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 24-June-2020
An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.”
Saturday 13-June-2020
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put on trial.
Friday 17-April-2020
The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society.
Thursday 5-March-2020
The Israeli prime minister has worn down voters by refusing to go while his rival Benny Gantz has no visible path to power.
Thursday 20-February-2020
After lengthy delays the United Nations finally published a database last week of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the West Bank.
Thursday 30-January-2020
Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months Israeli officials had leaked many of its details.
Wednesday 30-October-2019
The United Nations’ independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories issued a damning verdict last week on what he termed “the longest belligerent occupation in the modern world”.
Friday 4-October-2019
It would be a grave mistake to assume that the continuing political deadlock in Israel – with neither incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival Benny Gantz seemingly able to cobble together a coalition government – is evidence of a deep ideological divide.
Sunday 22-September-2019
For most Israelis the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy nor the occupation nor even corruption scandals.
Wednesday 11-September-2019
Every Israeli prime minister – not least Benjamin Netanyahu – understands that a military entanglement with Hezbollah Lebanon’s armed Shia movement on Israel’s northern border is a dangerous wager especially during an election campaign.
Friday 2-August-2019
Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions.
Wednesday 3-July-2019
Donald Trump’s supposed “deal of the century” offering the Palestinians economic bribes in return for political submission is the endgame of western peace-making the real goal of which has been failure not success.
Friday 7-June-2019
In a sign of how politically vulnerable he has rapidly become prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu plunged Israel into new elections last week – less than two months after his far-right bloc appeared to win at the ballot box.
Friday 10-May-2019
Trump’s Middle East team appear to have begun implementing the plan over the past 18 months even without its publication.
Thursday 18-April-2019
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister.
Wednesday 27-March-2019
When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state he tore up the international rulebook.