[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Jonathan_K_Cook Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook posts on X about israel, israeli, gaza, hamas the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +2.60% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XX +14% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.08% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.47% - X Months XXXXXXX +7.40% - X Year XXXXXXX +10% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [israel](/topic/israel) #772, [israeli](/topic/israeli) #756, [gaza](/topic/gaza) #1307, [hamas](/topic/hamas) #472, [guardian](/topic/guardian) #614, [over the](/topic/over-the) 1.28%, [money](/topic/money) 1.28%, [netanyahu](/topic/netanyahu) #641, [gaza peace](/topic/gaza-peace) 0.64%, [idf](/topic/idf) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@bobdxbcmbeh](/creator/undefined) [@braveneweurope1](/creator/undefined) [@alanwilliamz](/creator/undefined) [@ariffidanci](/creator/undefined) [@marc14595](/creator/undefined) [@90percenters](/creator/undefined) [@lgbtsrh](/creator/undefined) [@disperth](/creator/undefined) [@indiechefster](/creator/undefined) [@gpg691909](/creator/undefined) [@casperbryson](/creator/undefined) [@f_dee92117](/creator/undefined) [@teresa_peckham](/creator/undefined) [@lordgmanilson](/creator/undefined) [@salman323190113](/creator/undefined) [@stevenw53346726](/creator/undefined) [@gengi43](/creator/undefined) [@daddy__c0o1](/creator/undefined) [@demonogion](/creator/undefined) [@jezmyers](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2459644405/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "The Guardian joins the chorus pretending a Gaza peace deal was possible because of Trump's "juggernaut" personality. The truth: without US weapons Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide. The US could have stopped this from day one had it wished to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1976598347982266634) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-10T10:39Z 170K followers, 134.8K engagements "Remember the demands for the criminal prosecution of Bob Vylan for calling for Death to the IDF. Now those same people want Israeli football hooligans calling for the murder of Gazas children to be given special privileges to chant their death threats in the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979328009099448781) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T23:25Z 170K followers, 77.4K engagements "It would obviously be antisemitic to suggest that threats from Jewish donors have influenced US universities in crushing academic freedom and the right to protest on their campuses. Meanwhile in other news 700-plus members of Rutgers Jewish community threatened to bring the university to its knees by pulling 'donations and financial support' after Rutgers administrators had peacefully resolved their stand-off with students protesting the university's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. The university had agreed to hold talks with student representatives about its investments in arms" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1787636163911500055) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2024-05-07T00:10Z 170K followers, 244.7K engagements "Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted: In interviews and a comment article over the weekend the UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israels criminal actions and of course her own governments collusion in that criminality. Naturally the British establishment media have been keen to amplify her message that there will be painful consequences both for individuals who continue protesting against Israeli atrocities and for institutions such as universities that mistakenly" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1977757086059503802) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-13T15:23Z 170K followers, 45K engagements "It's revealing the importance being placed on Hamas returning the bodies of Israeli captives. And yet no one cared about Israel's decades-long refusal to hand back many hundreds of bodies of Palestinians it was holding. Did their families not need a grave to grieve over" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978243280908247354) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-14T23:35Z 170K followers, 53.3K engagements "Note too that Virgin Money and the Unity Trust Bank have also shut the accounts of completely legal pro-Palestine organisations. It's a reminder that all corporations are amoral entirely self-interested. In humans we call this behaviour psychopathic. They respond only to pressure" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978533796531036606) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-15T18:49Z 170K followers, 9207 engagements "@SmithiesSusan Yes thank you a good argument for why we need to get rid of them. They are entirely unaccountable corporations driven purely by profit extraction and wealth accumulation for a tiny elite. There are better models for protecting our money and our economies" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978802011526009261) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-16T12:35Z 170K followers, 1173 engagements "Research shows plug-in hybrids are nearly as polluting as petrol cars. Buried in the story is this telling detail: The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than 5bn (4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023."" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978842145881481523) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-16T15:15Z 170K followers, 5298 engagements "Greta Thunberg arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters explains in XX seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1932514123415257275) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-06-10T19:04Z 170K followers, 1.2M engagements "How to understand Israel's decision to continue holding Dr Hussam Abu Safia the eminent head of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza who was abducted a year ago rather than release him with 2000 Palestinians as part of the current hostage exchange Abu Safia who's never been charged has been beaten and tortured by Israel. Keeping him in captivity simply to abuse him and prevent him and other doctors from saving lives in Gaza tells you everything you need to know about Israel's true intentions towards the enclave" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979137231446061481) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T10:47Z 170K followers, 11.5K engagements "The current narrative of a ceasefire is as much a lie as the preceding narrative of a Gaza war. The ceasefire is not fragile as we keep being told. It is non-existent as evidenced by Israels continual violations from its soldiers continuing to shoot dead Palestinian civilians to it blocking promised aid. So what is really going on To understand the ceasefire and US President Donald Trumps even more deluded 20-point peace plan we first need to make sense of what the earlier war rhetoric was used to conceal. Over the past XX months we witnessed something deeply sinister. We watched the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979166444651753482) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T12:43Z 170K followers, 5037 engagements "For decades Palestinians have been forced to live with a catch-22: damned if they do damned if they dont. Any resistance to their brutal occupation results in slaughter or mowing the lawn as Israel terms it as well as their designation as terrorists. But a policy of no resistance as pursued by Mahmoud Abbas compliant Palestinian Authority in the West Bank hangs Palestinians out to dry living as permanent dehumanised prisoners under Israeli rule herded into ever shrinking reservations while Jewish militias are licensed to build settlements on their land. The same kind of bogus choice is" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979167764557275312) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T12:49Z 170K followers, 10.7K engagements "This week Trump muddied the waters again warning that if Hamas did not disarm Israel would resume its attacks on Gaza as soon as I say the word. The next day he went further suggesting the US itself might act in Gaza. He wrote on his Truth Social: If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza which was not the Deal we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. So what is supposed to fill the vacuum created in the doubly improbable event of Hamas dissolving itself and Israel fully withdrawing from Gaza Israel has insisted on no Palestinian governance in the enclave even from Abbas Vichy" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979173014207107223) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T13:09Z 170K followers, 4420 engagements "The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal. No the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs. Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1976435981663469881) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-09T23:53Z 170K followers, 455.7K engagements "After threatening to fine universities that allow protests against Israeli atrocities the government is funding a pro-Israel apartheid group this one masquerading as Jewish students to "train" university staff to identify antisemitism on campus" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978099378779824147) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-14T14:03Z 170K followers, 24.3K engagements "Once again Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza: Yet again the BBCs Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza and as always he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible. The BBCs international editor notes two reasons why Hamas will not wish to disarm as stipulated by Israeli and US officials: a) Because having weapons is deep in their ideological DNA. b) Because Hamas are worried that if they are not armed there are plenty of people out there in Gaza who would like to take revenge on them and will come after them. Notice two" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978239649169408066) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-14T23:21Z 170K followers, 181.3K engagements "The refrigerated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel all arrived with cuffed hands and legs and were unnamed. Some still wore blindfolds with gunshot wounds while others had been run over by tanks. That's CNN's way of reporting that Israel had executed them" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978400059898126652) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-15T09:58Z 170K followers, 92.1K engagements "So this is yet another ceasefire in which Israel doesn't actually cease its fire" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978408505473212671) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-15T10:31Z 170K followers, 24.9K engagements "Yorkshire Building Society appear to have shut down the account of a couple he's a former barrister for being pro-Palestine activists. YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't they must feel the power of a consumer boycott" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978531165024702672) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-15T18:39Z 170K followers, 83.9K engagements "There will be no jury hearings for the 2000 people arrested so far for holding signs opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action's efforts to stop it. Just a mass show trial instead with the defence given a few minutes to make its argument to the judge. Starmer's government knows juries would be highly unlikely to convict. As former ambassador Craig Murray observes we are seeing "the UKs headlong slide into fascism". He is trying to disrupt this process by bringing a case in the Scottish courts to reject the application of London's proscription of Palestine Action in Scotland. If" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979145466739671378) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T11:20Z 170K followers, 21K engagements "Uh-oh. The US says Hamas about to break the ceasefire deal the one Israel has not stopped violating for a week with a "planned attack against Palestinian civilians". Israel now has every incentive to carry out a false-flag attack so it has a pretext to restart the genocide" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979830828223111637) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-19T08:43Z 170K followers, 63.3K engagements "Powerful words from Nesrine Malik in the Guardian: "Of course you would rush to Sharm el-Sheikh if you were representing a government that provided arms restricted protest and refused either to endorse declarations of genocide or to observe the rulings of the ICC when it issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. "Peace in Gaza represents an opportunity to forget; to erase from the collective consciousness an era in which some western countries took a bludgeon to international norms and institutions and indeed their own domestic politics in order to force through the destruction of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1977688702236217796) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-13T10:51Z 170K followers, 76.7K engagements "After two years of seeing children shredded buried under rubble and starved our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages. If only they had been this worked up about the dead mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1977791759565402564) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-13T17:41Z 170K followers, 76.4K engagements "The Red Cross say it'll be a "massive challenge" to find the graves of the last Israeli captives under mountains of rubble from Israel's levelling of Gaza. Having created a near-impossible task for Hamas Israel's using it to justify keeping up its genocidal starvation campaign" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978220829918797926) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-14T22:06Z 170K followers, 67.6K engagements "Caitlin Johnstone: "The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said."" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1978814058112381384) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-16T13:23Z 170K followers, 30.8K engagements "If Hamas can avoid the "ceasefire" tripwire of the near-impossible task of tracking down all the Israeli captives' bodies it will then be required to lay down its weapons. This is being presented as a pre-condition for peace. But the one certainty is that even were Hamas to disarm peace would not be the outcome. This week in his usual stye Trump made undefined threats. If they Hamas dont disarm he said we will disarm them. He added that if the US got involved it will happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm. This intentionally puts Hamas and others pursuing armed resistance" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1979171485877944426) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-17T13:03Z 170K followers, 11.6K engagements "This film examines Germany's reworking of its fascist impulses now by targeting Palestinians "Arabs" and Jews and those on the left who show solidarity with Gaza's pain. It's a fascinating case study of where the West is heading more generally:" [X Link](https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1980219629453910430) [@Jonathan_K_Cook](/creator/x/Jonathan_K_Cook) 2025-10-20T10:28Z 170K followers, 2274 engagements
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Jonathan Cook posts on X about israel, israeli, gaza, hamas the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence israel #772, israeli #756, gaza #1307, hamas #472, guardian #614, over the 1.28%, money 1.28%, netanyahu #641, gaza peace 0.64%, idf XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @bobdxbcmbeh @braveneweurope1 @alanwilliamz @ariffidanci @marc14595 @90percenters @lgbtsrh @disperth @indiechefster @gpg691909 @casperbryson @f_dee92117 @teresa_peckham @lordgmanilson @salman323190113 @stevenw53346726 @gengi43 @daddy__c0o1 @demonogion @jezmyers
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"The Guardian joins the chorus pretending a Gaza peace deal was possible because of Trump's "juggernaut" personality. The truth: without US weapons Israel would have been unable to wreck Gaza and commit a genocide. The US could have stopped this from day one had it wished to"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-10T10:39Z 170K followers, 134.8K engagements
"Remember the demands for the criminal prosecution of Bob Vylan for calling for Death to the IDF. Now those same people want Israeli football hooligans calling for the murder of Gazas children to be given special privileges to chant their death threats in the UK"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T23:25Z 170K followers, 77.4K engagements
"It would obviously be antisemitic to suggest that threats from Jewish donors have influenced US universities in crushing academic freedom and the right to protest on their campuses. Meanwhile in other news 700-plus members of Rutgers Jewish community threatened to bring the university to its knees by pulling 'donations and financial support' after Rutgers administrators had peacefully resolved their stand-off with students protesting the university's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. The university had agreed to hold talks with student representatives about its investments in arms"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2024-05-07T00:10Z 170K followers, 244.7K engagements
"Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted: In interviews and a comment article over the weekend the UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israels criminal actions and of course her own governments collusion in that criminality. Naturally the British establishment media have been keen to amplify her message that there will be painful consequences both for individuals who continue protesting against Israeli atrocities and for institutions such as universities that mistakenly"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-13T15:23Z 170K followers, 45K engagements
"It's revealing the importance being placed on Hamas returning the bodies of Israeli captives. And yet no one cared about Israel's decades-long refusal to hand back many hundreds of bodies of Palestinians it was holding. Did their families not need a grave to grieve over"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-14T23:35Z 170K followers, 53.3K engagements
"Note too that Virgin Money and the Unity Trust Bank have also shut the accounts of completely legal pro-Palestine organisations. It's a reminder that all corporations are amoral entirely self-interested. In humans we call this behaviour psychopathic. They respond only to pressure"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-15T18:49Z 170K followers, 9207 engagements
"@SmithiesSusan Yes thank you a good argument for why we need to get rid of them. They are entirely unaccountable corporations driven purely by profit extraction and wealth accumulation for a tiny elite. There are better models for protecting our money and our economies"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-16T12:35Z 170K followers, 1173 engagements
"Research shows plug-in hybrids are nearly as polluting as petrol cars. Buried in the story is this telling detail: The underestimate of hybrid emissions in official tests "let four major carmaker groups avoid more than 5bn (4.3bn) in fines between 2021 and 2023.""
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-16T15:15Z 170K followers, 5298 engagements
"Greta Thunberg arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters explains in XX seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-06-10T19:04Z 170K followers, 1.2M engagements
"How to understand Israel's decision to continue holding Dr Hussam Abu Safia the eminent head of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza who was abducted a year ago rather than release him with 2000 Palestinians as part of the current hostage exchange Abu Safia who's never been charged has been beaten and tortured by Israel. Keeping him in captivity simply to abuse him and prevent him and other doctors from saving lives in Gaza tells you everything you need to know about Israel's true intentions towards the enclave"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T10:47Z 170K followers, 11.5K engagements
"The current narrative of a ceasefire is as much a lie as the preceding narrative of a Gaza war. The ceasefire is not fragile as we keep being told. It is non-existent as evidenced by Israels continual violations from its soldiers continuing to shoot dead Palestinian civilians to it blocking promised aid. So what is really going on To understand the ceasefire and US President Donald Trumps even more deluded 20-point peace plan we first need to make sense of what the earlier war rhetoric was used to conceal. Over the past XX months we witnessed something deeply sinister. We watched the"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T12:43Z 170K followers, 5037 engagements
"For decades Palestinians have been forced to live with a catch-22: damned if they do damned if they dont. Any resistance to their brutal occupation results in slaughter or mowing the lawn as Israel terms it as well as their designation as terrorists. But a policy of no resistance as pursued by Mahmoud Abbas compliant Palestinian Authority in the West Bank hangs Palestinians out to dry living as permanent dehumanised prisoners under Israeli rule herded into ever shrinking reservations while Jewish militias are licensed to build settlements on their land. The same kind of bogus choice is"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T12:49Z 170K followers, 10.7K engagements
"This week Trump muddied the waters again warning that if Hamas did not disarm Israel would resume its attacks on Gaza as soon as I say the word. The next day he went further suggesting the US itself might act in Gaza. He wrote on his Truth Social: If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza which was not the Deal we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. So what is supposed to fill the vacuum created in the doubly improbable event of Hamas dissolving itself and Israel fully withdrawing from Gaza Israel has insisted on no Palestinian governance in the enclave even from Abbas Vichy"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T13:09Z 170K followers, 4420 engagements
"The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal. No the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs. Washington chose to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-09T23:53Z 170K followers, 455.7K engagements
"After threatening to fine universities that allow protests against Israeli atrocities the government is funding a pro-Israel apartheid group this one masquerading as Jewish students to "train" university staff to identify antisemitism on campus"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-14T14:03Z 170K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Once again Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza: Yet again the BBCs Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza and as always he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible. The BBCs international editor notes two reasons why Hamas will not wish to disarm as stipulated by Israeli and US officials: a) Because having weapons is deep in their ideological DNA. b) Because Hamas are worried that if they are not armed there are plenty of people out there in Gaza who would like to take revenge on them and will come after them. Notice two"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-14T23:21Z 170K followers, 181.3K engagements
"The refrigerated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel all arrived with cuffed hands and legs and were unnamed. Some still wore blindfolds with gunshot wounds while others had been run over by tanks. That's CNN's way of reporting that Israel had executed them"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-15T09:58Z 170K followers, 92.1K engagements
"So this is yet another ceasefire in which Israel doesn't actually cease its fire"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-15T10:31Z 170K followers, 24.9K engagements
"Yorkshire Building Society appear to have shut down the account of a couple he's a former barrister for being pro-Palestine activists. YBS urgently need to explain themselves. If they don't they must feel the power of a consumer boycott"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-15T18:39Z 170K followers, 83.9K engagements
"There will be no jury hearings for the 2000 people arrested so far for holding signs opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action's efforts to stop it. Just a mass show trial instead with the defence given a few minutes to make its argument to the judge. Starmer's government knows juries would be highly unlikely to convict. As former ambassador Craig Murray observes we are seeing "the UKs headlong slide into fascism". He is trying to disrupt this process by bringing a case in the Scottish courts to reject the application of London's proscription of Palestine Action in Scotland. If"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T11:20Z 170K followers, 21K engagements
"Uh-oh. The US says Hamas about to break the ceasefire deal the one Israel has not stopped violating for a week with a "planned attack against Palestinian civilians". Israel now has every incentive to carry out a false-flag attack so it has a pretext to restart the genocide"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-19T08:43Z 170K followers, 63.3K engagements
"Powerful words from Nesrine Malik in the Guardian: "Of course you would rush to Sharm el-Sheikh if you were representing a government that provided arms restricted protest and refused either to endorse declarations of genocide or to observe the rulings of the ICC when it issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. "Peace in Gaza represents an opportunity to forget; to erase from the collective consciousness an era in which some western countries took a bludgeon to international norms and institutions and indeed their own domestic politics in order to force through the destruction of"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-13T10:51Z 170K followers, 76.7K engagements
"After two years of seeing children shredded buried under rubble and starved our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages. If only they had been this worked up about the dead mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-13T17:41Z 170K followers, 76.4K engagements
"The Red Cross say it'll be a "massive challenge" to find the graves of the last Israeli captives under mountains of rubble from Israel's levelling of Gaza. Having created a near-impossible task for Hamas Israel's using it to justify keeping up its genocidal starvation campaign"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-14T22:06Z 170K followers, 67.6K engagements
"Caitlin Johnstone: "The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said.""
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-16T13:23Z 170K followers, 30.8K engagements
"If Hamas can avoid the "ceasefire" tripwire of the near-impossible task of tracking down all the Israeli captives' bodies it will then be required to lay down its weapons. This is being presented as a pre-condition for peace. But the one certainty is that even were Hamas to disarm peace would not be the outcome. This week in his usual stye Trump made undefined threats. If they Hamas dont disarm he said we will disarm them. He added that if the US got involved it will happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm. This intentionally puts Hamas and others pursuing armed resistance"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-17T13:03Z 170K followers, 11.6K engagements
"This film examines Germany's reworking of its fascist impulses now by targeting Palestinians "Arabs" and Jews and those on the left who show solidarity with Gaza's pain. It's a fascinating case study of where the West is heading more generally:"
X Link @Jonathan_K_Cook 2025-10-20T10:28Z 170K followers, 2274 engagements