Deletion of Jonathan Cook

Comment: and suggest speedy closure . Jonathan Cook is the author of several books and has written extensively for several leading European newspapers. I admit to being sceptic to the reasons for this AfD-nomination. The nominator has a very long history of editing several articles with a strong pro-Isreali . I don't mean to assume bad faith by this, and I don't think the nominator will deny having a pro-Israeli POV. Nothing wrong with that. Many of us have different POVs and that's all fine as long as we edit in a responsible manner, and it is my experience that the nominatior usually does that, but the effort to remove the article on an author and journalist who is consistently critical of Israel makes the nominator's POV relevant in this case. Having published extensively on a very notable conflict in a number of very large newspapers and having published several books, Cook is certainly notable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Snowball clause (WP:SNOW||WP:POV)

Comment: Appears to meet 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Per the above,  meets .  More reviews of his books turn up in gscholar search
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR)

Comment: I'm concerned that what seems to have been originally written as a genuine encyclopedic article about a journalist, appears to have become--through an array of edits made over the '''past year'''--an instrument to push & promote a specific |POV or |POINT. The purpose of a BLP encyclopedia article is to present a neutral background on a person and their life, not to use it as a form of subterfuge to "condemn" a people or nation.  The very fact that this AfD has attracted a number of comments from editors who are '''''"Topic Banned"''''', also leads me to question the true nature and '''intent''' of the current form of this article and its continued existance
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:POV||WP:POINT)

Comment: Book reviews, etc., demonstrate that he passes , criterion 3. That said, the excessively admirational tone of the biography could stand to be toned down
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CREATIVE)

Comment: I got stuck in real life and did not have the opportunity to respond to some of the comments here, which all seem to be making the same incorrect point. His books have received a little coverage, mostly be fringe sources, but so will any book on the Israeli-Arab conflict. At the end of the day, the ''author'' is clearly unnotable. With all the touchups to the article, Cook's own website and Wikipedia are the only two sources supporting the claim that a person with the real name of Jonothan Cook was born in England, got a degreee to two, and then moved to Nazerath to write on the Israeli-Arab conflict. A subject whose biography cannot be |verfified from anyone except his own website, cannot make any sort of claim to notabiliy
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)