Jonathan Cook

Here is a list of the things Andy Burnham is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide in Gaza, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-con…

The stupid brigade keep telling us more people die of cold than heat each year – so a warming climate is no big deal. 1. The number of heat deaths is only going to keep rising as things get hotter. 2. People die from cold mostly because of societal failures to keep them warm. That's a choice. Deaths from heat will become ever harder to prevent whatever we do, whether from heat exposure, wildfires, food shortages, disease. 3. Deaths from cold aren't going away either. In fact, they are likely to get worse too. What we face is climate instability, in which weather extremes become more common. A warming world will lead to more deaths from heat – and from cold.

Israel continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?

Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW. This UN report is from two weeks ago. Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.

@piersmorgan Yeah, I remember it was those same despicably cruel, heartless, abusive woke-left types who celebrated the death of Adolf Hitler. They need to learn to be more respectful of people whose only crime is working for the mass slaughter of others.

Seeing the despicably cruel, heartless and abusive way that many people in UK and US have responded to the deaths of conservative politicians, Ann Widdecombe and Lindsey Graham, reminds me that the least kind people on earth are ironically those on the #BeKind woke left.

Yeah, I remember it was those same despicably cruel, heartless, abusive woke-left types who celebrated the death of Adolf Hitler. They need to learn to be more respectful of people whose only crime is working for the mass slaughter of others.

If Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers feel bold enough to take hostage a US Congressperson at gunpoint, just imagine what these same soldiers and settlers do to Palestinians.

Once again, the Board of Deputies conflates Jews with Israel, a clear example of antisemitism according to the IHRA definition the Board itself promotes. It claims Hamas "launched the conflict" in October 2023, even though Israel has been illegally and belligerently occupying Gaza since 1967 – 20 years before Hamas was even born. And the Board insists that Burnham urgently meet with it – presumably to be reminded that he will face Corbyn's fate of a relentless, manufactured smear campaign unless he guarantees, like Starmer, to support Israel, and its genocide, at all costs.

Watch Andy Burnham’s actions on Gaza as prime minister, don't simply listen to his hollow words of contrition. Here is a checklist of the main things he would do if he was actually serious about ending British complicity in Israel’s genocide. Remember, he is legally obligated to do all the things listed below, according to an International Court of Justice ruling that countries must honour the Geneva Convention and take whatever concrete steps they can to prevent a genocide. He must de-proscribe Palestine Action, and the chilling impact it was intended to have on those protesting British complicity in what UN inquiries, legal experts, human rights groups and Holocaust scholars all believe to be a genocide in Gaza. He must advise the Crown Prosecution Service to drop the impending charges against, and prosecutions of, thousands of ordinary people as “supporters of terrorism” for holding placards opposing genocide. He must insist, more generally, that the UK police stop hounding anti-genocide activists, journalists and lawyers through an expanded and exaggerated interpretation of already-draconian counter-terrorism laws, and also scrap a new National Security Bill being hurried through parliament that will criminalise those trying to scrutinise British collusion in crimes like the Gaza genocide. He must announce that any Briton who has served in the Israeli military – there are at least 2,000 of them – risks being prosecuted for war crimes on their return to the UK, including the son of Britain’s Orthodox chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. Equally, he must remind the police of their duty to investigate prominent figures in Britain using their platforms to justify or incite genocide. He must commit to ending all arms sales to Israel, not just the measly suspension of 30 out of 350 export licences that was conceded by Starmer. He must also end the carve-out on Britain’s supply of components for the F-35 jets being used to bomb Gaza. He must insist Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, stop production of its killer drones at its UK factories and their shipment to Israel for use in Gaza – drones that a recent United Nations inquiry found were being used to deliberately target Palestinian children. He must refuse to meet Israeli government ministers and generals, as Starmer’s government has repeatedly done in flagrant violation of its legal obligations, and promise to enforce the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, and any other Israeli officials the ICC may have indicted in secret, should they set foot in the UK. He must stop British RAF base Akrotiri, on Cyprus, from being used for spy flights over Gaza, gathering intelligence that is being handed over to Israel and almost certainly directing its attacks on the enclave. He must also block Britain’s role in the weapons supply chain to Israel, with Akrotiri being used to transfer US and German arms that have killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians in the enclave. And he must impose economic sanctions and asset freezes on Israel, equivalent to those on Russia. Will Burnham do all of this? Will he do any of it? Will he even try to do any of it? You know the answer as well as I do. Talk is cheap. Judge Burnham by his actions.

“Will Burnham do all of this? Will he do any of it? Will he even try to do any of it?” A base checklist @Jonathan_K_Cook on what Burnham must legally, politically and morally do if he’s remotely serious about stopping the genocide, sanctioning Israel, and supporting Palestine.

Beyond revealing the depravity of the ruling class, the genocide in Gaza has unveiled the true inner workings of the global financial order — as regular people continue to struggle, war concentrates wealth into the hands of the transnational oligarchs running the world, providing them pretexts to develop technology that increases their capacity to control disobedient populations and secure their own class interests. Watch my full interview with @FranceskAlbs at the link below.

The same tax-haven billionaires who bankrolled the Tory party are now hedging their bets by bankrolling Nigel Farage and Reform. Lowkey on how Farage isn't taking on the establishment – he is the establishment.

Lowkey exposes Netanyahu’s terrifying $14 billion plan to control your mind. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=5Sd3O-…

"They could not stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking through." How the western ruling class and the Zionist lobby spent $14 billion to take back control of our minds:

The arms trade is a corrupt fraud: A former head of NATO working for a firm that promotes arms sales gets to invoke fear as though he’s an independent expert. Defence budgets increase by billions. Arms companies make a fortune. Individuals like this profit. Our politicians and political parties get big paydays. Corrupt to the core and we are paying for it all.

Andy lad. Get off Starmer’s fence. You either accept the evidence before your own eyes, or you don’t. There is no ‘appear’ about it. Genocide. War crimes. Say it.

I thought that this must be an exaggeration but have now read the judgement and it is true, To repost any item from Russia Today - even it if is completely true, or a World Cup feature - is a crime in the EU.

Keir Starmer's Sordid Legacy/Dictatorship lives on: The UK government wants to suppress independent journalism & artificially promote legacy media on YouTube, legally forcing YouTube to change its algorithm to promote state sanctioned news outlets at the expense of popular independent journalists, outlets and creators. The reason of course is that outlets like ours hold the government and powerful to account, unlike the ever increasingly unpopular and sychopantic corporate and state media they are seeking to force you to consume. This Labour government is fast becoming the most authoritarian and unpopular Government in UK history:

BREAKING (bones) Why does "Bring Them Home" exist only for some hostages? Because in Apartheid Israel, where only Jewish lives matter, brutalising the Palestinians isn't an anomaly - it is the system. And the silence around it is the exact measure of our collective hypocrisy.