Jonathan Cook
- The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence Just Keeps Getting Darker
News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world
November 18th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Jewish Chronicle Scandal: Why Was There No Uproar over Its Long Record of Pro-Israel Fake News?
The paper's disinformation is making waves only now, after it printed claims based on forged Hamas documents. But the JC has been peddling falsehoods for years.
September 30th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The more definitive the proof of Israeli atrocities, the less they get reported
Videos show Israeli soldiers push three Palestinian men off a roof in a West Bank town under illegal Israeli occupation. The western media can barely stifle their yawns.
September 20th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - How the war on Gaza exposed Israeli and western fascism
Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It’s time to ask why
September 18th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - At what point are we permitted to…?
September 9th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New; They Are What Provoked the Violence of October 7
If you can’t see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas’ crimes, then you have no insight into human nature. You don’t understand yourself
September 8th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Six takeaways from the UK’s decision on arms sales to Israel the media are hiding
British Jewish leaders are incensed by the 8% cut in weapons to Israel. Judged by the very rules Starmer imposed on Labour, that makes him a proven antisemite
September 6th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; now he decides who’s allowed it
The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there
August 20th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Starmer’s Fingerprints, Not Just the Tories’, are all over Britain’s Race Riots
In the UK, Islamophobia is so bipartisan, so normalised, that BBC reporters refer to anti-Muslim pogromists as ‘pro-British protesters’
August 16th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Nothing’s changed since 1948 except now Israel’s excuses don’t work
We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin
August 8th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Only a Failing US Empire Would Be So Blind as to Cheer Netanyahu and his Genocide
Every empire falls. Its collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become
August 5th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher
The figures have been stalled for months. The goal is to minimise Israel’s barbarism, while lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency
July 31st, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - More dead children: More BBC “news” channelling Israeli propaganda as its own
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the "consequences"
July 28th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The World Court has cleared the fog hiding western support for Israel’s crimes
The legal ruling by the world’s highest court obliges western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own
July 25th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Trump Got a Bloodied Ear: US “Political Violence” Poses a Far Bigger Danger to the Rest of Us
Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does
July 15th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Why the News Media’s Job is to Groom Us
Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media’s differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do
July 10th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - It was the Media, Led by the Guardian, that Kept Julian Assange behind Bars
The media’s villainy will soon be erased because it writes the script telling us what’s going on in the world
July 10th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Starmer Learnt that the Price of Power was Support for Genocide
Britain’s new prime minister has shown he is already an arch-exponent of the dark political arts of deceit, hypocrisy and bad faith
July 8th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - In Our Make-believe Politics, the Strings Pulled by the Super-rich are all too Visible
Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars
June 15th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The Day the West Defined “Success” as a Massacre of 270 Palestinians
Israelis dance in the streets, the White House hails a ‘daring’ operation, Rishi Sunak expresses relief. How carnage in Gaza has become the new normal
June 12th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Complaints about Hamas using “human shields” are the worst kind of bad faith
By celebrating the carnage in Gaza to free four Israeli captives, western politicians and media are treating Palestinians as sub-human – and enabling the genocide to continue
June 10th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Academia is only as free as powerful donors allow it to be
Two prestigious law reviews censor Palestinian scholar for proposing a legal framework that ties the Gaza genocide to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948
June 7th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - To continue the Gaza genocide, Israel and the US must destroy the laws of war
The world’s two highest courts have made an implacable enemy of Israel in trying to uphold international law and end Israeli atrocities
June 6th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel’s crimes are far worse than Hamas’
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as “absurd and false” the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here’s why
May 20th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Why the media have failed Gaza
The media’s job is to create the impression of uncertainty, doubt and confusion. Our job is to explode that lie, denying them and the political class they protect an alibi
May 6th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face
The western media is pretending the West’s efforts to secure a ceasefire are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance
April 30th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - The West now wants “restraint” after months of fuelling a genocide in Gaza
The Middle East is on the brink of war precisely because western politicians indulged for decades every military excess by Israel
April 17th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Israel’s killing of aid workers is no accident. It’s part of the plan to destroy Gaza
The isolation of Gaza is almost complete. The laws of war have been torn up and the enclave is now completely at Israel’s mercy
April 9th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - We were lied into the Gaza genocide; Al Jazeera has shown us how
Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October
March 28th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook - Assange’s ‘reprieve’ is another lie, hiding the real goal of keeping him endlessly locked up
The US has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so. The UK court’s latest ruling is yet more collusion in his show trial
March 26th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
