November 21, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...
November 14, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...
November 7, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...
October 28, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...
October 24, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...
October 17, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...
October 10, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...
October 3, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley A message left on the answerphone of a 71-year-old Jewish woman said: "You f***ing Nazi b**ch… You should burn in the gas oven. You dirty f***ing b**ch…. Stinking, stinking...
October 1, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Recently, I conducted a long interview with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for an upcoming project. He told me a number of interesting things. Right-wing commentator Charles Moore...
September 26, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley The signing of the so-called "Abraham Accords" last week was an empty sham. A "peace deal" between three countries – Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain –...
September 19, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel's plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for...
September 12, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...
September 5, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley The release of leading Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work. When Nawajaa was kidnapped by...
August 29, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...
August 27, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...
August 18, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week's news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...
August 8, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that "Israelis want peace" and do not support their government's policies of oppression...
August 1, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley A nine-year-old boy shouts: "Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn't scare me!" The boy's home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...
July 31, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley Earlier this month an Israeli court ruled that notorious cyberwarfare spyware firm NSO Group would retain its export licence. The ruling came despite the fact that lawyers for Amnesty...
July 22, 2020
|
Asa Winstanley The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that's how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...
July 9, 2020
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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...
![US President Donald Trump in Fayetteville, US on 2 November 2020 [Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201102_2_45160061_59432082-500x333.jpg)
At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...![Supporters of Joe Biden gather in Florida, US on 15 October 2020 [Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_2_44856577_58929971-500x333.jpg)
Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...![Protest to denoucne spycops in the UK [Twitter]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/spycop-500x333.png)
This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...![A pile of newspapers and magazines on 14 January 2015 [MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NEWSPAPER-500x333.jpg)
Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...![Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel - Cartoon [Cartoon Latuff/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/latuff-500x333.jpg)
We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...![Gaza's Ministry of Prisoners held a protest outside the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City in support of hunger striking prisoner Maher Al-Akhras who is now on the 78th day of his strike on 12 October 2020 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6Z8A1119-500x333.jpg)
Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...![Palestine Action activists stage a protest against Israeli defence company 'Elbit System' in London, UK on 5 September 2020 [Palestine Action]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Palestine-Action-Elbit-demonstration-_5-500x333.jpg)
On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...![Jewish Voice for Labour stall at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and Rally on July 21, 2019 in Tolpuddle, England [Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1163359264-scaled-e1601735256348-500x333.jpg)
A message left on the answerphone of a 71-year-old Jewish woman said: "You f***ing Nazi b**ch… You should burn in the gas oven. You dirty f***ing b**ch…. Stinking, stinking...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely pose for a selfie on election night at his Likud Party headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv early, on 10 April 2019. [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1136088043-500x333.jpg)
Recently, I conducted a long interview with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for an upcoming project. He told me a number of interesting things. Right-wing commentator Charles Moore...![A group of people gather to stage a protest against normalisation deals with Israel in Istanbul, Turkey on 25 September 2020 [Mehmet Eser/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200925_2_44525525_58406035-500x333.jpg)
The signing of the so-called "Abraham Accords" last week was an empty sham. A "peace deal" between three countries – Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain –...![Jewish Voice for Labour supporters demonstrating against false claims of anti-Semitism, in London on 26 March 2018 [Twitter]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/180328-jvl-500x333.jpg)
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel's plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for...![US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the White House on 27 January 2020 in Washington, DC [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Netanyahu20200127_2_40538858_51582272-500x333.jpg)
Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...![Israeli forces detain 64 year old Palestinian Hayri Khanoun during a protest against the planned illegal Israeli settlement in the region, in Shufa village of Tulkarm city, West Bank on September 01, 2020 [Nedal Eshtayah / Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Demonstration-against-the-construction-of-Jewish-settlements-in-the-West-Bank_9-500x333.jpg)
The release of leading Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work. When Nawajaa was kidnapped by...![Israeli Jews wave the Israeli flag outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on 2 June 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190602_2_36736153_45018434-500x333.jpg)
"The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...![A damaged car and building are seen after a fire at a warehouse with explosives at the Port of Beirut led to massive blasts in Beirut, Lebanon, 14 August 2020 [Enes Canli/Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200814_2_43886263_57416314-500x333.jpg)
The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...![Palestinian protesters prepare to tear apart a portrait of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on August 14, 2020 at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, during a protest against a US-brokered deal between Israel and the UAE to normalise relations [-/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1228044090-scaled-e1597492920331-500x333.jpg)
One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week's news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...![Israeli settlers gather next to their flag on a rooftop of a house in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank on 12 June 2018 [Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018_8-12-settlers-in-BethlehemGettyImages-972211284-500x333.jpg)
It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that "Israelis want peace" and do not support their government's policies of oppression...![Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the BDS movement, Mahmoud Nawajaa [Twitter]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_3_24-Mahmoud-Nawajaa-500x333.jpg)
A nine-year-old boy shouts: "Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn't scare me!" The boy's home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...![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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Israeli-spyGettyImages-596871430-500x333.jpg)
Earlier this month an Israeli court ruled that notorious cyberwarfare spyware firm NSO Group would retain its export licence. The ruling came despite the fact that lawyers for Amnesty...![Black Lives Matter protests take place in London on 7 June 2020 [Lauren Lewis/Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6614-500x333.jpeg)
The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that's how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...![BDS protesters [Twitter]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/dddd-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_6877-500x333.jpeg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200610_2_42895924_55809613-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/030118_ASH_00-16-scaled-e1592562947785-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HSBC-Stop-Arming-Israel-National-Day-of-Actionmanc2-Manchester-Palestine-Action-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200114_2_40309772_51169524-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alex-Ode-500x333.png)
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...![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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190925_2_38400153_47911910-500x333.jpg)
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://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FBI-500x333.jpg)
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...