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Items by Asa Winstanley
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The EU already recognises Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, just more quietly than Trump
Viewers watching the televised emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday may be forgiven for thinking the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representative to the UN was trying to bore the Israeli ambassador into submission with his speech. The meeting had been called in response to US President Donald...
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Israel's nuclear weapons make the world a more dangerous place
Privately, it has been well understood by US officials since the 1960s that Israel has the capacity to build its own nuclear weapons. Publicly, Israel has a policy of not confirming or denying its nuclear stockpile, even though by now it is a well-established fact. Since 1968, or possibly even...
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The UN list that could send the boycott of Israel into overdrive
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been preparing a list of some 150 companies which operate in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein has been leading the effort to document Israeli and international businesses which provide services and products to Israelis living...
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Legal challenge to UK press over 'grossly misreported' Palestine meeting
Campaigners on Friday unveiled a legal challenge to the British print media’s self-regulating body over inaccurate coverage of a Palestinian meeting in Parliament last year. Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine activist Jonathan Coulter is attempting to crowdfund initial legal costs of about $27,000. The Independent Press Standards Organization, IPSO, in April mostly dismissed Coulter’s complaint on behalf of...
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The Israeli spy company which protected Weinstein operates in London; Britain must investigate its activities
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it’s true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein really did hire former agents of Israel’s Mossad spy agency to snoop on his accusers and on journalists who were...
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How Israel learned to stop worrying and love Europe's neo-Nazis
For years now far right groups across Europe have sought increasing links with Israel despite the fact that 20-30 years ago these fascistic groups held Jews as their number one enemy. But the so-called War on Terror era changed all that, making Islam the prime scapegoat across much of the...
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We simply can’t ignore the Israel factor in Saudi Arabian politics
The shock “resignation” of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month was part of larger domestic political machinations within Saudi Arabia. With the Saudi-Israeli alliance now in overdrive, though, there is little doubt that Israel’s quest for regional dominance also played a part. Hariri appeared on Saudi TV offering...
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Priti Patel scandal is the tip of the Israel lobby iceberg
The Priti Patel affair is an insight into the power of the Israel lobby to influence the British political system. But it is only a symptom of the rot. The exaggerated power of corporate and states lobbyists to influence government policy is a concern far bigger than one crooked minister. Patel,...
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A Hamas-Fatah deal can't square this circle
Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah have signed another unity deal. Hopes have, once again, been expressed that the deal brokered by Egypt could end the political impasse and restore some sense of national unity between the two major movements. It has also been said that the deal could...
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Israel's Labour Party has never been a progressive movement
The new leader of Israel’s Labour Party made it clear once again earlier this month that the supposedly progressive and left-wing of Zionism is as racist as its right-wing version. This will come as no surprise to anyone who has the least bit of familiarity with the movement’s history. Avi...
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Overthrow the Balfour Declaration
One of the most common recurring themes in modern Israeli propaganda, especially in the West, is the idea that the “conflict” is a “complicated” one. This idea is promoted by some of the “Friends of Israel” type groups, especially Labour Friends of Israel and other groups on the liberal side...
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Will Jeremy Corbyn be able to fulfil his promises on Palestine?
When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left of the party for abandoning its oft-advertised promise to have an “ethical foreign policy”. In fact, New Labour’s Foreign Secretary Robin...
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Palestinian protesters receive harsher sentences than Israeli murderers
Elor Azaria, an Israeli solider who murdered a Palestinian in cold blood, just had his already-derisory sentence reduced by the army chief of staff. Azaria become a hero to many in Israel after the incident last year at an illegal Israeli checkpoint in Hebron, a city in the occupied West...
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Israel is censoring Palestinians, and the social media giants are complicit
There is a relatively-new “Cyber Unit” within the Israeli government which is censoring Palestinians on social media. Its existence was publicised earlier this month by Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel. The unit is part of the Attorney General’s office and is putting pressure on Facebook,...
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Netanyahu is the Israeli Trump
The Zionist white supremacist alliance continues apace. It is quite hard to keep track of the increasing connections, both in the US and in Israel. The increasing scandal over US President Donald Trump’s white supremacist advisers has finally resulted in some change. Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka are both out....
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Israel's war against the United Nations
In Israel’s propaganda narrative, the apartheid state attempts to portray itself as upholding law and order in the “rough neighbourhood” that is the Middle East. In explicitly racist terminology, Israeli leaders talk about themselves as the “villa in the jungle,” as Ehud Barak once put it. But a simple look...
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Israeli propaganda and the alliance with Islamic extremists
Probably the most common Israeli propaganda tactic is the smear: an attempt to discredit enemies by making spurious associations and linkages, as well as outright fabrication of allegations of impropriety. In Victor Ostrovsky’s By Way of Deception, an old book by a disgruntled Mossad agent, he recounts that the Mossad...
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Arab collaborators not exempt from Israeli racism
As long as there have been national liberation struggles and resistance movements, there have been collaborators. The phenomenon is an old one. The oldest strategy in the proverbial Book of Imperialism is divide and rule: recruiting a sector of the population of the oppressed into the fold of the oppressor....
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Zionism's ongoing love-in with neo-Nazis
While most right-thinking people were condemning Donald Trump’s coddling of the American neo-Nazi movement in Charlottesville, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister was backing him all the way. Even more alarming than the fact that Trump took two days to issue a statement condemning “both sides” when it...
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Zionists give supporters of Israel a free pass for their anti-Semitism
The fact that an obnoxious, racist and sexist columnist wrote something for the Sunday Times is not exactly news. Last month, though, one of them, Kevin Myers, came out with something that caused such an online backlash that he ended up losing his cushy little gig there. In a column...
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'Populism' and the Zionist left – part 2
Read part one of this article here. Unlike both Trump and Macron, who have both ultimately done their best to suppress voter turnout, a genuine political revolution, such as that represented by a transformed UK Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, emphasises increased voter turnouts and popular participation at all levels...
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'Populism' and the Zionist left – part 1
Millionaire former telecoms chief executive Avi Gabbay has become the new leader of the Israeli Labor party. For some on the pro-Israel right in the UK’s Labour Party, Gabbay has been hailed as the great new hope for the Israeli Labor party, or “the Israeli Macron,” as both the...
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Jordan should stop bowing to Israel
With the Israeli-induced crisis over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem this past week it may have been easy to miss a deadly incident that took place in Amman, the Jordanian capital. A member of Israel’s secret police force, the Shin Bet, shot dead two Jordanians in an apartment in...
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Israel's love-in with Hungary’s anti-Semites exposes the ugly core of Zionism
The official ideology of the state of Israel, Zionism, has always been an anti-Semitic political project. While Zionism projects itself as a solution to European anti-Semitism, in reality it has meant its continuation in spirit and practice. The basic premise behind Zionism has always been a fundamentally anti-Jewish one. The...