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Jonathan Cook
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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
- Thanks to Israel, bombing hospitals is now entirely unremarkable. Everyone can do it.The United States just bombed the Yemeni Cancer Hospital in Saada.. AGAIN.
- If Anne Frank had lived in the digital age, would Meta have deleted her account to avoid embarrassing those carrying out a genocide? Today, we got our answer.Instagram has suspended the account of Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Shareef, one of the last reporters in northern Gaza The Al-Jazeera journalists account that had 1.2 million followers and had garnered billions of views, was suddenly deleted by Instagram, silencing the most
- No, Israeli President Herzog, the arrest warrants issued by the ICC for Netanyahu and Gallant today are not a "dark day for humanity". They are the first, small ray of light we've had in 13 months of slaughter, ethnic cleansing, genocide.This is a dark day for justice. A dark day for humanity. Taken in bad faith, the outrageous decision at the ICC has turned universal justice into a universal laughing stock. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of all those who fight for justice - from the Allied victory over
- Finally, a European politician daring to say what the vast majority of us are thinking.“Bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court so that he can be tried for what he is, a war criminal.” —Ione Belarra, Spain’s Minister of Social Rights
- The Palestinian dilemma: Resist – and Israel will slaughter 100,000s of you as "terrorists". Don't resist – and Israeli settlers will beat you, while soldiers cut down your trees, bulldoze your home, and drive you off your land. Oh, and the Israeli army might kill you anyway.
- Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid. Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing."
- Human rights group B'Tselem releases shocking video of Palestinian journalist Awdah Hathaleen filming his own murder at the hands of Israeli settler Yinon Levi. As is usual in Israel, a judge quickly released Levi, even though the footage shows he shot Hathaleen in cold blood.
00:00 - The BBC is shocked when Israeli soldiers – illegally occupying Syria – identify its film crew, point guns at their heads, strip-search them, then blindfold and interrogate them. Might it encourage the BBC to report the systematic murder of 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza?Held at gunpoint: BBC team detained by Israeli forces in southern Syria bbc.in/4krz2yb
- Is this baby just "hungry", BBC? Or is she being actively starved to death by Israel?
- Israeli soldiers were caught on video raping a Palestinian captive last year, causing severe internal injuries. No one disputes the rape happened. Since then: - The Israeli military has launched a criminal probe into the *leaking* of the video. - Defence minister Israel Katz
- Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
00:00 - The genocide apologists are out in force tonight. Having lost the argument – no group in Gaza has a rocket that can flatten a hospital, not even close – they're trying to spin it differently. Supposedly it was still one of Islamic Jihad's paltry home-made rockets but the damage
- Many years ago, I visited Auschwitz and a photo of a young girl staring at me from a wall broke my world. This short video just broke my world all over again.Palestinian journalist Alaa Hamouda met a displaced girl who had reportedly been carrying her injured sister on her shoulders for more than two kilometres barefoot. After meeting them, Hamouda helped them get to Al-Bureij refugee camp.
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