Asa Winstanley

Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He has been visiting Palestine since 2004 and is originally from south Wales. He writes for the award-winning Palestinian news site The Electronic Intifada where he is an associate editor and also a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor.

When Israel Invited a South African Nazi on a State Visit

A mostly forgotten aspect of history is how Israel’s “left-wing” Zionist regime in the 1970s collaborated with South Africa’s apartheid regime to discuss nuclear weapons testing in the South African desert.

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South Africa's prime minister John Vorster (second from right) meets with Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (right) and Menachem Begin (left) and Moshe Dayan during his 1976 visit to Jerusalem. (Photo: Sa'ar Ya'acov)

Opinion -- One of the most under-reported aspects of security policy in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear weapons program. The apartheid state is estimated by the U.S. government to have somewhere in the region of 200 nuclear warheads. The secret program to develop these weapons of mass destruction started in the late 1950s and eventually bore

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The EU’s Public Policy on Jerusalem Differs from Reality

The European Union already recognizes Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, they just do so a lot more quietly than Donald Trump.

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A woman holds a banner as she protests during a visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Dec. 11, 2017. Netanyahu urged the European Union on Monday to back a new U.S. peace initiative in the Middle East, after President Donald Trump's unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital met with widespread condemnation and triggered clashes in the Palestinian territories. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Viewers watching the televised emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday may be forgiven for thinking the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representative to the UN was trying to bore the Israeli ambassador into submission with his speech. The meeting had been called in response to US President Donald Trump’s outrageous

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UK Priti Patel Scandal is the Tip of the Israel Lobby Iceberg

The exaggerated power of corporate and states lobbyists to influence government policy is a concern far bigger than one crooked minister.

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Britain's Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel reacts to a question from the media as she arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP/Alastair Grant)

The Priti Patel affair is an insight into the power of the Israel lobby to influence the British political system. But it is only a symptom of the rot. The exaggerated power of corporate and states lobbyists to influence government policy is a concern far bigger than one crooked minister. Patel, who was the minister in charge of international

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Can Jeremy Corbyn Fulfill His Promises On Palestine?

With the ascendency of Jeremy Corbyn to the top of the Labour Party, there is talk once again of a return to an “Ethical foreign policy” – which would, in fact, be the start of such a policy.

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Jeremy Corbyn poses for photographers upon arrival at the GQ's Men of The Year awards, in London, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left of the party for abandoning its oft-advertised promise to have an “ethical foreign policy”. In fact, New Labour’s Foreign Secretary Robin Cook technically never promised

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The Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions Movement Made Major Advances In 2016

2016 will be remembered “as Israel’s year of waging an all-out war on the Palestinian-led, global BDS movement.

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Big donor money is leading to a growing number of efforts to legislate a ban on Boycotting Israel.

Palestine’s BDS National Committee (BNC) leads and coordinates the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. It has been the biggest year yet for BDS, but it has also been a big year for anti-BDS oppression. As the BNC put it in a recent round-up of the year, 2016 will be remembered “as Israel’s year of waging an all-out war on the

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British Citizen Faiz Sherari Tortured By Israel’s Secret Police

Sherari remains in Israeli custody even after an Israeli judge admitted that Sherari had been tortured into confessing this “crime”.

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Israel torture

Israel’s secret police have tortured a British citizen into “confessing” to a crime which he insists he did not commit. Although Haaretz claimed last month that he had been released, it appears that Faiz Sherari remains in the custody of a “military court” run by Israel’s illegal occupation regime that rules the fate of all Palestinians in the West

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