Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors.
The plans are devised by Justice Michael Snow. He is the epitome of judicial prejudice. When Julian Assange appeared before Snow in the first hearing after being dragged from the Embassy, Snow called Assange a “narcissist” even though Assange had said nothing but to confirm his name, and no evidence had been led.
Snow has now decreed that those 2,000 people charged under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act with supporting Palestine Action, will be tried in batches of five at the rate of ten people a day – giving 36 court minutes for each defendant. This is a farce, a spectacle of mass show trial. The 36 minutes includes both prosecution and defence cases and cross-examination.
At a scheduling hearing on Wednesday, one of the accused, 72 year old Deborah Wilde, objected that these trials would be far too short to present a proper defence.
Snow snapped back “I’m satisfied that the time is sufficient. I am not going to give more time. Your only remedy is the High Court”.
As I am sure Snow realises, ordinary people cannot afford to go to the High Court. The worrying thing is that the trials will be held before judges including the appalling Snow, with no jury.
Here is the relevant part of Section 13 of the Terrorism Act.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this draconian legislation is that arousing suspicion is actually the offence. It does not matter if the suspicion turns out to be well-grounded or not. The suspicion could be totally wrong, but if you aroused the suspicion on “reasonable grounds” in a policeman’s head, you are guilty.
It is an offence of strict liability. Your intent is not considered; you may have been most concerned to stop a Genocide, or to oppose the destruction of free speech. Judge Snow and his ilk will not care. They only want to know if some half educated cop suspected you of supporting a terrorist organisation. There is no jury to whom you can explain your actions – and which would be highly likely to sympathise.
I have seen it, as an offence of strict liability, likened to possession of Class A drugs. But actually it isn’t. The correct analogy would be a crime where the offence was arousing a suspicion you possessed Class A drugs, whether you actually had any or not.
The experience of watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many of them infirm, hustled through this slaughterhouse queue of mass justice and into prison, with little opportunity to defend themselves, will be a defining moment in the UK’s headlong slide into fascism.
The best available way to fight this ridiculously unjust process which has been directly opposed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, by Amnesty International and by Liberty, is through the legal challenge to an absurd and oppressive law. This is being done in both England and Scotland, which are separate jurisdictions. I am the “petitioner” in the Scottish case.
There are precedents for different decisions in the different jurisdictions. The Scottish courts found Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament illegal; the English courts, legal. Ultimately the Supreme Court decided in favour of the Scottish courts. It is also possible that Palestine Action should simply operate legally in one jurisdiction and not the other – the law is frequently different in the two countries. The rationale of the legal case is explained here.
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can a plea of no plea be entered by the crowd of accused
Yes, but they would be declared guilty anyway, and then get a 50% supplement to the sentence. So it’s plead guilty and have 2/3rds of your sentence, or plead not guilty and serve the full term.
That’s British justice for you!
If you keep quiet or say “no plea” when asked to plead, it’s entered as a plea of “not guilty”.
Oh please what is this, everyday one wake up to another flagrant lie:
US: We have sources that Hamas plan a massacre on civilians
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-19/ty-article-live/israel-receives-two-coffins-of-deceased-hostages-to-be-identified-overnight/00000199-fa2e-d3e1-adfd-fe3fbf4a0000?liveBlogItemId=507695379#507695379
…and who could it be that feed US false intelligence, sigh. israel play the US like a fiddle.
What have happend is that Hamas past weeks fought the groups that collaborated with israel during the Genocide. These traitors are now framed as freedom fightiing “civilians” that must be protected under “Responsibility to protect” theory. This is gross!
And in Trumps so called “peace deal” people from Hamas was promised amnesty if they agreed to the deal. But no, that was of course just a lie.
“6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries”.
…as soon as israeli hostages are returned, the bombing will start again.
Standard MO for israel. And, the US aren’t played, they’re accomplices. Kushner is impatient to start building his property empire ‘Trumpton on Sea’.
The Killing, by israel, hasn’t stopped, it’s just been turned down a notch, that will inevitably change soon.
Yes this is what they always do to keep people/nations divided and weak:
Play anti-Hamas Gazans against Hamas
Play sunnis against shias
Play Fatah against Hamas
Play Hamas agaisnt Fatah
Play the arab world against palestinians
Play arab world against Iran
Play the West against arabs
Play the West against Iran
You’d think, make that hope, even MI6 and the CIA would have some ethical boundary about conducting a false flag to incriminate, in order to further some sinister, underhand land steal policy aim. Given just how downtrodden the injured, malnourished, broken people of Gaza are. You’d have to have an Ed Gein like psychology, to bring more hurt to such a suffering population.
I find it amazing how the US holds up famous serial killers(Netflix) as showing the lack of empathy and depths of of human depravity, when the psychology of many a feted western leader, is on a par, and they’ve killed far more innocents too.
Don’t forget there is a huge oil field off the coast of Gaza, the people of Gaza are a potential obstruction to its development by the UK and the USA, albeit Israel is already handing out contracts. As such, they literally don’t count in the minds of scum like Starmer, Trump and Netanyahu. Gazans will be displaced or murdered with no rights or support from the west.
We see people, they see dollars.
“You’d think, make that hope, even MI6 and the CIA would have some ethical boundary”
You’d have to be pretty stupid to think that. You don’t last long as a spook if you are encumbered with ethics.
Since the topic is judicial malfeasance, an interesting aside from the Netflix Ed Gein story is the concurrent subplot featuring Ilse Koch. Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, a commandant at Buchenwald. She was dubbed the Bitch of Buchenwald by a journalist. I assumed the ‘lampshade made of human skin’ story was true, as I’ve heard about it before, but apparently not. It was the wild invention of the press. If you read(link below) from : Sentence reduction and controversy part, she was initially tried and received a relatively light sentence, and was in fact released. It was pressure from the hysteria gripped U.S., driven by the Miami Herald, New York Post and the American Jewish Congress that saw her rearrested and retried.
Interesting : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch#Family
Pakistani police massacre anti-Genocide protesters for Israel and the USA (i.e., for Western values).
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/pakistani-security-forces-killed-anti-israel-protesters-tlp
Might this be what’s coming next from the Labour ZOG if anti-Genocide protests persist in Britain?
What’s Trump done ? Army on the street, yeah we’ll have some of that. Maybe not bullets but 36 minute trials, oh wait …
As I have said before Zionism is treated as a religion, this affair in Pakistan where hundreds of casualties have been reported, this is what western governments have in prospect for those of us who reject the Zionist project. Just listen to the Pakistan Prime Minister praising Trump at Sharm el Sheikh. Flanked by Starmer, Meloni and a glowering Trump. It is pathetic, exhibiting no self respect and fully in line with his vassal status.
https://x.com/meghupdates/status/1977793706154721482?s=46&t=wepjGc_HBsLq3Gpb-c4oeQ
Have you seen the AI image someone has generated, that’s doing the rounds on X, showing Pakistan Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, holding boot polish? He’s apparently known as the boot polisher :
https://x.com/maulanahaqani/status/1978261980042465484/photo/1
And finding that, I noticed another has been created, that’s even more amusing: https://x.com/mmalikx7/status/1978068351235522687
It appears that Israel is now sending ‘the head choppers and liver eaters’ into Gaza from Syria, to carry out the hand to hand combat, and Trump has said he has no problem with different and opposing Muslim groups killing each other. Hamas was ready to disarm as per the peace agreement but this new development has distracted them from that possibility….
Just when you think things can’t get any worse for the Palestinian people
Alyson the UN has gotten in on the act as well.
I can’t say I’m surprised by this, the UN isn’t fit for purpose.
“YEMEN’S ANSAR ALLAH has detained 53 UN Staff Members after they provided STRIKE LOCATIONS to ISRAEL & the U.S”
I recall the OSCE spying for Ukraine against Russia.
My understanding is that Hamas were, only, prepared to disarm to an armed Palestinian authority responsible for Gaza. A sensible position when dealing with Israel.
Thanks Craig, good luck, hope you achieve your goal. I’ve made a small contribution from New Zealand. JKM expatriate Anglo-Scot. I used the crowd funder site no problem to pay by credit card. I don’t like PayPal unless you can use the credit card method. Israel continues its savagery and will use any excuse to continue this. There is a total breakdown of law and order, and Palestinian gangs armed by the Israelis a while ago. The “Peace Plan” is a sickening cynical ploy on a totally demoralised and defeated population played by the powers of Israel and the US who have claimed for themselves total impunity for whatever murderous behaviour they inflict on anyone.
On 10 October (the day the Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced), it was reported that the “international stabilisation force” including US service personnel would enter Gaza on the 12th. It’s now the 19th and no ISF has entered Gaza.
https://tass.com/world/2028293
Latest news is Egypt wants to participate in the force but it’s taking the idea to the UN first.
Trump is probably concentrating more on starting wars with Venezuela and Colombia and posting videos of himself wearing a crown and defecating on USA citizens who say they are anti-monarchist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugrn6DNAYEU
The strange thing is that Berlusconi who was in some ways a precursor of Trump actually had a lot of charm. I watched him tell a lengthy joke against himself. He looked coked up to the nines but it was funny. Trump would never have a thick enough skin (or maturity) to do something like that.
I was not aware that any US Service personnel were proposed to be involved. I believe Trump wants to maintain a distance from any explicit involvement !
The “point” in the “I’m just like Woodrow Wilson” points document said that the US military would help develop the ISF (whatever that means), but at least one US official was reported as briefing that the ISF would enter Gaza on 12 October and tha the ISF would include US forces.
Chatham House, i.e. RIIA, is now saying “The international stabilization force (ISF) envisioned by the plan lies somewhere in the future.” – i.e. that the document with the 20 points was bullshit.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/10/trumps-gaza-plan-still-not-complete-peace-settlement
They archly note “(F)illing in the blanks on interim governance for Gaza by international fiat, without Palestinian involvement, sounds risky.”
What they mean is that Yanks can’t do diplomacy because they’re not as skilled as handling the natives and understanding “how things are done” as His Majesty’s Brits. The stupid bastards think they’re witty for not saying it openly.
Meanwhile it seems the deranged Trump is being played like a fiddle by his Zionist handlers. One might hope that Xi or Putin could play a grownup role at the UNSC, but since Putin was caught totally unawares in Syria by the Zionists, having to get his ships out of there at a moment’s notice, this seems unlikely in the latter case.
Anything could happen in Gaza now. Worth recalling that the Gulf despots will agree anything with anybody if someone waves a chance to “invest” their ill-gotten billions in front of them. I doubt they’re players in this at all. About the only Arab government that has shown any backbone is Yemen’s. This also comes out in how it’s referred to by a tribal name in the western MSM, signifying the view that “these aren’t ‘our’ towelheads – these are towelheads who will never be welcome in our clubhouse“.
“since Putin was caught totally unawares in Syria by the Zionists, ”
I’m not convinced. To my knowledge there were no Russian casualties or losses and Russia was able to easily spirit Assad to safety. I’m fairly confident that Russian intelligence, with its links to Israel and Turkey read the tea leaves and acted according to the ‘reality on the ground’. After all, Russia was never going to enter into a hot conflict on behalf of Syria, or anyone else for that matter. Russia is only concerned with the security of the motherland, it is not an expansionist empire, IMO.
The Israeli interdiction on foreign journalists entering and reporting from Gaza was quite convenient not only for the Occupying Entity but also for the Western media themselves, since, although they were loud in their faux protests, it gave them an alibi for just accepting whatever the Occupying Entity told them and thus avoiding having to describe the full horror of events.
But now the Western media have no excuses any more. No need to strain at the leash any longer, the day of the fearless, objective MS bosses and their equally fearless and objective reporters has dawned.
One would therefore expect to see – to have already seen, indeed – a massive influx of Western journalists and reporters into Gaza and a veritable flood of their articles in the Western MSM, both written and audiovisual.
Or……..perhaps..not?
Israel is still not permitting foreign journalists to enter Gaza.
At least 223 local journalists and media workers have been killed since the conflict began.
Genocide you mean, of course.
And killed with the aid of whose aerial surveillance, F-35 parts and complete political-media silence, Pears?
Do you know?
Here’s a clue, for the clueless.
“A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-israel-military-deal-in-place-throughout-genocide/
They are also covering up something even darker.
The UK government has refused to release any files relating to a secret meeting with a top Israeli minister, saying the documents ‘could be open to misinterpretation, which would damage our relationship with Israel.’
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25548890.labour-block-release-israel-files-may-misinterpreted/
@Pears Morgaine
How very strange – was it not the Occupying Entity’s rationale that it was too dangerous for foreign journalists to be allowed into Gaza?
But there is now a ceasefire, so the “danger” is no more (or at least very slight).
Could it be that the Occupying Entity was…..lying……yet again?
And should not Western MSM be clamouring to be allowed in?
A scholar of Palestinian resistance movements, Helena Cobban has done some interesting books and interviews or webinars, which can be seen on YouTube (just enter her name). She also published books (available on amazon) by a Gazan scholar, Refaat Alareer, a Professor of English, who was killed during the genocide, an aspect of Israel’s cultural genocide.
It must be close to a hundred palestinians killed by israel past days now. I do not know what’s worse, Trump’s brazen lying or the naive Qatar, Egypt, Turkey that signed on to the phony Trump-deal on behalf of the palestinians, apparently believing that Trump would stop Netanyahu from restarting the war:
From october 10: “Trump promised not to let Israel break Gaza ceasefire to get deal”
As negotiations for a Gaza peace deal approached the finish line, President Trump provided a personal guarantee he wouldn’t let Israel abandon it and resume the war, two U.S. officials revealed in a briefing with reporters.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-gaza-israel-hamas-ceasefire-enforce
israel will of course find whatever bogus reason to resume the war, as we have seen past days.
So why did Turkey, Qatar, Egypt sign on to an agreement when there is no clause or mechanism that dealt with ceasrefire violations? If Hamas, allegedly, violate the ceasefire, israel, apparently, have all the right to attack palestinians, but if israel violate the ceasefire palestinians would of course have no right to defend themselves (according to US/Israel).
All these lazy half-measured acts, all these decisions being made above the head of the palestinians themselves decade after decade is of course why there is no palestinian statehood. The outside world simply do care enough for the palestinians.
It is truly tragic that there are no real friends, no real patrons, no united nations with civil courage stepping foward for the the palestinians, even after 2 years of genocide.
Israeli Police cancelled the Tel Aviv derby last night between Maccabi Tel Aviv Vs Hapoel Tel Aviv after a riot between rival fans broke out that posed a “risk to life”.
British Labour ZOG and British journalists being made to look even more honest and trustworthy than usual..
What ! Are the Israeli police antisemitic now ?
Bridget Phillipson sending an emergency flight of British ‘antisemitism’ tutors including Barney Ronay and John Mann.
“What ! Are the Israeli police antisemitic now ?”
You know the rules: if an Israeli criticises another Israeli, it’s probably because they’ve done something wrong, but if anyone but an Israeli criticises an Israeli it can only be because of anti-semitism, always.
This latest development doesn’t seem to have stopped Timmy from doubling down, zoot:
https://x.com/timfarron/status/1980180741091725668
Seemingly in his world, the phrase ‘the political dynamics’ can have no other meaning than protecting honest, non-violent Maccabee fans, who definitely don’t pose a risk to life (much less to their fellow Jews), from the rabid Muslim hordes of Birmingham – which, if true (with a big ‘if’), rather than being ‘utterly shameful’, I would have thought was a good thing.
It’s been a very distressing experience for Timmy. These Tel Aviv cops need a morning of him shouting ‘utterly shameful!’ into their faces.
Thanks for your reply, zoot. In this instance, their behaviour probably isn’t as shameful as his phone’s browsing history. I’m now 70% convinced that Mossad are having a bit of fun at his expense.
I think it’s reasonable to assume they have something on him.
Thanks for your reply, zoot. These days they probably have something on most MPs. Apparently, Pegasus can now infiltrate people’s iPhone 16’s:
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
Obviously, it goes without saying that they can get inside iPhones 1-15 and any Android phone.
“Obviously, it goes without saying that they can get inside iPhones 1-15 and any Android phone.”
Isn’t that a bug, rather than a feature? After all, the most convincing way to spread disinformation is to make the recipient think you are trying to keep it secret.
‘ A football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv has been called off due to “risks to human life” after rioting and “serious violence”.
The derby was due to take place on Sunday 19 October at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, but behaviour of fans deteriorated into rioting, violence and property damage.
Israeli police said it had arrested nine people and brought 16 others in for questioning after the game was cancelled following violent disturbances. Three police officers were injured, along with 12 civilians.
Police footage shows unrest outside the stadium and pyrotechnic devices and smoke grenades being hurled onto the pitch.
In a statement posted on X, the Israeli police said: “Disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers and damage to infrastructure – this is not a soccer game, this is a breach of order and serious violence.”
The cancellation of the Tel Aviv derby comes after UK prime minister Keir Starmer said he would do “everything in his power” last week to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to attend a 6 November match in Birmingham against Aston Villa.
The local safety advisory group and West Midlands Police have made a decision to ban Maccabi supporters due to a “high risk” of violence based on previous incidents and current intelligence.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are known for violence, hooliganism and racist behaviour at games, with major disturbances widely reported at an Ajax match in Amsterdam last November.
Maccabi supporters chanted “fuck the Arabs”, “we will take your girls who love to party, we will rape them” and “why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there”.
The Israeli fans tore down and set fire to Palestinian flags, took iron scaffolding tubes and wooden planks from a building site to use as weapons, and vandalised a taxi.’
Novara
Even Israel bans Maccabi fans. Starmer must act now to ban them from Birmingham
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