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Jonathan, keep holding the feet of the powerful to the fire

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Hmmmmm …..

And how “humanely” does Israel treat the 5,000 hostages THEY hold in their jails..??????

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What else to expect from the Famous Lies Factory ?

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One member of the consortium that rescued the Jewish Chronicle in 2020 was "Lord Walney", who as John Woodcock had been one of the Labour MPs who were active in the campaign to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's Party Leadership using false allegations of antisemitism.

In 2018 Woodcock had left the Labour Party after having the Labour whip withdrawn due to allegations of sexual harassment.

In 2019 he was nominated for a life peerage by Boris Johnson.

In November 2020 as Lord Walney he was appointed by the UK Government as an "Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption."

In November 2023, shortly after Israel launched its genocide on Gaza, Lord Walney "advocated giving police the power to ban pro-Palestinian protests on the streets of Britain if they were deemed to contribute to an atmosphere of intimidation against Jews. He said he would be updating his review to include ‘looking at the threshold for the police to ban a march’.

"In May 2024 it was revealed that Woodcock would recommend banning groups like Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil, in an upcoming report. This could involve restricting their right to assembly and ability to fundraise.”

https://tonyseymour.substack.com/p/did-john-woodcock-call-for-covid

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This is just the tip of the iceberg!

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What one will never hear from Israel’s and its messengers is the truth in even the vaguest form.

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Isn't that a fact! Israel is all lies, all the way....then the New York Times (and, others) repeats them.

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I see the author has blocked me or somesuch on X.

How tiresome to be so thin skinned

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Jonathan u have to remember that the British are a part of the 5 i’s and have supported not just South Africa and the states in their apartheid but they have also celebrate this type of behaviour everywhere in the world. So no surprise here.

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4 what ever reason you can never trust anything coming out from Jewish people mouths. I at one time supported them until Gaza I had no idea that the Palestinians people were in an open concentration camp. What I don’t understand is why would anyone that supposedly experienced the ghetto in Germany then to commit the atrocities to a ppl that had compassion for them only to do the same or worse then try to justify it by telling the world that they were no place called Palestine.

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Do a LOT of research....it was a mystery to me why the Jews have so much trouble..over centuries. Well, look at what they are up to now, after gaining a country, and billions of $$, and all that LUV. They're worse than the Nazis. Unlike Germany, Israel can't be "fixed"....

Germany supports in a psycho way...it's as if the Germans are happy to support Israel, sort of as a proxy...to do what they did.......Germans still have that genocide gene.

Israel, as Trump said, they should just "finish the job". Exterminate every last Palestinian. They won't stop at the Palestinians who are Israeli citizens....they will have to go also.

It's a fine example for the human race. Watch out, even the UN can't stop them.....

If trump loses the election and even he thinks he will....will the MAGAs try to exterminate the Dems.....They are taking names......

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Reason why they don’t stop them is that they are founded by the R childs

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Excoriating, as ever. What pleasantness to see the distastefully smug and suburban Jonathan Freedland get burned too.

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Thought you were writing about the Guardian, the North London Jewish Chronicle...

The state of journalism in the UK is abysmal.

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Yes it is absolutely shockingly crap. Hadley Freeman writes in the Times- she said the Israelis were justified in slaughtering women and children in Gaza after Oct 7th (which highlighted decades of abuse by settler colonist supremacist people identifying as Jews) because, after bemoaning that Jewish people were criticised previously for being like lambs to the slaughter during the Holocaust, she reasoned that they might as well be aggressive as hell this time.

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They might import gas chambers and ovens from Germany...

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Thank you -- it seems to be MUCH worse:

An IMPORTANT interview, including – WHY CIA protects Hunter Biden (two identical links)

Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex | SRS #132 (on YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98Y1cEja-U

Shawn Ryan interview with @MikeBenzCyber

https://x.com/ShawnRyan762/status/1836820804715302935

• 00:00 - Introduction

• 13:11 - 'The Blob'

• 19:07 - 2014 Censorship & the Ukraine connection

• 29:00 - Influencing international censorship policy

• 32:35 - The power of ‘The Blob’

• 48:06 - Elon/X free speech proxy war

• 55:43 - DHS censorship threats

• 1:30:17 - Headway in Congress

• 1:42:20 - How do we gain power over tech companies?

• 1:51:24 - Tim Walz China connection

• 1:56:38 - Burisma & why we’re in Ukraine

• 2:29:14 - Free speech on the internet

• 2:37:21 - World War 3

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OMG!!!! Thank you, Boris,

My "education" began on Oct 8....I started with Finklestein, Pappe, Levy, ..and on and on.....What I am learning is truly shocking. And now Mike Benz . I have not had time to finish the nearly 3 hour talk......but, I will.

Are we all being run by the military industry? And, the Jews?

I almost feel ill.

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It is clearly 0.1% versus 99.9%……. ;-))

Maybe it was always like that — but technology enables more extremes — good and bad.

But I am as puzzled as you….

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Dreadful, but we have also seen this -- repeatedly -- in the USA. Case in point: Fox (so-called) News, which told outright lies about the 2020 election. They have not only been obliged to settle costly litigation, but they have also seen Murdoch himself admit the truth: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud.

Other falsehoods abounded in the USA much earlier. The Vietnam debacle was itself assisted by a steady stream of propaganda, including claims of Chinese troops actively engaged in the fighting. More recently, many "news" outlets gleefully repeated the nonsense about Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction," and one must generally search alternative sources for anything factual about the genocide in Gaza.

The JC are clearly undressed and exposed for what they are: another dishonest source of pro-Netanyahu propaganda. It's all too familiar...

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Sep 20Liked by Jonathan Cook

Absolutely brilliant as always

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Sep 20Liked by Jonathan Cook

At least some real journalism and reporting is happening here in this article. Thank you for this excellent piece.

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