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BBC’s May 14 interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful

3 weeks ago | alethonews.com | JONATHAN COOK |Debbie Lerman

BBC’s May 14 interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful By Jonathan Cook | May 14, 2025There was yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten last night, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief culprit this time.
UK's St Andrews reinstates rector after dismissal for Israel criticism

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Areeb Ullah |JONATHAN COOK

The rector of St Andrews University in the UK has won her appeal after the institution removed her from its governing body for issuing a statement that condemned Israel's "genocidal attacks" on Gaza. Last year, the University of St Andrews removed Stella Maris from her position on the university court after its investigation concluded that she exercised "poor judgment" for sending an email to all students in November 2023 that called for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza.
Jonathan Cook: Keir Starmer’s Support for the Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies

Jan 17, 2025 | scheerpost.com | JONATHAN COOK

By Jonathan CookThere are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Starmer: After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost, this is the long-overdue news that the Israeli and Palestinian people have desperately been waiting for.
Pearls and Irritations

Jan 13, 2025 | johnmenadue.com | JONATHAN COOK

After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.
Dagen da media bestemte at militant jihadisme er OK

Dec 16, 2024 | steigan.no | JONATHAN COOK

Jonathan-Cook.net, Consortium News, 12. desember 2024Her er en veldig merkelig ting. I årevis har vestlige medier og politikere vært hensynsløst likegyldige til det faktum at Hamas ikke er en jihadistbevegelse, som al-Qaida eller Den islamske staten, men en spesifikt *palestinsk* nasjonal motstandsbevegelse – om en som understøttes av en islamistisk ideologi, som skiller den fra sekulære palestinske nasjonale bevegelser som Fatah. Kort tid etter Hamas angrep på Israel 7.
Biden and Starmer Are Destroying International Law to Protect Israel’s Genocide

Dec 10, 2024 | sgtreport.com | JONATHAN COOK

by Jonathan Cook, The Unz Review:When everything is exposed as a lie, the biggest liars triumph. The forces of darkness rush in to fill the void. That is the future awaiting usFor more than a year, those calling for an end to Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza have been relentlessly vilified: as apologists for Hamas, as antisemites, even as supporters of a genocide against Israel and the wider Jewish people.
Biden And Starmer Are Destroying International Law To Protect Israel’s Genocide

Dec 5, 2024 | znetwork.org | JONATHAN COOK

For more than a year, those calling for an end to Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza have been relentlessly vilified: as apologists for Hamas, as antisemites, even as supporters of a genocide against Israel and the wider Jewish people. These smears have been buttressed by western politicians and the media insisting that Israel is conducting a legitimate, “defensive” war with limited aims: supposedly to eradicate Hamas and free a few dozen remaining Israeli hostages.
Biden and Starmer are destroying international law to protect Israel’s genocide

Dec 5, 2024 | unz.com | JONATHAN COOK

BlogviewJonathan Cook Archive Biden and Starmer Are Destroying International Law to Protect Israel’s Genocide◄►◄►▲▼ • B When everything is exposed as a lie, the biggest liars triumph. The forces of darkness rush in to fill the void.
The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence Just Keeps Getting Darker

Nov 18, 2024 | dissidentvoice.org | JONATHAN COOK

The media’s role in peddling disinformation over last week’s violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker. Owen Jones has interviewed a Dutch woman who shot the footage used by major outlets – from Sky News and the BBC to the Guardian and New York Times – to suggest that locals in Amsterdam carried out “antisemitic attacks” on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. In fact, as she has noted on social media, her footage shows the exact reverse: Israeli fans attacking local Dutch residents.
The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence just Keeps Getting Darker

Nov 18, 2024 | transcend.org | JONATHAN COOK

Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service 13 Nov 2024 – News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world. The media’s role in peddling disinformation over last week’s violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker.