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Jonathan Cook

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Writer, journalist. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Throttled by Bluesky algorithms. jonathancook.substack.com

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 6h
Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water. Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The furore engulfing Sheeran wasn't provoked by his silence on Gaza. But now it's clear that billionaires dictate what artists can say in venues, Sheeran’s silence looks a lot more malign than it did before. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ed-...
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Listen: Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
Read by Matthew Alford
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...
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Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – one hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone trying to hold the super-rich to account
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The media can have us believe anything – that black is white, that up is down. They can, by imposing a new narrative consensus, make us believe the very opposite of what we were encouraged to believe a few moments earlier. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
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Listen: The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Read by Matthew Alford
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through sheer force of a new, imposed narrative consensus, the media can make us believe the very opposite of what we were encouraged to believe moments earlier. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything
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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 · 18/09/2026
During Israel's genocide, the billionaire class has maintained its grip on our cultural spaces. Now in the bust-up between Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, that chokehold has been exposed – and it looks every bit as ugly as it is. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ed-...
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Listen / Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires in support of genocide is a bad look. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...
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Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/super-inte...
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Super-intelligent AI won’t kill us. Dumb billionaires are doing that all by themselves
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran bleats in his own defence: "There is room for multiple approaches to the same end: Peace." But there's precisely no such room, if pro-Israel billionaires dictate who's allowed a platform. Sheeran could have defended Macklemore's place on stage. Instead he caved.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just attended a screening of Abby Martin's remarkable new film Earth's Greatest Enemy, on the US military's unprecedented destruction of the planet. Find a way to see it if you can. In the meantime, watch Martin explain what is at stake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IIl...
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Abby Martin INFILTRATED the US Military. IT'S WORSE Than You Think
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Chief Rabbi Mirvis confirms the worst assumptions of antisemites when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect his self-declared Jewish state from ever being held accountable for its crimes. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-it-...
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Listen: It is chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis making British Jews less safe, not Ed Miliband
Read by Matthew Alford
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easily the best, simple explanation I've seen of why, if we carry on the race for super-intelligence, we are all likely to end up dead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0I...
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AI Expert: A 10% Extinction Risk Is “Way Too Low” - w/ Nate Soares
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Britain's settlement trade ban is cosmetic. For it to work, it must sanction Israel. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mili...
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Britain’s sanctions are trying to save Israel from itself. What about the Palestinians?
The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between 'illegal' Jewish settlements and a supposedly 'law-abiding' Israel
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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 · 10/09/2026
The deaths on 9/11 sparked a propaganda blitz launching a global "war on terror". Over 10 times that number killed in Europe by this summer's heat is met not just with inaction but by moves to make the crisis far worse. Media Lens on mounting global insanity: medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...
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The Nepal And Tibet Flood - Another Warning, Another Failure To Respond
After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chief Rabbi Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/british-je...
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British Jews are being made less safe by chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, not Ed Miliband
Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anything that limits Israel’s ability to commit atrocities against Palestinians will, says Chief Rabbi Mirvis, make British Jews less safe – for reasons that are never explained, and about which the media are always, and strangely, incurious. Read more: jonathancook.substack.com/p/british-je...
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British Jews are being made less safe by chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, not Ed Miliband
Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
British Jews are being made less safe by chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, not Ed Miliband. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/british-je...
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British Jews are being made less safe by chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, not Ed Miliband
Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The BBC asks: ‘What will you tell your grandchildren about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it, how much I want it back. Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...
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Listen: BBC asks, ‘What will I tell my grandkids about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it
Read by Matthew Alford
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-asks-w...
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BBC asks: ‘What will I tell my grandkids about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it
The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
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Listen: The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
Read by Matthew Alford
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-britis...
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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room
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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 · 28/08/2026
What if our tech overlords lured us into a trap, persuading us to hand over everything we know, believe and feel to a Great Mind – a neural network that eventually could and would replace us. Paul Kingsnorth sets out the ultimate conspiracy theory: paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-trap
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The Trap
A conspiracy theory
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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 · 25/08/2026
Coming climate shockwaves over the next two decades are likely to kill between 2 and 4 billion people, research shows. What has been the response of corporate media invested in the very activities fuelling those deaths? Silence, of course. Media Lens explain: medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
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4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All governments have known what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/thatcher-w...
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Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever
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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 · 12/08/2026
Matthew Alford reads my latest: A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism. jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-a-d...
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Listen: A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Read by Matthew Alford
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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 · 11/08/2026
The role of the media, from the BBC to Fox, is to so clog up our minds with propaganda extolling iPhones and jeans that we choose to continue worshipping at the altar of capitalism, even as the walls of the temple visibly crack and crumble. My latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-we...
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A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-we...
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A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The clearest of messages was sent by ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We're back to the law of the jungle. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-wit...
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Listen: With Karim Khan's dismissal, the war crimes court's elimination is near-complete
Read by Matthew Alford
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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 · 30/07/2026
The clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
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With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
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With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
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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 · 16/07/2026
Britain's Big Brother state is already here – we just don't realise it yet. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-u...
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these so-called bogeymen
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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 · 14/07/2026
Again this week, western leaders showed they have no intention whatsoever of severing support for Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, however violent the Jewish colonisers who live on stolen Palestinian land prove to be. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
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Listen: The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-w...
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The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace
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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 · 10/07/2026
Burnham's contrition on Gaza is entirely hollow. Watch what he actually does in power. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...
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Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power
Here is a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it?
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Here is a list of the things Andy Burnham is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide in Gaza, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...
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Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power
Here is a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it?
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of apartheid. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...
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Listen: Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how
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