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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 28, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Israel is a settler-colonial state. Maintaining its status as the “Jewish state” in a land whose population is mostly non-Jewish requires a regime of complete and utter brutality. It...
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June 26, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Nabi Samwil is a small Palestinian village located in the West Bank, which has been targeted since 1967 by the Israeli forces
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June 22, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Read part 1 here When the PLO sailed out of Beirut and into a second exile in Tunisia, its fighters left most of their weapons behind. Israel managed to...
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June 21, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announced on Wednesday that the country was pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. Trump-appointee Haley accused the council of...
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June 20, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has, to an extent, changed his country’s foreign policy towards Israel, making it more favourable. This is part and parcel of Macron’s neoliberal,...
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June 19, 2018
Asa Winstanley
After Donald Trump’s recognition of the illegal Israeli annexation of Jerusalem by moving his country’s embassy to the city, the next prize that some in American and Israeli political...
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When you think of US President Donald Trump, the last thing that probably comes to mind is the image of a religious man. Unlike some previous presidents, Trump clearly...
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The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry's incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such violence.
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Tuesday, 15 May, marked the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinian people term Youm al-Nakba, or the Day of Catastrophe. The Nakba is the defining event that formed and...
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Too many people within the Labour Party, and even some within Britain’s Palestine solidarity movement, either fundamentally misunderstand or refuse to see the true nature of the Palestinian Authority....
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Last month The Intercept came out with an interesting report which suggested that US presidential advisor (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner was even closer to the ruling elite in Saudi...
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April 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley
A common tactic for intelligence agencies is the use of front companies. In books about Israeli spy agencies, the tactic is a frequent reappearance. Former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky’s...
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April 26, 2018
Asa Winstanley
One of the perennial debates about the nature of the pro-Israel lobby in western countries such as the US and Britain is the degree of influence that it wields...
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April 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Assassins from an Israeli spy agency gunned down a Palestinian academic from the University of Kuala Lumpur in cold blood on the streets of Malaysia last weekend, according to...
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April 24, 2018
Asa Winstanley
One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and...
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March 31, 2018
Asa Winstanley
As I write this, Palestinians in Gaza have begun what one of their leaders has called a major new phase towards the liberation of Palestine and the return of...
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March 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley
We do not know for sure who carried out the chemical weapon attack in the small English city of Salisbury last week. Although it is said that Russia was...
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March 16, 2018
Asa Winstanley
A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”. The idea behind it is that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is so self-defeating, so irrational, that...
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March 13, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Crown prince and defence minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was in the UK last week for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May. The visit was intended to...
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March 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Central Intelligence Agency portrays itself as a protector of Americans and their freedoms. It claims to act in the best interests of the people and their government. The...
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February 28, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The illegal Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights has now been in place for more than 50 years. This substantial territory, part of southern Syria, was conquered by...
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February 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Solicitors acting for former government minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that she had won £20,000 in libel damages plus costs from the Jewish News, after it published...
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February 26, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Egyptian regime has signed a long-gestating deal to begin importing natural gas from Israel. The Financial Times reported this week that Israeli company Delek has signed a deal...
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February 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley
As I’ve written in this column several times before, the “Palestinian Authority” is, at best, a misnomer. It is neither particularly Palestinian nor even remotely authoritative. Since its inception...
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February 10, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Reports in the Jordanian and Israeli media this week say that Israel will soon reopen its embassy in Amman, which was closed following a deadly incident last July. That’s...
