Jonathan Cook Podcast

Why is the western media failing to note the difference between “abducted” civilians and “captured” soldiers in its reporting of the Israelis held in Gaza? Because language strongly shapes how we feel emotionally about news events. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism – except the UK government’s. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain’s collusion in Israel’s genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A decade ago – long before October 7 – a European ambassador was asked what red line Israel would need to cross before his country acted. He replied: 'There is no red line.' Then, it sounded evasive. Today, it was clearly prophecy. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Capitalism is irredeemably destructive, warns George Monbiot in his new book. So why is he shilling for the Guardian, when its role is to create bipartisan support for the crushing of the anti-capitalist, anti-war left? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In presenting its interview of Hamas' deputy political chief, the BBC abandoned the pretence that it is anything more than the British state's willing propaganda channel. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The West, via Israel, is fomenting for Hezbollah and the Shia resistance their own ISIS moment. Moderates are once again losing the argument – because we lost it for them. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu's assassination by Hezbollah might look like... Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western publics are being subjected to an unprecedented campaign of media propaganda by the BBC and other outlets to conceal Israel’s true goals as it expands the slaughter from Gaza to Lebanon. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The BBC has made a film about the Israeli survivors of October 7 at the Nova rave, titled We Will Dance Again . But no one comes to make a film about the children of Gaza who have been living and dying for a year under Israel's bombs. If Gaza’s children survive, will they ever get to dance? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The war on Gaza exposed the little fascist not just in Israelis but in a western elite too. Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It's time to ask why. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

If you were horrified by October 7, but are not more horrified by what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for more than half a century in its prisons, then you are either in a state of deep ignorance – hardly surprising given the lack of media coverage of Israel's despotic rule over Palestinians – or in deep denial. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

British Jewish leaders are incensed by Britain's 8% cut in weapons to Israel. Judged by the very rules Starmer imposed on Labour, that makes him a proven antisemite. Hear my other takeaways from the UK's decision on arms sales to Israel that the media are hiding. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Western politicians and media are never going to admit that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The moment they do, the veil of illusions fostered for decades about Israel – designed to conceal the West’s complicity in Israeli crimes – would be torn away.  Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Britain's authoritarian new prime minister Keir Starmer is expanding the scope of already draconian laws to redefine his critics as 'supporters' of terrorism. His goal: to terrorise into silence opponents of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland has to twist the story of the first Jew to escape Auschwitz because a true biography of Rudolf Vrba would expose the Zionist movement's collusion with the Nazis – and an ugly truth about Israel. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Elon Musk, supposedly the 'saviour of free speech', is cracking down on criticism of Israel's genocide. What he calls the 'faaaaar left' is in his crosshairs. It'll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In the UK, Islamophobia is now so bipartisan, so normalised, that BBC reporters refer to anti-Muslim pogromists as 'pro-British protesters'. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin. The difference now is that the excuses no longer work. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel’s commanders are starting to understand the trap they set for themselves. They've long cultivated fascistic zealotry in the ranks needed to dehumanise and better oppress Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. But the war crimes proudly being live-streamed by their units now leave them exposed to the legal consequences. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/sub...

The casualty figures in Gaza have been stalled for months. That serves Israel’s interests by lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency. But I explain here how we might start to understand how many have really been killed by Israel in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Every empire falls. The US one will be no different. Collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become – as the Congress showed only too clearly in its public celebration of Netanyahu and his genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Don't be fooled. The legal ruling by the world's highest court on the Israeli occupation obliges western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Women and children are being targeted intentionally in Gaza, say Israeli whistleblower-soldiers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded. But the western media still keeps turning a blind eye. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media's really there to do. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Britain’s new prime minister has shown he is already an arch-exponent of the dark political arts of deceit, hypocrisy and bad faith. Listen not to what he says, but watch closely what he actually does. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe