Jonathan Cook

It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news services. Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid … Continue reading “Israel Is Fully Integrating Its Gaza ‘Food Aid Hubs’ Into the Genocide”

A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing: 1. Choose your moment. OK, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing and killing your neighbors for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But none of that will matter the moment your neighbors retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry. … Continue reading “A Short Guide on How To Starve a Population to Death”

Israel’s claim that Hamas is “stealing aid” is so preposterous no serious journalist or politician ought to give it any kind of airing – yet there it is continuously cropping up in the coverage of Gaza. How do I know Israel’s claim is utterly worthless? For this simple reason: Israel has a fleet of surveillance … Continue reading “Israel’s Claim That ‘Hamas Is Stealing Aid’ Is Patently a Lie”

Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a half of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza’s children for the first cracks to appear in what has been a rock-solid wall of support for Israel from western establishments. Finally, something looks like it may be about to give. … Continue reading “Why the Wall of Silence on the Gaza Genocide Is Finally Starting To Crack”

There was yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten last night, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief culprit this time. He prefaced an interview with Philippe Lazzarini, head of United Nations refugee agency UNRWA, with an utterly unwarranted disclaimer – as though he was talking to a terrorist, not a leading human … Continue reading “Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful – and he knows it”

Louis Theroux explains in a commentary published by the Guardian  why the backlash to his recent film about violent, Israeli state-backed settlers misses the point. His critics say he is unfairly presenting a few marginal “crazies” in Israeli society, who rampage across the West Bank to drive out the native Palestinian population, as significant and … Continue reading “Theroux’s Film on Israel’s Violent Settlers Was a Mirror. Resist the Calls to Look Away”

You can tell how bad levels of starvation now are in Gaza – as the population there begins the third month of a complete aid blockade by Israel – because last night the BBC finally dedicated a serious chunk of its main news program, the News at Ten, to the issue. But while upsetting footage … Continue reading “Starvation in Gaza Is So Bad Even the BBC Is Covering It – and Reporting It All Wrong”

It is quite possible to take apart virtually any report in the Guardian on Gaza – as I have done with a story in today’s paper – and identify the same kinds of journalistic malpractice. Further, I could have taken any paragraph in the article and parsed it in much the same way as I … Continue reading “The Drip-Drip of Slanted Gaza Reporting Erodes Our Sense of Right and Wrong”

Here is yet another example of stunningly craven journalism from the Guardian, entirely illustrative of what is going on across the British establishment media in its coverage of Israeli war crimes in Gaza for the past 18 months. We are now a month on from Israel executing 15 paramedics and hiding their bodies in a … Continue reading “How Is the Media Still Getting the Gaza Murdered Paramedics Story So Wrong?”

The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it had collapsed in a huge earthquake on March 28 in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia largely cut off from the outside world. The broadcaster painstakingly pieced together damage to other parts of the … Continue reading “The Graver Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza, the Quieter the BBC Grows”