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What a noble young man.
Our NHS is literally on its arse, & happily losing qualified doctors due to Isræli/UK Govt. pressure/policies.
I know what kind of doctor I’d rather receive treatment from. Certainly not a genocide supporting one.
Good luck in your alternative career.

[Nad @NadimHCr]

I posted this in January 2025 - almost 15 months on we are only days from the final hearing which will start on Monday 15th of June for 7 days.

This tribunal is about free speech. It is about employment rights and potential overreach by employers, it is about Palestine and what humanitarians are allowed to feel about war crimes, murder, occupation and rape. Overall it is about justice.

Please continue to donate to my CrowdJustice page. The target is £100,000 - and we are almost at £80,000. Please share as many small donations are powerful and will make sure we can fight to the end.

If you are a member of any groups/associations please share the link on your mailing lists.

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[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

Four direct action protestors face being sentenced as terrorists, even though the jury only convicted them of criminal damage.

Watch this video to understand the extent of the stitch up in this Palestine Action case.

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Warning: Highly disturbing content.

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[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

A powerful video on the FIFA World Cup

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

On May 24, 10 of our Land Convoy volunteers were abducted by Libyan forces as they neared Sirte to negotiate safe passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza—exactly as previously agreed.

Now, after almost three weeks of being illegally held without charge, sources say their detention in Libya has been extended for the second time.

This is an outrage. And governments must respond.

Pressure officials to act NOW to secure the safe release of these citizens of Spain, Poland, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Big up Ian Wright, Gary Neville, and Roy Keane for calling out what the US is doing to the World Cup. They didn’t shy away and condemned it all, including the decision to ban Omar Artan.

Officials have always had freedom of movement, and FIFA guaranteed it.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Gary Neville calls out America for barring Omar Artan from the World Cup.
"When your hosting the world Cup, your effectively giving over your land to the world of football..we need tolerance and to be fair.."

Preach Gary! Never stop calling wrongs out

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Here’s Andy Burnham in 2024, 100% behind the idea of compensating the WASPI women.

He’s backtracking on everything, just like Starmer did.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, “Secondly, I think it's undoubtedly true that the conversation around Israel is so obviously toxic"

"And I say that as a Jewish person, it is so vital, as you were saying, that we separate antisemitism from criticism of the Israeli government"

"Now, it won't surprise you to hear me say this, I imagine as a Jewish person, antisemitism exists in our society"

"It's a real problem in the same way that Islamophobia is a real problem and all forms of racism"

"And I would say, as workers, as socialists, as progressives, as people on the left, it's really important that we collectively show solidarity to racism in all of its forms"

"That is a different conversation from recognising that there has been an ongoing genocide in Palestine, but also in the West Bank, where the settlers are as well, that there's been an illegal occupation that has been going on for decades and decades now, for an entire generation"

"And from the absolute complicity, in fact, more than complicity, from the active enabling of the British government, who are still sharing arms or selling arms licences, sharing intelligence"

"And it is so important, I think it's really revealed the gap between where Westminster establishment politicians are and where the public are"

"Because I've been saying this for a while, and I hope people in the room would know I would say this even if it was an unpopular thing to say"

"But actually, we're in the place where public sentiment so strongly shows that people are undoubtedly and unsurprisingly concerned about an ongoing genocide, yet we still have establishment politicians continuing to support it"

"We've got Wes Streeting, who suddenly seems to have woken up and noticed what's going on just in time for a leadership election, talking about a genocide"

"And then we've got Andy Burnham, who says that he can't judge or make a comment on it"

"And that seems odd to me when we've seen four years now of horrendous and brutal and horrific livestreamed attacks on our TVs and our phone screens"

"And I think every single politician needs to recognise right now what's going on, to speak with clarity, to speak with transparency, and call out what's going on"

[Naila @BrownNaila]

Don't forget to attend court this Friday. 10 am at Woolwich Crown Court. And tell your friends. #London

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson's dirty work is not yet complete.

Read my latest article here: https://t.co/Ie8BaEumwQ

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A popular backlash cornered the High Court into declaring the proscription of Palestine Action unlawful – a decision the government is appealing.

That has led to another unprecedented situation: police are still arresting people for holding placards in support of the group, despite the courts ruling that the basis for such arrests is unlawful.

The law has never looked more of an ass.

Which is why Starmer’s government is pinning its hopes on the judge in the so-called Filton trial riding to the rescue – making an example of four activists who targeted an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza.

This coming Friday, Judge Jeremy Johnson will pass sentence on the activists, who were convicted by a jury of the relatively minor offence of criminal damage in the second of two trials the judge so carefully rigged.

Judge Johnson has not been shy about showing where his loyalties lie. Not to the law, but to the British security state.

Which should hardly come as a surprise, given his background.

Judge Johnson made it to the bench after years serving as the most favoured barrister of the “secret state”, representing the intelligence services, the ministry of defence and the police. His working environment of choice as a lawyer was behind-closed-doors prosecutions held out of view of the public or proper legal scrutiny.

There were many extraordinary, anomalous moments in the two trials. But perhaps the most glaring was Judge Johnson’s efforts to get the main defence barrister in the first trial, Rajiv Menon KC, jailed for contempt of court simply for noting to the jury in his summing up speech that they had a hundreds-of-years-old right in law to acquit.

Judge Johnson’s behaviour was so unprecedented and certain to have a chilling effect on the ability of defence barristers to represent their clients – the Filton defendants dismissed their barristers from summing up in their second trial to avoid their lawyers facing prison for doing their job and defending them – that the Court of Appeal had no choice but to overrule Judge Johnson’s contempt proceedings against Menon.

Former British ambassador Craig Murray has rightly observed: “Many people will surely conclude, it is Judge Johnson who should be in jail."

But even with the convictions for criminal damage secured under these rigged conditions, Judge Johnson is still in a position to cause more harm to the rule of law in Friday’s sentencing hearing.

He has reserved to himself the right to sentence the four anti-genocide activists not just for the criminal damage charge they were convicted of after his rigged trial, but – once again in an unprecedented move – to treat those criminal convictions as if they were for terrorism offences.

That means he can impose a longer sentence, more draconian prison conditions and more onerous, life-long parole conditions after their release.

The jury knew none of this when they were considering whether to convict. Judge Johnson placed a gagging order on his decision during the trial which meant the information was withheld from the jury and could not be reported until after the verdict. The gag was broken only by foreign media and Zarah Sultana, who used her parliamentary privilege to reveal Judge Johnson’s government-friendly, anti-justice machinations.

In yet another unprecedented feature to the trial, this will be the first time in British history that someone accused of criminal damage is sentenced as a terrorist. Judges were only given these extraordinary powers in a highly controversial amendment in 2021 to counter-terrorism legislation.

Judge Johnson’s logic for taking advantage of his extra powers in this case is quite extraordinary too. He argues that, in destroying Elbit’s killer drones, the activists were seeking to “influence” the Israeli government to change its policy in Gaza – that is, to stop committing a genocide.

Putting pressure on governments is what terrorists try to do, he argues, so this must mean the anti-genocide activists are terrorists.

Opposition to the genocide, in Judge Johnson’s view, has to be treated as an aggravating factor, not a mitigating one.

It is all the more astounding that Judge Johnson is using this argument when he refused to allow the jury to hear any evidence of the activists’ larger political motivations: that they wanted to stop British complicity in Israel’s genocide by targeting a factory that made the drones for use in that genocide.

Remember, all this is happening as Starmer’s government makes unprecedented moves to end many jury trials in Britain, leaving us to the mercy of judges like Jeremy Johnson.

As Defend Our Juries notes, the government is looking to create “an extraordinary and deeply authoritarian precedent, allowing countless more protesters to be tried for an ordinary offence, but secretly sentenced as terrorists, without juries knowing this when they convict”.

This is an extract from my latest article Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel's genocide. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

This is the clearest explanation & analysis of what is happening in my daughter's (Filton 25) case I have ever read. Thank you @Jonathan_K_Cook

PLEASE read this to understand the tidal wave of injustice these young prisoners of conscience are facing

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Judge Johnson’s rogue manoeuvrings in the rigged trials of the Palestine Action activists have so incensed the legal profession that thousands signed a petition demanding that he take the chance last Monday to recuse himself from the sentencing hearing.

He, of course, refused to do so.

They call his behaviour during the trial “biased” and “discriminatory conduct” and have referred him to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.

Here is David Whyte, professor of law at Queen Mary’s University of London, who handed the petition to the JCIO, explaining another reason why so many legal professionals are outraged by Judge Johnson’s actions:

He has shown exceptional “cruelty and vindictiveness” in holding the activists in remand for more than three times the normal maximums, even when the prosecution was not asking for them to be remanded, and for refusing them bail between their convictions and sentencing.

The Court of Appeal is due to issue a ruling on the government’s appeal against an earlier High Court decision declaring Palestine Action’s proscription unlawful this coming Monday, days after Judge Johnson’s sentencing of the Filton activists.

If this is all starting to look like theatre, that it because it is. In dictatorships, these are called show trials. Everyone understands that the outcome is predetermined. Everyone understands that justice is non-existent. The verdict is entirely political. It is a faux-legal rationalisation of what the security state wants.

Judge Johnson is the perfect judge to play that part.

The courts will do exactly what is expected of them unless they are worried that public revulsion will discredit their decision. Now is the time to raise our voices.

This is an extract from my latest article Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel's genocide. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

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2 women killed by their partner/ex-partner each week in UK
Take a look at rape stats & how many reach court! These protestors are only focused on the colour of a perpetrator’s skin! They don’t give two hoots about the victims of violence, including victims of their own violence!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ClaireHanna: "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"