Palestine-based journalist Cook subjected to sinister UK police tail and stop

‘Keir Starmer says hello’ – how readers view apparent attempt at intimidation

British Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook, a tireless reporter on Israel’s crimes and politics, has been subjected to a sinister police ‘tail and stop’ while in the UK to visit relatives. Cook reported:

Can anyone help explain what was going on here.

Today I was driving near High Wycombe. A Thames Valley police car was behind me for a minute or so. As I came to a complicated set of mini-roundabouts, it turned on its blue lights and set off its siren, forcing me to pull over in a dangerous section of road between the roundabouts.

A policeman came over, bent down by the window and asked in the chummiest of tones: “Are you having a good day?” I said I was until he showed up.

He asked if my name was Jonathan Cook. He then asked what I was doing here. I responded that I was visiting family. Was that a problem?

He answered that it was routine to make checks on what he called “cross-border activity”. When I asked him what he meant by “cross-border activity”, he said the car was registered to an address in Bristol, and that was a two and a half hour drive away – it’s not, it’s 1 hour 45 minutes away. He added that it was a long way to come.

I must have looked slightly stunned. He told me not to worry, wished me well and – with a smile – said I could continue on my way. Have others had a similar experience? Is it now normal to be stopped in the UK simply because you’re driving more than 90 minutes from home?

After more than a year of the Starmer police state arresting, harassing, seizing the electronics of, financially attacking and in some cases charging anti-genocide journalists and activists, many of them Jewish, Cook’s readers had one view of the incident, all along the lines of the examples below:

Israel is a terror state engaged in genocide, aided and abetted in Gaza by the Starmer regime, even when it is killing UK aid workers – which has turned the UK into a police state to protect Israel from scrutiny and UK collusion from challenge.

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