Show\Trial Studio

Stuff from Simon Palmer, illustrator and designer colouring outside the lines.

[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 ⬇️

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

1. The Holocaust was evil, as everyone knows
2. The Holocaust was NOT uniquely evil, as some claim
3. Throughout history there have been other comparable genocides, often carried out by Europeans against indigenous people
4. The genocide in Gaza is not the same as the Holocaust, obviously, but it is in the same moral category
5. The Nazis killed babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they were Jews. The Israelis kill babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they are Palestinian
6. Israel and its supporters weaponise and abuse the memory of the Holocaust, sometimes to close down argument and sometimes even to justify the genocide in Gaza

[Show\Trial Studio @ShowTrialStudio]

@IDF Single shots? I assume that means multiple shots.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The Jewish activist Tony Greenstein, whose opposition to the Gaza genocide will see him on trial in August for "supporting terrorism", is now being hounded – like other prominent Palestine solidarity activists – with a freeze on his bank accounts.

This is being directed by the government through the National Crime Agency.

Santander are the latest culprits to engage in what Greenstein calls "financial terrorism", after similar bank freezes from Nationwide, HSBC and First Direct.

One of the accounts frozen by Santander held money raised to help a Palestinian children's centre in Jenin.

As Greenstien notes, Jenin's children "suffer enough at the hands of the terrorist IDF without facing the terrorism of the British state acting via its banking system".

More here: https://t.co/RtpmLKSP9D

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@bennishkeit @Theuniondivvie @simon_schama I'm generally against the mass killing of civilians. The fact that it's Jews doing the killing doesn't complicate it for me. Put it this way, I have no reason to come up with reasons to justify it, ignore, it, cover it up, or explain it away.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

We need hear nothing more from this man. He is dead to me. He should be dead to all of us.

[Media Lens @medialens]

Corbyn's big mistake was that he turned the other cheek. That strategy fails because the mud-slinging machine continues relentlessly, 24/7 and, unanswered, the mud eventually sticks causing the public to turn away from the target of demonisation. They're actually waging propaganda war on democracy.

[Show\Trial Studio @ShowTrialStudio]

@MolecularLab_ Three times in “this sentence”? E.

[Media Lens @medialens]

We've been watching as vested interests spewed their cynical propaganda denying this was coming for 40 years. The bad news - this is just the start.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The Israeli army just bombed a densely populated refugee camp in the Tyre district, Lebanon

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK

“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

[Show\Trial Studio @ShowTrialStudio]

@Simi_2210_ 99

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Vehicles that aren't supposed to be there".

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

Truly brutal obituary for the Starmer project from one of Britain’s great living historians, David Edgerton

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Right decision

Burnham is a Blairite opportunist and more of the same

Labour’s destruction is a prerequisite for Greens stopping Reform

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Wes Streeting will be the last rites for the Labour Party. He will be even less popular than Starmer, as beholden to corporate interests & to Israel. Plus he will lose his own seat at the next election to the brilliant @LeanneMohamad

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

This is mad — the precedent that is being be set under Starmer will be used by a possible Farage government. This should terrify us all.

If you try to protest a refugee concentration camp in 3 years time, they will arrest you as a terrorist.