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Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism https://jonathancook.substack.com

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just a note to those who follow me here. All social media platforms throttle me, but Bluesky is by far the worst.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10h

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Gaza genocide two years on: The West must be deradicalised so this never happens again

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel's demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 1d

Were Russia to kidnap and torture British citizens, would that simply be "a matter for the Russian government", in the view of Starmer's office?

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 2d

I grieve over the designation of any practical effort to stop the slaughter in Gaza as “terrorism”.

I grieve over the condemnation by politicians and the media of my grief as “antisemitism”.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-no-...

Listen: No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me

Read by Matthew Alford

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has carefully weighed the balance needed between protecting the ancient right to protest and limiting the ancient right to protest.

And she's decided instead to scrap the ancient right to protest.

Britain the police state is officially here.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 3d

Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/no-one-in-...

No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me

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BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 4d

The Met police chief proves he's as dishonest and racist as the force he leads.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

Listen: The Met police chief proves he's as dishonest and racist as the force he leads

Read by Matthew Alford

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 4d

The Met police chief proves he's as dishonest and racist as the force he leads.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-met-po...

The Met police chief proves he's as dishonest and racist as the force he leads

Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising 'community tensions'. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 4d

The BBC and Home Secretary conveniently ignoring *why* anti-genocide protesters were out on the streets the same day as the Manchester attack:

Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 5d

The attack on a Manchester synagogue is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/whos-reall...

Who's really encouraging attacks like the one on a synagogue? Look to our leaders

The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, the Home Secretary really did just say we need to hold off protesting against the British government's continuing complicity in Israel's daily slaughter in Gaza out of respect for Jews grieving over the Manchester synagogue attack.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 6d

That – very obviously – is not what this post is saying.

Do I really need to spell it out?

Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 6d

Shock and horror as two killed by attacker at Manchester synagogue.

Continuing indifference at the arrest of 1,700 people on terrorism charges for peacefully opposing British participation in a two-year genocide that's killed and maimed more than 100,000 children in Gaza.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 6d

"Arrested", Guardian? Stop pretending that Israel has any kind of legal right to abduct peace activists – either in international waters or in Gaza's waters.

This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 7d

The media aren’t reporting the news. They are shaping the news to shape our minds, our perceptions, our sympathies. Until we grasp that simple fact, we will continue cheering those whose only goal is to keep oppressing us.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-how...

Listen: How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities

Read by Matthew Alford

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 7d

There's a good reason we think of politicians as scumbags.

Here's Italy's Giorgia Meloni calling on the flotilla to abandon its mission to break Israel's genocidal starvation-blockade of Gaza – because it might "disrupt" Trump's pretend "peace plan". english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

Italy’s Meloni urges Gaza humanitarian flotilla to halt mission

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni called on the Gaza aid flotilla to stop, warning that challenging the Israeli naval blockade risks derailing Trump’s peace plan.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 9d

How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-me...

How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities

The news cycle has rules every rookie journalist understands. When the media choose to break them, you can be sure it is for entirely non-journalistic reasons

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 9d

Guardian hyperventilating on its front page about four killed in Ukraine yesterday by Russian bombs.

Buried deep in the paper's international news section is a report that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza in the same period.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10d

The BBC has spent two years silencing those who try to name Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza a genocide.

But all it takes is four dead in Ukraine and the BBC gives Kyiv's mayor a platform to call the Russian attacks a genocide.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11d

It has long been clear that the genocide-supporting, free speech-suppressing, international law-flouting US is no place for the United Nations to be located.

Time to move it elsewhere.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11d

The grudging recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France, Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three decades now.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/reco...

Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud

Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12d

Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/reco...

Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud

Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Blair, the war criminal who oversaw the destruction of Iraq two decades ago, is in talks with the Americans to be the "governor" of Gaza's ruins after the Israeli genocide is complete.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 13d

The media is already giving the new Green Party leader a small taste of the coordinated smear campaign awaiting him if he follows Corbyn in getting anywhere near power.

More from Media Lens here: www.medialens.org/2025/sixth-f...

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski

On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of the vote share. Polanski defeated Adrian Ramsay...

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 13d

Tony Blair had Peter Mandelson. Boris Johnson had Dominic Cummings.

The power behind Starmer's throne, Morgan McSweeney, may have even bigger skeletons in the closet than his predecessors, as Peter Oborne explains: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mcsw...

What Morgan McSweeney did in the shadows is set to haunt Starmer's Labour

The behind-the-scenes machinations of Downing Street's chief of staff expose the unsavoury cabal that governs contemporary Britain

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