Jonathan Cook
@jonathan-cook.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Throttled by Bluesky algorithms.
https://jonathancook.substack.com
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Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell
www.middleeasteye.net
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza, backed by the Security Council, is the international order’s equivalent of putting a convicted serial child abuser in charge of a primary school.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell
www.middleeasteye.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza, backed by the Security Council, is the international order’s equivalent of putting a convicted serial child abuser in charge of a primary school.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
The new US rulers of Gaza theme each day to accord with a disaster facing its people:
"Wellness Wednesdays" tackle Israel’s eradication of hospitals and schools, while "Thirsty Thursdays" concern Israel’s destruction of water supplies.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
"Wellness Wednesdays" tackle Israel’s eradication of hospitals and schools, while "Thirsty Thursdays" concern Israel’s destruction of water supplies.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell
www.middleeasteye.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The new US rulers of Gaza theme each day to accord with a disaster facing its people:
"Wellness Wednesdays" tackle Israel’s eradication of hospitals and schools, while "Thirsty Thursdays" concern Israel’s destruction of water supplies.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
"Wellness Wednesdays" tackle Israel’s eradication of hospitals and schools, while "Thirsty Thursdays" concern Israel’s destruction of water supplies.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell
www.middleeasteye.net
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Matthew Alford arrives in Moscow to find himself the only visible westerner. A local explains: "Russia is not a fortress. This time it is Europe that is drawing the Iron Curtain."
More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
The Final Englishman In Russia?
I saw how Muscovites view their fissures with the West over Ukraine with a mixture of bafflement and resolve
drmattalford.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Matthew Alford arrives in Moscow to find himself the only visible westerner. A local explains: "Russia is not a fortress. This time it is Europe that is drawing the Iron Curtain."
More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-last-e...
As ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray notes, the British government is self-evidently lying about a Russian ship being in "UK waters", and shining lasers into pilots' eyes.
Why is every media outlet's defence correspondent echoing these lies?
Answers here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Why is every media outlet's defence correspondent echoing these lies?
Answers here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
The Beat of the War Drums - Craig Murray
In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters”. No Brit...
www.craigmurray.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
As ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray notes, the British government is self-evidently lying about a Russian ship being in "UK waters", and shining lasers into pilots' eyes.
Why is every media outlet's defence correspondent echoing these lies?
Answers here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Why is every media outlet's defence correspondent echoing these lies?
Answers here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Genocide can take many forms. Leaving people to slowly die from exposure to flooding and cold, denied adequate food to sustain body heat, is just another way for Israel to kill more Palestinians.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Genocide can take many forms. Leaving people to slowly die from exposure to flooding and cold, denied adequate food to sustain body heat, is just another way for Israel to kill more Palestinians.
With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.
A new report by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights documents savage conditions of detention in Israel known to have killed 98 Palestinians over the past two years. However, the group believes Israel is concealing many more deaths.
More here: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
More here: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A new report by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights documents savage conditions of detention in Israel known to have killed 98 Palestinians over the past two years. However, the group believes Israel is concealing many more deaths.
More here: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
More here: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
A Swiss investigation reveals that an official with ties to an Israeli firm invested in the military and intelligence sectors was behind the decision to have journalist Ali Abunimah arrested and expelled – to stop a speaking tour about the Gaza genocide.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A Swiss investigation reveals that an official with ties to an Israeli firm invested in the military and intelligence sectors was behind the decision to have journalist Ali Abunimah arrested and expelled – to stop a speaking tour about the Gaza genocide.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
The West's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. I know because for 20 years I suffered firsthand the same editorial pressures now faced by my colleagues.
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bre...
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bre...
Listen: Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it
Read by Matthew Alford
jonathancook.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The West's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. I know because for 20 years I suffered firsthand the same editorial pressures now faced by my colleagues.
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bre...
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bre...
The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: jonathancook.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: jonathancook.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it
The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine
jonathancook.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this.
Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: jonathancook.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: jonathancook.substack.com/p/breaking-f...
Britain's ministry of defence has made 49 visits to Israel in the first 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza – 37 of those visits were in secret.
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Britain's ministry of defence has made 49 visits to Israel in the first 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza – 37 of those visits were in secret.
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
BBC presenters shared Israeli perspectives on Gaza 2,340 times, compared to Palestinian perspectives 217 times.
Media Lens: “This appalling revelation was apparently not a resigning matter for senior BBC figures.”
Read their latest here: medialens.substack.com/p/inversion-...
Media Lens: “This appalling revelation was apparently not a resigning matter for senior BBC figures.”
Read their latest here: medialens.substack.com/p/inversion-...
Inversion Of Reality
The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’?
medialens.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
BBC presenters shared Israeli perspectives on Gaza 2,340 times, compared to Palestinian perspectives 217 times.
Media Lens: “This appalling revelation was apparently not a resigning matter for senior BBC figures.”
Read their latest here: medialens.substack.com/p/inversion-...
Media Lens: “This appalling revelation was apparently not a resigning matter for senior BBC figures.”
Read their latest here: medialens.substack.com/p/inversion-...
The BBC is now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'left wing'.
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...
Listen: BBC news has a long record of disinformation. But this time it chose the wrong target
Read by Matthew Alford
jonathancook.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The BBC is now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'left wing'.
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...
Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...
BBC news has a long record of disinformation. But this time it chose the wrong target.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-news-h...
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-news-h...
BBC news has a long record of disinformation. But this time it chose the wrong target
The BBC's now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'leftwing'
jonathancook.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BBC news has a long record of disinformation. But this time it chose the wrong target.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-news-h...
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-news-h...
Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power.
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power.
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money.
Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
US intel intercepted warnings last year from Israel's own military lawyers that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
US intel intercepted warnings last year from Israel's own military lawyers that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.
A long-time staff member at the UK embassy in Israel owns a home in an illegal settlement built on stolen Palestinian land by a far-right organisation the UK has sanctioned.
The settlement has ties to the self-declared fascist minister Bezalel Smotrich.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
The settlement has ties to the self-declared fascist minister Bezalel Smotrich.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Revealed: UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in settlement built by movement sanctioned by Britain | The National
Government described Amana organisation as ‘funding Israeli settlers involved in perpetrating acts of violence against Palestinian communities’
www.thenationalnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A long-time staff member at the UK embassy in Israel owns a home in an illegal settlement built on stolen Palestinian land by a far-right organisation the UK has sanctioned.
The settlement has ties to the self-declared fascist minister Bezalel Smotrich.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
The settlement has ties to the self-declared fascist minister Bezalel Smotrich.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.
The billionaires, who own "the free press", want you to know they are not happy...
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The billionaires, who own "the free press", want you to know they are not happy...
The media: Watch Mamdani fail.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The media: Watch Mamdani fail.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...
Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...