Jonathan Cook
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Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in The Guardian, The Observer, ZNet, Electronic Intifada, CounterPunch, Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State.
He claims that as a freelance journalist and as the "first foreign correspondent to be based in the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, in the Galilee",[1] he has a unique perspective unavailable to Western journalists based in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in Israel, or Ramallah in the West Bank.
[edit] Debate with Human Rights Watch
In regards to reporting on the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Cook claimed that Human Rights Watch (HRW) made statements regarding the intentions of Israel and Hezbollah to target or to avoid targeting civilians which were not justified by the available evidence.[2] A representative of HRW responded, defending the organisation's objectivity.[3] Cook countered that he did not criticise the empirical aspects of HRW's research, only its interpretation of that research.[4]
[edit] Criticism
Tamar Sternthal of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America has criticised Cook, claiming that he has been overly apologetic towards and misrepresented the history of Palestinian political violence.[5] Sternthal has also claimed that Cook made an inaccurate statement related to territorial aspects of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and that he "misstated the contents" of the Oslo Accords.[6]
[edit] External links
- ^ Cook, Jonathan. Jonathan Cook website. Jonathan Cook News Archive. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ Cook, Jonathan (7 September 2006). How Human Rights Watch lost its way in Lebanon. Electronic Intifada. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ Whitson, Sarah Leah (September 22, 2006). Hezbollah's Rockets and Civilian Casualties: A Response to Jonathan Cook. Counterpunch. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ Cook, Jonathan (September 26, 2006). Human Rights Watch still denying Lebanon the right to defend itself. Z Communications. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ Sternthal, Tamar (September 1, 2004). International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Erases 20-Plus Years of Terror. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ Sternthal, Tamar (July 22. 2003). Cooked Up Charges Against Israel. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
