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Asa Winstanley

Israel/ Palestine
72 Years of Birthdays for Israel,  72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

72 Years of Birthdays for Israel, 72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine. Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally at the barrel of a gun, or fled in fear of being massacred by the Zionist forces. This is commemorated […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Palestine would be a War Crime

Israel’s Annexation of Occupied Palestine would be a War Crime

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 living in the West Bank will continue to be denied the vote and even the most basic of human rights […]

FBI
Has the FBI been spying on US citizens at Israel’s behest?

Has the FBI been spying on US citizens at Israel’s behest?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 “terrorism” investigation into the International Solidarity Movement, a non-violent Palestine solidarity group. The investigation proved only that the ISM was […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Israel Gov't is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The Israel Gov’t is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

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 changed the world for the foreseeable future. It is true that most people who contract COVID-19 (the disease caused by this new coronavirus) will suffer only […]

Israel/ Palestine
Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

Asa Winstanley

(Middle East Monitor) – 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 unexplained delays. Rather helpfully, though, the Zionist Federation – an anti-Palestine, pro-Israel lobby group in Britain — admitted that, “The United States […]

Israel/ Palestine
Jared Kushner's Bantustan Plan Dooms Palestinians to Permanent Military Occupation

Jared Kushner’s Bantustan Plan Dooms Palestinians to Permanent Military Occupation

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 sort. It is more like a plan for the pacification of Palestinian resistance; a formula for the liquidation of the […]

Donald Trump
With Trump backing for Apartheid, Israel's Complete Annexation of Palestine is Around the Corner

With Trump backing for Apartheid, Israel’s Complete Annexation of Palestine is Around the Corner

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – 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 held after the failure of anyone to either score an overall majority or to forge a coalition government. Israeli prime […]

Israel/ Palestine
In Zeal to Cover up Crimes against Palestinians, are Israel Lobbies determined to End Free Speech in the West?

In Zeal to Cover up Crimes against Palestinians, are Israel Lobbies determined to End Free Speech in the West?

Asa Winstanley

(Middle East Monitor ) – 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 few years, at the urging of the Israel lobby, 28 states have now passed laws targeting the BDS movement, for boycott, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel:  Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

Israel: Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) – a group which used to take part in non-violent Palestinian protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. All told, I spent the best part of […]

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