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Items by Asa Winstanley
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How Israel learned to stop worrying and love Europe's neo-Nazis
For years now far right groups across Europe have sought increasing links with Israel despite the fact that 20-30 years ago these fascistic groups held Jews as their number one enemy. But the so-called War on Terror era changed all that, making Islam the prime scapegoat across much of...
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We simply can’t ignore the Israel factor in Saudi Arabian politics
The shock “resignation” of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month was part of larger domestic political machinations within Saudi Arabia. With the Saudi-Israeli alliance now in overdrive, though, there is little doubt that Israel’s quest for regional dominance also played a part. Hariri appeared on Saudi TV...
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Priti Patel scandal is the tip of the Israel lobby iceberg
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...
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A Hamas-Fatah deal can't square this circle
Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah have signed another unity deal. Hopes have, once again, been expressed that the deal brokered by Egypt could end the political impasse and restore some sense of national unity between the two major movements. It has also been said that the deal could...
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Israel's Labour Party has never been a progressive movement
The new leader of Israel’s Labour Party made it clear once again earlier this month that the supposedly progressive and left-wing of Zionism is as racist as its right-wing version. This will come as no surprise to anyone who has the least bit of familiarity with the movement’s history....
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Overthrow the Balfour Declaration
One of the most common recurring themes in modern Israeli propaganda, especially in the West, is the idea that the “conflict” is a “complicated” one. This idea is promoted by some of the “Friends of Israel” type groups, especially Labour Friends of Israel and other groups on the liberal...
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Will Jeremy Corbyn be able to fulfil his promises on Palestine?
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...
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Israel is censoring Palestinians, and the social media giants are complicit
There is a relatively-new “Cyber Unit” within the Israeli government which is censoring Palestinians on social media. Its existence was publicised earlier this month by Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel. The unit is part of the Attorney General’s office and is putting pressure on...
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Netanyahu is the Israeli Trump
The Zionist white supremacist alliance continues apace. It is quite hard to keep track of the increasing connections, both in the US and in Israel. The increasing scandal over US President Donald Trump’s white supremacist advisers has finally resulted in some change. Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka are both...
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Israel's war against the United Nations
In Israel’s propaganda narrative, the apartheid state attempts to portray itself as upholding law and order in the “rough neighbourhood” that is the Middle East. In explicitly racist terminology, Israeli leaders talk about themselves as the “villa in the jungle,” as Ehud Barak once put it. But a simple...
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Israeli propaganda and the alliance with Islamic extremists
Probably the most common Israeli propaganda tactic is the smear: an attempt to discredit enemies by making spurious associations and linkages, as well as outright fabrication of allegations of impropriety. In Victor Ostrovsky’s By Way of Deception, an old book by a disgruntled Mossad agent, he recounts that the...
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Arab collaborators not exempt from Israeli racism
As long as there have been national liberation struggles and resistance movements, there have been collaborators. The phenomenon is an old one. The oldest strategy in the proverbial Book of Imperialism is divide and rule: recruiting a sector of the population of the oppressed into the fold of the...
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Zionism's ongoing love-in with neo-Nazis
While most right-thinking people were condemning Donald Trump’s coddling of the American neo-Nazi movement in Charlottesville, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister was backing him all the way. Even more alarming than the fact that Trump took two days to issue a statement condemning “both sides” when it...
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Zionists give supporters of Israel a free pass for their anti-Semitism
The fact that an obnoxious, racist and sexist columnist wrote something for the Sunday Times is not exactly news. Last month, though, one of them, Kevin Myers, came out with something that caused such an online backlash that he ended up losing his cushy little gig there. In a...
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'Populism' and the Zionist left – part 2
Read part one of this article here. Unlike both Trump and Macron, who have both ultimately done their best to suppress voter turnout, a genuine political revolution, such as that represented by a transformed UK Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, emphasises increased voter turnouts and popular participation at all...
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'Populism' and the Zionist left – part 1
Millionaire former telecoms chief executive Avi Gabbay has become the new leader of the Israeli Labor party. For some on the pro-Israel right in the UK’s Labour Party, Gabbay has been hailed as the great new hope for the Israeli Labor party, or “the Israeli Macron,” as both the...
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Israel's love-in with Hungary’s anti-Semites exposes the ugly core of Zionism
The official ideology of the state of Israel, Zionism, has always been an anti-Semitic political project. While Zionism projects itself as a solution to European anti-Semitism, in reality it has meant its continuation in spirit and practice. The basic premise behind Zionism has always been a fundamentally anti-Jewish one....
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A year after Chilcot, Tony Blair is still not in jail. He should be
One year ago this month Sir John Chilcot, a leading former civil servant, finally published the report of his long-awaited enquiry into the British role in the illegal and immoral US imperial invasion of Iraq in 2003. That war destroyed an entire country. More than 1 million Iraqis were...
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Israel's covert terror campaign against human rights groups says a lot about the regime
Last month, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon made a disgusting and dangerous speech to the media outside the Security Council. In it, he continued a long-running campaign of incitement and hatred against human rights organisations whose work involves holding Israel to account for its violations of international...
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Israel's new occupation zone in Syria
Perhaps the most woefully under-covered fact of the war in Syria has been Israel’s role, and the fact that it has been supplying armed groups allied with Al-Qaeda. The Golan Heights is a part of Syria that has been occupied illegally by Israel since 1967; the Zionist state annexed...
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With no charge or trial, Israel interns socialist MP – again
A little over one year after she was released from an Israeli jail, the Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar once again languishes behind bars. She was arrested by Israeli occupation forces earlier in July. This week, it was ordered by an Israeli military commander that she be imprisoned for...
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Israel's friends in the north
Theresa May finally signed her deal with the Democratic Unionist Party this week. The electoral alliance promises her new allies £1 billion of extra government spending in Northern Ireland, and will allow her to hang on to her precarious grip on Number 10 for a little while longer. However,...
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The refugees' return to Palestine is a must
In just under a year’s time, Palestinians will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Catastrophe that marks their expulsion from Palestine. More than 750,000 Palestinians, most of the then population, were forcibly expelled by the Jewish militias of the organised Zionist movement, the same sectarian forces...
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The Saudi war of words on Qatar
The recently launched land, air and sea blockade of the tiny nation of Qatar is manifestly not what its perpetrators claim it to be. Led by the fanatical and aggressive Saudi regime, a loose coalition of regional dictatorships have imposed punitive sanctions on Qatar. Last week they released to...