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Jonathan Cook

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Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism

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This line of forensic, sustained questioning from Carlson is really impressive. I can’t think of a single political journalist at the BBC capable of this. They wouldn’t even DARE ask the question about foreign interference.

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Soroka is Israel's main hospital to evacuate IDF troops It proudly displays this military helicopter poster with the caption ā€œIsrael’s Medical Iron Dome" By Israel's own rules of engagement in Gaza (bombing a hospital to kill a wounded journalist), Soroka is a legitimate target

Soroka is Israel's main hospital to evacuate IDF troops

It proudly displays this military helicopter poster with the caption ā€œIsrael’s Medical Iron Dome"

By Israel's own rules of engagement in Gaza (bombing a hospital to kill a wounded journalist), Soroka is a legitimate target
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Somehow I suspect this video won't be making the rounds on BBC News – even though it's no more fanciful than Israel's CGI videos of Hamas "control and command centres" under Gaza's hospitals.

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Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of "defensive" move. This time there was no rationalising pretext, as there was for Israel to inflict a

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The claim that Israel is "defending itself" in attacking Iran – promoted by France, Germany, Britain, the European Union, the G7 and the US – should be understood as a further assault on the foundational principles of international law. The assertion is premised on the idea that

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Israel’s pretexts for its war of aggression on Iran are a moving target – hard to grapple with because they keep changing. If Netanyahu started by touting an implausible claim that Iran’s nuclear programme was an imminent threat, he soon shifted to arguing that Israel’s war of

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Back in 2006, as Israel was bombing swaths of Lebanon in an earlier attempt to crush Hezbollah, Condoleezza Rice, the then US secretary of state, prematurely labelled Israel’s violence as the "birth pangs of a new Middle East". What we have been witnessing over the past 20

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Outrageous! It seems these evil ayatollahs are determined to match Israel war crime for war crime. Doubtless, given enough time, Iran will copy Israel by dropping white phosphorus on schools.

Outrageous! It seems these evil ayatollahs are determined to match Israel war crime for war crime.

Doubtless, given enough time, Iran will copy Israel by dropping white phosphorus on schools.
Craig Murray (@craigmurrayorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

35 minutes on Iran/Israel nuclear on the BBC's flagship Newsnight programme, with six guests, three presenters and not one single mention that Israel has nuclear weapons.

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Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel’s genocide. Read my latest: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-06-2…

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel’s genocide. 

Read my latest: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-06-2…
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'Burgess is not there to learn from the state broadcaster’s glaring mistakes – because systematic BBC pro-Israel bias isn’t a mistake. It’s precisely what the BBC is there to do.'

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Iran just became the 8th Muslim-majority country that the US has bombed in the last 15 years, from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump: 1) Afghanistan 2) Iraq 3) Syria 4) Libya 5) Somalia 6) Pakistan 7) Yemen 8) Iran #WhyDoTheyHateUs?

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How anyone keeps a straight face listening to nutty, off-the-wall "analysis" like this, I don't know. How does Tom Tugendhat think Iran plans to "murder Jews in Israel" with a nuke without also massacring all the Palestinians being colonised and oppressed by those Israeli Jews?

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What Lammy means but can't say: Israel has undeclared nuclear bombs. The US has launched a flagrantly illegal war of aggression against Iran to make sure Israel remains the only state with a doomsday weapon in the Middle East – that way, everyone else is under Israel's, and our,

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You might think today's big news is that the US has joined Israel is committing the "supreme international crime" – waging a war of aggression – against Iran. Not so, apparently. The BBC's Washington correspondent: "This is a dangerous moment. Can the White House stop it

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My, western reporters really must be coordinating their stupidity (and biases). Here's the BBC's Lucy Williamson: "It [Iran] now faces the critical decision of whether negotiations offer a better chance of protection than a nuclear weapon." But Iran was *already* in

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Interesting precedent being set here, should someone in the future decide to bomb Washington. "We're not at war with the US. We're at war with its congenitally dumb political class."