Again, charges of anti-Semitism obscure grievous allegations levelled against Israeli officials -- this time claims that organs were harvested from dead Palestinians, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The hyperventilating by Israel's leaders over a (...)
The media continues to parrot Israel-friendly half-truths about Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook* in Nazareth
We have all heard the shocking news from Gaza: nearly 1,000 dead after less than three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, (...)
Zionist dreams of clearing "Greater Israel" of all Palestinians continue to be played out via insidious and violent means, but they won't be realised, writes Jonathan Cook*
In 1895, Theodor Herzl, Zionism's chief prophet, confided in his diary that (...)
Humiliated in 2006 and now hit by corruption scandals, most Israelis want Prime Minister to resign immediately, writes Jonathan Cook
Israelis may have noted Prime Minister Ehud 's unusually dejected demeanour when he gave a televised address to the (...)
Unseen and unreported, Israeli police attacked children and parents who wished to remember the Palestinian national tragedy that is the flipside of the birth of Israel, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
It has been a week of adulation from world (...)
In the Galilee, Jonathan Cook hears how erasing all traces of Palestine and its people was the lynchpin of the Zionist agenda
Amin Mohamed Ali (Abu Arab), 73, is a refugee from the village of Saffuriya, three miles northwest of Nazareth. The (...)
Clearing the Palestinians out of Gaza appears the ultimate aim of Israel's declared strategy of genocide in the Strip, writes Jonathan Cook
Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai's much publicised remark about Gaza facing a "bigger shoah" -- (...)
The fate of one college professor who refuses to celebrate militarism epitomises the fanaticism at the heart of Israeli academia, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
An Israeli college is threatening to dismiss a prominent Arab filmmaker from his (...)
With Winograd mincing its words, Israel's hapless prime minister hangs on, for now, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The families of some of the 119 soldiers killed during Israel's attack on Lebanon 18 months ago, backed by disgruntled reserve army (...)
Israel's unacknowledged recent air attack on Syria is about laying the grounds for the new war Bush wants before leaving office, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Israel's air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the (...)
As time passes, evidence of grave Israeli breaches of international law during its 2006 war on Lebanon grows, writes Jonathan Cook* in Nazareth
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon War by (...)
Just as Jews in Egypt and Iraq in the 20th century were manipulated by Israel, so now Iran's Jewish community is in peril, reflects Jonathan Cook*
Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli (...)
The Israeli state is trying desperately to foreclose all exceptions to its unequivocally racist land laws, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Israel's parliament last week approved by an overwhelming majority the first reading of a bill to ensure that (...)
Jonathan Cook* joins a watchdog group on duty in the West Bank, documenting abuses and numberless humiliations that characterise the daily life of ordinary Palestinians under occupation
The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory (...)
Israel's ex-Chief of Staff's fall was assisted by a stealthy rebellion led by his senior commanders, many of whom have been regularly leaking against him to the Israeli media, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Belatedly, the Israeli army's dismal (...)
The state of Israel seems poised to impose its Zionist character using the force of the law. With this legislating of loyalty, it reveals its racism, writes Jonathan Cook* in Nazareth
When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought (...)
Arabs in Israel call for a "state of all its citizens" to replace Jewish-only policies, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The official political leadership of Israel's more than one million Palestinian citizens issued a manifesto in Nazareth last (...)
Recognising Israel's "right to exist" is in practice bowing to paranoid state racism, writes Jonathan Cook*
The problem facing the Palestinian leadership, as they strive to bring the millions living in the occupied territories some small relief from (...)
In condemning Palestinian attempts to non-violently resist occupation and aggression, Human Rights Watch has shown itself to be morally bankrupt, writes Jonathan Cook*
If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair (...)
Kadima and the government are in trouble as the Israeli public steps even further towards the right in politics, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Israelis saw in the Jewish New Year on the weekend with a flurry of opinion polls showing that they (...)
After a month of military failure, dark clouds are gathering over Israel's political leaders, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
As soon as the guns fell silent on the battlefields of South Lebanon Monday, the knives came out: Israel is in for a (...)
Jonathan Cook*, in Nazareth, argues that though Israel would have the world believe the opposite, it is not Hizbullah that is acting fanatically. He also examines the fissure in Israeli support for the war in Lebanon since its outbreak
Seconds after (...)
The state of Israel, fearful of the truth, continues to control media coverage of its brutal occupation, writes Jonathan Cook*
One early and easy victory for Israel in Gaza has been in its battle to manage the news. Israel's invasion is a very (...)
Only in Israel can Jewish tribalism hope to triumph, writes Jonathan Cook*
In a recent skirmish with leading members of the American Jewish activist community, the prize-winning Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua claimed that secular Jewish identity was (...)
Though celebrated in Washington, Olmert's "convergence" plan is but the same old Israeli policy of dominating and ruining the Palestinians, by force if necessary, writes Jonathan Cook*
Israelis have a word for it: "hasbara". It is often misleadingly (...)