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...

Listen: Starmer's go-to excuse: 'I was in the dark'. Don't believe it. He's deeply in the loop Read by Matthew Alford

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has proved he is the most clueless man ever to have entered high office. Here are a few highlights of his long history of career-enhancing ignorance.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-sta...

Starmer's go-to excuse: 'I was in the dark'. Don't believe it. He's deeply in the loop From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It's the reason, after all, why he was knighted

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It's the reason, after all, why he was knighted.

Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/starmers-g...

Listen: Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide Read by Matthew Alford

Tony Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bla...

Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide Britain former PM shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale

Tony Blair proves there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale.

Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/blairs-lat...

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..."

The perfect image of Israel's depraved occupation:

A grey-haired Palestinian man, zip-tied and blindfolded, forced to hold a sign promoting the jewellery business of his Israeli captor.

For decades, the Israeli army has been managing a giant land-theft extortion racket.

Trita Parsi on how Israel is systematically killing off Iran's consensus-makers – the latest is former foreign minister Kamal Kharazi – to make sure Trump has no one to negotiate with.

The Forgotten PhD that Explains How Iran Sees the West I have acquired Professor Marandi's 2003 thesis

Matthew Alford digs out the PhD thesis, on Lord Byron's poetry, from Birmingham University of Prof Mohammad Marandi.

In it, he finds insights into the mind of the man who's become "the most well-known Iranian spokesperson in the Western world".

More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

The West's current crime spree in the Middle East:

A genocidal campaign of carpet-bombing and starvation in Gaza.

A war of aggression on Iran wrecking the global economy.

The ethnic cleansing of South Lebanon.

It's so overwhelming it's impossible to absorb the scale of it.

Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist.

Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.

Israel committed genocide in Gaza, mostly likely killing 100,000s of Palestinians.

Now the UK and European foreign ministers worry that Israel passing an apartheid death penalty law for Palestinians might "undermine Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles".

Israel is making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent 'audacious feat' of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza

Israel is making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Listen: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture Read by Matthew Alford

Binary thinking over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-doe...

Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other

Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/does-the-t...

Replay: How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines Read by Matthew Alford

Westerners are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism – of the kind all too evident in the war on Iran – through the Pentagon’s control over thousands of blockbuster films and TV shows.

Matthew Alford reads a 2022 article with renewed relevance: jonathancook.substack.com/p/replay-how...

And that's in addition to a second Israeli fabrication the BBC is boosting here – despite even the UK government saying it's nonsense – that Iran is both able and planning to hit European cities like London.

All day the BBC has aired an Israeli military lie that the UK is not involved in the war on Iran – even as British bases host US bombers attacking Tehran.

A patent Israeli falsehood being amplified by the BBC without a trace of pushback.

The BBC's Lucy Williamson says Israel is destroying south Lebanon "using Gaza as a model – a blueprint for destruction used again as a path to peace".

That's right: genocide as "a path to peace".

Orwell would be proud.

The US empire's footprint on a map:

Source: davidvine.net/maps.html

How the US and Israel came close to launching a war on Iran 20 years ago Trump isn't the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby "remake the Middle East", as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out

Trump isn't the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby "remake the Middle East", as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out:
jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-us...

More than half the population in northern Israel belong to Israel's much-discriminated Palestinian minority. It doesn't occur to the racist Guardian to ask them what they think of Israel's latest illegal war.

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK:

Two interviews by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg – one of an Iranian leader, the other of an Israeli leader – reveal the starkly different standards the two states are held to by the British media.

As Media Lens show, this isn't journalism, it's propaganda: medialens.substack.com/p/how-on-ear...

Listen: BBC editor's libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why Read by Matthew Alford

Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages from Owen Jones, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...

BBC executives seem willing to back their Middle East editor Raffi Berg in his libel case against Owen Jones however damaging the resulting revelations about the corporation’s profoundly skewed coverage of Israel.

Read my latest article here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-03...

BBC editor's libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why Journalist Raffi Berg may be fighting for damages, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question

Journalist Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-editor...

This Guardian story amplifies anger at Russia's return to the Venice Biennale.

You'd never know from reading it that Israel and the US are currently engaged in an illegal war of aggression on Iran.

Isn't that "whitewashing war crimes" too, Guardian?

The team that has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza is issuing barely veiled threats to nuke Iran.

Psychopaths are running "western civilisation".