Craig Murray writes in “British Government: ‘We Accept, of Course, That It is Draconian — and Deliberately So’” that the activist group “Palestine Action had never included or targeted any violence or injury to persons. Their actions were focused on Elbit, an Israeli state owned enterprise which was fundamental to the Israeli military system. Elbit themselves referred to their staff as ‘civilian soldiers.’ …
“For 20 months the Israeli military had been committing acts which most genocide scholars and experts consider to be genocide. The population was now being starved, and the very distribution of humanitarian aid had been turned into a killing field, according to UNRWA.
“To say that Palestine Action were committing terrorism was the precise opposite of what they were doing. They were rather seeking to prevent terror and genocide.”
The Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old retired Anglican priest from Bristol, was among 20 people recently arrested in London on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action. See statement from the Independent Alliance released by Jeremy Corbyn.
See video by Roger Waters declaring “This is the ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
DAVE LINDORFF, [email protected]
Lindorff is an investigative journalist who writes at Substack and just published the piece “Britain Quits the ‘Free World’” which states: “The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the U.S. to become the leading country in the so-called ‘Free World’ to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest.
“The move to abandon what in the U.S. is popularly known as First Amendment rights actually came a few days ago when the both houses of Parliament, led by the Labour Party and Prime Minister Keir Starmer … voted to declare the protest group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist’ organization. …
“People are put on a terrorism watch list to punish them, for example journalists who have been too aggressive in their reporting on government crimes and corruption. I know this to be the case because I found myself placed on a Terrorism Watch List back in 2018 during the first Trump administration. … The reason I was put on the list? A cover story I wrote for the Nation magazine on the Pentagon’s massive accounting and budget fraud over decades. Things are certain to get worse here in the U.S. when it comes to the misuse of terror charges, and where it comes to the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment.”