William A. Cook

William A. Cook is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of La Verne in southern California where he served for 13 years as Vice President for Academic Affairs before assuming his faculty position in 2001. Prior to coming to California, he served as a Dean of Faculty, Chair of Department of English and faculty member at institutions large and small, public and private in four eastern states.

He is an activist and a writer for numerous Internet publications including Salem-News.com, Pacific Free Press in British Columbia, Dissident Voice in the UK and Information Clearing House, an international internet operation that circulates articles from around the world against war from Box 365, Imperial Beach, California, 91933. He also served as senior editor for MWC News out of Canada and contributing editor at the Palestine Chronicle, the Atlantic Free Press in the Netherlands and the World Prout Assembly.

His polemics against the Bush administration and the atrocities caused by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert in Israel, have been spread around the Internet world and translated into French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Italian. Cook also serves on the Board of the People’s Media Project, interviews on radio and TV in South Africa, Canada, Iran and the United States and contributed for five years yearly predictions to the Hong Kong Economic Times.

In addition to his polemics, he writes plays (The Unreasoning Mask, co-authored with his wife, D’Arcy, The Agony of Colin Powell, satires (see “Advancing the Civilized State: Inch by Bloody Inch” in Thee Rape), and poetry (Psalms for thee 21ss Century). His most recent fictional work creates a morality tale based upon real life figures that haunt our lives, The Chronicles of Nefaria.

He is the author of The Plight of the Palestinians, a collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s, as revealed in the Introduction. From Dr. Francis A. Boyle’s detailed legal case against the state of Israel, to Uri Avnery’s “Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing,” to Richard Falk’s “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust,” to Ilan Pappe’s “Genocide in Gaza,” these voices decry in startling, vivid, and forceful language the calculated atrocities taking place, the inhumane conditions inflicted on the people, and the silence that exists despite the crimes, nothing short of state-sponsored genocide against the Palestinians.