Asa Winstanley

The Palestinians resisting Israel’s threats of detention and death

Thursday 12-September-2019

Political prisoner Amir Makhoul has been released after almost a decade in an Israeli dungeon.

The plight of the Palestinian people is to face racism

Sunday 1-September-2019

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.

Proof anti-Semitism definition is about protecting Israel

Wednesday 14-August-2019

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 kids.

The truth is out about Israel’s cover-up of Nakba facts

Tuesday 30-July-2019

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.

Is Israel now imposing ‘petty apartheid’?

Saturday 20-July-2019

A recent move by an Israeli mayor to ban Palestinian Arab citizens from a public park has prompted many to ask if Israel is moving towards the imposition of what used to be called “petty apartheid”.

The Israeli occupation’s fig leaf

Monday 1-July-2019

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.

Israel’s threat to world peace

Monday 20-May-2019

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 US world empire.

Israel’s ‘nation-state’ law merely confirms its lifelong racist nature

Thursday 2-May-2019

The “nation-state” basic law passed in the Israeli parliament last year was denounced widely in the West.

Kahanism: The logical conclusion of Zionism

Wednesday 3-April-2019

In Israel’s elections later this month a hard-right bloc led by the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks likely to be the victor.

Israel’s reliance on forgery and violence is rooted in its history

Monday 28-January-2019

Louay Kuhail and Amir Al-Nimra were taking a selfie on the roof of a building in Gaza City when they were bombed to death without warning in an Israeli airstrike.

2018 was another year of BDS victories

Sunday 20-January-2019

An old saying attributed to Gandhi goes: “First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you and then you win.”

Why Israel sees BDS as a ‘strategic threat’

Saturday 27-October-2018

As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the region and its indigenous peoples Israeli political and military planners are obsessed with what they term “strategic threats”.

Israel wants to act with even more impunity

Friday 31-August-2018

Azaria was found guilty of manslaughter and handed an 18-month term for the March 2016 killing of Al-Sharif.

Israeli innovation is based on theft

Friday 29-June-2018

Israel is a settler-colonial state.

The ongoing Nakba and its forthcoming defeat

Monday 28-May-2018

Tuesday 15 May marked the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinian people term Youm al-Nakba or the Day of Catastrophe.

Israel’s online incitement of violence against the Palestinians

Saturday 17-March-2018

A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”.