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Jonathan Cook

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Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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A Palestinian refugee camp in 1949. Israeli archives confirm massacres of Palestinian civilians carried out in 1948, the year Israel was established. Alamy Stock Photo
How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history

The state is using a variety of means to create a perception that its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians have been driven by security concerns

CommentAugust 19, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Demonstrators protest against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem on Saturday. AP Photo
Can the anti-Netanyahu protests grow into a larger movement?

Whether the demonstrations can transcend party political tribalism and demand meaningful change remains to be seen

CommentAugust 02, 2020
Jonathan Cook
The Sumarin family's could be the latest case of Palestinians being evicted from their property. David Shulman / Peace Now
An Israeli charity group is uprooting Palestinians, not planting trees

The Jewish National Fund has won plaudits for its environmental work, but its agenda has been to evict on behalf of the state

CommentJuly 21, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, overlooking a part of Israeli-occupied West Bank, might consider a two-stage annexation plan. Reuters
The annexation conversation is far from over

Netanyahu missed his July 1 annexation deadline, but Israel still has designs on the West Bank

CommentJuly 05, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Israel's first Bedouin Arab diplomat Ishmael Khaldi said he believes he was ethnically profiled. AP
Why an Arab-Israeli diplomat's assault is no surprise

Israel subjugates its Palestinian citizens while being too eager to showcase their successes in order to portray itself as a western-style democracy

CommentJune 21, 2020
Jonathan Cook
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Israel in a show of support for the new coalition government. AFP
Why is Mike Pompeo risking a trip to Israel amid the pandemic?

It is no coincidence Mr Pompeo’s visit comes the day before Mr Netanyahu’s government is sworn in

CommentJune 10, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, rear, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, November 29, 2019. AP
The US and Israel are scaring the ICC away from helping Palestine

The International Criminal Court has never done much for Palestinians, but it will do even less under intimidation

CommentJune 09, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Israeli left-wing activists protest in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the week. EPA
Has Netanyahu effectively put Israeli democracy on life support?

With opposition leader Benny Gantz on his side and few checks in place, the prime minister is all set to rule with an iron fist

CommentApril 27, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Palestinians, wearing masks as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease, work in a bakery in Gaza City. Reuters
If coronavirus overwhelms Gaza, there will be few others to blame but Israel

What is already a crisis in the territory barely needs a nudge from Covid-19 in order to be tipped into a health disaster

CommentApril 12, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (C) and Benny Gantz (R) join hands at a memorial service for late Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. EPA
As Netanyahu uses coronavirus to consolidate power, Israel's opposition leader has given in

In a blow to opposition parties, Benny Gantz has broken his promises and made a deal to join Benjamin Netanyahu's "emergency government"

OpinionMarch 29, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White electoral alliance, finds himself in a very difficult spot. AFP
How the coronavirus could force Benny Gantz to shake Benjamin Netanyahu's hand

Having postponed his own trial for two months, Prime Minister Netanyahu may have left his rival with no option but to accept an offer to form a unity government

CommentMarch 15, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses his Likud party supporters during a campaign rally in Ramat Gan, Israel on Saturday, Feb. 29. Tsafrir Abayov / AP
Israeli elections: race increasingly desperate as voters go to polls

In the final days of the vote, Israel's party leaders have been slinging mud and pandering to the right.

OpinionMarch 01, 2020
Jonathan Cook
A view of the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh as seen from the Palestinian village of Azmout near the West Bank City of Nablus, 16 February 2020. Alaa Badarneh / EPA
Profiting from loss: how business in illegal Israeli settlements continues unchecked

UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing

CommentFebruary 17, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Palestinian women walk beneath Israel's separation barrier on August 27, 2018. Heidi Levine for The National
A new capital? Palestinians say Abu Dis would be no substitute

It is being touted as part of a peace plan but Jonathan Cook finds only a wasteland in the West Bank

January 30, 2020
Jonathan Cook
US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of the Middle East peace plan in Washington. AFP
Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan will not bring peace – the US and Israel know this

The proposal deliberately includes a host of unrealisable preconditions before what remains of Palestine can be recognised

CommentJanuary 29, 2020
Jonathan Cook
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