Jonathan Cook
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Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism
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UK police can hold terrorism suspects for 14 days without charge. Had police any grounds to believe the men arrested outside RAF Fairford had even the slightest terrorism connection, they would not have been released. They'd still be behind bars. But watch the BBC's Daniel Sandford, like every other establishment journalist, desperately try to sustain this as an Iran terrorism story. This isn't reporting. It's propaganda in service of the British security state.
Jonathan Cook109,618 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg repeatedly suggests to Zack Polanski it's not the job of the Greens to tell Jews what Zionism means. But like other journalists, Kuenssberg does think it's her job to tell Palestinians – the victims of Zionism – what the ideology oppressing them means.
Jonathan Cook28,899 Aufrufe • vor 14 Tagen
A double lie here from Ed Miliband: 1. He doesn't need to wait for the Supreme Court to rule on Palestine Action's proscription. The Burnham government could overturn the decision tomorrow if it so chose. 2. Miliband says no one's intent was to criminalise "grannies and vicars" for holding up signs. He's right. That's because the Starmer government imagined it could misuse terrorism laws to intimidate the respectable, white middle classes into silence on genocide. The plan was to leave "brown" people isolated and exposed to the full force of the law if they raised their voices in protest. The Labour government hoped to associate in the public's mind opposition to genocide with supposed Islamic extremism. It massively underestimated public revulsion at the genocide and the UK's complicity. Don't expect anyone in the establishment media, including Andrew Marr, to highlight either of these very obvious and salient points.
Jonathan Cook58,678 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
When it comes to Israel, the BBC is too frightened to accurately report the news – even when we can all see what happened with our own eyes. Israeli soldiers were caught on CCTV executing two Palestinian men in the West Bank, shooting them in the back after they had surrendered and their arms were in the air. Israel's Haaretz newspaper straightforwardly reports the Israeli army "fatally shooting" the pair "after they had surrendered". The BBC, by contrast, dares not report what we can all see for ourselves. Its reporter says instead that the Palestinian men "appear to be surrendering" and that "the Israeli soldiers appear to open fire and shoot them dead at point-blank range". "Appear" used twice – for no reason other than to cast doubt on what is self-evident. Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, has lauded the soldiers for killing the two men. No matter – the BBC is so desperate not to upset Israel it reflexively throws doubt on its crimes, even when Israel itself isn't denying what took place.
Jonathan Cook455,635 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Global, which owns LBC and more radio news stations in the UK and Europe than any other media corporation, gags its journalists *forever* from reporting anything negative about its activities. LBC sacked broadcaster Sangita Myska 48 hours after she grilled an Israeli official about what Israel was doing in Gaza. She can never tell you why without being backrupted, as she explains in an interview with Double Down News. Find a link to the full interview in the reply post below.
Jonathan Cook108,714 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Israel has blown up 10,000s of homes in south Lebanon, erasing dozens of villages. It has ethnically cleansed some 14% of Lebanese territory. It has destroyed bridges, cutting civilians off from help. For how much longer are media and human rights groups going to suggest these "could be" war crimes? Such terminology makes them utterly complicit in Israel's atrocities.
Jonathan Cook211,459 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal. No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs. Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.
Jonathan Cook431,546 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
In this short clip from 1970, Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani schools a western journalist on why 'peace talks' between the neck and the sword are never really about peace. Israel murdered him two years later. Still as relevant today as it was 54 years ago.
Jonathan Cook518,276 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, enthuses about the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza by what he calls “our heroic soldiers” – yes, if you or I conflated the Jewish people with Israel, we’d be called antisemites. He then reveals that his son, Danny, is among the soldiers in Gaza. He says he is “immensely proud” of what these soldiers are doing in Gaza – so far they have killed 23,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. He concludes: “What Israel is doing is the most outstanding possible thing that a decent, responsible country can do for its citizens.” Is Mirvis not giving his religious blessing to genocide here?
Jonathan Cook698,417 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
The BBC's Lucy Williamson, embedded with the Israeli army in Gaza, thinks the most pressing question isn't "How is Israel getting away with ethnically cleansing 1 million Palestinians?" No, it's whether two new "aid sites" will "be enough to persuade people to come?"
Jonathan Cook313,173 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
The BBC barely reported the fact that the US opened its war on Iran with a strike on a primary school, killing more than 160 Iranians, most of them children aged between 7 and 12. Had there been an equivalent strike from Iran on an Israeli school, it would have been on front pages for weeks. Instead the media have downplayed the story, treating as credible an obvious US lie that the massacre was caused by a faulty Iranian missile. Now that inconvertible evidence of a US Tomahawk strike on the area has emerged, BBC Verify is reporting the massacre but only to give it functional coverage as a fact-check story. Notice this too. BBC Verify refers to the dead from the strike simply as faceless "people". The vast majority were young children. The BBC is still doing its best to avoid humanising them.
Jonathan Cook138,673 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
