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Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed the presidential election victory of the Brazilian far-right nationalist Jair Bolsonaro as 'historic' . / AFP / JACK GUEZ
Netanyahu's courting of Bolsonaro is just the latest in a long line of alliances with far-right figures

Cosying up to reactionary demagogues across the world, the Israeli prime minister is underlining his own hardline nationalist agenda

CommentNovember 04, 2018
American-Palestinian student Lara Alqasem in a courtroom prior to a hearing at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, last week. Sebastian Scheiner / AP
Why progressive Jews in the US have helped make Lara Alqasem a cause celebre

The detained student has exposed the hypocrisy of supposedly liberal Israelis

CommentOctober 15, 2018
Israeli soldiers escort Ido Even-Paz and his Breaking the Silence tour through the West Bank city of Hebron on September 27,2018. Heidi Levine for The National
Breaking the Silence about Israel's occupation of Hebron​​​​​​​

Former Israeli soldiers exposing the brutality of the occupation of the West Bank face fresh challenges

October 08, 2018
Palestinian protesters on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. Khalil Hamra / AP
As Gaza's economy collapses, so does any hope of peace

The decade-long Israeli blockade has had devastating effects, but that was always the point

CommentOctober 01, 2018
Palestinians hold flags near the Bedouin village of Khan Al Ahmar. EPA/Abed Al Hashlamoun
Palestinians suffer as Trump dismantles the rules-based order

However ineffectual international institutions have proved, the US, like Israel, still prefers to be without them altogether

CommentSeptember 20, 2018
Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut. Palestinians have reacted angrily to the US decision amid fears it undermines their cause. Anwar Amro / AFP
Deeper, darker agenda of US's UNRWA funding cut

Refugees are the final loose end in forcing Palestinians to accept Trump's 'deal of the century' peace plan

CommentSeptember 02, 2018
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat poses with Uri Avnery, the head of Gush Shalom, inside his battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 8, 2002. AFP Photo
Uri Avnery, Israeli activist for a Palestinian state dies aged 94

Obituary: Celebrated campaigner was smuggled into Beirut to meet Yasser Arafat in 1982

August 21, 2018
Peter Beinart published 'The Crisis of Zionism' in 2013
In detaining Peter Beinart, Israel is effectively declaring that it no longer represents millions of Jews overseas

There is an ever-growing list of academics, lawyers, human rights groups, political advocates for ending the occupation and boycott supporters subjected to questioning about their political views, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentAugust 19, 2018
Palestinian boys sit in the Bedouin village of Khan Al Ahmar near Jericho in the occupied West Bank. Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
Israel is bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – and with it the two-state solution

By destroying the Bedouin village and slicing the West Bank in two, Netanyahu lurches closer to his vision of a Greater Israel, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentJuly 08, 2018
Palestinian protesters fly a kite with a burning rag dangling from its tail during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. Khalil Hamra / AP
Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic

Prince William might not see the flaming kites of Gaza but he should see enough of the Occupied Territories to understand its David-Goliath battle, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentJune 24, 2018
Villagers in Al Porat in the Negev Desert. Israel has “nationalised” 93 per cent of its territory for Jews around the world / Heidi Levine for The National
Three rebuffed parliamentary bills show how little legal recourse Palestinians have against residential apartheid

The backlash against Israeli propaganda, including a growing international boycott movement, has driven the country's right wing into even greater defiance, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentJune 10, 2018
A funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Haitham Imad / EPA
The flames that killed Fathi Harb should make us all burn with guilt and shame

The world's lack of action drove the 21-year-old father-to-be to commit an act of pure desperation

CommentMay 27, 2018
A Palestinian woman holds her national flag during a protest along the border with the Gaza strip east of Jabalia. Mohammed Abed / AFP
Comment: West's failure to act in Gaza will be cause of the next massacre

The champagne-quaffing in Israel while Gaza drowned in blood left a profoundly sour taste in many mouths

May 20, 2018
Elderly Palestinians praying near the Gaza border were boys during the Nakba. Spencer Platt / Getty
Western leaders betrayed Palestinians 70 years ago. There is no sign that is about to change

Israel has been crafting a dishonest counter-narrative ever since the Nakba, one that historians scouring the archives have exploded, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentMay 13, 2018
Israeli soldiers inspect the remains of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft system / EPA
Comment:The battle for Syria's skies will see direct clashes

Israel has warned it is prepared to curb Iran's entrenchment in Syria at any price, writes Jonathan Cook

CommentApril 30, 2018
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