Asa Winstanley – Middle East Monitor

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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.

February 28, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

Keep your eyes on Palestine

This is going to be my last MEMO column for a few months. I'm taking some time off to focus on finishing a long-term project which I've been working...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine
February 5, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

Israel has lost the apartheid propaganda war

Who wrote the following quote? "Whereas the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid in South Africa, for example, brazenly proclaimed their sin, the practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest...

Published in: Amnesty International, Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 30, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

Palestinian prisoners have commenced a boycott of Israeli courts

The latest episode of European Union hypocrisy over Palestine came to light this week with the case of Amal Nakhleh. Nakhleh is a Palestinian teen who was still a...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 29, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

A victory for common sense and free speech in Germany

Where in the world exists the most repression of solidarity with the Palestinian people? The correct answer, of course, is within occupied historical Palestine itself. Palestinians are subjected by...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Germany, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 22, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

Palestinians don't need Israel investigated, they need justice

Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the West Bank. He was found dead soon after. It's the...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
January 8, 2022 | Asa Winstanley

Emma Watson post shows Israel's anti-Semitism smears are beginning to break down

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson was smeared on Monday by a racist Israeli official. More on this later. But first, it's important to note that the Israeli government has...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
December 24, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

University confirms politicians were lying about student protest against Israel envoy

I wrote in this column last month condemning the feigned national outrage among the political class and corporate media elite against students who had protested against the Israeli ambassador....

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
December 18, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The war for Israel on British campuses

Throughout most of 2021, the Israel lobby waged a war at the University of Bristol. Its main target was David Miller, then a professor of sociology there. Backed by...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
December 11, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Palestine Action acquitted in first trial: Hope for anti-drone protest strategy

As I write this, the news is breaking of a terrible tragedy for justice and humanity – a serious blow for press freedom worldwide. The UK High Court has...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
December 4, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Arab masses will always oppose the existence of racist Israel

Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated in the capital of Amman last week against the regime's latest deal with the Israeli enemy. Despite the fact that an estimated 60 per cent...

Published in: Africa, Article, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Sudan
December 1, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Overthrowing Israel's bogus definition of anti-Semitism

On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and Islamophobia. They did not...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
November 28, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Could an Apple lawsuit mean the end of Israeli cybercriminals NSO?

This week it emerged that Silicon Valley giant Apple is suing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The creators of the iPad, the iMac, the iPhone and so many other...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, US
November 23, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel is the world's leading exporter of cybercrime

Last week, I was struck down with COVID-19 and was forced to have some time off. I was hit quite hard in the end. Thankfully, I did not have...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Coronavirus, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US
November 13, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Politicians are lying about the Palestine student protest at LSE

This week, students at the London School of Economics (LSE) protested on campus to oppose a lecture by Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. Their protest was not only entirely peaceful,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
October 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel - Unban the 6 human rights groups

Last Friday, Israel outright banned six leading Palestinian human rights groups. To do so, "Defence" Minister Benny Gantz and his government unilaterally designated them as "terrorist" groups. The Israelis...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 23, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Free Palestinian aid worker Mohammed El-Halabi

Mohammed El-Halabi is a senior Palestinian aid worker with the global Christian charity World Vision. He was kidnapped by Israeli army thugs in June 2016 during a routine trip...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 15, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Why Israeli fascists are more honest than liberal Zionists

The Palestinian citizens of Israel "are here by mistake—because Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and throw you out in 1948." That was the latest rant this week from fascist...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 12, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

David Miller's sacking is just the start

"Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the State of Israel and its advocates," David Miller wrote in February. Since then, almost as...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
September 29, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Apartheid responses show that appeasing the pro-Israel lobby is a waste of time

It's rare for Israeli apartheid to be a topic of conversation in Britain's House of Commons, but from time to time it does happen. In May, for example, Labour...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 24, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Pro-Israel treason in Ireland

Treason is commonly defined as the betrayal of a trust or allegiance, especially to one's country or government. But what about when one faction of the government or establishment...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Ireland, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
September 18, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The limits of 'human rights' discourse in Palestine

In 2014, a large part of Ismail Ziada's family was wiped out. The lives of his mother, 70-year-old Muftia, his three brothers, Jamil, Yousif and Omar, his sister-in-law Bayan,...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Netherlands, Opinion, Palestine
September 11, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's inevitable failure

Covering the topic of Israeli oppression against Palestinians and pro-Israeli propaganda in the West for a living is exhausting. Merely researching and writing about the issue is mentally and...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 3, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The Israeli-Egyptian siege of the Gaza Strip must end unconditionally without delay

So much for the Israeli army supposedly wanting to "reduce" the number of Palestinians it shoots. An Israeli soldier shot and killed another Palestinian child in the besieged Gaza...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 28, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Naftali Bennett lies his way to Washington DC

Online Palestinian outlet Quds News Network resurfaced a video clip this week from over a decade ago featuring current Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The video shows Bennett helping...

Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 21, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

After the Afghanistan exit, could the US ramp up aggression against Iran?

The Afghanistan debate in Parliament this week was nothing less than nauseating. Ministers, MPs and shadow ministers all united to ratchet up a bizarre form of rhetoric that somehow...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iran, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US
August 14, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

Israel's PR problems and the Palestinian Authority

Liberal Zionist newspaper Haaretz wrote an especially galling headline this week: "After String of Fatalities, IDF Chief Urges: Reduce Shooting of Palestinians," it read. In the article itself, the...

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

Israel's lucrative lobby racket

The British comedian David Schneider is well known for his memorable bit parts in sitcoms and his writing for shows such as faux news bulletin "The Day Today". Unfortunately...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 30, 2021 | Asa Winstanley

The plight of Palestinians is well understood, now action needs to be taken

"I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious." Those are the words of Mohammed El-Kurd, the renowned Palestinian activist...

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

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