March 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Another one bites the dust. Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is the latest prominent Labour figure to be thrown to the wolves. On Thursday he was suspended from the party...
February 16, 2019
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Asa Winstanley One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...
February 13, 2019
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Asa Winstanley The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because...
February 1, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Drawing on religious terminology, Israel claims to be a “light unto the nations”, an example for the rest to follow. In past eras, this spin had a certain degree...
January 31, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Neocon hawk John Bolton is a warmonger left over from the George W Bush administration who has returned to the centre of power in Washington DC. There, he continues...
January 30, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Ever since leading pro-Israel lobby financier Sheldon Adelson intervened in the 2016 election heavily in favour of Donald Trump, the now-president’s Middle East policies (if you can even call...
January 26, 2019
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Asa Winstanley Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death, without warning, in an Israeli airstrike
January 19, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Another one bites the dust. Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is the latest prominent Labour figure to be thrown to the wolves. On Thursday he was suspended from the party...![Israel soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron on 16 November 2012 [ Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2012_11-16-israeli-forces-hebronMW_00-8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...![Comedian Roseanne Barr attends the premiere of ABC's "Roseanne" at Walt Disney Studio Lot on March 23, 2018 in Burbank, California [Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-937215066-e1547994960558.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because...![People take their seats as the Eurovision song contest begins [fotospielwiese/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Eurovision5778252651_621c3e2164_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Drawing on religious terminology, Israel claims to be a “light unto the nations”, an example for the rest to follow. In past eras, this spin had a certain degree...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with White House National Security Adviser John Bolton as they meet on 6 January 2019, in Jerusalem, Israel. [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1078291324-e1547106616597.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Neocon hawk John Bolton is a warmonger left over from the George W Bush administration who has returned to the centre of power in Washington DC. There, he continues...![Sheldon Adelson attends Friends of The Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) gala in California, US on 1 November 2018 [Photo by Shahar Azran/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018_11-1-Sheldon-Adelson-GettyImages-1056175004.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ever since leading pro-Israel lobby financier Sheldon Adelson intervened in the 2016 election heavily in favour of Donald Trump, the now-president’s Middle East policies (if you can even call...![Two Gazan boys, 15-year-old Amir al-Nimra and 16-year-old Louay Kuhail, died in an Israeli air attack in Gaza, Palestine on July 14, 2018 [Qudns/Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DiNbUdSX0AAg1EQ-e1548509054541.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death, without warning, in an Israeli airstrike![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://i2.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://i2.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://i1.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://i0.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://i2.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://i2.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....![Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn [Chatham House/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_5_12-Labour-Party-leader-Jeremy-CorbynJeremy-Corbyn-Chatham-House.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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://i0.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...