-Contest.5741479266_428e49d5eb_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![Jordanians shout slogans during a protest against the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Amman, Jordan on 15 July 2017 [Salah Malkawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_15-Protest-against-the-closure-of-the-al-Aqsa-Mosque-in-Jordan20170715_2_24769879_24145762.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“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...![Social Media apps [Wall Boat/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018_1-8-social-media39544135772_ac89c118fe_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...![Cartoon showing bot armies of Qatar and Saudi/UAE facing off [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/qatar-saudi-media-war.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
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...![Image of drugs [Dimitris Kalogeropoylos/Flickr]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2011_6_20-drugs5851768737_8f87134bf2_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...