Jonathan Cook

  • Broaden the protest?

    Israel is roiling with angry street protests that local observers have warned could erupt into open civil strife – a development Prime Minister...

  • Not about trees

    The Jewish National Fund, established more than 100 years ago, is perhaps the most venerable of the international Zionist organisations. Its recent...

  • Lesson from the virus

    If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons.The first is...

  • Impossible conditions

    Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump...

  • No peace

    Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months, Israeli officials had leaked many of...

  • Forcible eviction

    Last week 36,000 Bedouin – all of them Israeli citizens – discovered that their state is about to make them refugees in their own country,...

  • Deadlock in Israel

    It would be a grave mistake to assume that the continuing political deadlock in Israel – with neither incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

  • The end of Netanyahu?

    For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, nor even corruption...

  • Designed to fail

    Donald Trump’s supposed “deal of the century”, offering the Palestinians economic bribes in return for political submission, is the endgame of...

  • An unpublished list

    The United Nations postponed last week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly...

  • Illegal alien

    How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials...

  • Net neutrality

    In December the US Federal Communications Commission plans to repeal already compromised regulations that are in place to maintain a semblance of...

  • A feeble promise

    There is more than a little irony in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attend a “celebration” dinner this...

  • The conspiracy

    According to the prevailing claim, Russian president Vladimir Putin stole the election on behalf of Trump. Trump is not truly a US president, it...