Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists despite Palestine Action not being proscribed at the time of the incident and the High Court subsequently finding the ban unlawful, pending an appeal, writes John McEvoy.
Amid a media blackout, British authorities and their Israeli collaborators are determined to curtail the activist group as they face their last legal chance to do so.
Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.
Although the U.K. government continues in its attempt to prevent a challenge to Palestine Action being labeled a terrorist group, there are numerous reasons to believe they should be unsuccessful.
Here is a little antiseptic daylight on Yvette Cooper’s arguments that Palestine Action, a nonviolent, direct-action group, deserved the “terrorist” proscription that the home secretary slapped on it.
Huda Ammori won her appeal for a judicial review of Palestine Action’s terrorist designation, but not until after Nov. 10. Meanwhile, the genocide, the proscription and the repression continue.
The Starmer regime’s failure to defend the Handala along with the mistreatment of the Leonardo 3 in Scotland are both examples of a diseased doctrine of unquestioning U.K. support of Israel.
The discrepancy between Home Office press briefings and official intelligence reports on the direct-action group raises the prospect of a state-linked disinformation campaign, writes John McEvoy.
The Home Office briefed The Times that the direct-action group could be funded by Iran, and then U.K. media kicked into action spreading the story, Mark Curtis reports.
Palestine Action’s request for temporary relief from the government’s high-profile terrorist designation drew the author to an all-too familiar London court earlier this month. Part 1 of 2 articles.