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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Panorama editor who oversaw entirely discredited episode stitching up Jeremy Corbyn with antisemitism smears wins top job at BBC News. Rachel Jupp is feted as a "trusted troubleshooter". In other words: a safe pair of hands, ready to do the British establishment's dirty work.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No Ed, Israel's genocide of Gaza isn't "the most complex political issue on the planet". It's the simplest political issue on the planet. You don't mass-murder children because they're the "wrong race".

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Senior rabbis have come out backing Ed Miliband over sanctions on Israel's illegal settlements. Yet the media keep citing Chief Rabbi Mirvis as if he speaks for all Jews. I explain why no one should be listening to this deeply compromised figure: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-09...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The UK's Labour government is so authoritarian it declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation (for opposing genocide) a year before Trump did.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

British "democracy" is an empty husk, hollowed out by a grossly unrepresentative voting system and mega-donors who have captured the political class. Now in power, Burnham has scrapped a commitment to electoral reform and is ditching a pledge to cap political donations. 🤔

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This one aged badly – in just a few weeks

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Haaretz newspaper's new map shows Israel's apartheid rule in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority has nominal control – unless Israel decides otherwise – in the orange bits (18%). The rest is controlled full-time by the Israeli army and its Jewish settler militias.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Were Netanyahu ever to face trial, other leaders would have good reason to fear they might be next – not least for their complicity in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Read my latest on the campaign to eliminate Karim Khan and the ICC: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As each brick protecting the ICC war crimes court is dismantled by the Trump administration, another brick is added to the wall of protection around Netanyahu and Israel’s genocidal war machine. Read my latest article here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Spraying red paint on the building of a business complicit in genocide can now see a UK judge lock you up as a terrorist. No need for the British government to push through the abolition of juries. Judges are showing they're only too eager to overrule jury verdicts.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Starmer admits his government failed the people of Gaza by colluding in Israel's genocide: "Time and again the cry for justice was ignored by the British state because of who the victims are..." Sorry, scratch that. He's talking about the victims of Hillsborough 37 years ago.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Israel continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers feel bold enough to take hostage a US Congressperson at gunpoint, just imagine what these same soldiers and settlers do to Palestinians.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"They could not stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking through." How the western ruling class and the Zionist lobby spent $14 billion to take back control of our minds:

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is being accused of antisemitism for rejecting Israel as a "Jewish state" rather than a state with equal rights. I explain precisely what a Jewish state entails in my latest article: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When scientists say climate change means average temperatures will rise by 2 or 3 degrees, they don't mean that what was once a 20C summer's day becomes 22C. Weather will yo-yo ever more wildly: one week will bring cold and storms, the next a blistering drought. That's the harsh future.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's easy for the UK pundit class to be wise after the event. But for too long they were celebrating Starmer as the great hope of British politics. Meanwhile, I was documenting his myriad and all-too-obvious flaws in real time. Here's a selection of headlines from my articles from 2021-24:

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image. The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Josh Simons, one of Morgan McSweeney's hatchet men from Labour Together – the group that took Israel lobby money and secretly broke election laws to get Starmer into power – embraces Andy Burnham after giving up his seat for him. Watch this space.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Bloomberg says only two points in the 14-point US-Iran deal favour the US. Both are simply a return to the situation before the US and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran. (screenshot c/o John Whitbeck)

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for British politics: lock up troublesome opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy. Read my latest here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-06...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them. This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm sure we are all surprised to learn that the Israeli army flagrantly lied, once again, about what happened when its soldiers committed their latest atrocity: shooting dead a baby.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Once upon time the BBC was the first to accuse anyone who suggested that Israel controlled the US of antisemitism. Interestingly, here is Sarah Smith, the BBC's North America editor, twice stating that Trump may only think he is calling the shots with Netanyahu.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The publics of western democracies have an unfavourable view of Israel, most at 70% or more. Yet, in these same "democracies", such as the UK, the vast majority of politicians actively support aiding Israel's continuing genocidal slaughter in Gaza.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Two years of lying about bombing Gaza's hospitals – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off. Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Criticising a public figure – who isn't even Jewish – for backing Israel during its genocide may be many things but it most certainly isn't "antisemitism". Yet our police, politicians and media keep making this rudimentary mistake. Almost like this isn't really about Jew hatred.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What message did the BBC, Britain's "public service broadcaster", choose to lead with on the day heat records were smashed in the UK – another early warning of what experts are calling dangerous, super-charged climate whiplash? Bring it on, we want more!

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Of course, Andy Burnham supports Shabana Mahmood’s immigration policies and Rachel Reeves’ fiscal policies. He is going to keep on disappointing. I explain why here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-05...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In addition to Israel routinely beating, starving, torturing and raping Palestinians in its detention camps, new research by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights reveals that, in 2024, some 200 children were put in total isolation inside tiny punishment cells.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

US judge blocks Trump's sanctions on UN legal expert Francesca Albanese for reporting on Israeli atrocities in Gaza. He calls it an attack on speech. Meanwhile, the EU continues to sanction Jacques Baud, an ex-Swiss colonel and UN peacekeeper, for criticising its Ukraine policies.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Epstein class are once again imposing a discourse trap on antisemitism for the anti-racist left. The question facing Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/if-s...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Watch Question Time's Fiona Bruce immediately shut down the Green party deputy leader as soon as she challenges the other panellists for linking the marches against genocide with antisemitic attacks.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The government, police and BBC spent years maliciously conflating criticism of Israeli atrocities with hatred of Jews. Now they cite as proof of that "antisemitism" anyone who takes them at their word – that Jews and Israel are inseparable – and hits out at random Jewish targets. Wash and repeat.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The Guardian reports Slovenia, Ireland and Spain's refusal to broadcast Eurovision over Israel's participation. As background, it notes Russia has been barred for its "full-scale invasion of Ukraine". Why the row about Israel? Not genocide, apparently. It's "the war in Gaza".

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

For years, Israel has exposed UK government hypocrisy and lawbreaking by openly using British weapons to commit war crimes and genocide. So the government has come up with an elegant solution: simply shutter the unit dedicated to monitoring such war crimes. 🙈🙉🙊

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Israel completely destroying your home – with all its history, family heirlooms and memories erased – is "bittersweet", reports the Guardian.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I lived for 20 years in Nazareth, the biggest Palestinian Christian community inside Israel. From there, I wrote this piece on how Israel has spent decades slowly eradicating the presence of Palestinian Christians from the birthplace of Christianity: www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-06-07/e...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump: "God bless the Great People of Iran ... I am going to exterminate them tonight." The ravings of a madman with his finger on the nuclear button. God protect us all.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The sort of people who shouldn't have access to a nuclear bomb, according to Trump: "People who are sick of mind. Tough, smart and sick. ... Mentally these are disturbed people. And powerful and rich. If you think I'm going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon..."

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The perfect image of Israel's depraved occupation: A grey-haired Palestinian man, zip-tied and blindfolded, forced to hold a sign promoting the jewellery business of his Israeli captor. For decades, the Israeli army has been managing a giant land-theft extortion racket.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Trita Parsi on how Israel is systematically killing off Iran's consensus-makers – the latest is former foreign minister Kamal Kharazi – to make sure Trump has no one to negotiate with.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist. Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

All day the BBC has aired an Israeli military lie that the UK is not involved in the war on Iran – even as British bases host US bombers attacking Tehran. A patent Israeli falsehood being amplified by the BBC without a trace of pushback.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The BBC's Lucy Williamson says Israel is destroying south Lebanon "using Gaza as a model – a blueprint for destruction used again as a path to peace". That's right: genocide as "a path to peace". Orwell would be proud.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The US empire's footprint on a map: Source: davidvine.net/maps.html

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

More than half the population in northern Israel belong to Israel's much-discriminated Palestinian minority. It doesn't occur to the racist Guardian to ask them what they think of Israel's latest illegal war.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

BBC executives seem willing to back their Middle East editor Raffi Berg in his libel case against Owen Jones however damaging the resulting revelations about the corporation’s profoundly skewed coverage of Israel. Read my latest article here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-03...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This Guardian story amplifies anger at Russia's return to the Venice Biennale. You'd never know from reading it that Israel and the US are currently engaged in an illegal war of aggression on Iran. Isn't that "whitewashing war crimes" too, Guardian?

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The team that has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza is issuing barely veiled threats to nuke Iran. Psychopaths are running "western civilisation".

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