#JonathanCook | The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows

"All available evidence indicates that Israel killed all or most of the emergency crews in cold blood – a grave war crime.

But as the story broke last Monday, the BBC’s News at Ten gave over its schedule to a bin strike by workers in Birmingham; fears about the influence of social media prompted by a Netflix drama, Adolescence; bad weather on a Greek island; the return to Earth of stranded Nasa astronauts; and Britain’s fourth political party claiming it would do well in next month’s local elections.

All of that pushed out any mention of Israel’s latest war crime in Gaza."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-graver-israels-atrocities-in?publication_id=476450&post_id=160546658&isFreemail=true

#JonathanCook | The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom

"This should come as no surprise, because the main repository for the West’s fascist ideas since the Second World War has been hiding in plain sight: Israel."

"When the West was reluctantly forced into decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, Israel was given licence and endless support to grow a violent ethno-nationalist project on another people’s homeland.

Jewish supremacism was respectable, even as white supremacism fell out of favour. "

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-new-fascism-israel-is-the-template?publication_id=476450&post_id=159743874&isFreemail=true

"Would it be okay for Hamas to strike a hospital treating Benjamin Netanyahu?" asks #JonathanCook, and many would say: "No! That would be awful! Innocent civilians would be killed!"

And that would be the correct answer. Bombing a hospital is a war crime.

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/would-it-be-okay-for-hamas-to-strike

#JonathanCook "Guardian, this isn't a 'he said-she said' issue. The ceasefire agreement was clear: the last Israelis would be freed in the 2nd phase. Israel refused to honour the agreement and enter the next phase. They chose a return to genocide.

Pretending this is debatable isn't journalism. It's Israeli propaganda. It's collusion in genocide."

https://substack.com/@jonathancook/note/c-101471139

"Did Sharabi's Israeli government handlers – led by Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN – forget to explain to him that Israel has formally banned the UN from Gaza? Israel both bars the UN from the enclave, specifically targeting local staff with its weapons, and yet also expects those same staff to track down the Israeli captives held there. How can one even begin to take Israel’s position – or Sharabi’s – seriously?"

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/where-was-the-un-asks-freed-israeli

#JonathanCook | New BBC documentary 'The Road to 7th October' is an utter travesty

"This documentary, like its BBC predecessors – most notably on Russia and Ukraine, and the implosion of Yugoslavia – excels at offering a detailed examination of tree bark without ever stepping back far enough to see the shape of the forest."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/new-bbc-documentary-the-road-to-7th

#JonathanCook | Israel's still killing Israeli hostages with the Hannibal directive – but now in Gaza itself

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-still-killing-israeli-hostages

#JonathanCook | Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever

"It is deeply unwise to be lulled into tribalism by all this – the very tribalism western elites seek to cultivate among their publics to keep us treating international affairs no differently from a high-stakes football match.

No one here has behaved, or is behaving, honourably.

A ceasefire in Ukraine is not about peace. It’s about money, just as the earlier war was. As all wars are, ultimately."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/yes-trump-is-vulgar-but-the-us-global

#JonathanCook

"How strange that the deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament calls for the genocidal extermination of all Palestinian men in Gaza, and I can find no mention of it on the BBC or Guardian."

https://substack.com/@jonathancook/note/c-96089403

#JonathanCook | Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/netanyahu-only-ever-saw-the-hostages

#JonathanCook

"An Australian cricket commentator is sacked for retweeting a Jewish human rights expert quoting two Israeli Holocaust scholars naming Israel's slaughter in Gaza as genocide. He's told his voice makes Jews 'feel unsafe'."

https://substack.com/@jonathancook/note/c-92896447

#JonathanCook | Trump didn't invent the Gaza ethnic cleansing plan. It's been US policy since 2007

'As should have been clear, Netanyahu only agreed to Washington’s "ceasefire" because it was never real. It was a pause so the US could recalibrate from a Biden genocide narrative rooted in the language of "humanitarianism" and "security" to Trump’s far more straightforward tough-guy act.'

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/trump-didnt-invent-the-gaza-ethnic

#JonathanCook | The Gaza 'war' was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you

"Everyone is distancing themselves from his blatant backing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s population.

But these are the same leaders who kept silent through 15 months of Israel’s levelling of Gaza’s homes, hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, government buildings, mosques, churches and bakeries."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-gaza-war-was-a-lie-as-is-the

#JonathanCook | How the West hides its #Gaza #genocide guilt behind #Holocaust Day remembrance

"There was an unwanted ghost at the commemorations. In fact, tens of thousands of ghosts."

""The brutalities of western colonialism were veiled by outsourcing the crimes to local dictators and strongmen."

"The Holocaust has been turned into a shield that, rather than protecting others from becoming victims of genocide, is used to protect those in the West who wish to perpetrate it."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-west-hides-its-gaza-genocide

Holocaust Memorial Day:

"But hanging over the proceedings – and the coverage – was a heavy cloud of unreality. Had those western leaders really heard the message of “never again”? Had media outlets like the BBC?

There was an unwanted ghost at the commemorations. In fact, tens of thousands of ghosts."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-west-hides-its-gaza-genocide

#JonathanCook

"If you believed all of these stories, and still believe that the West is doing its best to bring to heel Islamic extremism and a supposed Russian imperialism in Ukraine, then you presumably also believe that Israel levelled Gaza, destroyed all its hospitals and starved its entire population of 2.3 million simply to “eliminate Hamas”, even though Hamas has not been eliminated."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/thirty-years-of-middle-east-lies