Jonathan Cook Substack

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Israel’s supporters have gone apoplectic over a short post on X from the journalist Mehdi Hasan, highlighting Israel’s peculiar marriage laws. Hasan asks: “Did you know that you can’t have a civil or secular marriage in Israel?” Did you know that you can’t have a civil or secular marriage in Israel? Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71 Something like 40 countries have an official state religion.

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[First published by Middle East Eye] Keir Starmer’s announcement on Monday that he was stepping down as Labour leader – and therefore as Britain’s prime minister – is a remarkable turnaround for the man whose election victory less than two years ago was uniformly heralded as a triumph. In fact, Starmer rode into 10 Downing Street on a grand deception, propped up by the UK’s establishment media, that has proven the key to his undoing. This was a disaster foretold.

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NOTE TO THOSE READING VIA EMAIL: This article may have been truncated by your email client. In which case, please click on the headline to take you directly to the full Substack article. [First published by +972] It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an unprecedented, authoritarian crackdown on dissent back home would follow.

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Mike Tapp, a minister in the Home Office, recently posted on X a “gotcha” response to Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s criticism of the Labour government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action. In the wake of the Court of Appeal ruling this week to uphold proscription, Polanski noted the government’s authoritarian assault on civil liberties.

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[First published by Middle East Eye] The truth slowly comes to light: Israel‘s genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago. Listen to the testimonies of four Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza. Soldier 1: “Human lives didn’t matter. You could kill, there was no law. No one would say a word to you. But it’s not a good feeling. It mainly kills your humanity.” Soldier 2: “At first I wasn’t willing to execute Arabs who weren’t resisting [that is, civilians].