Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist who lives in London and who has been writing about Palestine and the Israel lobby since 2005.

Originally from south Wales, Asa Winstanley began visiting Palestine at the end of 2004, volunteering with the human rights defenders of the International Solidarity Movement. He ended up working in the occupied West Bank until 2007 and has returned many times since.

Media coordinator for the ISM, he later wrote for the Palestine Times, the first Palestinian English-language daily newspaper published in the occupied West Bank.

He has been an associate editor and reporter with the award-winning website The Electronic Intifada for more than a decade and is co-host of The Electronic Intifada podcast.

He is the author of the bestselling book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (OR Books, 2023).

He is regularly invited onto podcasts and YouTube channels to talk about Palestine, the Israel lobby and geopolitics.

Appearances have included BreakThrough News, The Chris Hedges Report, Danny Haiphong, The Katie Halper Show, By Any Means Necessary, The East is a Podcast, Unauthorized Disclosure, Ben Norton, Not the Andrew Marr Show and Palestine Declassified.

He’s written for many other publications over the years, including Declassified UK, Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye, The National, and Jacobin.

He is a member of the National Union of Journalists.

He authors a Substack newsletter titled Palestine is Still the Issue.