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We're outside the Edgware United Synagogue where Zionists are holding an Israeli Real Estate conference - selling illegal land in the Occupied Territories. The government and Met Police have allowed this event to go ahead. And now, it looks like the blow back has started as things are quickly escalating.
'israel' is expanding its borders into Jordan.
Jewish settlers are already at the border and their terrorism reaches Jordanian soil.
This was inevitable.
The only way to stop the planned murder and displacement of 70 million non-jews in West Asia is to dismantle 'israel'.
This World Cup is already exposing the western hypocrisy.
First there were reports of shootings near the English camp and now their equipment has been stolen.
Yet the same people who made a big deal about Qatar not allowing alcohol in stadiums haven’t said a single word about any of this.
They want to fly halfway across the world and lecture other countries on how to run things, but stay silent when it’s a Western country dealing with serious safety concerns.
Funny how it works, right?
I spent all day in Woolwich Crown Court yesterday for the Filton activists' sentencing hearing with my colleague @daniaakkad.
The court heard that the Terrorism Act was never intended to cover direct action protest.
It heard that all of the defendants had been cleared of violent intent and sentencing them as terrorists would mark a historic first for charges of criminal damage.
It heard that the Suffragettes, who did "a bit of smashing themselves", would have been labelled as terrorists but have now been vindicated by history.
It heard the activists' goal was to stop the supply chain of drones and weaponry to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza.
It heard that attaching a terrorism connection to a case without it ever being heard by a jury was unconstitutional and posed a threat to the criminal justice system itself.
It heard that the "terrorism connection" has been disproportionately used against minority groups and those advocating for them while not being used for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the man who killed Jo Cox MP.
It heard that the law has been reinterpreted since the action took place, meaning the activists could have had no idea that what they did could have been caught up in terrorism laws at the time of the protest.
It heard that the prosecution submitted key evidence just eight days before the hearing, giving the defence no time to review it or even discuss it with their clients.
Despite all of this, Judge Jeremy Johnson, who has already tried to refer the defence's lead barrister for contempt of court and been forced to apologise for it, sentenced the defendants as terrorists.
The judgment was handed down within minutes, indicating Judge Johnson had already made his mind up before the hearing had begun.
Being in court yesterday felt akin to witnessing a colonial crime: punishing activists with terrorism offences in order to set a precedent that taking direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide will not be tolerated.
Remember what the Filton actionists did
They decommissioned the machinery of genocide
The moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz
A British judge is now sentencing them as 'terrorists' for it
So just to get my head straight and so I’m clear: the first pic is an act of terrorism and the second is an act of protest…… Have I got that correct??🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️
"We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide,and then watch what we say so we don't hurt the feelings of the people who did this"
(Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian/US scientist and writer)
Another Palestine Action arrest just now:
In Britain, if you burn people’s houses and cars because you hate immigrants, you’re labelled “a concerned citizen.”
But try to uphold international law by holding a sign opposing genocide and they’ll arrest you as a “terrorist.”
Canberra is running a genoside protection racket.
“Juliet Lamont came home from being raped and tortured by a foreign military..
“And her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop, and told her she was under arrest unless she surrendered her passcodes.
“Her government did not protect her. Her government investigated her.”
‘Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her’
https://t.co/Ha8BKZ4Sk8 via @MichaelWestBiz
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
A Miscarriage Of Justice sentencing Palestine Action Activists as terrorists. They Are Not. British Jews serving in IDF are the terrorists but no prosecution against them. Never forgive what Labour Party has done.
We must fight the evil power Israel & Zionists hold in Britain.
Incredible that you’re not allowed to wear a face covering when protesting a genocide in Gaza but it’s no problem at a pogrom hunting black people in Glasgow/Belfast. Two tier policing?
I'm sure we are all surprised to discover that the Israeli army flagrantly lied, once again, about what happened when its soldiers committed their latest atrocity: shooting dead a baby.