Channel 4’s documentary dissecting the proscription of Palestine Action revealed the impetus behind it was to protect pro-Israel and pro-arms interests, but it still engaged in pro-Israel narrative traps.
Jurors bravely set aside social conditioning, the instinct to defer to authority and media expectations. Instead they considered the actual evidence, reports Jonathan Cook.
Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
Keir Starmer needs convictions to justify Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist group. In the Filton trial, the direct-action group’s barrister explained how jurors pose a vital defence against government tyranny.
A new film about Hind Rajab’s murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’t.
Years of dedicated work by the Israel lobby has ensured the mass murder of Palestinians is viewed by governments, the media and parts of the Jewish community as entirely legitimate.
Israel has created a false death toll debate that relates only to those who were killed directly by its bombs and gunfire — not the genocide it is waging by other means.
With this prosecution, the British government hopes to legitimize its proscription of Palestine Action and deflect attention from its own sustained support for Israel’s genocide.