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August 29, 2020
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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...
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August 27, 2020
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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...
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August 18, 2020
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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...
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August 8, 2020
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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...
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August 1, 2020
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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...
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July 22, 2020
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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...
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July 9, 2020
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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...
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July 1, 2020
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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...
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June 27, 2020
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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...
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June 24, 2020
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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,...
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June 19, 2020
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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...
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May 30, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...
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April 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...
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April 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...
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April 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel's global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...
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March 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic has...
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March 20, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has caused an unprecedented global pandemic. This has spread fear, suffering and needless death around much of the world. Due to...
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March 7, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Some of Israel's most successful strategies are simply its intransigence and extremism. Even those of us opposed to Israeli war crimes – apartheid and occupation – should be honest...
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February 29, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Today he may be sitting and rotting in an Israeli cell, but in 2012 Palestinian graphic designer Hafez Omar's posters were setting the internet alight. On Facebook in particular,...
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February 28, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel's brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of...
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February 21, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Britain's Labour leadership hustings held last week by the party's internal pro-Israel lobby were a bizarre sight to behold. Organised jointly by the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends...
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February 19, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
In September 2016, the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain held a small barbecue to establish a new youth wing. Thanks to the fact that an undercover journalist from Al...
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February 15, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Labour seems to now formally consider use of the blandly factual phrase 'Israel lobby' to be 'anti-Semitic'
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February 1, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
As far as Zionist lobby groups are concerned, the verdict has finally sunk in: they defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to one of them at least; the...
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January 31, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
Click here to read Part One. The project to create a Jewish state in Palestine has always been a fundamentally racist one – and will always be so as...
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January 30, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
So the administration of US President Donald Trump finally published its "Ultimate Deal", a document being trumpeted as a "peace plan". But in reality, it is nothing of the...
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January 25, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
We are about to witness the third Israeli election in the space of one year. The elections for the Knesset, Israel's parliament, which are coming in March, are being...
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January 22, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue at hand. In the United States over the last...
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January 6, 2020
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Asa Winstanley
A supposed Israeli "civil rights" lawyer once wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post under the headline "Israel needs to invade The Hague". The writer was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,...
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December 24, 2019
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Asa Winstanley
Here's a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, as it once again does its best to spoil the festive season for...
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December 21, 2019
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Asa Winstanley
You have to hand it to Donald Trump, he knows which side his bread is buttered. Spewing out disgusting remarks that some of the commentariat deemed only "controversial" at...
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December 20, 2019
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Asa Winstanley
A long-term strategic aim of the Zionist movement has been to foment sectarianism in Palestine and the wider region. It's a classic trick out of the imperialist playbook: divide...