Andrew Feinstein Journalist Profile

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Time to fund CT education

Nov 14, 2024 | ctmirror.org | Andrew Feinstein

It’s high time for Connecticut to stop lying to itself about the quality of public education in the state. We are not the tops. We do not lead the nation. In fact, the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Performance (NEAP) found that both Texas and Florida outperformed us in fourth grade math. We were just average in reading. Just 37% of Connecticut’s fourth graders were at or above proficient in reading. By eighth grade, the percentage fell to 35%.
Israeli football hooligans bring culture of genocide to Amsterdam

Nov 8, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Andrew Feinstein |Abed Abou Shhadeh

Human history is full of examples of genocidal acts committed by leaders, states, militaries, and armed groups. But the genocide unfolding before our eyes in Gaza stands out for its level of meticulous documentation and the speed of information flow. Billions of people around the world receive live, uncensored coverage of what is happening in the besieged enclave, from the perspectives of both victim and aggressor.
A Giant Among Us: Remembering Dikembe Mutombo

Oct 1, 2024 | denverstiffs.com | Andrew Feinstein

During the summer of 1996, I met Dikembe Mutombo for the second time in my life. I was working for Turner Sports in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, and one day my boss at the time said to me: “I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that you’re going to meet Dikembe Mutombo today.” As the biggest Denver Nuggets fan ever to set foot in Atlanta, I was beyond elated. But I had to ask: “So what’s the bad news?” “The bad news,” my boss replied.
German city bans school gesture over similarity to Turkish Grey Wolves salute

Jul 15, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald |Andrew Feinstein

The German city of Bremen has banned the "silent fox" gesture used in schools to call for quiet in classrooms because of concerns it resembles the Turkish nationalist "wolf sign". Authorities in the city said they had long been mulling a ban on the "silent fox" instruction due to the similarity with the Turkish gesture, which is most heavily associated with the Turkish far-right Grey Wolves organisation.
UK elections: Palestinian-British candidate's campaign office vandalised

Jul 3, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Peter Oborne |Andrew Feinstein

A Palestinian-British independent candidate’s campaign office has been vandalised following weeks of what her campaign describes as orchestrated harassment by pro-Israel activists. Tanushka Marah is running as an independent candidate in the Sussex coastal seat of Hove and Portslade against incumbent Labour MP Peter Kyle on a left-wing pro-Palestine platform. Marah’s campaign office was vandalised overnight on Wednesday.
UK elections 2024: Starmer has cast minorities aside to pander to bigotry

Jul 2, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Andrew Feinstein |Peter Oborne

At the height of this election campaign, UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer promised he would “ to “ensure the highest standards of integrity and honesty”. An admirable ambition. But what a peculiar way of setting about it. Starmer has fought one of the ugliest and most scurrilous election campaigns I can remember in 30 years of covering Westminster.
UK election 2024: Keir Starmer's attack on Bangladeshis was no accident

Jul 2, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Andrew Feinstein

Editor’s note: Andrew Feinstein is standing as an independentin the UK general election in the constituency of Holborn & St Pancras against Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. For a full list of other candidates standing in Holborn & St Pancras, click here. The lengths to which Keir Starmer seems to be willing to go to win power is worrying.
UK election 2024: What do the parties' manifestos say about the Middle East?

Jun 24, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Nick Hunt |Andrew Feinstein

The UK election, called by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for 4 July, has focused more heavily on issues relating to the Middle East, including Israel's war on Gaza, than the previous national poll did in December 2019. Back then, the agenda was dominated by domestic concerns including austerity, the National Health Service and Brexit (the major parties have avoided that last one in 2024).
Keeping Gaza on the Ballot

Jun 12, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Andrew Feinstein

For the last three weeks, I’ve been talking to the incredible and diverse people of the Holborn and St Pancras constituency as part of my campaign to take on Keir Starmer and become their independent MP. Those conversations have shown that the current genocide in Gaza looms large in the minds of many, alongside the concerns they have about the cost of living and the housing crisis. Specifically, almost every person I have spoken to has expressed the urgent need for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Andrew Feinstein: Why I am Standing Against Keir Starmer

May 21, 2024 | declassifieduk.org | Andrew Feinstein

Our democracy is in crisis. The two main parties are virtually indistinguishable in their offers of permanent austerity, forever wars and environmental degradation. Keir Starmer, the MP for Holborn and St. Pancras where my family and I have lived for around 22 years, is emblematic of this crisis. His politics are mendacious, unprincipled and in the interests of his billionaire donors rather than the constituents he was elected to serve.