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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
During the recent media dust-up over the Daily Mail's attack on Labour leader Ed Milliband's father, many people on the left called attention to the right-wing tabloid's history of...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Due to the large number of complaints we've received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Glenn Greenwald is on a roll. This column has followed his historic coverage of Edward Snowden's leaked National Security Agency documents with great interest. Last week there was another...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
This week, the pop star Rihanna played a gig in Tel Aviv, despite many requests made to her by Palestinian and solidarity activists to observe the cultural boycott of...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Fortress Europe's tyrannical border continues to claim lives. Last week there was another terrible shipwreck in the Mediterranean which claimed the lives of dozens of desperate, fleeing refugees. It...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain's Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The slow disintegration of living conditions in the West Bank continues apace. But this is no natural disaster or complicated economic malaise. This is a very deliberately created policy,...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The farce continues. Since the July coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi last year, Egypt has gone from disaster to disaster. As flawed and problematic as his administration...
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January 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
In Palestine solidarity circles the debate around the pro-Israel lobby often focuses on the chicken-or-the-egg problem: are Western governments supportive of Israel because the lobby is so influential, or...
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January 25, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Renowned Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was at the UK's Sheldon immigration court in Birmingham this week. His appeal against the government's decision in June to...
During the recent media dust-up over the Daily Mail's attack on Labour leader Ed Milliband's father, many people on the left called attention to the right-wing tabloid's history of...![PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (L) welcomes South African President Nelson Mandela, on June 13, 1994, at the Organization of African Unity summit (OAU), in Tunis. [FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-157518995.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...
