A news show genuinely driven by the public interest, not state and corporate interests. This week Double Down News probes the rigging of the Palestine Action trial, ties between Tommy Robinson and the Met, and Israel's reheated disinformation about rape on Oct 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9L...

Corbyn was an MP for 32 years until elected Labour leader in 2015. No of media accusations of antisemitism from 1983-2015 = 0 No of media accusations of antisemitism from 2015-19 = 11,251 Media Lens on the establishment's revisiting of its smear campaign: medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...

In addition to Israel routinely beating, starving, torturing and raping Palestinians in its detention camps, new research by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights reveals that, in 2024, some 200 children were put in total isolation inside tiny punishment cells.

US judge blocks Trump's sanctions on UN legal expert Francesca Albanese for reporting on Israeli atrocities in Gaza. He calls it an attack on speech. Meanwhile, the EU continues to sanction Jacques Baud, an ex-Swiss colonel and UN peacekeeper, for criticising its Ukraine policies.

The Epstein class are once again imposing a discourse trap on antisemitism for the anti-racist left. The question facing Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/if-s...

The question for Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/if-s...

Double Down launches its weekly news round-up show, providing an antidote to the establishment agenda of the establishment media. This week: The Terror Attack Media Refused to Cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kI9...

After the stabbings in Golders Green, we have been thrust back into a deeply flawed debate about antisemitism that relies on misunderstandings of Islam, Zionism and the role of "the West". Here I unpack the four most common fallacies: jonathancook.substack.com/p/islam-vs-t...

Keir Starmer says pro-Palestine marches will be allowed but only on certain conditions: * his government's complicity in the slaughter in Gaza is not mentioned * slogans don't use upsetting words like "Israel" or "genocide" * marches take place no more than once a year.

The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west...

Watch Question Time's Fiona Bruce immediately shut down the Green party deputy leader as soon as she challenges the other panellists for linking the marches against genocide with antisemitic attacks.

The government, police and BBC spent years maliciously conflating criticism of Israeli atrocities with hatred of Jews. Now they cite as proof of that "antisemitism" anyone who takes them at their word – that Jews and Israel are inseparable – and hits out at random Jewish targets. Wash and repeat.

The Guardian reports Slovenia, Ireland and Spain's refusal to broadcast Eurovision over Israel's participation. As background, it notes Russia has been barred for its "full-scale invasion of Ukraine". Why the row about Israel? Not genocide, apparently. It's "the war in Gaza".

For years, Israel has exposed UK government hypocrisy and lawbreaking by openly using British weapons to commit war crimes and genocide. So the government has come up with an elegant solution: simply shutter the unit dedicated to monitoring such war crimes. 🙈🙉🙊

The real story of Starmer’s political subservience and vulnerability to Peter Mandelson is not being told. For good reason. Because the media itself is deeply implicated in this bigger story, of dirty tricks and illegality. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

The real story tying Starmer and Mandelson is being buried by a conspiracy of silence. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-real-s...

"The tank is perfectly symbolic of the ego, of its hostility, aggression, rejection, hatred." On a visit to a tank museum, David Edwards seeks answers to the question of why war is such a perennial feature of human experience. medialens.substack.com/p/a-lefty-pr...

Israel completely destroying your home – with all its history, family heirlooms and memories erased – is "bittersweet", reports the Guardian.

I lived for 20 years in Nazareth, the biggest Palestinian Christian community inside Israel. From there, I wrote this piece on how Israel has spent decades slowly eradicating the presence of Palestinian Christians from the birthplace of Christianity: www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-06-07/e...

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has proved he is the most clueless man ever to have entered high office. Here are a few highlights of his long history of career-enhancing ignorance. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-sta...

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It's the reason, after all, why he was knighted. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/starmers-g...

Tony Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bla...

Tony Blair proves there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/blairs-lat...

Trump: "God bless the Great People of Iran ... I am going to exterminate them tonight." The ravings of a madman with his finger on the nuclear button. God protect us all.

The sort of people who shouldn't have access to a nuclear bomb, according to Trump: "People who are sick of mind. Tough, smart and sick. ... Mentally these are disturbed people. And powerful and rich. If you think I'm going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon..."

The perfect image of Israel's depraved occupation: A grey-haired Palestinian man, zip-tied and blindfolded, forced to hold a sign promoting the jewellery business of his Israeli captor. For decades, the Israeli army has been managing a giant land-theft extortion racket.

Trita Parsi on how Israel is systematically killing off Iran's consensus-makers – the latest is former foreign minister Kamal Kharazi – to make sure Trump has no one to negotiate with.

Matthew Alford digs out the PhD thesis, on Lord Byron's poetry, from Birmingham University of Prof Mohammad Marandi. In it, he finds insights into the mind of the man who's become "the most well-known Iranian spokesperson in the Western world". More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

The West's current crime spree in the Middle East: A genocidal campaign of carpet-bombing and starvation in Gaza. A war of aggression on Iran wrecking the global economy. The ethnic cleansing of South Lebanon. It's so overwhelming it's impossible to absorb the scale of it.

Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist. Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.

Israel committed genocide in Gaza, mostly likely killing 100,000s of Palestinians. Now the UK and European foreign ministers worry that Israel passing an apartheid death penalty law for Palestinians might "undermine Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles".

Israel is making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Binary thinking over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-doe...

Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/does-the-t...

Westerners are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism – of the kind all too evident in the war on Iran – through the Pentagon’s control over thousands of blockbuster films and TV shows. Matthew Alford reads a 2022 article with renewed relevance: jonathancook.substack.com/p/replay-how...

All day the BBC has aired an Israeli military lie that the UK is not involved in the war on Iran – even as British bases host US bombers attacking Tehran. A patent Israeli falsehood being amplified by the BBC without a trace of pushback.

The BBC's Lucy Williamson says Israel is destroying south Lebanon "using Gaza as a model – a blueprint for destruction used again as a path to peace". That's right: genocide as "a path to peace". Orwell would be proud.

The US empire's footprint on a map: Source: davidvine.net/maps.html

Trump isn't the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby "remake the Middle East", as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-us...

More than half the population in northern Israel belong to Israel's much-discriminated Palestinian minority. It doesn't occur to the racist Guardian to ask them what they think of Israel's latest illegal war.

Two interviews by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg – one of an Iranian leader, the other of an Israeli leader – reveal the starkly different standards the two states are held to by the British media. As Media Lens show, this isn't journalism, it's propaganda: medialens.substack.com/p/how-on-ear...

Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages from Owen Jones, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...

BBC executives seem willing to back their Middle East editor Raffi Berg in his libel case against Owen Jones however damaging the resulting revelations about the corporation’s profoundly skewed coverage of Israel. Read my latest article here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-03...

Journalist Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-editor...

This Guardian story amplifies anger at Russia's return to the Venice Biennale. You'd never know from reading it that Israel and the US are currently engaged in an illegal war of aggression on Iran. Isn't that "whitewashing war crimes" too, Guardian?

The team that has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza is issuing barely veiled threats to nuke Iran. Psychopaths are running "western civilisation".

They brought you a genocide to turn Gaza into a beachfront playground for the rich. They launched a war of choice on Iran that's shaken the global economy to its foundations. Now they're rolling out AI that will make the world perfect by making us redundant. Trust them!

In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-in-...

Media Lens unravel the tapestry of lies the media have helped weave over decades to justify the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran: www.medialens.org/2026/operati...

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...