“Wicked investigative reporting” — Ali Abunimah

“Truly a writing machine” — Maureen Murphy, Electronic Intifada editor

“Troublemaker” — Rachel Shabi (I expressed aversion to the term ‘activist’)

“Amnesiac” — Harry’s Place (the least boring insult they’ve come up with)

I am an investigative journalist based in London who writes about Palestine. I report and write book reviews for the award-winning Palestinian news site Electronic Intifada. I have a column in Ceasefire Magazine called “Palestine is Still the Issue”. I have a regular blog that I write for Electronic Intifada.

I have also been published in: Al-Akhbar English (Lebanon), The National, New Left Project, Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre, the Morning Star and Freedom. I am a member of the London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists.

I am the editor of “Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation” (Pluto Press) a collection of written and spoken evidence from the London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.

I first went to Palestine in 2004 and worked in the occupied West Bank until 2007. I try to go back as often as possible. Among other things I wrote for and was an editor at the late Palestine Times, the first Palestinian English-language daily newspaper published in the occupied West Bank.

Contact me

To commission an article or report, hire me for editing work, request a media appearance or anything else, my email is: . You can also reach me on Twitter: @AsaWinstanley. Email me for Skype details.

About this website

I use this site to archive all my published articles. Everything posted here is protected by copyright, unless otherwise mentioned. You must contact me before republishing some of my work. It is fine to post a short extract (three paragraphs) as long as you credit both me and the original publication, and link to the original article.

Examples of my work

• In December 2011 I broke the story of how the CST, a charity established to combat anti-Semitism in the UK, secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jewish activists to the government. I also published an allegation that CST volunteers are trained in self-defense by the Mossad. The CST has to date remained totally silent in reply, not even attempting to refute my article.
• In 2011 followed the case of Raed Salah, the Palestinian religious leader and political activist arrested in strange circumstances in the UK. I reported from court, and broke the story of how the Israel lobby, the British government and the Israeli government plotted to have the Sheikh banned from the UK.
• In 2010 I exclusively revealed the leaked documents that showed the Palestinian Authority tried and failed to undermine Turkey’s push for a UN Human Rights Council investigation into Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
• I have followed the progress of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, especially the BDS movement in the trade unions