Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Claim That ‘Hamas Is Stealing Aid’ Is Patently a Lie. Here’s Why
Western journalists – having promoted Israel’s lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.
Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’
Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with Israel’s…
Jonathan Cook: New BBC Documentary ‘The Road to 7th October’ is an Utter Travesty
Pressured into removing a humanising portrait of Gaza’s children, the BBC offers instead a series on Israel-Palestine that frantically revives the very narrative that made the genocide possible
Jonathan Cook: Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back to Haunt Us
The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
Jonathan Cook: Keir Starmer’s Support for the Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies
Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. How is a ‘sovereign and viable Palestinian state’, or a ‘better future’, going to emerge out of ruins on…
Jonathan Cook: Billionaires Dangle Free Speech Like a Bauble. We Gawp Like Open-Mouthed Babies
Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires.
Jonathan Cook: Is US Democracy a Sham? Biden Gave Us the Answer. Were You Listening?
Only in a world of political make-believe would the Wall Street Journal’s account of Biden’s years-long cognitive decline, and its concealment by his officials, count as a scoop.
Jonathan Cook: The Guardian’s Antisemitism Is Clearly on Show. So Why Is Everyone Fine With It?
The media constantly deploy an antisemitic trope: that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington. They get away with it because this trope is crucially useful to…
Jonathan Cook: The Media’s Role in Lying About Amsterdam 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…
Jonathan Cook: A Year Late, The Guardian Finally Permits Us To Use the Term ‘Genocide’
It’s not the World Court, non-western states, rights groups and Palestinians who have been using the term genocide ‘too lightly’. It’s the Guardian that has reached the same conclusion far,…
It’s Time To Stop Buying Into Tooth-Fairy Politics
Trump or Harris, a further slide towards authoritarianism and repression was on the cards. A corrupt, failed system won’t admit its mistakes. It will find scapegoats.
Police Escalate Britain’s War on Independent Journalism
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism, writes Jonathan Cook – except that of the U.K. government. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain’s…
The Corporate News Media at Work
By Jonathan Cook / Consortium News When all we have to rely on in understanding our relationship to the news media is the media’s self-proclaimed assessment of its own role,…
The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
By Jonathan Cook / Declassified UK It is only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange’s release from 14 years of detention, in…
Evidence Missing in ‘Mass Rape’ Charge Against Hamas
Jonathan Cook examines two articles in Haaretz that form the backbone of Western political and media claims about mass rape by the Palestinian resistance group.