Jonathan Cook Podcast

In reducing Hamas simply to monsters, Israel’s goal was to dehumanise the entire population of Gaza – to justify its genocidal crimes. And yet repeated scenes of Israeli captives demonstrating a human connection to their Hamas captors make that idea harder to sustain. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Trump’s innovation is not the threat to 'clean out' Gaza. It is dropping a long-standing aim to dress up Palestinian expulsion as a peace plan. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

During Netanyahu’s visit, President Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year's Auschwitz commemorations. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The West’s 'war on terror' was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it the whole time. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

How is it possible that Israel General Oded Basyuk, a major war crimes suspect, is invited to London to meet UK officials in the midst of a genocide investigation by the ICJ, and no major British media outlet has shown the slightest interest in doorstepping him or in asking questions about his visit? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

With the BBC failing to normalise Israel's genocide in Gaza and British complicity, Keir Starmer needed a new strategy for bringing to an end the rallies that have been embarrassing him. The velvet glove of the BBC has been swapped for the Met’s iron first. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

I was an eyewitness to events on Saturday. The Metropolitan police are lying when they claim the ex-Labour leader and MP John McDonnell forced their way through a police cordon. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. Finally the game may be up. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel isn't eradicating 'the terrorists'. It's turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Even now, many are listening to the “revelations” of Biden’s long cognitive decline and, just like the Wall Street Journal, not wondering how the US has been functioning for the past four years with a president barely able to read a teleprompter, one whose mind is so vacant he can wander off in the middle of a conversation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. New reports by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and Medecins Sans Frontieres all agree that a genocide is taking place in Gaza. But for our media the genocide has become just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack...

Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate. Its future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked like Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

HTS, the rebranded al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, is eager to reassure Washington that it poses no threat to Israel – or its continuing genocide in Gaza. But while HTS is 'liberating' Syria, Israel is busy capturing and bombing large chunks of the country. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists and Islamic nationalists. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Original article published here: Either Guardian journalists don't care about police accruing powers to jail journalists for doing journalism, or they have no real control over the material the paper publishes. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The truth is that the idea of a British liberal democracy is unravelling before our eyes. When the guardians of the liberal order, of the rule of law and humanitarianism, are unmasked as charlatans – as is the case with both Starmer and Biden – the forces of darkness rush in to fill the void. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In reporting the Amsterdam violence as antisemitism, the western media didn't make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation. They peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we are ever to understand the world we live in. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The darkest days in Europe’s history are indeed back with us. But not because a bunch of Israeli football hooligans ended up receiving as much violence in Amsterdam as they tried to dish out. It is back because the West is all too ready to embrace Israel’s anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bigotry. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A year too late, and in typically mendacious fashion, the Guardian finally concedes it's ok to use the term ‘genocide’ about Gaza – as it also warns that the genocide has reached its very final stage. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Trump or Harris, a further slide towards authoritarianism and repression was always on the cards. A corrupt, failed system won't admit its mistakes. It will find scapegoats. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare by their politicians and media, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel is not “remaking the Middle East”. It is destroying the world as we have known it for generations. What Israel has made clear, supported by western capitals, is that there is no safe place, not even for those recovering in a hospital bed from Israel’s earlier atrocities. There are no “non-combatants”, no civilians. There are no rules. Everyone is a target. Get full access to Jonathan Cook a...