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
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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
jonathancook.substack.com
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.
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...
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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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.
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...
Listen: The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham
Read by Matthew Alford
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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...
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
jonathancook.substack.com
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?
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.
"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:
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...
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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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...
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?
jonathancook.substack.com
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...
Listen: Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how
Read by Matthew Alford
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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...
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 segregation. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how
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 segregation
jonathancook.substack.com
Israel spent decades imprisoning 2 million Palestinians in the concentration camp it made of Gaza, then used a siege to put them on a starvation "diet". Now it's insisting on a "Free Movement Plan" for Gaza – meaning freedom for Israel to ethnically cleanse them. news.antiwar.com/2026/06/28/r...
Report: Israel Reviving Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan, Rebranding It as ‘Free Movement Plan’
The Israeli government is seeking to revive its push for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and is rebranding the plan in an attempt to gain international support, according to reports from Israeli media. C...
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"In the first 24 hours of Starmer resigning, there were 1,485 mentions of him. Only 30 had any reference to Gaza." (And most of those made no mention of genocide.) Media Lens on how the media blacked out one of the biggest reasons Starmer was so hated: medialens.substack.com/p/whitewash-...
Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy
On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first.
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Andy Burnham is going to be different? Really? He's just tapped a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel as his chief of staff. I explain in my latest article how modern Labour is now unreformable: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-b...
Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face formidable external controls and internal constraints from the Labour machine
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Starmer lied his way into No 10. All the signs are that Andy Burnham will do the same. My latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-b...
Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face formidable external controls and internal constraints from the Labour machine
middleeasteye.net
Even if Starmer's likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face not only formidable external controls from "the markets" but insuperable internal constraints from the Labour party machine. My latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-b...
Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face formidable external controls and internal constraints from the Labour machine
middleeasteye.net
An irritating feature of the present moment is people telling us we're alarmists about a climate crisis they only heard about 15 years ago, when the media realised it could no longer be hidden. I was campaigning on the climate crisis in the 1980s. Scientists knew about it in the 1920s.
The judge in the Palestine Action trial is having a second go at trying to jail the respected defence barrister Rajiv Menon for contempt of court. Here is the section of his closing speech, citing a 350-year-old legal precedent, that offended the judge: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...
Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny
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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.
Journalist Paul Holden tells the astonishing story of a real-life conspiracy: how a tiny group of the super-rich secretly groomed Starmer for power through a law-breaking think tank, Labour Together. The same actors are now cosying up to Andy Burnham: www.dropsitenews.com/p/hasan-pike...
How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur
Piker commented that he "would never have imagined that a [Labour] government would ban me from entering the UK." Indeed, millions of UK voters would likely agree.
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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:
Britain’s legal architecture of repression — squirreled away in recent counter-terrorism laws – has now created a dragnet that can ensnare as a terrorist anyone who challenges the legitimacy or legality of the government’s foreign policy. My latest: www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...
The plot against Palestine Action
UK courts upheld the gov't’s proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. The outcomes were all but predetermined.
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The goal of the government, police, courts and media has been to keep the public fixated on the faux-illegality of Palestine Action's opposition to genocide, not the British security state’s all-too-real criminal collusion in that genocide. My latest: www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...
The plot against Palestine Action
UK courts upheld the gov't’s proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. The outcomes were all but predetermined.
972mag.com