Jonathan Cook Podcast

The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it impossible for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Antisemitism is being weaponised once again, as Andy Burnham’s government rounds on the Jewish-led Greens and rolls out a Big Brother programme in schools. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Why are western audiences stunned into silence by the new film NAZA? Because it shames us. It shows us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The claim that Israel has a ‘right’ to exist is not what it seems. It’s really the diabolical claim that Israel has a right to commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Andy Burnham’s government is rolling out a new “Centre for Information Defence”. But the outside actors most aggressively undermining what little remains of British democracy – Israel and the US – are nowhere in its sights. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

After the UK Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law. No states have a "right" to exist – least of all the apartheid, genocidal state of Israel. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – one hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone who tries to hold the billionaire class to account. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

During Israel's genocide, the billionaire class has maintained its grip on our cultural spaces. Now in the bust-up between Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, that chokehold has been exposed – and it looks every bit as ugly as, indeed, it is. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis confirms the worst assumptions of antisemites when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect his self-declared Jewish state from ever being held accountable for its crimes. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between 'illegal' Jewish settlements that ethnically cleanse Palestinians and a supposedly 'law-abiding' Israel that establishes and arms those settlements. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Governments knew what was coming with the climate. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid punishing Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Here is a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe