The three female activists arrested on Tuesday for the direct action against the Leonardo weapons factory in Edinburgh are being treated as terrorists. They have been held now for 40 hours, without either being charged or being brought before a judge, under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
They are from the organisation Shut Down Leonardo, which targets the firm which makes parts for the F-35 jets that massacre children in Gaza.
I spent all yesterday trying to organise their legal defence. By 8am I had found the right solicitor and briefed them on the case, including the crucial judgment by Judge Chamberlain in London’s High Court on 4 July.
Chamberlain’s judgment stated explicitly that future direct action protest, even where allegedly criminal, would not be aggravated to terrorism. It was Palestine Action, not the act of protest, which was proscribed.
But the three women are being held incommunicado in Govan police station, and there is simply no way to get information to them to ask for the solicitor I had briefed. The solicitors themselves went to the police station in Edinburgh and were blanked.
The solicitors were told they would be informed once the police knew what was happening. The police never got back to them, and did not even tell them the women had been moved from Edinburgh to Glasgow.
What has almost certainly happened is that the women have been allocated the duty solicitor. This solicitor will not know of Lord Chamberlain’s judgment of 4 July nor any of the background.
Equally crucially, it is extremely improbable that the duty solicitor would sit alongside the women during 48 long hours of interrogation. Frequently those arrested never see the duty solicitor at all, and just get a brief telephone consultation.
Once the duty solicitor has been assigned, another solicitor cannot get access, except at the direct request of those arrested. Who are held incommunicado.
This is crucial, because today they have to be brought before a judge – which will almost certainly be in Court 3 in Edinburgh Sheriff Court in Chambers St. They will very likely be charged with terrorism. That means they will almost certainly not get bail, and could disappear into prison on remand for well over a year.
AMENDMENT – I have since been advised by lawyers that the detention has to be extended today by judicial warrant, but under the Terrorism Act this can be done by a judge in secret without the girls being brought to court. They can still be kept in the cells in Govan.
But terrorism is an incompetent charge, following Chamberlain’s High Court ruling. That was under a fortnight ago and this is the first case. It is very probable that the judge, solicitor and procurator do not know that aspect of the ruling, and there is at the moment no means to put it before the court.
This should be treated as a case of criminal damage – from which many activists have been acquitted by juries – as stopping genocide is seen as ethically more important than very minor damage to a fence.
This photo of the “terrorism” in question makes abundantly plain that Starmer and Cooper are acting as fascists. Nobody could argue in good faith that these women are committing “terrorism”.
It properly charged, there is no sensible reason why the women should not be granted bail.
Everything Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh and Raza Husain stated would happen following the proscription of Palestine Action – for which they were pooh-poohed by Judge Chamberlain – is happening. As given above, Chamberlain stated that:
some of the consequences feared by the claimant and others who have given evidence are overstated.
But he specifically then states that direct action will not be aggravated to terrorism; yet here we have those engaged in the very first direct action after his proscription, being treated as terrorists.
Furthermore the proscription of Palestine Action is indeed causing the police to treat simple criticism of Israel as illegal, again directly contrary to Chamberlain’s judgment.
This video shows Kent police threatening to arrest a protester under the Terrorism Act – leaving them facing up to 14 years in jail – simply for waving a Palestinian flag and calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide.
The direction of travel under Starmer is now clear. pic.twitter.com/qKz23CCtPq
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) July 16, 2025
Now, it does not matter whether the police follow through with these threats against free speech. The very fact they are making such threats – and are widely disseminated on social media making such threats – will have a severe chilling effect on many people’s right of free expression.
There is also a great deal of “concern trolling” in progress from fake left outfits like Novara Media, telling people to suppress protest in case they are prosecuted.
Today I am going to resume my efforts to get the Leonardo Three a proper defence.
On 21 July, Judge Chamberlain hears the case for a judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. We will then learn, given the now-unequivocal evidence of the chilling effect on free speech, whether his denial that the proscription would chill free speech and protest, was due to a Panglossian view of our police and prosecutors, or a malevolent and disingenuous device to enforce the proscription.
UPDATE 2 It appears they currently have no legal representation and the police refuse to inform the women of the lawyers arranged for them. This is an outrage. The parents of one have also been told they have now been taken from Govan police station, but will not say to where.
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Thanks for letting me know about Novara Media – I’ve found a few of their posts left scratching my head – good to know they’re a fake left outlet and can be skipped (or at least read with interest in terms of knowing what fake info we need to debunk next).
Judge Chamberlain’s notes in his ruling left me open-mouthed when I read your report. I could not understand how someone so “wet behind the ears” could be allowed so close to a subject so crucial in the face of advancing fascism. And here we are. It will be interesting to see what nonsense he may come up with in the review on 21st July – I would like to be optimistic and think he would have some sort of epiphany and be able to back track the entire proscription and call out the subsequent abuses of his ruling.
We can only hope for the best of all possible worlds, but I suspect most people are turning their backs to tend their gardens with blinkers firmly on.
I already contribute to you on a monthly basis but if there’s a fund raiser for the Three please publish a post with details.
Police Scotland should drop the pretence and rename themselves Scottish Stasi instead. Yet another institution complicit in genocide.
Good luck.
Another protest stopped by fascist means, we are watching the rebirth of the SA/SS actions of the 1930’s, in lockstep with Berlins new Gestapo who are brutally beating protesters.
This is outrageous. How long?before those who fly the legitimate flag of occupied Palestine are being arrested by this Zionist chagrins doing what Israel is doing to the rightful owners of Palestine?
Thank you Craig for trying to get these girls a decent support with an informed lawyer.
I’m interested in what Craig believes is fake about Novara Media? For those of us not in the know it could do with a bit of context.
I agree that the “news” is painful to watch. They very occasionally interview someone interesting on a Sunday though.
Everything, but for one they enthusiastically piled in on the “Corbyn is an anti-semite” campaign.
They were suspect on Assange too, e.g. Ash Sarkar getting the smears in while wringing her hands: “Just sayin’ it’s possible to think that Julian Assange is a definite creep, a probable rapist, a conspiracist whackjob *and* that his arrest has incredibly worrying implications”.
With all due respect, and I do have a great deal of respect for your work, Craig, Novara did not pile in on the “Corbyn is an anti-semite” campaign. They were extremely supportive of Corbyn and went to great lengths to refute those smears.
That isn’t my recollection Chris but I confess I don’t follow them closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbQOAFoxFBE
They certainly did pile in, anxious to afford legitimacy to the most obvious of establishment/ Israeli smear campaigns, as unscrupulous and as dishonest as anything ever seen in British politics.
At the height of it, Michael Walker issued a video for Momentum in which he suggested ‘Rothschild conspiracies ‘ were a serious problem on the left. Ash Sarkar smeared anyone who questioned the ‘antisemitism’ scam as a ‘crank’. Aaron Bastani used his highest-profile media appearance, in the BBC’s This Week show, to smear ordinary left-wing people as Jew haters, presumably including Novara’s own audience. He has never resiled from it and is now using his TV appearances to rubbish Corbyn’s effort to break the cover up of Britain’s role in the Gaza Genocide.
Yes, they certainly did join the pile on. Michael Walker and Corbyn campaign group Momentum co-founder Jon Lansman acted in very odd ways around the whole press/PLP generated bogus antisemitism scandal c.2017-19. Playing what can only be described as an extremely unhelpful role at a very difficult time for the unfairly impugned membership.
Bastani, afaik, is today a Green Party supporter? He’s been heavily promoting Zack Polanski in his leadership bid for that party. Polanski says all the Corbyn-esque left-wing & radical things and genuinely seems to have changed his mind on Corbyn’s treatment. However, Zack’s being invited on all the shows that normally shun the left. Anyone on the radical left being so heavily promoted by the MSM, is automatically sus, no? And Polanski has a social media posting history that shows him joining in the anti-Corbyn pile on over antisemitism. Something he apparently now regrets?
There is a risk of seeking too much left-wing purity however. Prof David Miller, for example, thinks Corbyn himself was a wimp for needlessly apologising and not standing his ground vis-à-vis his antisemitism accusers. While having some sympathy with Miller’s view, I think that’s easier said than done given the atmosphere Corbyn faced. Hanging tough was simply impractical with an unsupportive PLP, and the entire press +BBC on his back. He also had US politicians and even Netanyahu posting social media commentary. Professor Miller fought back as an individual, rightfully defending his reputation, but to do that while leading a political party – you’d need the entirety of the parliamentary party behind you …something Corbyn didn’t have. Corbyn’s idiocy imho, was in not fully backing Chris Williamson’s drive for Open Selection. As that PLP problem would’ve resolved itself democratically had he insisted and won union support for the equivalent of UK primaries.
As to the present day, Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn need to move to get this new party established, as polling support and lots of members will quickly clip the wings of this horrible right-wing, authoritarian Labour govt. There is no opposition whatsoever at the moment.
Fully agree with your thoughts there, Goose.
Zack Polanski was not a 14-year-old schoolboy in 2019 when he said he couldn’t vote for Corbyn because he is a Jew.
Is it a coincidence that all the high-profile British media leftists who are now promoting Zack as the Messiah were themselves also dedicated ‘antisemitism’ scammers/ wreckers?
Goose (no reply button for your post): I tend to agree with David Miller and felt at the time that there was no point trying to appease the Zionists. Maybe it’s because I was aware of similar episodes in the USA that had been going on at least since the Carter years. An apology just gets presented as evidence that you’ve done something awful and they will come back for more, again and again. In large measure, their aim is to tie you up in knots so you can’t talk about anything else or get any message across. Maybe there isn’t an easy alternative approach but there’s no point following one that’s proven to fail. A couple of suggestions. 1 – don’t put up with any crap. The moment one of them steps over the line, take them to court. Corbyn could easily have raised a fighting fund from us supporters. When you win, take them for everything you can and put that back in the fighting fund to support their next victims. 2 – use Jujitsu. Emulate Trump, who was in his pomp at the time. Why should the Devil have all the best tunes? Say things you know the media will jump on and plaster all over the front pages in howls of outrage but your supporters and target supporters will realise they actually agree with. Thereby building support *and* discrediting the biased media.
@ Goose “Prof David Miller, for example, thinks Corbyn himself was a wimp for needlessly apologising and not standing his ground vis-à-vis his antisemitism accusers.”
Couldn’t agree more, I wrote him off in the first week of his leadership, the craven poltroon.
Entirely my recollection too. Novara aren’t ‘socialists’ in the old firebrand sense of the word, but to say they’re not on the left… ?
and to say they didn’t back Corbyn.. equally ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTmjY5rV1w
Novara Media ran an expose on Kai Cunningham (https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/11/reform-supporting-neo-nazi-suspended-from-party/). Is this also fake, or are there better reports on him? Cunningham reminds me of Patrick Harrington of the National Front in the 80s, though Harrington claims to have changed his views since then.
The type of expose you would find in the centrist Byline Times/ Guardian. Novara markets itself as fearless, adversarial, dissident media. (Although then again, so do those openly centrist outlets).
You’re mixing up Novara with Owen Jones. Aaron Bastani, Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar et al always supported Corbyn. Jones on the other hand… he’s doing a much better job now, but back in the day (before he had a column in the National) he was also a devoted unionist.
That just isn’t true. They joined in the anti-semitism scam. Other commenters have given details.
When Corbyn introduced a bill last month calling for an independent inquiry into British complicity in the Gaza Genocide, Aaron Bastani responded on GB News by informing viewers that the UN definition of genocide is too expansive. He then diminished the British role in the genocide.
https://x.com/lesthecroc/status/1930383455398809968
In terms of revealing who Novara really are, it was reminiscent of their ‘antisemitism’ scamming that Craig refers to. (Exemplified by Bastani assuring BBC viewers that antisemitism was absolutely ‘endemic’ among ordinary Corbyn supporters.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwskQv_qWQg
That BBC episode is particularly hard watching. As a rule I’m unable to remain in a room if any form of BBC media is playing.
I like to watch things I don’t like because I think it’s useful in helping me to understand what people are being told to think. Novara is pretty awful, but it’s useful in that it lays certain kinds of argument that are being put forward.
There are only a few people who I trust in the media landscape and Craig is one of them. That doesn’t mean that I believe everything he says, but I believe that he believes everything he says and there’s no hidden agenda. No doubt there are a small number of other people who fall into that category. Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone seems like another, but I’m not well enough informed to have to know. Some of the things he’s been saying recently are genuinely terrifying (as was Craig’s excellent account of his day at the Supreme Court two weeks ago).
I don’t believe everything I say either. Or rather I am not daft enough to think I don’t get things wrong sometimes.
You’ve have had the good manners to say so when you’ve changed your mind. Can’t ask for more. ;O)
I avoid Novara like the plague. Sarkar’s disgusting comments about Assange and the smears against Corbyn show you what side they are really on.
I agree. Novara is not one of my ‘regulars’ because I find it disappointingly centrist more often than not. That it is, at least, less bad than the Guardian is a benefit which should be recognised, but there are a lot more carefully researched sources to consult first including, of course, CM’s. It remains the case that comparing a wide range of alternative sources is the only way to get a coherent and rational view of the world.
Fine work Mr Murray. On behalf of all of us, (I personally have no direct connection to these events) thank you for your intervention and efforts.
Clearly, there should be a legal challenge to the detention of those outstanding women, resulting, at the very least, in compensation, and those policemen should face disciplinary action.
That should then be widely publicised. Don’t, of course, expect the BBC &c to do so, but a strategic social media approach could then very effectively disseminate information about these travesties of justice and their increasing, threatening encroachment on the British public and society.
Good morning Craig.
Good morning Clark, though I have to say my concern for these women and the extraordinary way they have been tweeted is rather spoiling my mood so far.
Looks like the law needs urgent clarifications, as this incident is arguably equally troubling : https://www.thenational.scot/news/25320702.kent-armed-police-threaten-woman-holding-palestinian-flag/
In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer said: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the Government.”
I hope the petitioners on 21st July will make good use of your column ‘The Big Chill’, as well as the harassment by police of Laura Murton in Canterbury: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/armed-police-threatened-to-arrest-kent-protester-for-holding-palestinian-flag
Novara Media is a deep state tool – one of its founders is Aaron Bastani – Novara Media has, or had links to Integrity Initiative.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Novara_Media
Lets hope Judge Chamberlin holds true to his quote.
“direct action will not be aggravated to terrorism”
Some groups of people have always felt the iron fist of the British Empire’s military dictatorship, so this is more the velvet glove becoming so tattered that all but scurvy politicians and their ilk can see through the illusion now. What else are gold plate, fine robes and furred gowns for?
Yet the Fascist State have not investigated the Scheiber family cult scam who are evading corporate and council taxes up and down the country and laughing not only to all the way to the bank but arming to the teeth their sect of invaders in the West Bank. That is directly funding terror at the expense of communities in Palestine and by loss of funding of services by councils , even here. Racism if ever and only gleefully achieved in Scamalot UK where they can get away with it.
They should be proscribed and their bank accounts seized for profits of crime and arming terror groups.
Since when was maim and murder the accepted position?
Chamberlain judgement was in the English High Court, and then reinforced by an English Appeal Court decision.
As such, surely at best they are merely persuasive with respect to the Scottish Court system?
Yes that is true. We are looking to take the case separately to the Court of Session. It is interesting that applications for judicial review of ministerial actions that apply to the entire UK, are effectively always taken in the High Court of England and Wales and de facto accepted by Scotland. It’s time to challenge that.
Excellent report.
Our country resembles the Israeli regime more and more every day and the honest people are the Palestinians, treated appallingly and illegally by the UK regime. With a corrupt Judiciary it is apparent that the only viable recourse is going to be violent protest to break out of this zionist hell.
This makes very scary reading as the author outlines that what is happening in Gaza is a blueprint for the rest of us in preparation for a brave new oligarch led dominance with the help of AI. All the pieces are set in place and being implemented slowly across the west.
“What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/u-s-emulation-of-israel-deepens.html
You might be right but I fear that the fascist pigs who run Britain would relish the opportunity to kill people.
Unfathomable that this could happen, without any obstacle or protest, in 2025. Where are Amnesty, HRW etc so silent? Why are domestic human rights jurists and lawyers silent?! This development could never have happened under the Corbyn-government. What a truly heinous, evil Starmer is. He is obviously being braiwashed daily by pro-israel propaganda/narrative and the indoctrination obviously starts at home by his wife and her family.
We all know the type of strong condemnation and how critical, the western coverage would look like if russians protesting the ukrainan war were to be arrested like this and that under some trumped up criminal/terrorist label. Russia and other nations must start calling the western hypocrisy out, if there is no one in the inside of the western world that is going to do this, it must come from the outside!
Also if, verbatim, “Palestine Action” is considered a “terrorist” organisation according to the pathetic jobsworth clientele, would it not solve the issue by adding just another word to the name of the group?
Like “Palestine Action 2025“, “Palestine Action against Genocide“, “Palestine Actions”
Or simply made up a new novel group name every time?
“This development could never have happened under the Corbyn-government”
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WHAT Corbyn government?
So you don’t believe in La-La-Land?
Sorry, my bad, someone will obviously call me a troll…
Jack knows that I’m never sarcastic, so I am going to stay mum…
Obviously, I fully reject the new convictions of alleged terrorism. We all know what terror is in the real world. We don’t need a government to tell us.
By all accounts our government does not know what terrorism is if it hit them in the face. They were so incensed when their pet terrorist organisation the Israel Exterminator Force(IEF) was mentioned in a negative way in Glastonbury. It is now clear that opposing genocide is a crime in the eyes of our government.
It’s a delightful idea that activists could simply carry on their activities under a different name (such as “Yvette Cooper”, which is hilarious), but I’m not sure how well it would work in practice, in view of this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version
“Section 3(6) of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows the Home Secretary to specify by order that an alternative name or alias is to be treated as another name for a proscribed organisation listed in Schedule 2 to the act. The Home Secretary can make an order where they believe the proscribed organisation is operating under that alternative name or that an organisation operating under a name not included in Schedule 2 is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organisation.
The use of an alternative name which has not been formally recognised in an order does not prevent the police and Crown Prosecution Service from taking action against an individual for proscription offences. For a successful prosecution, it is necessary to demonstrate that (1) the organisation in question, whatever name it professes to be operating under, is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organisation listed in Schedule 2; and (2) that the person in question has committed one of the proscription offences in relation to that organisation.”
The UK’s slide into openly endorsed fascism continues. It’s been so slowly but thorougly entrenched into UK society over the last 4 decades or so that I genuinely struggle to see how the parasite can be removed without the host being killed in the process at this point. The UK political class is so stacked with dual loyalty zionist mouth pieces, and the police so full of right wing ‘just doing my job’ types that even a full blown working class rebellion has very little chance of changing the course of HMS Britannia.
One can take a very small amount of solace in the fact that its liberal enablers and brain dead right wing cheerleaders are about to reap what they’ve sown for the last few years, but thats not much to go on when you’ve a member of the Hi-Vis gestapo with his knee on the back of your neck.
Making peaceful protest impossible makes violent revolution inevitable, to quote a more nuanced thinker than I.
You’re so fully right, it makes other comments ridiculous.
Let’s face it. Assuming there’s an effective legal response to the current downfall of democracy is like building castles in the sand. But it keeps some people busy, and it doesn’t bother the other side…
Between the over reach of security services provocateurs, and the average low information voter being so laser focused on defeating the ‘scourge’ of immigration that they’ll gleefully vote for the next person who goose steps onto the political stage with tough on those foreigners talk – Britain is toast. Any grassroots resistance is doomed before it even leaves the message board. It brings me no joy to be so bleak in this assessment, but we’re all familiar with the power of the state at this point. I wait with interest to see what they have left in the tank for targeting Corbyn a second time.
That’s back to front, the zionists are a proxy who do the state’s dirty work so that criticism of the dirty work is immediately smeared as antisemitism, when antizionism is the opposite. Up is down and in is out in the brave new world of subjective perceptions being the law.
Oh of course, the British upper classes penchant for ‘authoritarianism’ is far older than the occupying entity in the Middle East, or indeed Mussolini’s desire for trains that ran on schedule.
Craig, can you not find an MP/MSP to get onto this – preferably to go to a police station in person?
Novara is broadly reflective of young lefties in terms of Russia not being some noble good guy, environmental issues being important, social liberalism etc. Doesn’t make them fake IMO.
Consistently anti genocide is the main thing right now
Contrary to what Novara has you believing, young people don’t give a fuck about Russia (or Ukraine).
Only 17 percent of 18-25-year-olds think Ukraine should be a priority for the UK; even among boomers, it’s less than half.
That’s according to the 2025 annual survey of UK public opinion on foreign policy and global affairs by the British Foreign Policy Group.
https://bfpg.co.uk/2025/07/2025-annual-survey-of-uk-public-opinion-on-foreign-policy/
As to anti-genocide being the main thing for Novara, here is Aaron Bastani responding to Corbyn’s call for an inquiry into Britain’s role in the slaughter .. telling GB News viewers that the UN definition of genocide is over expansive, while trying to diminish Britain’s role in the ‘war’.
https://x.com/lesthecroc/status/1930383455398809968
Hi Craig I’m the brother of one of the girls arrested at Leonardo.
Could you please message me back and update if you manage to contact her lawyer?
I think the liason from D’am has sent you his details
Hi Neil, I have spoken to the receptionist and sent them the details of the Chamberlain judgment, but the lawyer himself wasn’t there. It seems a very small firm, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does seem rather focused on conveyancing. I presume they were the duty solicitor in Govan today? Of course he may not wish to speak with me, unless your sister tells him its OK, but it is difficult when communication is so limited.
Use the contact button above to send me your email and phone number. I am sorry this must be a very worrying time indeed for the whole family.
Point taken Craig, however… ‘or’ an organization operating under a name not included in Schedule 2 is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organization.
The Home Secretary can make an order where they believe the proscribed organization is operating under that alternative name OR that an organization operating under a name not included in Schedule 2 is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organization. In my opinion it will be difficult to argue that ‘Shut Down Leonardo’ is in any way different from the aims and actions of ‘Palestine Action’.
This is a very important part of the Terrorism Act 3[6] as per Twirlip’s comment above
“The use of an alternative name which has not been formally recognised in an order does not prevent the police and Crown Prosecution Service from taking action against an individual for proscription offences”.
In my opinion under the normal rules of ‘PACE’ once a person is arrested and brought to a police station that person must not be detained for longer than 96 hours without being charged with an offence. However when a person is being questioned on terrorism charges that period is 14 days, this was to enable the police to find accomplices etc and to stop the accused from hindering the investigation.
That refers to the use of an alternative name for the same organisation. Chamberlain’s judgment was that protesting for Palestine, and carrying out direct action, does not make you the same organisation. This is obviously a very strong point as he specifies not even if you are a former member of Palestine Action.
Point taken Craig, however… ‘or’ an organization operating under a name not included in Schedule 2 is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organization.
The Home Secretary can make an order where they believe the proscribed organization is operating under that alternative name OR that an organization operating under a name not included in Schedule 2 is for all practical purposes the same as the proscribed organization. In my opinion it will be difficult to argue that ‘Shut Down Leonardo’ is in any way different from the aims and actions of ‘Palestine Action’.
That is where you are not reading Chamberlain. You can have two organisations with the same aims and methods. Having the same aims or methods is not the test for being the same organisation. It is not the aims nor even the methods which are proscribed. Direct action against a perceived Israeli genocide is specifically NOT proscribed. That is exactly what Chamberlain said.
You are depending on your reading of the Act and ignoring Chamberlain’s reading.
Being the same organisation means being the same organisation. An organisation is a thing, with structures and people who fill them. It is not a belief or even a broad form of activity like protest.
When did opposing genocide become a crime?
1948
Telling the truth now an arrestable offence in Starmers Britain.
A British-Israeli Jew, Yael Kahn, has been charged with causing “alarm or distress” for holding a placard referring to “Nazi Israel” at a London protest that opposed the continuing presence of Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s genocide-justifying Israeli ambassador, in the UK.
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/16/israeli-jewish-anti-genocide-activist-yael-kahn-charged-for-describing-israel-as-nazi/
Polizei Skotland, how Germany 1938.
And another one: Lancashire County Councillor Michael Lavalette summoned for police interview for Facebook post supporting Palestine.
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/17/lancs-councillor-summoned-for-police-interview-for-facebook-post-supporting-palestine/
Since it’s voluntary, if he refuses to answer questions, what happens?
In The Alice in Wonderland World that we in The West live in, it takes a very strange mirror to turn people who are trying to prevent weapons being made to literally conduct Terrorist Acts with into Terrorists who are ‘ Terrorising ‘ the MIC.
Whether on the streets of the UK or the ones landing on Gaza and now Syria.
One group are intent on stopping Israeli and US Terrorism.
Whilst the prosecuting State is aiding and abetting State Terrorism and genocide supplying the means to conduct further Genocide when clearly the UN Rules says that UN States have a duty and a legal obligation to prevent a genocide occurring ( too late ) and specifically to stop a genocide continuing ( it’s continuing).
The analogy is: that the West has managed to make a mirror where right becomes left ( normal) but the top becomes bottom (abnormal ) and impossible as the top stays at the top in a real mirror.
This is Wonderland.
Diane Abbott’s been suspended by the Labour Party for having dared to say that anti-black racism is different from other types of racism: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8v33g1dgo
Here’s a good BBC interview with her. It contains an account of a date such as Citizen Wolfie Smith might have organised: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fwpv