Starmer admits his government failed the people of Gaza by colluding in Israel's genocide: "Time and again the cry for justice was ignored by the British state because of who the victims are..." Sorry, scratch that. He's talking about the victims of Hillsborough 37 years ago.

Israel continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?

If Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers feel bold enough to take hostage a US Congressperson at gunpoint, just imagine what these same soldiers and settlers do to Palestinians.

"They could not stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking through." How the western ruling class and the Zionist lobby spent $14 billion to take back control of our minds:

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is being accused of antisemitism for rejecting Israel as a "Jewish state" rather than a state with equal rights. I explain precisely what a Jewish state entails in my latest article: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...

When scientists say climate change means average temperatures will rise by 2 or 3 degrees, they don't mean that what was once a 20C summer's day becomes 22C. Weather will yo-yo ever more wildly: one week will bring cold and storms, the next a blistering drought. That's the harsh future.

It's easy for the UK pundit class to be wise after the event. But for too long they were celebrating Starmer as the great hope of British politics. Meanwhile, I was documenting his myriad and all-too-obvious flaws in real time. Here's a selection of headlines from my articles from 2021-24:

The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image. The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.

Josh Simons, one of Morgan McSweeney's hatchet men from Labour Together – the group that took Israel lobby money and secretly broke election laws to get Starmer into power – embraces Andy Burnham after giving up his seat for him. Watch this space.

Bloomberg says only two points in the 14-point US-Iran deal favour the US. Both are simply a return to the situation before the US and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran. (screenshot c/o John Whitbeck)

Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for British politics: lock up troublesome opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy. Read my latest here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-06...

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them. This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

I'm sure we are all surprised to learn that the Israeli army flagrantly lied, once again, about what happened when its soldiers committed their latest atrocity: shooting dead a baby.

Once upon time the BBC was the first to accuse anyone who suggested that Israel controlled the US of antisemitism. Interestingly, here is Sarah Smith, the BBC's North America editor, twice stating that Trump may only think he is calling the shots with Netanyahu.

The publics of western democracies have an unfavourable view of Israel, most at 70% or more. Yet, in these same "democracies", such as the UK, the vast majority of politicians actively support aiding Israel's continuing genocidal slaughter in Gaza.

Two years of lying about bombing Gaza's hospitals – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off. Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

Criticising a public figure – who isn't even Jewish – for backing Israel during its genocide may be many things but it most certainly isn't "antisemitism". Yet our police, politicians and media keep making this rudimentary mistake. Almost like this isn't really about Jew hatred.

What message did the BBC, Britain's "public service broadcaster", choose to lead with on the day heat records were smashed in the UK – another early warning of what experts are calling dangerous, super-charged climate whiplash? Bring it on, we want more!

Of course, Andy Burnham supports Shabana Mahmood’s immigration policies and Rachel Reeves’ fiscal policies. He is going to keep on disappointing. I explain why here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-05...

In addition to Israel routinely beating, starving, torturing and raping Palestinians in its detention camps, new research by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights reveals that, in 2024, some 200 children were put in total isolation inside tiny punishment cells.

US judge blocks Trump's sanctions on UN legal expert Francesca Albanese for reporting on Israeli atrocities in Gaza. He calls it an attack on speech. Meanwhile, the EU continues to sanction Jacques Baud, an ex-Swiss colonel and UN peacekeeper, for criticising its Ukraine policies.

The Epstein class are once again imposing a discourse trap on antisemitism for the anti-racist left. The question facing Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/if-s...

Watch Question Time's Fiona Bruce immediately shut down the Green party deputy leader as soon as she challenges the other panellists for linking the marches against genocide with antisemitic attacks.

The government, police and BBC spent years maliciously conflating criticism of Israeli atrocities with hatred of Jews. Now they cite as proof of that "antisemitism" anyone who takes them at their word – that Jews and Israel are inseparable – and hits out at random Jewish targets. Wash and repeat.

The Guardian reports Slovenia, Ireland and Spain's refusal to broadcast Eurovision over Israel's participation. As background, it notes Russia has been barred for its "full-scale invasion of Ukraine". Why the row about Israel? Not genocide, apparently. It's "the war in Gaza".

For years, Israel has exposed UK government hypocrisy and lawbreaking by openly using British weapons to commit war crimes and genocide. So the government has come up with an elegant solution: simply shutter the unit dedicated to monitoring such war crimes. 🙈🙉🙊

Israel completely destroying your home – with all its history, family heirlooms and memories erased – is "bittersweet", reports the Guardian.

I lived for 20 years in Nazareth, the biggest Palestinian Christian community inside Israel. From there, I wrote this piece on how Israel has spent decades slowly eradicating the presence of Palestinian Christians from the birthplace of Christianity: www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-06-07/e...

Trump: "God bless the Great People of Iran ... I am going to exterminate them tonight." The ravings of a madman with his finger on the nuclear button. God protect us all.

The sort of people who shouldn't have access to a nuclear bomb, according to Trump: "People who are sick of mind. Tough, smart and sick. ... Mentally these are disturbed people. And powerful and rich. If you think I'm going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon..."