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| Jonathan Cook | |
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| Born | 1965 Buckinghamshire, England |
| Residence | Nazareth, Israel |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Southampton University (BA 1987); Cardiff University (postgraduate diploma, 1989); School of Oriental and African Studies (MA 2000) |
| Occupation | Writer, freelance journalist |
| Website http://www.jkcook.net/ |
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Jonathan Cook (born 1965) is an English freelance journalist and writer based in Nazareth, Israel.[1] He has written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a number of newspapers, and is the author of several books on the subject, including Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State (2006), Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East (2008), and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (2008).
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Background
Cook was born and raised in Buckinghamshire, England. His website indicates that he received a BA Honours in Philosophy and Politics from Southampton University in 1987, a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University in 1989, and a Masters degree in Middle Eastern studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2000.[2]
Career
Cook was a reporter and editor with regional newspapers from 1988 until 1994, a freelance sub-editor with several national newspapers from 1994 until 1996, and worked for The Guardian and The Observer from 1996 until 2001. He continued to write columns for The Guardian until 2007.[2]
Since September 2001, he has been a freelance writer based in Nazareth, Israel, publishing articles in The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Al-Ahram Weekly, among others.[3] According to his website, he founded the Nazareth Press Agency in February 2004, and is the first foreign correspondent to be based in Nazareth, which he writes gives him a perspective unavailable to Western journalists based in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in Israel, or Ramallah in the West Bank.[2]
Books
In Blood and Religion (2006), Cook argues that Israel's recent treatment of its Palestinian citizens, also known as Israeli Arabs, has exposed a contradiction between the state's Jewish and democratic values. The book focuses on Israel's response to a campaign for "a state of all its citizens" begun in the late 1990s. Israel's leadership said this demand showed the Israeli Arabs were a fifth column, and were conspiring with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority to overthrow the Jewish state, according to Cook. Cook also writes that demographic pressures on the Jewish state posed by the higher birth rate of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and inside Israel led the Israeli government to consider drastic policy changes, including the Gaza disengagement and the building of the West Bank barrier.
In 2008, Cook published Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East[4] That same year, Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair was also published.[5] The second book is in two parts. The first half contains Cook's thesis, according to a review in Electronic Intifada, that the goal of Israeli policy is to make Palestine and the Palestinians disappear for good."[6] The second half consists of reprints of articles written by Cook.[6]
Works
- (2008), Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East, Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745327549
- (2008), Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair, Zed Books, ISBN 978-1848130319
- (2006), Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State, Pluto Press, ISBN 0-7453-2555-6
- (2005) Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel, and the Internal Refugees, Zed Books, Nur Masalha, ed. (Cook, a co-contributor) ISBN 1842776231[7]
- When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? Letter from Nazareth (May 2009); Review of Shlomo Zand's book in Holy Land Studies. Volume 8, pp. 113-117.
- The Stand-Tall Generation; Review of Coffins on Our Shoulders in Holy Land Studies. Volume 5, pp. 121-124.
- Crime and Punishment on Israel's Demographic Frontier (May 2005); Co-authored by Peter Lagerquist in Middle East Report. No. 237, pp. 46-64.
- Israeli Constitutional Committee Faces Double Bind (August 2004); Adalah's Newsletter. Volume 7, pp. 1-7.
- Cook's profile page at The Guardian with links to his articles from 1999-2007
Notes
- ^ Masalha 2005, p. viii
- ^ a b c Cook, Jonathan. Short biography, Jhcook.net.
- ^ Catastrophe remembered: Palestine, Israel and the internal refugees, p. viii.
- ^ Raymond Deane (11 February 2008). "Book review: "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations"". The Electronic Intifada. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9289.shtml. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ Pam Hardyment (May 18, 2009). "Disappearing Palestine, Israel's Experiments in Human Despair by Jonathan Cook". http://www.paltelegraph.com/entertainment/books/856-disappearing-palestine-israels-experiments-in-human-despair-by-jonathan-cook. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ a b Gabriel Ash (February 12, 2009). "Book review: Un-erasing the erasure of Palestine". The Electronic Intifada. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10300.shtml. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ "(Review of) Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel, and the Internal Refugees". Journal of Refugee Studies 19 (2). 2006. http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/19/2/267.
Further reading
- Masalha, Nur (2005). Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the internal refugees: Essays in Memory of Edward Said. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84277-623-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=xYWNCX-eYRcC&printsec=frontcover.
- Video: Jonathan Cook - Blood and Religion: Unmasking the Jewish and Democratic State (December 28, 2006), interview.
- Interview in Junge Welt, 1 July 2006 (German) 'Israel kennt keine Gleichheit.' Gespräch mit Jonathan Cook; edited English translation - Dissident Voice, 31 August 2006, Hurtling Towards the Next Intifada
- BOOK REVIEW & COMMENTARY SUPPRESSED IN THE UNITED STATES: Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion" by Stephen Lendman, published in The Baltimore Chronicle
- Book Review: Blood and Religion - The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Isabelle Humphries, published in Islam Online (Original in Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal)
- Interview (33 min.) with Cook conducted by Ali Abunimah and Maureen Clare Murphy of Electronic Intifada
- "From Boycotts to Bilin: An Interview with Jonathan Cook," by Jeff Gore, published by Electronic Intifada on October 9, 2009.
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