10 July 2012
It has emerged that Flame might also have been used for more robust attacks in addition to spying. Read more about Cyberwar updates: Flame could have been weaponized; claim worm used to spy on Ehud Barak
5 July 2012
Update 2 appended: Foreign office (FCO) minister Alistair Burt yesterday dropped the strongest hint yet that the UK may be moving towards a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements. Read more about UPDATED: Minister hints at UK, EU move towards ban on Israeli settlement goods
8 June 2012
Palestine solidarity activists on Thursday protested the annual general meeting of G4S, the massive British-Danish private security company heavily invested in Israel and its colonial West Bank settlements. Read more about London activists protest G4S abuses, complicity in Israeli occupation
30 May 2012
Israel’s national theater company performed The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe in London yesterday and Monday. But Habima’s presence was fiercely contested for months in advance, and both performances were disrupted by Palestine solidarity activists in the audience. Read more about Disruption of Israeli theater group in London, as BDS proves a win-win strategy
28 May 2012
Bag and body searches to be undertaken on visitors to the prestigious Globe theater as Israeli drama group performs Shakespeare. Read more about London theater promises “enhanced security” for Israel, as activists set to disrupt Habima tonight
9 May 2012
At 7.30 this morning a small group of Palestinian prisoner solidarity activists in Ramallah swooped down on the United Nations compound in Ramallah. They blocked the main gate and doorway, preventing entrance to the UN building. UN employees have been turned away, sent home for the day. I went along a couple of hours later. Activists told me they intend to stay until the end of the working day at 5pm. Family members of prisoners took part in with the action, with more joining as the day went on. Read more about Palestinians shut down UN building in Ramallah to protest inaction over hunger strikers
8 April 2012
The news broke last night that Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah had won his appeal against deportation from the UK in the Upper Tier (Immigration) Tribunal in London. My full story will be published on EI soon, including new revelations about the case, and its implications for the government’s Prevent “anti-terrorism” strategy. Meanwhile, here is the judge’s decision (a scan of the full document is forthcoming, but this extract is essentially the bottom line). Read more about Raed Salah wins appeal against deportation from UK: upper tribunal rules Theresa May was "misled"
2 April 2012
Another Palestinian journalist was arrested by the Palestinian Authority yesterday. Like Yousef al-Shayeb who was arrested last week, Tariq Khamis was arrested for writing things that the PA does not want the public to know. Khamis, who writes for Zaman Press, told The Electronic Intifada today that the reason for his arrest was more to do with an article about Palestinian youth groups he had written than anything he had written on Facebook. Read more about PA regime fears our work, says Palestinian journalist arrested for article about youth activist groups
13 March 2012
One might expect a journalists’ union to defend the rights of other journalists against detention without trial (what Israel calls “administrative detention”). But it seems for the union of Israeli journalists, actually campaigning against the basic human rights of Palestinian journalists is what they do. Read more about Israeli union defends internment of Palestinian journalists, threatens to leave international federation
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist who lives in London. He is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and co-host of our podcast.
He is author of the bestselling book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (OR Books, 2023).
