Corbyn’s Defeat Has Slain the Left’s Last Illusion
This was an election of two illusions. The first helped persuade much of the British public to vote last week for the very epitome of an Eton toff, a man who not only has shown […]
Writer: Jonathan Cook
Is Netanyahu Ready to Inflame War to Escape His Legal Troubles?
The decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate criminal counts pushes the country’s already unprecedented electoral stalemate into the entirely uncharted territory of a constitutional crisis. There is no legal precedent […]
Israel is Silencing the Last Voices Trying to Stop Abuses against Palestinians
It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank – little different from the other 2,670 weeks endured by Palestinians since the occupation began in 1967. The difference […]
Israel’s New Moves to Airbrush the Occupation
The United Nations’ independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories issued a damning verdict last week on what he termed “the longest belligerent occupation in the modern world”. Michael Lynk, a Canadian law […]
Tulsi Gabbard is Right, and Nancy Pelosi Wrong. It was US Democrats who Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS
There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to defend Trump’s actions or […]
Israel Prepares to Turn Bedouin Citizens into Refugees in their own Country
The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be proof enough that Israel is not the western-style liberal […]
Why Israel is Struggling to Find a Way out of Its Political Deadlock
It would be a grave mistake to assume that the continuing political deadlock in Israel – with neither incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival Benny Gantz seemingly able to cobble together a […]
Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage before He Exits?
For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, nor even corruption scandals. It was about Benjamin Netanyahu. Should he head yet […]
Brexit Reveals Jeremy Corbyn to Be the True Moderate
If there is an upside to Brexit, it is this: it has made it increasingly hard to present Jeremy Corbyn, contrary to everything the corporate media has been telling us for the past four years, […]
Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid Losing Election
Every Israeli prime minister – not least Benjamin Netanyahu – understands that a military entanglement with Hezbollah, Lebanon’s armed Shia movement on Israel’s northern border, is a dangerous wager, especially during an election campaign. It […]
How the Goliath of the Jerusalem Settler Movement Persuaded the World It’s Really David
Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organization. The family’s defeat […]
The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
In the latest of the interminable media “furores” about Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed unfitness to lead Britain’s Labour party – let alone become prime minister – it is easy to forget where we were shortly before […]
Trump’s Peace Plan Has Been Designed to Fail – Exactly Like Its Predecessors
Donald Trump’s supposed “deal of the century”, offering the Palestinians economic bribes in return for political submission, is the endgame of western peace-making, the real goal of which has been failure, not success. For decades, […]
Forget Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’: Israel Was always on Course to Annexation
When Israeli prime ministers are in trouble, facing difficult elections or a corruption scandal, the temptation has typically been for them to unleash a military operation to bolster their standing. In recent years, Gaza has […]
A Second Israeli Election Proves Netanyahu’s Grip on Power Is Slipping
In a sign of how politically vulnerable he has rapidly become, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu plunged Israel into new elections last week – less than two months after his far-right bloc appeared to win at […]
Endless Procedural Abuses Show Julian Assange Case Was never about Law
It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short sentence includes […]
The Western Media Is Key to Syria Deceptions
By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province — their final holdout in Syria — should have been treated by the western media with […]
Annexation of West Bank May Provide Key to Unlocking Netanyahu’s Legal Troubles
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The […]
After 7 Years of Deceptions about Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition
For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there […]
This Israeli Election is between the Right Wing and the Even More Right Wing
Israel’s election campaign, now in its last days, must be the first in which a sitting Israeli prime minister has sought to win over voters by boasting about how much he insulted a president of […]
The Media Smoothed the Path to British Soldiers Using Corbyn as Target Practice
It is time to stop believing these infantile narratives the British political and media establishments have crafted for us. Like the one in which they tell us they care deeply about the state of political […]
Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump’s camp […]
Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank
When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook. Last week, he trampled all over […]
The UN Fails to Name and Shame Firms Aiding Israel’s Illegal Settlements
The United Nations postponed last week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The international body had […]
Britain’s Witchfinders Are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
“McCarthyism” is a word thrown around a lot nowadays, and in the process, its true meaning – and horror – has been increasingly obscured. McCarthyism is not just the hounding of someone because their views […]
Is Israel’s Tax Grab a Prelude to Further Hollowing Out the PA?
Israel’s decision to withhold part of the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and plunge it deeper into crisis starkly illustrates the hypocrisies and deceptions at the core of the two governments’ […]
In Hebron, Israel Removes the Last Restraint on Its Settlers’ Reign of Terror
You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke condemnation from European […]
Israeli General Mounts Challenge to Netanyahu by Flaunting Gaza Carnage (VIDEO)
With April’s elections looming, Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to fear Benny Gantz, his former army chief. Gantz has launched a new party, named Israeli Resilience, just as the net of corruption indictments is closing […]
Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears
Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them. The American public is […]
Israel’s New War of Attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians
Czech president Milos Zeman offered Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government a fillip during his visit to Israel last week. He inaugurated a cultural and trade center, Czech House, just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls. At the […]