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Asa Winstanley

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need their own State and the 'Palestinian Authority' isn't it:  The PA is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force

Palestinians need their own State and the ‘Palestinian Authority’ isn’t it: The PA is actually Israel’s auxiliary occupation force

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, condemning its corruption and its central policy of “security coordination” with Israel. His […]

Israel/ Palestine
Imagine Thousands of Bigots Marching through Jewish Neighborhood chanting "Death to Jews" with Police, Political Support; Now substitute "Palestinians" for Jews

Imagine Thousands of Bigots Marching through Jewish Neighborhood chanting “Death to Jews” with Police, Political Support; Now substitute “Palestinians” for Jews

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 with a high Jewish population chanting “Death to the Jews” and other similar violently bigoted obscenities. Imagine such a group […]

Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem Pogrom: Extremist Jewish Mobs injure 100 Palestinians, chanting "Death to Arabs"

Jerusalem Pogrom: Extremist Jewish Mobs injure 100 Palestinians, chanting “Death to Arabs”

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 is exactly what is happening today against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem. Middle East Eye: “Hundreds of far-right Israeli activists […]

Israel/ Palestine
The "Real" Apartheid: "There's no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person"

The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – “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 are dangerous for me to enter because I AM A JEW.” Goldstein accompanied her tweet with a photo of a large […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's Occupation of Young Palestinians is Damaging their Mental Health and Wellbeing

How Israel’s Occupation of Young Palestinians is Damaging their Mental Health and Wellbeing

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) -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 shocking figure that as many as a quarter of Palestinian adolescents living in those territories have attempted to take their own […]

Israel/ Palestine
Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A coalition of Palestinian human rights lawyers celebrated the “landmark” ruling as “a critically important […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is Netanyahu mainstreaming Israel's Extremist Far Right, which dreams of Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians?

Is Netanyahu mainstreaming Israel’s Extremist Far Right, which dreams of Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – 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 – what he called “the Land of Israel”. “The Jews and Arabs of the Land of Israel ultimately cannot coexist,” he wrote […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel and Palestine:  Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

Israel and Palestine: Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These days, of course, the debate is over. Even the liberal Israeli human rights group B’Tselem now defines Israel as an apartheid […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s isolation of Palestinian Child Detainees amounts to Torture:  Defence for Children In’tl

Israel’s isolation of Palestinian Child Detainees amounts to Torture: Defence for Children In’tl

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – . . . A a new report by Defence for Children International – Palestine provides detailed new evidence in exhaustive detail. The report concludes “overwhelmingly” that Israel’s practice of isolating Palestinian child detainees “amounts to torture under international law.” The 73-page report — “Isolated and Alone: Palestinian children held in […]

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