Listen: Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 12 hours ago

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 day ago

Listen: Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 6 days ago

Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate

Syria’s 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 | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 6 days ago

Listen: Syria's Assad has fallen - just as the Pentagon planned 23 years ago

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 13 days ago

Syria's Assad has fallen - just as the Pentagon planned 23 years ago

When westerners see 'enemy' governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 13 days ago

Listen: The day the media decided militant jihadism was respectable

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 14 days ago

The day the media decided militant jihadism was respectable

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 | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 14 days ago

Listen: The Guardian is not our friend, as the strike by its staff highlights

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 17 days ago

The Guardian is not our friend, as the strike by its staff highlights

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 | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 18 days ago

Listen: Biden and Starmer are destroying international law to protect Israel’s genocide

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 19 days ago

Biden and Starmer are destroying international law to protect Israel’s genocide

When everything is exposed as a lie, the biggest liars triumph. The forces of darkness rush in to fill the void. That is the future awaiting us | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 21 days ago

The Guardian's antisemitism is clearly on show. So why is everyone fine with it?

The media constantly deploy an antisemitic trope: that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington. They get away with it because this trope is crucially useful to the western power elite | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Starmer lied in saying Israel isn't carrying out genocide in Gaza. Here's the proof

We may be exhausted by 13 months of lies, disinformation and smears. But we're not voiceless, or powerless. Our leaders seek to bully us into silence because they fear what we have to say | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Listen: The media's role in lying about Amsterdam violence just gets darker

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

The media's role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker

News outlets didn't make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we're ever to make sense of the world | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Listen: The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel's football thugs

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel's football thugs

If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Listen: A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide'

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide'

It's not the World Court, non-western states, rights groups and Palestinians who have been using the term genocide 'too lightly'. It's the Guardian that's reached the same conclusion far, far too late | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Listen: It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy politics. No one's bringing salvation

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 1 month ago

Listen: Israeli torture chambers aren't new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Israeli torture chambers aren't new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7

If you can't see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas' crimes, then you have no insight into human nature. You don't even understand yourself | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Listen: Six takeaways from the UK's decision on arms sales to Israel the media are hiding

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Six takeaways from the UK's decision on arms sales to Israel the media are hiding

British Jewish leaders are incensed by the 8% cut in weapons to Israel. Judged by the very rules Starmer imposed on Labour, that makes him a proven antisemite | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Listen: You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying?

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying?

Western governments will never isolate and sanction Israel. The war machine will roll on until either we stop it or its lethal games blow up in all our faces | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Listen: Starmer's purges of Labour have mutated into the arrest of Palestine supporters

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Starmer's purges of Labour have mutated into the arrest of Palestine supporters

Britain's authoritarian new prime minister is expanding the scope of already draconian laws to redefine his critics as 'supporters' of terrorism | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 months ago

Listen: Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel

The Guardian columnist 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 | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Listen: First, Elon Musk made us pay for 'free speech'. Now he decides who's allowed it

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

First, Elon Musk made us pay for 'free speech'. Now he decides who's allowed it

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 | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Listen: Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

In the UK, Islamophobia is so bipartisan, so normalised, that BBC reporters refer to anti-Muslim pogromists as 'pro-British protesters' | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Listen: Nothing's changed since 1948 – except now Israel's excuses don't work

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@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Nothing's changed since 1948 – except now Israel's excuses don't work

We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Listen: Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?

Read by Matthew Alford | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?

Israel's zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Listen: Gaza's official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher

Read by Matthew Alford | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Gaza's official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher

The figures have been stalled for months. That serves Israel’s interests by lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 4 months ago

Haugen Isn’t a 'Facebook Whistleblower'

Whistleblowers pay a heavy price for standing up for truth, for humanity, for life. Haugen is simply shoring up one elite path of several to more deceit, more suffering, more death | Continue reading


@jonathancook.substack.com | 3 years ago