Jonathan Cook

Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events in ways far more to its liking. They would hedge every report of a new Israeli atrocity – if they covered them at all – with a “Hamas claims” or “Gaza family members allege”. … Continue reading “Israel Kills the Journalists. Western Media Kills the Truth of Genocide in Gaza”

The horrifying images from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel’s genocide, as completely as earlier images of human depravity have defined the world. Naked, skin-and-bone corpses thrown into mass graves in the death camps of the Nazi Holocaust. … Continue reading “The West’s Support for Israel’s Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It”

The UK government and police – the British state – made clear on Friday they are waging a war of intimidation against the country’s independent journalists in a desperate attempt to silence them. Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid on the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his electronic devices under … Continue reading “Police Escalate the British State’s War on Independent Journalism”

Nearly a decade ago, a leading Israeli human rights activist divulged to me a private conversation he’d had a short time earlier with one of Europe’s ambassadors to Israel. He was shaken by the exchange. The ambassador’s country was then widely seen as one of the most sympathetic in the West to the Palestinian people. … Continue reading “War on Gaza: Israel Wants To Finish the Job Washington Started After 9/11”

The coverage of Israeli soldiers pushing three Palestinians off a roof in the West Bank town of Qabatiya – it’s unclear whether the men are dead or near-dead – is being barely reported by the western media, even though it was videoed from at least three different angles and a reporter from the main US … Continue reading “Media Complicit in the Crimes of Israel”

For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch … Continue reading “Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New. They Provoked October 7”

The arrest yesterday of Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson, following the arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst last week – both based on an improbable claim they have violated Section 12 of the Terrorism Act – is definitive proof that Keir Starmer’s authoritarian purges of the Labour left are being rolled out against critics on a … Continue reading “UK Labour Party Purges Have Mutated Into the Arrest of Palestine Supporters”

The headline above, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in the tiny, besieged and utterly destroyed enclave of Gaza, was published in last week’s Middle East Eye. When I began studying Israeli history more than a quarter of a century ago, people claiming to be experts proffered plenty of excuses to … Continue reading “Nothing’s Changed Since 1948 – Except Now Israel’s Excuses Don’t Work”

There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, are routinely using rape as a weapon of torture against Palestinian inmates. Last week, nine soldiers from a prison unit, Force 100, were arrested … Continue reading “Israel Is in a Death Spiral. Who Will It Take Down With It?”

BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights on Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The BBC’s evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the surviving Syrian population in the Golan, most of them Druze, … Continue reading “More Dead Children. More BBC ‘News’ Channeling Israeli Propaganda as Its Own”