Asa Winstanley

Why Israel is a settler-colony

Sunday 24-January-2021

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.

Israel is unrepentant about spying on its ‘allies’

Sunday 10-January-2021

On the evening of 18 November 1985 Jay an innocent-looking analyst left his office at the US Naval Intelligence.

Britain should end not extend its military cooperation with Israel

Saturday 26-December-2020

Earlier this month Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalize and increase their “defense relationship”.

Israel’s war against European aid for Palestinians

Saturday 19-December-2020

Anyone visiting the West Bank as I have done on many occasions will discover something rather common especially in rural communities: signs billboards and plaques advertising the European Union and other donors of aid to Palestinian communities.

Israel’s $16 billion siege on Gaza

Monday 7-December-2020

A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading.

Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech

Sunday 29-November-2020

There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house.

Trump’s parting shots for Israel

Sunday 22-November-2020

At the start of this year in this column I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming one way or another.

Joe Biden will continue the pro-Israel status quo

Sunday 15-November-2020

Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college fairly decisively and will be the next president.

Jewish Chronicle’s war of words against Palestinians and supporters

Thursday 29-October-2020

Believe it or not the Jewish Chronicle hasn’t always looked increasingly like a racist anti-Palestinian anti-Muslim rag.

The spirit of Palestinian resistance

Saturday 17-October-2020

Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now.

Could this religious extremist be Israel’s future prime minister?

Thursday 1-October-2020

Recently I conducted a long interview with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for an upcoming project. He told me a number of interesting things.

Normalisation with Israel will not placate the Palestinian struggle

Sunday 27-September-2020

The signing of the so-called “Abraham Accords” last week was an empty sham.

Israel: A rogue state

Sunday 13-September-2020

Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Israel: Secret trials to detain unconvicted Palestinian charity worker

Sunday 6-September-2020

The release of leading Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work.

Israelis do not support Palestinian equality

Saturday 8-August-2020

It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that “Israelis want peace” and do not support their government’s policies of oppression against the Palestinians and other Arabs peoples.

Fifteen years of BDS has united all Palestinians and their supporters

Thursday 9-July-2020

Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine.