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February 28, 2022
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Asa Winstanley
This is going to be my last MEMO column for a few months. I'm taking some time off to focus on finishing a long-term project which I've been working...
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January 30, 2022
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Asa Winstanley
The latest episode of European Union hypocrisy over Palestine came to light this week with the case of Amal Nakhleh. Nakhleh is a Palestinian teen who was still a...
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January 29, 2022
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Asa Winstanley
Where in the world exists the most repression of solidarity with the Palestinian people? The correct answer, of course, is within occupied historical Palestine itself. Palestinians are subjected by...
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January 22, 2022
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Asa Winstanley
Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the West Bank. He was found dead soon after. It's the...
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January 8, 2022
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Asa Winstanley
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson was smeared on Monday by a racist Israeli official. More on this later. But first, it's important to note that the Israeli government has...
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December 24, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
I wrote in this column last month condemning the feigned national outrage among the political class and corporate media elite against students who had protested against the Israeli ambassador....
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December 18, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
Throughout most of 2021, the Israel lobby waged a war at the University of Bristol. Its main target was David Miller, then a professor of sociology there. Backed by...
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December 11, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
As I write this, the news is breaking of a terrible tragedy for justice and humanity – a serious blow for press freedom worldwide. The UK High Court has...
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December 1, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and Islamophobia. They did not...
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November 28, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
This week it emerged that Silicon Valley giant Apple is suing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The creators of the iPad, the iMac, the iPhone and so many other...
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November 23, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
Last week, I was struck down with COVID-19 and was forced to have some time off. I was hit quite hard in the end. Thankfully, I did not have...
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November 13, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
This week, students at the London School of Economics (LSE) protested on campus to oppose a lecture by Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. Their protest was not only entirely peaceful,...
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October 30, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
Last Friday, Israel outright banned six leading Palestinian human rights groups. To do so, "Defence" Minister Benny Gantz and his government unilaterally designated them as "terrorist" groups. The Israelis...
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October 23, 2021
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Asa Winstanley
Mohammed El-Halabi is a senior Palestinian aid worker with the global Christian charity World Vision. He was kidnapped by Israeli army thugs in June 2016 during a routine trip...
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October 15, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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 11, 2021
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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
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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
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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 14, 2021
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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
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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
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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 10, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...