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2 August 2010
A rabbi from one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank was questioned on suspicion of incitement last week as Israeli police stepped up their investigation into a book in which he sanctions the killing of non-Jews, including children and babies. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israeli rabbi preaches slaughter of non-Jews
28 July 2010
The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian leader. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel's Shin Bet encouraged accused killer to assassinate Raed Salah
27 July 2010
A decision by Israel’s high court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israelis rally around officer convicted of killing unarmed Palestinian motorist
20 July 2010
A 10-minute video segment originally broadcast in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10 threatens to gravely embarrass not only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Video: Netanyahu brags he deceived US to destroy Oslo accords
17 July 2010
The Israeli government is facing legal action for contempt over its refusal to implement a high court ruling that it end a policy of awarding preferential budgets to Jewish communities, including settlements, rather than much poorer Palestinian Arab towns and villages inside Israel. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Palestinians suffer as Israeli government ignores its own court
13 July 2010
It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel's video game killing technology
14 July 2010
Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to “punish” any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of Israel. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israeli education minister wages witch-hunt against boycott supporters
30 June 2010
Israeli human rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority who extended his term under controversial emergency powers, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel set to enforce revocation of Jerusalemites' residency rights
28 June 2010
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, set out last week what he called a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israeli foreign minister's "peace plan": stripping Palestinians of citizenship
28 June 2010
As Israel last week declared the “easing” of the four-year blockade of Gaza, an official explained the new guiding principle: “Civilian goods for civilian people.” The severe and apparently arbitrary restrictions on foodstuffs entering the enclave — coriander bad, cinnamon good — will finally end, while a “security” blockade will remain. But in truth, Israel’s “security” blockade is, in both its old and new incarnations, every bit a “civilian” blockade. Jonathan Cook comments. Read more about Blockade "eased" as Gaza starves more slowly