Rose 💙 #ceasefireNOW 🇵🇸 #Assangeisfree

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[The National @ScotNational]

LATEST: The UK Government has refused to comment on the findings of a French government report stating that an Israeli firm attempted to meddle in the Scottish parliament elections

[troovus @troovus]

Unlike Streeting & Burnham, Corbyn speaks for millions who want peace AND spending on people, not bombs

"I don't support Russia in Ukraine, I want to see an end to that war, which drives more arms spending, & cuts in health, education, housing and rising poverty & unemployment"

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

A fundamental principle being lost here - is that if you are charged with terrorism - you can defend yourself by explaining why you are not.

As the Filton 4 were never charged or found guilty of terrorism - the judge who sentenced them as terrorists -has denied them this right.

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

As Acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney said ahead of today’s sentencing: “Protest that poses no threat to the public simply is not terrorism. […] This is an obvious effort to undermine solidarity with Palestine, but what it really undermines is UK law.” https://t.co/x6yAgqEYUv

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Friend of the Canary Zak was at the @LonGreenParty conference for us today, and he caught up with deputy @TheGreenParty leader @MothinAli to discuss Friday's verdicts in the Filton 25 case, plus the Green Party surge in London at the local elections 💚

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

We will once again hold these signs outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday June 15th during the ruling on the Home Office appeal relating to the unlawful proscription of Palestine Action.

Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism.

Go to https://t.co/khfWG8PzqF to get involved.

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

Last year Mr Justice Johnson granted an early release from jail for far-right Zionist extremist, Tommy Robinson. But he's just sentenced 4 Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even tho they weren't prosecuted for terrorism.

Conflict of interest?
https://t.co/wnezBR7qVz

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Only Labour can be led by a former Human Right's Lawyer, Keir Starmer, and be ok with people not convicted of terrorism offences, being sentenced as though their actions were terrorism-related

Criminal damage and attacking the police are serious wrongs that deserve firm punishment. But deliberately conflating them with terrorism sets a dangerous precedent

When the state blurs the line between thuggish disorder and terrorism, it undermines public trust, invites accusations of two-tier justice, and weakens the very safeguards the former human rights barrister once championed

This is the legacy of Keir Starmer, who leads the party, of Yvette Cooper, whose proscription of a protest group was ruled unlawful by the High Court, and Shabana Mahmood, who continues this divisive narrative

I'm very much aligned to the views expressed by Baron Hain in the House of Lords, rightly calling out criminal behaviour while criticising this conflation. His words are true now, as they were back then. And like him, I too am deeply ashamed,

"Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza"

"I've never supported their activity, but there's a great difference between what they did and terrorism"

"And if you start labelling people willy nilly terrorists right across the board, you're going down a very dangerous route"

"Al Qaeda's attack on New Yorks twin towers killing 2,753 people - real terrorism"

"ISIS - real terrorism"

"This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"

"Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"

[Rose 💙 #ceasefireNOW 🇵🇸 #Assangeisfree @Ragdals]

@CPhilpOfficial You were called correctly a liar by mick lynch on newsnight so no surprise you twist the truth again....

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

3 of the 4 people didn’t attack the police officer and all of the 4 were cleared of violent intent. So the only disgrace here is the lie you’re telling to justify a clear miscarriage of justice & the use of anti-terror laws to justify your government’s complicity in a genocide.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

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.

[Palestine Deep Dive @PDeepDive]

"They Will Carry That Label for the Rest of Their Lives"
Juliet Stevenson

Four Palestine Action Activists Sentenced as Terrorists Despite No Terror Charges

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'd never condone violence against a police officer - this is utterly dishonest.

The jury weren't judging them on a terrorism offence. This is an awful sleight of hand.

The creeping encroachment of terror laws onto protest & removal of our juries should worry all of us.

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today's British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters.

Here's a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would've been thrown out by every jury in the land.

Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa's apartheid regime.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

VIOLENT ARRESTS

After making over 100 arrests in Woolwich for holding paper signs, the Met appeared flummoxed at the volume of activists and disappeared for a couple of hours. Scores of sign-holders simply went home.

When police returned, they violently arrested a few more.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.

Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.

Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.

So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Charlotte Head sentenced to 6 years for Criminal Damage with a “terrorist connection” (4 years and 320 days custodial).

They were not charged with or convicted of a terrorism offence after two separate trials by two juries.

Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sentenced as terrorists despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

To understand just how much of a stitch up this is - watch our interview with the 2 defendants who were found not guilty on Double Down Newswatch last month.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

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