The goal of the government, police, courts and media has been to keep the public fixated on the faux-illegality of Palestine Action's opposition to genocide, not the British security state’s all-too-real criminal collusion in that genocide.
My latest: www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...
“The Labour government is stuffed with compromised individuals like Mike Tapp, who serve as Israel’s cheerleaders in the UK.
In addition, or more likely as a consequence, many of these ministers, from Keir Starmer down, receive large donations from the Israel lobby.”
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.
The Labour government ministers determined to show they represent Israel, not the British people.
Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
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.
“Anyone who gets too carried away by the Makerfield result should remind themselves of those recent local elections, and the political rubble Reform left in its wake … without a councillor base, a traditional party such as Labour will wither at the roots …”
John Harris, Guardian
🇵🇸 Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Policy Lead Bushra Khalidi told the UN Security Council that Israel has deliberately dismantled the humanitarian systems needed for Gaza’s recovery, blocked orgs including UNRWA & Oxfam, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and left Palestinians “denied even the basic...
Jonathan Cook
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Arms sales to apartheid Israel will continue.
Palestine Action will remain banned, and more pensioners will be locked up.
Welfare will be cut to fund more weapons.
Immigration detention will expand, and mass deportations will continue.
Au Suivant.
Jonathan Cook
Devoured by private equity.
Bernard Matthews
Body Shop
Byron Burger
Casual Dining
Cath Kidson
Claire’s
Comet
Debenhams
Flybe
Four Seasons Health Care
Homebase
Maplin
Thousands of jobs lost, supply chains destroyed, creditors not paid, pension rights lost, taxes dodged.
Yet govts venerate PE.
A World Cup where some supporters fear they cannot attend is not a World Cup that fully lives up to its promise
Football should bring people together across borders, cultures & identities, not create new barriers 🌍⚽
#FIFAWorldCup
Au Suivant.
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...
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...
UK courts upheld the gov't’s proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. The outcomes were all but predetermined.
