Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His article appeared in the Middle East Eye.
Wednesday 31-January-2024
It was easy to miss the welcome news from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday amid the huge wave of disappointment that swept Palestinians and much of the watching world.
Sunday 5-November-2023
All the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a massive ethnic cleansing operation conducted at lightning speed and with US assistance.
Tuesday 17-October-2023
Catastrophe looms because journalists have failed to hold both Israel and their own governments to account.
Wednesday 11-October-2023
There will be little sympathy in the West as yet again besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel the immense suffering justified by the term Israeli retaliation.
Friday 7-April-2023
Once again the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression.
Thursday 8-December-2022
What Israeli generals are really worried about is how little will change when two ultra-nationalist religious settlers are put in charge of the occupation.
Friday 17-June-2022
Ex-government minister’s recent warning to Palestinian flag-wavers of another forced expulsion exposes the lie at the heart of Israel’s founding.
Thursday 19-May-2022
During 20 years of reporting on the conflict I learned first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted.
Wednesday 23-March-2022
Silicon Valley’s decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West.
Thursday 3-February-2022
With the publication of Amnesty International’s new apartheid report Israel’s supporters have just one tactic left: to accuse critics of antisemitism
Tuesday 23-November-2021
The states that cry that they kill innocents ‘by accident’ or ‘unintentionally’ or because ‘the terrorists shield behind them’ are also the ones that keep killing innocents.
Sunday 4-July-2021
Amnesty International report highlights how Israeli police protect Jewish supremacism from any challenge by Palestinian citizens.
Saturday 3-April-2021
Extreme religious and settler parties are a firm majority in Israel’s new parliament. Now they want a leader truly committed to their cause.
Friday 12-February-2021
An ICC ruling has panicked Israeli officials who can now be investigated but they will likely respond with intensified threats.
Saturday 16-January-2021
New report by rights group B’Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel’s critics as anti-Semites for arguing that Israel is a racist state.
Saturday 22-August-2020
When the Palestinian actor Mohammed Bakri made a documentary about Jenin in 2002 – filming immediately after the Israeli army had completed rampaging through the West Bank city leaving death and destruction in its wake – he chose an unusual narrator for the opening scene: a mute Palestinian youth.