February 27, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and...
February 13, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing. He openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the river and the sea –...
February 8, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Just after Christmas, Jonathan and Esther Pollard were flown on a private jet from New Jersey to Tel Aviv. After touching down, Jonathan kissed the tarmac and was greeted...
January 30, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Last week when I broke the story of Assaf Kaplan, a recent Labour Party hire, the main feedback – often objection – I received on social media went along...
January 22, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an...
January 9, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...
December 16, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often...
December 5, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that the economic...
November 27, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that's exactly what Western governments...
November 26, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Although it is only one of Israel's many injustices, the case of Mohammed El-Halabi is a particularly egregious example of the colonial-settler state's criminality. El-Halabi was a leading Palestinian...
November 21, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...
November 14, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...
November 7, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...
October 28, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...
October 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...
October 17, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...
October 10, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...
October 3, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley A message left on the answerphone of a 71-year-old Jewish woman said: "You f***ing Nazi b**ch… You should burn in the gas oven. You dirty f***ing b**ch…. Stinking, stinking...
October 1, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Recently, I conducted a long interview with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for an upcoming project. He told me a number of interesting things. Right-wing commentator Charles Moore...
September 26, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley The signing of the so-called "Abraham Accords" last week was an empty sham. A "peace deal" between three countries – Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain –...
September 12, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...
August 29, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...
August 27, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...
August 18, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week's news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...
August 8, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that "Israelis want peace" and do not support their government's policies of oppression...
August 1, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley A nine-year-old boy shouts: "Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn't scare me!" The boy's home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...
July 22, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that's how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...
July 9, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...
July 1, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn't; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...
June 27, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel's apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...
June 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country's history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...
June 19, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...