Tag: Jonathan Cook

Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel

Jonathan Cook on Tony Greenstein’s exposure of a glaring omission in a new biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz and an intense critic of the Zionist movement.

“Vrba was hugely critical of the Zionist movement for collaborating with the Nazis, and had no love for the Jewish state it spawned.”

Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel

August 28, 2024

Israel’s Been Like This Since 1948

We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel, writes Jonathan Cook. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin.

Israel’s Been Like This Since 1948

The Corporate News Media at Work

Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart, writes Jonathan Cook. The differing coverage of these comparable events is the clue to the media’s true function.

The Corporate News Media at Work

Make-Believe Politics

We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible.

And yet we are expected to pretend we cannot see those strings. More astonishing still, many people really do seem blind to the puppet show.

We are supposed to believe Israel is acting solely in “self-defence,” even when most of the people being killed are unarmed civilians; and that it is “eliminating” Hamas, even though Hamas doesn’t appear to have been weakened, and even though Israel’s starvation policies will take their toll on the young, elderly and vulnerable long before they kill a single Hamas fighter.

Source: Make-Believe Politics

Hamas & ‘Human Shields’

The American and Israeli excuse. If true how is it that the people of Gaza haven’t been supplying all the intel Israel and America can’t seem to get. How is it there are Jews for Peace and Israel is so divided and Gazans aren’t? They are united in their suffering and not at the hands of Hamas. 270 + were killed by Israel and yet again women and children in large numbers

“The Palestinian people are going through sheer hell in this conflict because Hamas is operating in a way that puts them in the crossfire, that holds hostages right in the heart of crowded civilian areas.”

Source: Hamas & ‘Human Shields’

The Comma That Erases Genocide

The Western media takes seriously the debate about a comma because it helps us to avoid confronting a simple truth: The monsters are u

Source: The Comma That Erases Genocide

Israel’s Crimes Far Worse Than Hamas’

Netanyahu says any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is “absurd and false,” writes Jonathan Cook. He’s correct and here’s why. 

Source: Israel’s Crimes Far Worse Than Hamas’