Jonathan Cook

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Weapons of mass deception: time to turn to alternative media

Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as

Apartheid Israel-style: law to keep Jews and Arabs apart

Jonathan Cook reports on a draft apartheid law, currently going through the Israeli parliament, which would enshrine in law the right of Jewish community associations to accept only Jews, making

Israel’s racist rabbis: wave of edicts urge “Hate the gentile”

Jonathan Cook views the vile racism disseminated by prominent Israeli rabbis, from edicts prohibiting the renting of homes to gentiles, to justifications for murdering Palestinian babies, to utterances defining non-Jews

Chickens come home to roost: US technology goes to North Korea via Israel and China

Paul J. Balles views the latest breed of chickens that may come home to roost in the USA: American military technology given to Israel courtesy of US tax dollars, sold

Wikileaks and the new global order: America’s wake-up call

Jonathan Cook argues that the disclosure by Wikileaks of secret US diplomatic cables highlight “Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role” but that “the world’s finite resources

Israeli police shoot “hated” Arab legislator in back

Jonathan Cook reports on the shooting in the back of Israeli Arab MP Haneen Zoubi by Israel police who used special paramilitary forces against an Arab demonstration provoked by ultra-right-wing

Bedouin land fight: claim for native title threatens Israel’s racial exclusiveness

Jonathan Cook considers the legal battle of one Bedouin to repossess his ancestral land in the Negev – a battle that could have ramifications for tens of thousands of Bedouin

The secrets in Israel’s archives

Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to

Revered Israeli rabbi preaches slaughter of gentile babies

Jonathan Cook considers the ideas of a leading Israeli rabbi, Yitzhak Shapira, who together with another rabbi, Yosef Elitzur, has written a book in which he sanctions the murder of

Israel’s secret police exposed

The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police,