Were Netanyahu ever to face trial, other leaders would have good reason to fear they might be next – not least for their complicity in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Read my latest on the campaign to eliminate Karim Khan and the ICC: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...
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Jonathan Cook
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As each brick protecting the ICC war crimes court is dismantled by the Trump administration, another brick is added to the wall of protection around Netanyahu and Israel’s genocidal war machine. Read my latest article here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...
The clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
Britain's Big Brother state is already here – we just don't realise it yet. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-u...
Again this week, western leaders showed they have no intention whatsoever of severing support for Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, however violent the Jewish colonisers who live on stolen Palestinian land prove to be. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-w...
Burnham's contrition on Gaza is entirely hollow. Watch what he actually does in power. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...
Here is a list of the things Andy Burnham is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide in Gaza, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...
Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of apartheid. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is being accused of antisemitism for rejecting Israel as a "Jewish state" rather than a state with equal rights. I explain precisely what a Jewish state entails in my latest article: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...
Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation. Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
Israel spent decades imprisoning 2 million Palestinians in the concentration camp it made of Gaza, then used a siege to put them on a starvation "diet". Now it's insisting on a "Free Movement Plan" for Gaza – meaning freedom for Israel to ethnically cleanse them. news.antiwar.com/2026/06/28/r...
"In the first 24 hours of Starmer resigning, there were 1,485 mentions of him. Only 30 had any reference to Gaza." (And most of those made no mention of genocide.) Media Lens on how the media blacked out one of the biggest reasons Starmer was so hated: medialens.substack.com/p/whitewash-...
Andy Burnham is going to be different? Really? He's just tapped a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel as his chief of staff. I explain in my latest article how modern Labour is now unreformable: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-b...