Jerry Seinfeld said Palestine doesn’t exist.
This was actually the subject of my PhD dissertation.
Turns out that Arab, Muslims & Christians have been calling Palestine Palestine continuously for more than a millennium.
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There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four.
They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent.
Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine.
But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway.
Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided.
The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action.
By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet.
Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway.
The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.
If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide.
Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.
If a company tried selling apartments in apartheid South Africa in London, there would be outrage.
Yet Labour is allowing a real estate fair marketing homes in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land.
Labour rolls out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, criminalises those resisting genocide, and keeps supplying arms to a genocidal apartheid state.
Ban this event NOW.
Londoners are rightfully concerned that an event promoting land confiscation & destruction of homes is due to take place - so I put this question directly to the Mayor today.
I welcome his strong condemnation. But condemnation is not enough, this event must be cancelled.
Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.
People like Zac aren’t stupid, as some in the replies are implying. They’re deliberately trying to obfuscate the meaning of words such as apartheid and genocide to justify their support of the genocidal apartheid colonial state of Israel.
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
Hi Nikki Haley,
If the Israelis are “targeting Hezbollah,” why do they keep murdering medics, over 133 since March 2?
Why have they displaced over 1 million people? Do you think a fifth of the population of Lebanon, including all the children that are included in that number, are Hezbollah?
Why did they kill a Christian family over the weekend? Were they Hezbollah?
Is desecrating Virgin Mary statues “targeting Hezbollah”? Because they’ve done that.
They’ve also bombed churches and mosques and blown up entire villages. Is that targeting Hezbollah”?
The Israelis have destroyed 50,000 homes. Is that “targeting Hezbollah”?
The Israelis say Lebanese Shias can never return to their homes south of the Litani. They are carpet bombing Tyre and Nabatieh and their leaders openly declare they want to settle Lebanese land with Israeli Jews.
I know you support all of these criminal acts, Just correcting the record that none of this constitutes “targeting Hezbollah.”
The promise of colonialism has always been the same: surrender your dignity, abandon your dead, betray your people, and in return we’ll let you participate in your own subjugation. What an offer.
Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind.
"One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing."
Amazing powers of prediction.