Join IHRC for an author evening with Asa Winstanley, to discuss the book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn – purchase from the IHRC Bookshop.
WHEN: Friday, 11 August 2023, 6.30pm BST
WHERE: IHRC (202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA) or watch live on Facebook, YouTube and IHRC.TV
FREE EVENT – pre-booking required for in-person attendance only – please book here (limited availability)
Refreshments provided
Prayer and wudu facilities available
About the book:
Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as leader of the Labour Party.
In an electrifying account, investigative journalist Asa Winstanley shows how Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis was manufactured by pro-Israel groups. Despised and feared by Israel and its allies because of his long-standing support for the Palestine solidarity movement, Jeremy Corbyn became a target of enemies determined to abort his left-wing project.
Drawing on new interviews with many of those victimized in purges the Labour leadership claimed were necessary to tackle anti-Semitism, Winstanley exposes a plot by the Israel lobby, in alliance with the Labour right and Israeli and British intelligence agencies, to prevent a socialist entering Downing Street.
An essential historical corrective, Weaponising Anti-Semitism shines light into the murkiest corners of the British state and those who work with it.
About the author:
Originally from south Wales, Asa Winstanley first travelled to Palestine at the end of 2004, volunteering with the human rights defenders of the International Solidarity Movement. He ending up working and volunteering in the occupied West Bank until 2007 and has returned many times since. He was media coordinator for the ISM and later wrote for and was an editor at the late Palestine Times, the first Palestinian English-language daily newspaper published in the occupied West Bank. He has been writing for The Electronic Intifada since 2009 and has been an associate editor there since 2012.
His expertise means he is often in demand and he regularly appears on other podcasts and YouTube channels, including: BreakThrough News, The Jimmy Dore Show, By Any Means Necessary, Unauthorized Disclosure, The East is a Podcast, Multipolarista, Not the Andrew Marr Show, Red Line TV and Palestine Declassified.
He’s written for many other publications over the years, including Declassified UK, Middle East Monitor, Al-Akhbar English (Lebanon), Middle East Eye, The National, Jacobin, Ceasefire Magazine, New Left Project, the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre, the Morning Star and Freedom.
He wrote a chapter in the book Israel and Gaza: Behind the Media Veil, published by MEMO in 2014. Along with Frank Barat, he was the editor of Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation (Pluto Press, 2011) a collection of written and spoken evidence from the London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
He is a member of the National Union of Journalists.
About the chair:
Professor David Miller is a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs at Istanbul Zaim University and a former Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol. He is a broadcaster, writer and investigative researcher; the producer of the weekly show Palestine Declassified on PressTV; and the co-director of Public Interest Investigations, of which spinwatch.org and powerbase.info are projects. His recent work has been published in Mintpress, Mayadeen English, Electronic Intifada, Grayzone, PressTV, IRNA and TRT World. He tweets @Tracking_Power.
