August 30, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Seventeen-year-old Ismail Ajjawi must have been giddy with excitement when he, a Palestinian refugee living in southern Lebanon, won a major scholarship to Harvard University. The prospect of a...
August 29, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley In 2006, dissident Israeli historian Ilan Pappé published his most seminal work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Although far from the first book which told the truth about the...
August 28, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley It is open season for Arab normalisation with Israel. The brutal absolutist monarchies which rule in the Arab Gulf countries have increasingly found common cause with Israel in recent...
US President Donald Trump added to his repertoire of racist comments this week, by making his latest, most openly anti-Semitic remark yet. "Any Jewish people that vote for a...
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US August 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Last week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign revealed that a council in East London had banned the use of any of its parks by a charity bike ride for Palestinian...
July 30, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Recent news reports have shed light on the lengths to which Israel's security establishment is going in order to cover-up the history of the country's war crimes against Palestinians....
July 26, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers
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Asa Winstanley Unemployment in the Gaza Strip now stands at more than 50 per cent. Enforced joblessness is "as high as 69 per cent in the under-26 age bracket," according to...
July 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Right from the opening, there were glaring signs that Wednesday night's "Panorama" would be anything but the impartial public broadcasting that the BBC claims to champion. The hour-long special...
June 29, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Spare a thought for the human rights groups in Palestine committed to documenting, holding to account, and otherwise having to deal with Israel's racist regime. Groups such as Al...
June 28, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley The Haifa-based Palestinian human rights group Adalah has done a lot of important work over the years. Its name is Arabic for "justice". Much of Adalah's work focuses on...
June 22, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley The views of Katie Hopkins represent a particularly British form of fascism. Similar in some ways to US President Donald Trump, she rose to national fame through reality TV....
June 21, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Egypt's only elected President, Mohamed Morsi, is dead. He died in court, apparently of a heart attack. But the reality is that the Egyptian dictatorship murdered him, and thus...
June 19, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Here we go again. The shadow of war is again cast over the Persian Gulf. Having already destroyed Iraq over the past decade and more, the US is now...
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US June 15, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley A new World Heath Organization report on Gaza this month made for shocking reading. But as usual when it comes to our hopelessly Israel-sympathetic media, there was barely a...
June 1, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley As I write, the latest episode of the "Labour anti-Semitism crisis" is playing out with depressing predictability on social and news media. Pete Willsman, a left-wing member of Labour's...
May 31, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley One of the primary targets of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement over the past year was the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest that took place in Tel...
May 18, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Headlines this week about an apparent rift between top British and US military officers over Iran were a reminder of just how embedded the UK's military is within the...
May 11, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley There is seemingly no stopping deluded prospectors digging for nuggets of gold in the empty mine of Palestinian leaders' capitulation. True, that mine once contained rich seams. Small, but...
April 30, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Last year, AirBnB declared that it would withdraw listings on its site from Israeli settlers based in Jew-only colonies in the West Bank
April 25, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Islamophobia has become the leading identifier of far-right groups all around the world. Fascism always requires an "other", a demonised minority group that can be scapegoated and blamed for...
April 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, was hauled by force out the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. British secret police snatched him at the invitation of the embassy,...
March 29, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Now that the United States has given the imperial stamp of approval to Israel's illegal annexation of Syria's Golan Heights, what does the future hold? Well, the move announced...
March 1, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Another one bites the dust. Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is the latest prominent Labour figure to be thrown to the wolves. On Thursday he was suspended from the party...
February 16, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...
February 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because...
January 31, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Neocon hawk John Bolton is a warmonger left over from the George W Bush administration who has returned to the centre of power in Washington DC. There, he continues...
January 30, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Ever since leading pro-Israel lobby financier Sheldon Adelson intervened in the 2016 election heavily in favour of Donald Trump, the now-president's Middle East policies (if you can even call...
January 26, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death, without warning, in an Israeli airstrike
January 19, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win." This saying is, broadly speaking,...
December 22, 2018 |
Asa Winstanley The late, great Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash used to state that the road to the liberation of Palestine passed through the capitals of every Arab state. For decades,...
December 19, 2018 |
Asa Winstanley For a government which brashly boasts of being "the only democracy in the Middle East" Israel in reality has a lot of anti-democratic tendencies. The main one of these...