Jonathan Cook
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How they get away with it in Gaza…
Declassified talks to Jonathan Cook about the western media’s Israel bias
March 21st, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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How the Western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters
March 20th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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Traumatised Zionist mindset exposed by new Hollywood attack on Glazer for Oscar speech
Son of Saul showed how the Holocaust’s horrors required inmates to hollow out their humanity. The horrors of Gaza have made a moral monster of its director, Laszlo Nemes
March 16th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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The Antisemitism Industry doesn’t speak for Jews: It speaks for western elites
Film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to threaten the establishment’s stranglehold on the West’s narrative about Israel – and itself
March 14th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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Gaza is Paying the Ultimate Price for Decades of Media Pandering to Zionist Bigotry
March 6th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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Why the Guardian‘s “Hamas Mass Rape” Story doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test
How is it that journalists are not pausing to question the outrageous improbability of so many of the evidence-poor Hamas rape stories being advanced?
January 21st, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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Why is the Real Story of October 7 Off-limits to Western, but not Israeli, Media?
Israeli army ‘ethics’ chief says crimes committed by soldiers against Israel’s own civilians are ‘horrifying’. How is this not newsworthy for British journalists?
January 19th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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Western Racism laid the Foundations for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
South Africa and Israel bear the trauma of Europe’s long history of racial supremacism, but each has drawn precisely opposite lessons
January 16th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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The West will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court
Israel’s allies aren’t just turning a blind eye to Gaza’s killing fields. They have cheered on the bloodshed, provided diplomatic cover and supplied the arms
January 12th, 2024 by Jonathan Cook
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“Are We the Baddies?”
Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
December 31st, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Israel and its Allies are Repurposing the Goals and Lies of 1948 in Gaza in 2023
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative
November 21st, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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The Media’s Nord Stream Lies Just Keep Coming
Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is
November 14th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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What the BBC Fails to Tell You about October 7
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day
November 2nd, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Jonathan Freedland’s Enduring Bad Faith
Guardian columnist feigns concern for two peoples ‘fated to share the same land’. But yet again he finds excuses to keep one of those people penned into a prison
October 30th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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With Hamas Gone, Gaza Still Wouldn’t be Free
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide
October 28th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Did Israel choose to kill Hamas and the hostages indiscriminately?
The case builds that Israel may have invoked its infamous ‘Hannibal directive’, which requires that the army kill Israelis rather than let them be taken hostage
October 23rd, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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This is Another Iraqi WMD Moment. We are Being Gaslit
It’s not just ‘unlikely’ that a Palestinian rocket hit the Gaza hospital. It’s impossible. The media know this, they just don’t dare say it
October 18th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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What the Media Forgets to Tell You about Israel and Gaza
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn’t defending itself. It’s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians
October 16th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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The West’s Hypocrisy towards Gaza’s Breakout is Stomach-turning
There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, their immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’
October 8th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise
September 19th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Why the Media Aren’t Telling the Whole Story of Libya’s Floods
There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home
September 15th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
