Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power. Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money. Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...

BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit. Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide. No, because they crossed Donald Trump. Their successors will be even more craven to the right.

US intel intercepted warnings last year from Israel's own military lawyers that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. In short, Biden officials knew they were supplying weapons, in violation of US laws, that Israel was using to target civilians. Trump continued the policy.

A long-time staff member at the UK embassy in Israel owns a home in an illegal settlement built on stolen Palestinian land by a far-right organisation the UK has sanctioned. The settlement has ties to the self-declared fascist minister Bezalel Smotrich. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel. Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.

Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 36 other Israeli officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Turkey is seeking international warrants too, which would oblige European states to arrest them.

The billionaires, who own "the free press", want you to know they are not happy...

The media: Watch Mamdani fail. The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.

Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State? Read my latest article responding to the four biggest fallacies about Islam: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...

Islam vs the West: The four biggest fallacies about Islam unpacked. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/islam-vs-t...

Hamas rocket strikes on Israel kill at least 104 as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile. Oops. Sorry. Headline from alternate universe.

The Maccabi Tel Aviv row finally broke Keir Starmer’s cover story for colluding in Israel's genocide. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/star...

British Airways was fine sponsoring Louis Theroux's podcast when he was interviewing genocide-supporting Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss. But he's now apparently overstepped the mark by talking to a punk musician who made a mean chant about Israel's genocidal army.

"Just imagine if Palestine had razed the whole of Israel to the ground, killing 100,000s, injuring and traumatising literally millions – and the BBC made the return of 20 Palestinian captives their continuous, highest profile focus." More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...

Trump tells Israel's Knesset: "We’ve given a lot [of weapons] to Israel.. You used them well. It takes people that know how to use them, and you obviously used them very well." Son-in-law Kushner on his trip to Gaza: "It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off."

Declassified UK exposes Lisa Nandy's long record of treachery against the Palestinian people, even under cover of chairing Labour Friends of Palestine. More here: www.declassifieduk.org/what-happene...

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-a-t...

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

This film examines Germany's reworking of its fascist impulses – now by targeting Palestinians, "Arabs", and Jews and those on the left who show solidarity with Gaza's pain. It's a fascinating case study of where the West is heading more generally: www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...

It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth. Read my latest article here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/it-w...

Research shows plug-in hybrids are nearly as polluting as petrol cars. Buried in the story is this telling detail: The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than €5bn (£4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."

Yorkshire Building Society appear to have shut down the account of a couple – he's a former barrister – for being pro-Palestine activists. YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't, they must feel the power of a consumer boycott.

Yet again the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza – and as always, he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-onc...

It's revealing the importance being placed on Hamas returning the bodies of Israeli captives. And yet no one cared about Israel's decades-long refusal to hand back many hundreds of bodies of Palestinians it was holding. Did their families not need a grave to grieve over?

Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza. Read my latest post here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/once-again...

The Red Cross say it'll be a "massive challenge" to find the graves of the last Israeli captives under mountains of rubble from Israel's levelling of Gaza. Having created a near-impossible task for Hamas, Israel's using it to justify keeping up its genocidal starvation campaign.

After two years of seeing children shredded, buried under rubble, and starved, our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages. If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.

UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson has made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israel’s criminal actions – and her own government’s collusion in that criminality. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...

Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-is-...

Study in the Lancet journal finds that Israel's starvation campaign in Gaza has left 55,000 children under the age of five acutely malnourished, risking long-term health damage. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Former British ambassador challenges legality in Scotland of the Starmer government's proscription of Palestine Action, arguing that a "plainly absurd" law violates the principles of Scottish jurisprudence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Guardian joins the chorus pretending a Gaza peace deal was possible because of Trump's "juggernaut" personality. The truth: without US weapons, Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide. The US could have stopped this from day one, had it wished to.

Jeremy Bowen's reporting on Gaza for the BBC over the past two years has been shameful – and that is not more obvious only because the bar set by others is even lower. Media Lens on how Bowen betrayed the victims of genocide: medialens.substack.com/p/blinkered-...

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.

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

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?

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-...

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.

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-...

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

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...

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 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.

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...

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.

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.

"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.

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...

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...

How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-me...