November 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Khalida Jarrar is a leading Palestinian activist for women's rights and prisoners' rights. She is a socialist MP elected to the Palestinian Authority's moribund legislative council, as part of...
October 31, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government,...
October 30, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Despite what you may have heard, the Palestinian Authority is not a "Palestinian government". Indeed, "Palestinian Authority" is a misnomer, as the entity has no genuine authority, and does...
October 26, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Nelson Mandela's church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced...
October 18, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley So, another one bites the dust. Louise Ellman MP quit the Labour Party this week. The chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel is the latest in a line of...
October 16, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Considerable attention is paid by Western media to the governments of official enemies, when they lack democracy. The Western media's long attention span for Syria's democratic deficiencies, as one...
October 1, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights is getting worse. That is down in part to the Labour...
September 28, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Israelis have just voted in favour of continuing to deny all Palestinians, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, equal rights.
September 27, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Last week Israel launched its latest attack against Palestinian human rights workers. Israeli army thugs raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers...
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UK September 13, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley The liberal Zionist "two state solution" supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they "condemn" and are "concerned" about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as...
September 11, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Political prisoner Amir Makhoul has been released after almost a decade in an Israeli dungeon. He has given his first interview to the anti-apartheid activist, Adri Nieuwhof, who has...
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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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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Videos & Photo Stories July 20, 2019 |
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...