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October 15, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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October 12, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "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...
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September 29, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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September 24, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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September 18, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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,...
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September 11, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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September 3, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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August 28, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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August 21, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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August 14, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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August 9, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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July 30, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "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...
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July 24, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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July 10, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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....
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July 3, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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June 30, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley 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...
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June 27, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a...
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June 19, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes. Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London...
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June 13, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn't bank on it quite yet, for two related reasons. Since 2019, there have been no less than...
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May 26, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Palestine awoke last Friday morning to a new reality. The death and destruction Israel had been visiting upon Gaza came to an end with a 2am ceasefire. More than...
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May 16, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley The scenes we've been witnessing on our screens coming out of occupied Palestine this week are unprecedented. What has been happening is a unified national uprising of the entire...
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May 10, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to...
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May 1, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. As a self-proclaimed "outpost of civilisation in the jungle", Israel has been supported by...
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April 28, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley In 1965, Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. The short booklet was published by the PLO Research Centre in Beirut....
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April 23, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as "a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority". That...
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April 17, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places...
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April 10, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "No conciliation, no coexistence and no negotiations with Israel" – those were the famous "Three Nos" of the August 1967 Khartoum summit of the Arab League. This was a...
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April 1, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley One of the most common misunderstandings about the Israeli occupation of Palestine is that it is a "conflict" between two countries, "Israel" and "Palestine". Such language is highly misleading,...
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March 29, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading. The newspaper is owned by...
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March 19, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...
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March 13, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley I first met sociology professor David Miller a decade ago. His depth of knowledge and thoughtful research impressed me right away. At the time, I was reporting on the...
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March 5, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist....
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...![British Professor David Miller [Youtube screenshot]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/British-Professor-David-Miller.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"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...![A demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people on May 22, 2021 in London, England [Guy Smallman/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1319476811.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![A protest banner against Israel saying Free Palestine on September 11, 2018 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [James Williamson - AMA/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1031531818.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...
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,...![Israeli forces closed the Jalamah checkpoint between the city of Jenin in the West Bank and Israel after 6 Palestinian prisoners escaped from Israeli prison, on 6 September 2021 [Nedal Eshtaya/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210906_2_49921030_68537081.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![Palestinians stage a protest against the Israel's blockade in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 25 August 2021 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210825-Protest-against-Israeli-blockade-in-Gaza-​​​​​​​_21.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...
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...
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...![Palestinian protesters rally in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank on July 17, 2021, denouncing the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the aftermath of the death of activist Nizar Banat while in the custody of PA security forces. [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1234028956.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![British police maintain a police cordon to seperate pro-Israeli demonstrators rallying outside the Israeli Embassy in London from pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered nearby, in London, United Kingdom on 23 May 2021. [Hasan Esen - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210523_2_48428409_65444430.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![Funeral ceremony held for 12 year old Palestinian Mohammad al-Alaami who was shot by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Beit Ummar in Hebron, West Bank on 29 July 2021. [Mamoun Wazwaz - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20210729_2_49390057_67435443.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"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...
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...![Thousands of Israelis celebrate the country's new government, ending the 12-year reign of Premier Benjamin Netanyahu at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 13, 2021 [Eyad Tawil‎ / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210614_2_48741984_66057351-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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....![People hold placards during a protest against Eurovision Song Contest demanding the removal of continuing Israel's blockade on Gaza at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on 14 May 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019_5-14-Anti-Eurovision20190514_2_36451248_44460686.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![A demonstrator displays a placard reading: "Palestinian Lives Matter" during a pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin on 19 May 2021 [JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/ Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1232984348-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![Protesters take part in a demonstration calling for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to quit in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on June 24, 2021, following the death of Palestinian human rights activist Nizar Banat [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233629195-scaled-e1624784843683.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a...![A Palestinian youth is detained by Israeli forces as a group of Palestinian gather to protest against far-right Israelis' slogans insulting Prophet Muhammad during yesterday's "flag march" at Damascus Gate in Old City of Jerusalem on June 17, 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Israeli-forces-in-Jerusalem-_11.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes. Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London...![(L to R) Naftali Bennett of the Yamina (Right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party [GIL COHEN-MAGEN,MENAHEM KAHANA,DEBBIE HILL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1232704052-scaled-e1623574374169.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn't bank on it quite yet, for two related reasons. Since 2019, there have been no less than...![Palestinians gather at the Dome of the Rock to celebrate the cease-fire on 21 May 2021 [Eyad Tawil/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jerusalem.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestine awoke last Friday morning to a new reality. The death and destruction Israel had been visiting upon Gaza came to an end with a 2am ceasefire. More than...![Palestinians light torches during a protest against attacks by Israeli police with tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades on Palestinians at Masjid al-Aqsa, in Nablus, West Bank on May 11, 2021 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210511_2_48221142_65017656.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The scenes we've been witnessing on our screens coming out of occupied Palestine this week are unprecedented. What has been happening is a unified national uprising of the entire...
One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to...![An Israeli flag is set next to a European Union flag at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2016 [THIERRY CHARLIER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-542400090-scaled-e1592315929511.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. As a self-proclaimed "outpost of civilisation in the jungle", Israel has been supported by...![A girl shouts slogans during a demonstration organised by young Palestinians in Hebron on September 3, 2017, against a recent decision by Israel to boost the powers of the settlers in the occupied West Bank city [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-842149998-scaled-e1619598492256.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In 1965, Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. The short booklet was published by the PLO Research Centre in Beirut....![Israeli forces intervene Palestinian young Muslims, who gathered after performing Tarawih prayer, with water cannon vehicles and sound bombs and fanatic Jews arrive in Damascus Gate in Eastern Jerusalem on 18 April 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210419_2_47881781_64370841.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as "a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority". That...![Israeli forces at a Palestinian protest in the West Bank, Palestine on 5 June 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200605_2_42811480_55652425.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places...![Sudanese people rally against their country's recent signing of a deal on normalising relations with Israel, outside the cabinet offices in the capital Khartoum, Sudan on January 17, 2021 [Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210117_2_46410641_61658086.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"No conciliation, no coexistence and no negotiations with Israel" – those were the famous "Three Nos" of the August 1967 Khartoum summit of the Arab League. This was a...![Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britains Labour Party on 4 September 2018 in London, England. [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1026619918.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
One of the most common misunderstandings about the Israeli occupation of Palestine is that it is a "conflict" between two countries, "Israel" and "Palestine". Such language is highly misleading,...![Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York court house following his release from prison early on Friday after 30 years on November 20, 2015 in New York, New York [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-498040224-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading. The newspaper is owned by...![A view of the entrance of Rafah in Gaza on 9 February 2021 [Ali jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210209_2_46779812_62343752-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...![University of Bristol academic David Miller [Youtube screengrab/CAGE]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/University-of-Bristol-academic-David-Miller.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I first met sociology professor David Miller a decade ago. His depth of knowledge and thoughtful research impressed me right away. At the time, I was reporting on the...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, on 12 May 2015. [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-473058964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby, one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn't actually exist....