Jonathan Cook
@jonathan-cook.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism
https://jonathancook.substack.com
https://jonathancook.substack.com
The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power.
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power.
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
US intel intercepted warnings last year from Israel's own military lawyers that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
US intel intercepted warnings last year from Israel's own military lawyers that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
The billionaires, who own "the free press", want you to know they are not happy...
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The billionaires, who own "the free press", want you to know they are not happy...
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Hamas rocket strikes on Israel kill at least 104 as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile.
Oops. Sorry. Headline from alternate universe.
Oops. Sorry. Headline from alternate universe.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hamas rocket strikes on Israel kill at least 104 as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile.
Oops. Sorry. Headline from alternate universe.
Oops. Sorry. Headline from alternate universe.
British Airways was fine sponsoring Louis Theroux's podcast when he was interviewing genocide-supporting Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss.
But he's now apparently overstepped the mark by talking to a punk musician who made a mean chant about Israel's genocidal army.
But he's now apparently overstepped the mark by talking to a punk musician who made a mean chant about Israel's genocidal army.
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
British Airways was fine sponsoring Louis Theroux's podcast when he was interviewing genocide-supporting Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss.
But he's now apparently overstepped the mark by talking to a punk musician who made a mean chant about Israel's genocidal army.
But he's now apparently overstepped the mark by talking to a punk musician who made a mean chant about Israel's genocidal army.
Trump tells Israel's Knesset: "We’ve given a lot [of weapons] to Israel.. You used them well. It takes people that know how to use them, and you obviously used them very well."
Son-in-law Kushner on his trip to Gaza: "It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off."
Son-in-law Kushner on his trip to Gaza: "It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off."
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump tells Israel's Knesset: "We’ve given a lot [of weapons] to Israel.. You used them well. It takes people that know how to use them, and you obviously used them very well."
Son-in-law Kushner on his trip to Gaza: "It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off."
Son-in-law Kushner on his trip to Gaza: "It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off."
Research shows plug-in hybrids are nearly as polluting as petrol cars. Buried in the story is this telling detail:
The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than €5bn (£4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."
The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than €5bn (£4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Research shows plug-in hybrids are nearly as polluting as petrol cars. Buried in the story is this telling detail:
The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than €5bn (£4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."
The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than €5bn (£4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."
Yorkshire Building Society appear to have shut down the account of a couple – he's a former barrister – for being pro-Palestine activists.
YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't, they must feel the power of a consumer boycott.
YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't, they must feel the power of a consumer boycott.
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yorkshire Building Society appear to have shut down the account of a couple – he's a former barrister – for being pro-Palestine activists.
YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't, they must feel the power of a consumer boycott.
YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't, they must feel the power of a consumer boycott.
After two years of seeing children shredded, buried under rubble, and starved, our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages.
If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.
If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.
October 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
After two years of seeing children shredded, buried under rubble, and starved, our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages.
If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.
If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.
The Guardian joins the chorus pretending a Gaza peace deal was possible because of Trump's "juggernaut" personality.
The truth: without US weapons, Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide.
The US could have stopped this from day one, had it wished to.
The truth: without US weapons, Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide.
The US could have stopped this from day one, had it wished to.
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Guardian joins the chorus pretending a Gaza peace deal was possible because of Trump's "juggernaut" personality.
The truth: without US weapons, Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide.
The US could have stopped this from day one, had it wished to.
The truth: without US weapons, Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide.
The US could have stopped this from day one, had it wished to.
The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal.
No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.
Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.
Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
October 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal.
No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.
Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.
Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
Were Russia to kidnap and torture British citizens, would that simply be "a matter for the Russian government", in the view of Starmer's office?
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Were Russia to kidnap and torture British citizens, would that simply be "a matter for the Russian government", in the view of Starmer's office?
The BBC and Home Secretary conveniently ignoring *why* anti-genocide protesters were out on the streets the same day as the Manchester attack:
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The BBC and Home Secretary conveniently ignoring *why* anti-genocide protesters were out on the streets the same day as the Manchester attack:
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
Yes, the Home Secretary really did just say we need to hold off protesting against the British government's continuing complicity in Israel's daily slaughter in Gaza out of respect for Jews grieving over the Manchester synagogue attack.
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Yes, the Home Secretary really did just say we need to hold off protesting against the British government's continuing complicity in Israel's daily slaughter in Gaza out of respect for Jews grieving over the Manchester synagogue attack.
"Arrested", Guardian? Stop pretending that Israel has any kind of legal right to abduct peace activists – either in international waters or in Gaza's waters.
This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.
This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.
October 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Arrested", Guardian? Stop pretending that Israel has any kind of legal right to abduct peace activists – either in international waters or in Gaza's waters.
This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.
This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.
Guardian hyperventilating on its front page about four killed in Ukraine yesterday by Russian bombs.
Buried deep in the paper's international news section is a report that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza in the same period.
Buried deep in the paper's international news section is a report that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza in the same period.
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Guardian hyperventilating on its front page about four killed in Ukraine yesterday by Russian bombs.
Buried deep in the paper's international news section is a report that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza in the same period.
Buried deep in the paper's international news section is a report that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza in the same period.
The BBC has spent two years silencing those who try to name Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza a genocide.
But all it takes is four dead in Ukraine and the BBC gives Kyiv's mayor a platform to call the Russian attacks a genocide.
But all it takes is four dead in Ukraine and the BBC gives Kyiv's mayor a platform to call the Russian attacks a genocide.
September 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The BBC has spent two years silencing those who try to name Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza a genocide.
But all it takes is four dead in Ukraine and the BBC gives Kyiv's mayor a platform to call the Russian attacks a genocide.
But all it takes is four dead in Ukraine and the BBC gives Kyiv's mayor a platform to call the Russian attacks a genocide.
It has long been clear that the genocide-supporting, free speech-suppressing, international law-flouting US is no place for the United Nations to be located.
Time to move it elsewhere.
Time to move it elsewhere.
September 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It has long been clear that the genocide-supporting, free speech-suppressing, international law-flouting US is no place for the United Nations to be located.
Time to move it elsewhere.
Time to move it elsewhere.
Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich says the two-year "demolition phase" of Gaza is now over – and it's time to reap the benefits, with the US, of a "real estate bonanza" provided by the genocidal ethnic cleansing of its people.
More here: archive.ph/dLIjj
More here: archive.ph/dLIjj
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich says the two-year "demolition phase" of Gaza is now over – and it's time to reap the benefits, with the US, of a "real estate bonanza" provided by the genocidal ethnic cleansing of its people.
More here: archive.ph/dLIjj
More here: archive.ph/dLIjj
On the day the UN concludes Israel is guilty of genocide, the BBC's Lucy Williamson once again promotes Israel's favourite, phoney genocide-denial talking point.
She claims those who refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Israel from Gaza City will serve as Hamas "human shields".
She claims those who refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Israel from Gaza City will serve as Hamas "human shields".
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On the day the UN concludes Israel is guilty of genocide, the BBC's Lucy Williamson once again promotes Israel's favourite, phoney genocide-denial talking point.
She claims those who refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Israel from Gaza City will serve as Hamas "human shields".
She claims those who refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Israel from Gaza City will serve as Hamas "human shields".
The BBC's Lucy Williamson, embedded with the Israeli army in Gaza, thinks the most pressing question isn't "How is Israel getting away with ethnically cleansing 1 million Palestinians?"
No, it's whether two new "aid sites" will "be enough to persuade people to come?"
No, it's whether two new "aid sites" will "be enough to persuade people to come?"
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The BBC's Lucy Williamson, embedded with the Israeli army in Gaza, thinks the most pressing question isn't "How is Israel getting away with ethnically cleansing 1 million Palestinians?"
No, it's whether two new "aid sites" will "be enough to persuade people to come?"
No, it's whether two new "aid sites" will "be enough to persuade people to come?"