About me
Asa Winstanley: a freelance journalist and sub-editor.
My main areas of expertise are Palestine-Israel, western Palestine solidarity groups and the global movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. I have spent two years living and working in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. I also have an IT background, focusing on open source and free software such as GNU/Linux.
I have written and edited backgrounders on Palestine for the respected Jerusalem Media and Communcations Centre. I have written reports and features for various publications, including the highly popular Electronic Intifada. I was managing sub-editor for the Palestine Times, which was first the Palestinian English-language daily newspaper published from the occupied West Bank.
I am available for commissions, especially investigative reports, news, features and analysis, as well as subbing work.
Contact me
To work out my email address, add my first name to the domain name of this site (without http://www. ) separating the two with an “at” symbol. Because of spam, I avoid putting my email address on the web.
About my website
Although this site is in blog format, it’s mostly not a blog as such. I mainly use it to keep a record of all my published work. I also use it to syndicate my Delicious feed – a record of the most interesting articles I have read (please note: posting something to my Delicious feed does not necessarily imply approval or disapproval of the sentiments or analysis therein).
I retain the copyright on everything posted here, unless otherwise mentioned. You must contact me before republishing some of my work.
Comments are currently enabled but subject to a moderation queue. If I don’t like your comment, I may delete it. Of course I may also allow some comments I don’t like for the sake of debate or to expose the stupidity of the commenter. This is not a democracy or an open forum: it’s my personal website.
Quotable
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We were a people wasting ourselves
In fruitless battles for our masters,
In lands to which we had no claim,
With men for whom we felt no hatred.
We were a people, and are so yet.
When we have finished quarrelling for crumbs
Under the table, or gnawing the bones
Of a dead culture, we will arise
And greet each other in a new dawn
Armed, but not in the old way.
From ‘Welsh History’ by R.S. Thomas
