Jonathan Cook Podcast

An Israeli Jew is charged over referring to 'Nazi Israel'. An anti-genocide protester risks arrest as a terrorist for waving a Palestinian flag. Starmer is intentionally stoking a climate of fear to crush criticism of his complicity in genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

From an attack on Iran to chants at Glastonbury and direct action at RAF Brize Norton, Starmer's government keeps selling us red herrings to throw us off the scent of the UK's complicity in Israel's genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel, Starmer's government and the media are fomenting a moral panic about words 'glorifying violence' towards the IDF, while glorifying the IDF's all-too-real violence towards Palestinians. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In a face-to-face confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the 'birth pangs' of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force – and they will not end in Iran. The violent new world being born is going to horrify you. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

As if mocking Palestinians, the western media continue to refer to this real-life, scaled-up Hunger Games in Gaza – imposed by Israel in place of the long-established United Nations relief system – as "aid distribution". Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London. Starmer’s inaction proves he has no intention of stopping his support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

If you've spent the past 20 months wondering why British leaders on both sides of the aisle have barely criticised Israel, even as it slaughtered and starved Gaza’s population, you finally got an answer last week. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the quiet part out loud, saying Israel was fighting a proxy war in Gaza on behalf of the UK. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/...

Your 'aid' system will lead to chaos, as desperate, starving people fight for food. That’s great. They look like a swarming mass of the very 'human animals' you were talking about from the start Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western journalists – having promoted Israel's lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The sudden handwringing in western capitals over Gaza is just another bit of stagecraft, little different from the earlier mix of silence and talk about Israel’s “right to defend itself”. And it is to the same purpose: to buy Israel time to “finish the job” – that is, to complete its genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel's job of genocide easier. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

For once, the BBC aired a documentary showing Israeli society's dark underbelly. The backlash is not because Louis Theroux got it wrong. It's because his film tells us far too much about ourselves. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The BBC's role is not to keep viewers informed. It's to persuade them a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics they cannot hope to understand. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Nineteen months into Israel's slaughter of Gaza's children, national treasures turned moral ghouls like Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore are still being given a platform to smear as 'antisemites' opponents of genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel's execution of 15 emergency workers a month ago is incontrovertibly established. So why are the Guardian and other outlets still so ready to fudge the issue? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The left and right take the same reality-based view of world affairs but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The wide-ranging crackdown on basic freedoms is being framed as a 'war on antisemitism'. But fascism in Europe and the US was always going to return in disguise, smearing its opponents, not itself, as the Nazis. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Sympathy for Israeli former captive Eli Sharabi must not obscure the bigger picture: he has allowed himself to be recruited at the United Nations to Israel's propaganda campaign for genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The new guard of kleptocrats in charge of Washington are seeking quick deals on Gaza and Ukraine – not because they want peace but because they've found a better way to make themselves even richer. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Pressured into removing a humanising portrait of Gaza’s children, the BBC offers instead a series on Israel-Palestine that frantically revives the very narrative that made the genocide possible. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A campaign of lies and disinformation have helped to shred international law over the past year and half. And one of the biggest lies is the pretence that, in slaughtering Gaza’s children, Israel has been acting in the interests of Israelis held captive in the enclave. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for doing in his confrontation with Ukraine's Zelensky last week, it was this: he decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign global policeman enforcing a "rules-based order". Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Walter Salles' new film on the disappearances of regime critics in 1970s Brazil shows an endless supply of compliant officials who impassively, conscientiously carry out the abuse of men, women and children. It is a reminder that plenty of these people live among us – and that they have been doing very little to hide who they are over the past 16 months. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonatha...