10 Police Officers Raided My Home After I Exposed Israel's Lies About October 7th- Asa Winstanley
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Asa Winstanley, Associate Editor at The Electronic Intifada and a veteran journalist who has covered Palestine and the Israel lobby for over two decades.
He discusses the UK’s attempts to silence his journalism covering the Gaza genocide, the police raid on his home to seize his devices and his ultimate victory in his legal case, the symbiotic relationship between pro-Israel think tanks and the British government, the lack of coverage from the mainstream media on crackdowns against him and other pro-Palestinian journalists, the media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, social media censorship, whether the genocide marks the beginning of the end of Israel, and much more.
Israel’s BIGGEST MISTAKE Happening Right Now!
Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.
Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership. These settlements have repeatedly been declared illegal under international law by the United Nations.
The Houthis Just MASSIVELY Expanded Their Air Blockade on Israel!
Following the Israeli raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Houthis, take their aerial blockade of Israel to an all new level! Right, so the Ansar Allah movement, better known as the Houthis have moved from shutting down commercial airspace over Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, to shutting down airspace across more airports further afield, to apparently now having sought to shut down shipping headed to the port of Haifa.
In the aftermath of the US pulling out of the Red Sea and leaving the Houthis behind as Israel’s problem, the Houthis have found a way to once again escalate and widen that aerial blockade over Israel still further and the reaction to it shows it is clearly working.
On one hand no longer is the plan to simply block Israeli airspace, but the flight paths now used by Israel to attack Yemen are now in the target bank. Alongside that however, the shutdown of commercial aircraft flights to and from Israel have widened amid further missile strikes by the Houthis on Israel’s airspace with some airlines now saying it will be months before they resume flights.
In light of the Israeli raid desecrating the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Houthis have rinsed other Muslim states for saying nothing and have taken further steps against Israeli airspace as a result of that and just to round things out a bit more there’s the latest news in the Houthi’s increasing capabilities towards taking down Israeli fighter craft now as well.
Israel are still without an answer to Ansar Allah and they are not backing down at all anytime soon.
