#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge

Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."

https://archive.ph/N8Gfm

#PalestineAction #CraigMurray #RajivMenon #Gaza #Law

#JonathanCook | Every time, the media sides with the discredited apologists for genocide

https://archive.ph/f7PMd

#Gaza #GhassanAbuSittah #Palestine #Media

#JonathanCook | #Genocide isn't a mistake. Which is why the media can't tell you the truth about #Gaza

"It is almost impossible to get serious criticism of the Israeli state, which (falsely) claims to represent the Jewish people, anywhere near mainstream US culture, even when it takes the form of a critically acclaimed movie, backed by Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix, that received a record 23-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is

#TheVoiceOfHindRajab #HindRajab #Palestine #Movies

Jonathan Cook: 4 Observations on Maduro Kidnap
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/07/jonathan-cook-4-observations-on-maduro-kidnap/
A unipolar world leaves all of us prey to Trump’s destabilizing gangsterism and a rapacious, destructive, U.S. corporate capitalism. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Four observations on the Trump administration’s flagrant lawbreaking in abducting Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, from Caracas and…
#Politics #Afghanistan #AmericanEmpire #Commentary #Iraq #Libya #Media #Militarism #Russia #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #Ukraine #UnitedKingdon #AlQaeda #Colonialism #DelcyRodriguez #JonathanCook #MuammarGaddafi #OsamaBinLaden #Sanctions #U.s.Imperialism #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.WarOnVenezuela #Unipolarity #VenezuelanOil #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro #WarInUkraine

Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/115728934379656181

A quote from this article by #JonathanCook:

'Human rights groups, UN legal experts and genocide scholars all agree that #Netanyahu has overseen a two-year genocide in Gaza. He himself is wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

But this fugitive from justice is being given a platform by western news to turn reality on its head and blame others for a supposed “crisis of antisemitism” he is centrally responsible for stoking.'

#Israel #WarCriminal #Gaza

Jonathan Cook: High Court Trickery on Palestine Action
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/02/jonathan-cook-high-court-trickery-on-palestine-action/
This looks like a stitch-up to extricate Keir Starmer and his ministers from the mess they have made of British terrorism laws — all so they can continue conspiring in Israel’s genocide. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net The High Court judge…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #Palestine #Protest #Terrorism #UnitedKingdon #WarCrimes #Zionism #CaroleCadwalladr #DameKarenSteyn #DameVictoriaSharp #JonathanCook #JusticeMartinChamberlain #PalestineActionProscription #PalestineAction’ #SirJonathanSwift #UkJusticeMinistry

#JonathanCook | Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up

Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer's outlaw government

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-judge-pulled-from-palestine

#Palestine #Gaza #PalestineAction #Protest

Jonathan Cook: Breaking Out of Media Group-Think
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/jonathan-cook-breaking-out-of-media-group-think/
The Western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on Oct. 7. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net [This is an adaptation of a…
#Politics #Commentary #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Media #Zionism #AlisonWeir #AntiDefamationLeague(adl) #Apartheid #Bbc #Camera(committeeForAccuracyInMiddleEastReportingAndAnalysis) #ChrisMcgreal #DonaldNeff #EthnicCleansing #Gaza.Genocide #HonestReporting #IainHook #JonathanCook #LucyWilliamson #MichaelAdams #Nazareth #OwenJones #RaffiBerg #TheGuardian #TimeMagazine

Jonathan Cook: This Time the BBC Chose the Wrong Target
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/jonathan-cook-bbc-chose-the-wrong-target-this-time/
Heads have rolled at the BBC, but not due to a journalistic blunder – it makes them all the time. It foolishly deferred to the billionaires in the political battle over image-laundering: where to direct the hate. By Jonathan Cook…
#Politics #Commentary #Media #Propaganda #RightWing #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #AlJazeera #Bbc #BbcPanorama #GazaFreedomFlotilla #JaneCorbin #JewishLabourMovement #JewishVoiceForLabour #JonathanCook #MaviMarmara

It is not #Gaza that needs “deradicalising”. It is the West and its client state #Israel. #JonathanCook in #MiddleEastEye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-two-years-west-deradicalised-never-happens-again

#JonathanCook | No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me

"I grieve over much more than a death toll that now runs into many tens of thousands of children.

I grieve over my government’s active complicity in providing the weapons and intelligence that made possible the mass slaughter in Gaza.

I grieve over my government’s refusal to oppose the abduction of British citizens trying to reach Gaza and bring food to the population Israel is starving. And I grieve at my government’s refusal to mount an official flotilla of its own, a naval one, to break Israel’s illegal siege of the enclave and end the famine it has engineered there. "

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/no-one-in-power-respects-my-grief

#Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Protest

#JonathanCook | Who's really encouraging attacks like the one on a synagogue? Look to our leaders

"She wants the protesters to show “some humanity” and “solidarity with the Jewish community” in the wake of the Manchester attack. As though this is some kind of zero-sum game in which our opposition to a genocide has to come at the expense of a grieving Jewish community. "

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/whos-really-encouraging-attacks-like

#Gaza #Manchester #Antisemitism #Palestine #Protest

#JonathanCook | How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities

"The goal here, of course, was to distort the audience’s understanding of a simple news event – Israel’s attack on a hospital in violation of international law to kill journalists and emergency workers – to ensure any loss of sympathy with Israel was kept to a minimum.

The media’s role in artificially sustaining support for Israel, in the face of all the evidence of its crimes, has been absolutely essential to smoothing the path, over the past two years, to genocide."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-media-tears-up-its-own-rulebook

#Gaza #Genocide #Media #Propaganda

#JonathanCook | Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud

'That is what is meant when the media talk about recognition being chiefly “symbolic”. Starmer and others see it as amounting to little more than a retrospective rap on knuckles for Israel not playing fair.

It is a cost-free exercise because, while Israel feigns indignation about recognition serving as a supposed “reward for terrorism”, it and its patron in Washington know nothing tangible is really at stake.'

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/recognition-of-palestine-is-a-repeat

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Starmer #TheIsrael

"Such depraved glorification of mass violence by the US political establishment barely raises an eyebrow. And yet our focus is firmly directed at Tyler Robinson, as though his suspected lone act of violence is some sort of watershed moment that only now requires serious soul-searching – and, predictably, only from “leftists”."

#JonathanCook

#JonathanCook | Charlie Kirk and his killer were spawned by the same dark soul of US politics

"All of this smacks either of gross incompetence by a highly politicised FBI under Patel, or a convenient, manufactured narrative produced by a highly politicised FBI under Patel keen to implicate "the left" and trigger a further, more violent round of culture wars."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-and-his-killer-were

#CharlieKirk #FBI #Fascism #US #FreeSpeech #Propaganda #Gaza

"All of this had to be coordinated with an Israeli military liaison body, COGAT, that approves the movement of foreign workers in Gaza if they are to avoid being killed in drone strikes.

Most likely Israel insisted on the pretext for evacuation so it could strike the hospital and kill Palestinian emergency crews and journalists without also harming foreigners and so limit whatever tepid indignation the murder of Palestinian journalists would provoke from the western media."

#JonathanCook

"The first point is this: An investigation by Israel, or anyone else for that matter, is not needed to establish whether the targeted camera belonged to Hamas. It didn’t because it belonged to Reuters news agency."

#JonathanCook

#JonathanCook | Even the media's Gaza 'investigations' hide the real story of Israel's atrocities

"These are the straws that western leaders, and the large contingent of genocide apologists in western professional circles, including journalists, so desperately clutch at.

Because otherwise it would be only too clear that they have been cheerleading – and assisting – a genocide for two years."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/even-the-medias-gaza-investigations

#Gaza #Genocide #TheIsrael #Warcrimes #Media #Journalism