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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...
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May 1, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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....
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February 27, 2021
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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...
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February 13, 2021
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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 –...
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February 8, 2021
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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...
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January 30, 2021
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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...
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January 22, 2021
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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...
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January 9, 2021
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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...
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December 16, 2020
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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...
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December 5, 2020
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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...
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November 27, 2020
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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...
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November 26, 2020
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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...
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November 21, 2020
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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...
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November 14, 2020
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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...
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November 7, 2020
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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...
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October 28, 2020
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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...
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October 24, 2020
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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...
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October 17, 2020
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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...
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October 10, 2020
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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...
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October 3, 2020
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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...
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October 1, 2020
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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...
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September 26, 2020
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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 –...
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September 12, 2020
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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...