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 13-March-2019
The United Nations postponed last week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories.
Tuesday 26-February-2019
Israel’s decision to withhold part of the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and plunge it deeper into crisis starkly illustrates the hypocrisies and deceptions at the core of the two governments’ relationship.
Wednesday 19-December-2018
Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them.
Wednesday 7-November-2018
The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election last week has won Israel a passionate new friend on the international stage.
Wednesday 5-September-2018
The Trump administration’s decision to scrap all future aid payments to the main agency helping Palestinian refugees marks a new – and most likely disastrous – chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Tuesday 10-July-2018
Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan al-Ahmar last week after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes.
Tuesday 26-June-2018
First Israel built a sophisticated missile interception system named Iron Dome to neutralize the threat of homemade rockets fired out of Gaza.
Thursday 17-May-2018
The contrasting images coming out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday could not have been starker – or more disturbing.
Saturday 12-May-2018
Recent events have highlighted why the continuing refusal by many Western academics and artists to take up the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel is so wrong-headed.
Wednesday 21-March-2018
Seemingly unrelated events all point to a tectonic shift in which Israel has begun preparing the ground to annex the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tuesday 6-March-2018
It is has been a very bad week for those claiming Israel has the most moral army in the world.
Friday 26-January-2018
Last week Israeli military officials for the first time echoed what human rights groups and the United Nations have been saying for some time: that Gaza’s economy and infrastructure stand on the brink of collapse.
Friday 12-January-2018
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when over many years they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
Thursday 2-November-2017
There is more than a little irony in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attend a “celebration” dinner this week in London with his British counterpart Theresa May marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration.
Sunday 3-September-2017
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a crushing rebuke to the perennial optimists roused to hopes of imminent peace by the visit to the Middle East last week of Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Thursday 13-July-2017
When Israel passed a new counter-terrorism law last year Ayman Odeh a leader of the country’s large minority of Palestinian citizens described its draconian measures as colonialism’s “last gasp”.