Jonathan Cook Podcast

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Yet again the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza – and as always, he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel's demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The Met's police chief Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising 'community tensions'. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The attack on a Manchester synagogue is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The media aren’t reporting the news. They are shaping the news to shape our minds, our perceptions, our sympathies. Until we grasp that simple fact, we will continue cheering those whose only goal is to keep oppressing us and enriching themselves. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The reluctant recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France, Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three decades now. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Charlie Kirk’s killing is being treated as the firing of a starting pistol: it will legitimate a rapid escalation of more political violence from the emerging US fascist right for whom Trump is the figurehead. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Aside from the spectacle of our leaders openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in unscripted moments around his visit. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now, with Gaza, the game is up.. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Why is the Met blaming protesters for 'wasting' its resources on arresting 'terrorist' pensioners? There’s a proper address for its grievances: Starmer's authoritarian, genocide-complicit government. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel's intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC and Piers Morgan. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The government and police appear keen to expand the 'hostile environment' policy for immigrants to encompass the British public – and deter political dissent on Israel's genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

As the dusting off of Israel's E1 Plan emphasises, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza – unless we act. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing strategy in Gaza pulls the rug out from under the West's cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

It is no small task to unpack how a BBC reporter thought it fine to make the following obscene observation in a segment on Israel’s murder of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?" Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a 'Jewish' project. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Some 17 years ago an Israeli general and government minister threatened Gaza with a "Shoah" – a word until then reserved for the Holocaust. The trajectory in Gaza has been unwavering ever since. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The confected Gaza ‘scandals’ are designed to browbeat the BBC into even greater cravenness. If it was reluctant before to give Palestinians a voice, now it will avoid doing so entirely. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe