Steve Hale

Quaker and allotmenteer

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BIAS

The same judge who is likely to sentence four young people as “terrorists” (even though they were not convicted of a terrorism offence) previously reduced violent far-right racist Tommy Robinson’s prison sentence, overriding an earlier High Court decision!

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[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

NEWS: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists and handed special custodial measures despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence.

Samuel, Charlotte, Leona, & Fatema have all already been inside for almost 2 years.

More at https://t.co/XhFvPsZC3U

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

People lie down to block the police van taking 4 of the #Filton25 from the courts to the prison after the judge’s resign-able unjust sentencing

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property."

Please RT until this is both the 1st & last time.

Thank you.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Another elderly peaceful Palestine Action anti-genocide protester has just been arrested outside Woolwich Crown Court for holding a sign. The utter fiasco undertaken by the British state to protect Israel at the expense of its own citizens goes on unabated.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.

Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.

Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.

I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Haha

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up

"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"

Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt

Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?

https://t.co/s4lIJWp8O1

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.

When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Palestine Action Defendants Apply to Remove ‘Biased’ Judge

Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is also the subject of a formal complaint filed by Defend Our Juries to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office today, alleging biased and discriminatory conduct.

https://t.co/vys6zIbWIJ

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

UK Lawyers for Israel have been trying to remove Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
As a surgeon he volunteered to work in Gaza, and gave evidence ICC on what he seen
Claim he would discriminate Jewish patients he says he's received
“outpouring of support from Jewish colleagues, patients and even Israeli co-workers who submitted testimonials to the GMC tribunals”.
Despite winning the Charity, and GMC pushing it to the High Court
#NHS #Gaza
https://t.co/OGUR8YAfEn

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Leaked documents show Israeli drones made by Elbit – which has factories in the UK – took a leading a role in the mass slaughter in Gaza, with onboard AI systems selecting targets autonomously, based on algorithms. The drones are integrated into a "Server in the Sky".

Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organisation by the UK government for trying to destroy this drone production.

Israel announced last week its annual defence exports had surged by 30% on the back of showcasing what Israeli tech can do in Gaza, to $20 billion.
https://t.co/njgIZgWMLZ

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just assassinated Ali in South Lebanon.

Not a fighter. Not armed.

Ali was a nurse.

They hunted him down with a drone, and executed him as he made his way to work at Hiram hospital in Tyre.

Israel isn’t targeting combatants.

It’s targeting the people who save lives.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

How is this not headline news all around the world?

Why aren't these images everywhere?

Imagine if this was an Israeli baby.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

No, Camilla. @ZackPolanski & over 60 politicians, human rights lawyers + others are not calling for a “list of Jews”. They are supporting a letter asking the UK Govt to secondary screen returning dual nationals & Britons who have served with the IDF since Oct’23. The aim is to find out whether they have fought in Gaza. This is bec Israel is accused of Genocide at the ICJ. It would fulfill the UK’s commitment to the Genocide Conventions. You appear to be defending Polanski being called “human trash” by Goldsmith. Is that the case?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welsh Water faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."

The most abhorrent part in all of all of this is that Ofwat has just admitted that since 1994 when the sewage treatment regulations were introduced Welsh Water, like every other sewage company in the UK have been breaking the law.

That's 37 years of illegal activity, 37 years of incompetence, 37 years of failure, 37 years of the gross, violent, decimation of our rivers and beaches.

Where's the justice for them, where's the justice for bill players, where's the accountability, why aren't Ofwat's board now being prosecuted for misconduct in public office?

https://t.co/gn0tyg66Ti

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

A white man named Chas Chorrigan has just been jailed for life for murdering a Saudi student, Mohammed Algasim, in Cambridge.

There will be no political circus around this. No strong words from Farage. This selective outrage is what causes further division.