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1 week ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
Earlier this month former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed that Israeli intelligence has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip led by a Palestinian named Yasser Abu Shabab. The gang includes members who have been affiliated with ISIS, the extremist group also known as Islamic State.
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1 week ago | 
electronicintifada.net | Asa Winstanley
Earlier this month former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed that Israeli intelligence has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip led by a Palestinian named Yasser Abu Shabab. The gang includes members who have been affiliated with ISIS, the extremist group also known as Islamic State.
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1 week ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
Yes, I agree with Jackie Walker about the left needing to get sharp and upping their game. Good work is done by lots of groups on the left but I always feel there is a lack of coordination sometimes. Compare that to - for example - the Campaign Against Antisemitism with their Enough is Enough campaign, you see a clear unity within its proponents, a repetition of the same (weak) message, but also an effort to fill public places with yellow ribbons and anti-Palestine stickers.
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2 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
I spoke to the PalPulse podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about how anti-Semitism was weaponised against Jeremy Corbyn, the police raid on my home, the history of Palestinian resistance and whole lot more. Watch the whole thing in the video above.
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2 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
The metropolitan police carried out a dawn raid on my home in London last October. They asked me to identify all computers and phones in the house that I use as a journalist. Believe it or not, they actually stated this was so they could protect my rights. In the course of a search lasting several hours, they seized seven items, packing them up in evidence boxes and taking them away. I was not arrested or charged with any crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
declassifieduk.org | Asa Winstanley
The police broke the law when they ransacked my house. When will they stop harassing pro-Palestine journalists? Met police commissioner Mark Rowley leaves a COBRA meeting on Gaza. (Photo: Karl Edler / Alamy)The metropolitan police carried out a dawn raid on my home in London last October. They asked me to identify all computers and phones in the house that I use as a journalist. Believe it or not, they actually stated this was so they could protect my rights.
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2 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
In this segment from The Electronic Intifada livestream in February, I explained the whys and hows of the BBC killing its film Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. The Israel lobby’s campaign against the film was so successful that it appears not only to have deleted this film from its streaming service iPlayer, but it seems all future films about Gaza by the BBC have been blocked until they complete their investigation.
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3 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
On The Electronic Intifada livestream this week we discussed some breaking news. Former Israeli minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed on Thursday that Israel is arming gangs in Gaza which have looted UN aid trucks and fighting Hamas. The same gangs are now setting up concentration camps in Rafah to trap Palestinians. Interestingly, Lieberman even said that these gangs are composed of ISIS-affiliated elements. Watch the whole segment in the video above.
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3 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
On Sunday’s episode of The Crispin Flintoff Show I talked about my legal victory and the reasons for the police raid in the first place. Always a pleasure to go on Crispin’s show. Watch the full segment in the video above.
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3 weeks ago | 
asawinstanley.substack.com | Asa Winstanley
On last week’s Electronic Intifada livestream, I explained how we fought back against the police raid. As I announced here on my Substack last week, a judge ruled that the warrants the police used to raid my home and seize my devices back in October were illegal. The ruling was not a simple matter to obtain and required some brilliant lawyers — led by Tayab Ali at Bindmans — as well as financial backing by the National Union of Journalists.
