Asa Winstanley

Marriage law vote proves that even ‘left’ Zionism is racism

Monday 12-July-2021

This week Israel’s Parliament the Knesset failed to pass an extension to Israel’s racist marriage law.

How Europe sustains Israel

Tuesday 6-July-2021

Many people object when first learning that Israel participates in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Don’t look away from Palestine

Friday 2-July-2021

If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month it was a new sense of unity among the people of Palestine themselves.

‘Death to the Jews’ would have caused an international scandal

Monday 21-June-2021

Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes.

The Israeli political circus

Monday 14-June-2021

Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn’t bank on it quite yet for two related reasons.

A morning of victory in Jerusalem

Friday 28-May-2021

Palestine awoke last Friday morning to a new reality. The death and destruction Israel had been visiting upon Gaza came to an end with a 2am ceasefire.

Palestinians have a right to defend themselves

Tuesday 18-May-2021

The scenes we’ve been witnessing on our screens coming out of occupied Palestine this week are unprecedented.

The long shadow of Israel’s arm in Europe

Tuesday 4-May-2021

Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long.

Palestinians called Israel an apartheid state decades ago

Thursday 29-April-2021

In 1965 Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine.

The ‘real’ apartheid

Sunday 18-April-2021

“This is the real apartheid” Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week.

Convicted spy Pollard calls for more Americans to betray their country

Monday 29-March-2021

Israel Hayom published an extremely long fawning interview on Friday (26/3/2021) with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading.

Israel’s war against Palestinian minds

Tuesday 23-March-2021

There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Benjamins may be losing their ability

Saturday 6-March-2021

As a working journalist who reports frequently on the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby one of the most common claims I come across is that it doesn’t actually exist.

Israel’s vaccine apartheid is a violation of international law

Monday 1-March-2021

The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel’s vaccine apartheid.

Could Israel invade the Hague?

Tuesday 23-February-2021

It has been a long time coming.

Kahanism is now Israel’s mainstream

Sunday 14-February-2021

Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing.