The former home secretary was told proscribing anti-genocide activists Palestine Action within six months of key Filton hearing could prejudice the case, but she went ahead anyway, reports John McEvoy.
The U.S. Treasury’s targeting of the Flotilla campaigners follows Israel’s full-scale attack on the humanitarian mission on Monday and extends Washington’s target list of critics of the genocidal war on Gaza.
The Cuban people have vowed to resist a new U.S. invasion, writes Marjorie Cohn. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the nation is a “free sovereign state” with the right to “self-determination,” and not “subject to the designs” of the U.S.
A U.S. invasion would only mark the bloodiest phase in an extended bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty and providing an example of independence from Empire, writes Eric Ross.
Despite the Trump administration’s effort to conceal their victims’ identities, journalists and researchers have disclosed some biographical detail about some of the people “blown away over vast stretches of ocean.”
By keeping anti-genocide activists in prison pending sentencing and — unbeknownst to the jury — adding a “terrorism” aggravation, the judge may intend abnormally long sentences.
The U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine says the interim decision gives her respite, but that the “battle is not over.”
Police wrongly want to ban a Nakba Day pr0-Palestine rally but are allowing the right-wing’s anti-Islam rally the same say, writes Nailah Sharif, a retired London Metropolitan Police detective.
Not questioning Zionism has long been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment, but although public belief in the Zionist narrative is fatally damaged, prosecutions of pro-Palestinian activists continue.
Is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and living in different cultures and Westerners just compartmentalize it away.