A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine.
In a quite incredible series of linked and kinked events this week, the senior KC representing one of the Palestine Action activists in the Filton trial was in the Court of Appeal arguing against being found in contempt of court for his summing up in that case – a speech which I described at the time as the greatest legal speech I had ever read.
He fell foul of the quite incredible conditions imposed on the defence in that trial – they must not refer to the motive of their clients for action against Elbit, they must not refer to Elbit’s role in the Israeli defence industry, they must not refer to genocide or to ethnic cleansing in relation to Gaza.
Compare this to the public statements of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and of then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper where they claimed that one of the defendants had attacked a policewoman with a sledgehammer – a blatant attempt to influence the jury in the Filton trial.
What is very plain in the Filton case, as in the Alex Salmond case, is that contempt of court rules are only applied to the defence and not to the prosecution.
Juries had been shown by the prosecution the notebooks of the defendants, with all information about Elbit and their operations removed.
The barristers were also forbidden from telling the jury that they have the right to acquit according to their conscience, irrespective of the direction of the judge.
The first Filton trial famously failed to return any guilty verdicts at all, and all defendants were found not guilty of aggravated burglary, with no verdict returned on more minor charges.
This was extremely important as the aggravated burglary charge carries the meaning of a deliberate purpose to cause harm to persons, not just to property (the phrase “aggravated burglary” does not obviously carry the connotation of intent to harm persons to the layman, but that is the purport in English law).
The acquittals on aggravated burglary were particularly annoying to the Starmer regime because this accusation about intent to harm people was a key part of Yvette Cooper’s entirely dishonest argument for proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
The Filton verdicts were a major setback for the government, and the unfortunate KC was dragged in by the judge for the unforgivable offence of securing the acquittal of his client in a situation which was extremely embarrassing to Starmer and Cooper.
The subsequent contempt case could lead to both the KC being disbarred and to his imprisonment. To add to the incredibly sinister story, this case is entirely secret. It is illegal to mention the contempt case at all – and could lead to imprisonment for contempt of anyone who mentions it.
Yet that is only the first layer of the heaving mass of injustice around this case.
The government has attempted to make it illegal to inform jurors of their established right to acquit according to their conscience.
In 2023 Trudi Warner was arrested standing outside a Crown Court in a climate activist trial, for holding a sign which said “Jurors. You have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience”. This legal principle is on a marble plaque in the Old Bailey.
The High Court dismissed the case against Warner, stating that she was informing the jury of an established legal principle. In 2024 the government dropped its appeal against the High Court ruling in Warner’s favour.
Yet astonishingly, the Metropolitan Police have again arrested Trudi Warner, for standing outside the Filton Trial holding the exact same sign. They arrested others holding the same wording as well.
The Metropolitan Police claim different grounds for arrest this time: under section 14 of the 1986 Public Order Act they banned the small protest by Trudy and a handful of others. That the protest threatened serious disruption or intimidation – the bar under the Public Order Act – is plainly a nonsense.
The increasingly fascist Metropolitan Police are simply seeking to find a way to get round the High Court judgment and prevent the jury being informed of their right to acquit.
In Judge Johnson the government have an entirely complicit judge in limiting what the jury may hear, and in the Metropolitan Police they have an entirely compliant tool in keeping knowledge of their rights from the jury.
Now we have to delve still another layer deeper into the stench of corruption around this case. The government decided to go for a retrial of the Filton case on the more minor charges on which the jury had been unable to reach a verdict, having returned not guilty on the major ones.
The limitations of what the barristers could say in their defence speeches were so extreme, that five of the six defendants in the Filton Trial decided to dismiss their barristers before the end of their case and make their closing speeches themselves.
Yes, you read that right. The barristers were forbidden from making the defence case, so the defendants had to speak for themselves.
To be plain, the defendants equally face the risk of possible imprisonment for contempt of court for breaching Judge Johnson’s orders in what they said to the jury, but unlike the barristers they do not of course face professional disbarment.
And what great speeches they all made. The Real Media website has done a fantastic job in documenting the trial, and I highly recommend you to read the closing speeches in full. But just this little segment from Charlotte Head’s closing speech in the Filton trial casts some light on what a monumental attempted stitch-up the egregious Judge Johnson has presided over:
The first thing that you might have noticed about the prosecution case is that they didn’t call a single security guard to give evidence. The prosecutor asked you to see things from Volante’s perspective [described in evidence as the most violent of the Elbit security guards], and you could have. She chose not to call him or any security guard to actually give evidence, because they know that they were the ones intimidating us. And if that wasn’t true, they would have called them to the stand.
The truth is that the security guards, like Elbit itself, have been shielded and sheltered by the state.
If this was a shop that we’d broken into, which I would never do by the way, then you’d expect the owner to come to court. You’d expect him to list all of the items that were damaged, and describe the impact it’s had on his business. But where is Elbit? You’ve heard a very detailed and very boring inventory of the tools we brought to dismantle the weapons. You even have – behind Tab 10 – pictures with information like the brand and the weight and the material of every single tool. So where is that information about the weapons that we dismantled? If this case is supposedly only about damage, then where is the inventory?
And I think that brings me to the CCTV. Everything that we’ve heard about the CCTV system came second-hand from PC Sarah Grant. Once again, the prosecution did not want to put an Elbit Systems employee in front of you to answer for themselves. They know that the explanation of why there is missing footage doesn’t make sense. The low frame rate cannot explain the missing footage. You’ve seen it. We spent way longer than a minute in that alcove. No matter how low the frame rate was, it’s impossible that nobody was pictured on that camera, where Volante was being incredibly violent. Coincidentally, we don’t have any body-worn footage from the alcove either. We also don’t have CCTV of the area where Luke [another Elbit guard] had Lottie screaming on the floor, or body-worn. Or when Mr. Volante hit Jordan in the neck with a sledgehammer – you only saw that because it’s captured on police body-worn.
PC Phoebe Webber accepted that there were CCTV cameras that covered all of these areas, and we know that security all had body-worn cameras. Sarah Grant accepted that someone would have to set the frame rates, but of course, Witness Alpha [described as a senior Elbit employee whose identity has been withheld from defence lawyers] , who hasn’t been here at all, couldn’t remember the password to access the settings. Could anyone really believe that a multi-million pound weapons and technology company that specializes in surveillance drones didn’t have a CCTV system that worked?
Not only were Elbit shielded from anything at all being said about their supply of weapons to Israel, not only was it forbidden to mention genocide and ethnic cleansing, but some key Elbit witnesses – I presume from Mossad or the IDF – were granted anonymity.
I previously reported that the police left the recordings of the video evidence, in their police evidence bags, in the custody of Elbit for over a year. Throughout this prosecution the Metropolitan Police, Elbit, the Crown Prosecution Service and the judge have been a part of a seamless zionist security operation.
This is from the closing speech of Zoe Rogers:
After hearing the 6 of us give evidence you might think it odd that what’s happening in Palestine has gone completely unmentioned, you might have noticed certain words that have been blacklisted, that until our closing speeches the word genocide wasn’t said once. There have been interruptions from the prosecution, quick subject changes from our barristers – it’s almost as if whole topics of conversation have been banned. The prosecution know full well that we are right that this factory is supplying weapons to Israel to be used in Gaza. That is why they are choosing to suppress it rather than contest it. The prosecution have decided that the legality of Israel’s actions is irrelevant in this trial. Because they know you could not in good conscience find us guilty of anything if you were allowed to hear the whole truth.
…Now I’m an ordinary person, with friends, family, a place at university, a cat I love, basically a whole lot to lose by going to prison. But you know that we all actually intended to be arrested on the 6th of August. We intended to go to trial. And I won’t speak for the others here, but the reason I was willing and confident enough to allow that, was because I knew that now, 20 months in the future, I would be standing in front of 12 ordinary people like you. Not politicians, not legal experts, not barristers and judges wearing 400 yr old horsehair on their heads, but a panel of my equals. You are the best counterweight to power and tyranny within the legal system as it exists today. It is a privilege to be judged by you. And I don’t say that to flatter you, but because as you’ve already heard, the right to trial by jury is under threat, with a Bill passing through the House of Commons as I speak. Juries as we know them today may not be around for much longer, precisely because your pockets cannot be weighed down by bribes from the rich and powerful. (And also because juries often refuse to convict in these kinds of cases). And that is a very powerful position for you to be in.
No one can tell you to convict in this case, not even the judge. In fact, the judge is explicitly not allowed to tell you to convict! You, and only you, can decide on your verdicts. But not only can you acquit us, but you have the RIGHT to acquit us. No one can punish you for your decision. No one can even ask you why.
On Tuesday the jury will start its third day of deliberation. Once the verdicts are in, it is going to be fascinating to see if Johnson attempts to find any of the defendants in contempt of court for their closing speeches. They went further than the barrister who has already been attacked in this way.
Let us now leave Woolwich Crown Court (a physical adjunct of Belmarsh prison) and head to the Royal Courts of Justice, where the Starmer regime held this week its appeal against the High Court finding that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful.
I have always suspected that the British deep state will ensure the proscription is upheld at the end of a charade of a legal procedure. I was not diminished in that belief by this article by Joshua Rozenberg, partner of lunatic uber-zionist Melanie Phillips, in which he argues that the extremely unusual forming of a five-judge court of appeal, including England and Wales’s two most senior judges, is to bolster the court with sufficient seniority convincingly to overturn Dame Victoria Sharp and her three-judge panel.
The hearing did not on the surface go terribly well for the Starmer regime. Their primary argument was that the proscription had been democratically approved by parliament and the courts had no right to interfere.
In terms of judicial consideration, the assertion that, in effect, the European Convention on Human Rights does not apply if parliament approves an Order which contravenes it, is problematic (though the English courts would probably uphold it in primary legislation).
In the real world, of course, the sham of democracy ignores the fact that Cooper, Starmer, Lammy and the lot of them are bought and paid for by the zionist lobby.
Huda Ammori’s (co-founder of Palestine Action) legal team made the obvious points of the effect of the proscription on human rights and freedom of expression. This was bolstered by a letter of 1500 signatories openly defying the law and declaring support for Palestine Action and opposition to genocide.
Ammori’s team were able to make rather more of a couple of points that had, in my view, been given insufficient prominence at earlier hearings.
The first is the argument that the measure has a disproportionately severe effect on the Palestinian community in the UK, who feel suppressed in protesting against the devastating attacks on their own people and risk false classification as terrorist.
It is worth noting that Israeli interests were extensively consulted before the ban was imposed, but not one single Palestinian was consulted.
The second is a more pointed emphasis on the astonishing argument by the Metropolitan Police and the Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre in the papers recommending proscription, that designation as terrorism is necessary because Palestine Action keep appointing good defence lawyers and achieving acquittals.
This acknowledgement that the proscription is an attempt to undermine the criminal justice system should be key to the case. It is not a point that to date the judges have been willing to tackle – no judicial decision has acknowledged it so far.
The Starmer regime is intent on the entire subversion of the supposed protections of British justice. It is operating purely in the interests of a foreign state, in order to protect Israel from any potential consequences of the public revulsion against its genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians.
To complete this circle of crazed authoritarianism, after the open hearings on the government appeal over the proscription of Palestine Action concluded, there was a day of “closed hearing” where secret evidence is heard. Huda Ammori will never be told what was alleged in these hearings and never have a chance to answer.
I am the “petitioner” in the parallel judicial review in Scotland. That case should have concluded by now, except the Starmer regime has been introducing “secret evidence” in closed session. I do not even know when such sessions are happening, let alone what is said in them.
My “interests” are “represented” by regime-approved lawyers who are forbidden from any communication with me. We can guess at the lies that are being told in these closed sessions – such guesses might range from Iranian funding to bomb manufacture – but we cannot even testify they are lies.
The Starmer regime has now, for the third time, introduced a motion to “sist” the Scottish judicial review until after the English case has concluded, on the basis that it is undesirable for Scottish and English courts to reach differing conclusions.
This is the third time they have attempted to sist the case, so far without success.
We have applied for interim relief – that the proscription should be suspended in Scotland pending the judicial review, because it is so delayed, in order to avoid people being convicted of terrorism on the basis of an Order subsequently found unlawful.
The Starmer regime is making the process as long and drawn out as possible, partly to postpone a potential politically damaging defeat, but mostly as a matter of lawfare. Each hearing drains our financial resources. I am afraid this tactic against us does have the potential to succeed.
Unless we can widen our donor base we are not going to get this case over the line. That would be a great shame, because it is crucial not only for freedom of expression, not only as a stand against the genocide in Palestine, but as an assertion of the independent rights of Scotland and its legal system.
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The gall of Starmer, trying to tie Iran to the recent stab attack:
“We need stronger powers to tackle the malign threat posed by states like Iran, because we know for a fact that they want to harm British Jews,” he said in a statement delivered from Downing Street.
https://www.newarab.com/news/london-stabbing-suspect-left-hospital-attacked-muslim-friend
The perpetrator was just released from a psych ward and stabbed his muslim friend on the same day. So much for being lead by antisemitism. How come the media do not frame this man as islamophobic too then? No that would of course demolish the this-is-an-antisemic-attack narrative that the politicians/media want to push.
The first stabbing took place in Southwark after which he travelled to Golders Green to stab those two Jewish men. A journey that takes about 25 minutes by Tube or an hour and a quarter by bus which is the cheapest way. It suggests some degree of pre-planning and if you wanted to find Jews where else in London would you go but Golders Green?
But what was he looking for in Southwark and why?
Speaking on the narrative that the western msm try to push, it is telling that the attack of the nun in israel some days ago got pretty much zero coverage in comparison, plus, close to nil condemnation by the West.
Only Spain had the decency to call out the attack and it is not a single case, anti-christian hate crimes are on the rise in israel.
176 hate crimes against Palestinian Christians in 2025
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/05/02/jerusalem-nun-attacked/
Many Christians have simply been murdered by the IDF- as Palestinians.
“‘attacked Muslim acquaintance’ before targeting Jewish men” is a classic.
It is right up there with “miner in fight with man” and “a strike was threatened, but a return to work is now promised”. How come he’s not said to have targeted a Muslim acquaintaince and then attacked Jewish men?
99%+ of uses of the word “target” as a verb in the MSM are twisty, and sound like they belong in the mouth of a prosecutor in court.
The only British Jews Iran wishes to harm are those who have volunteered to drop bombs on Iranian cities.
The flag states of the 42 vessels boarded by armed Zionists in international waters near Greece – vessels that were to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza – are as follows:
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/bring-back-our-boats/
Algeria
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Spain
Brian Red
May 3, 2026 at 21:30
Of secondary importance of course but where are the flotilla boats now?
The Israelis didn’t tow them to Israel and presumably didn’t leave them adrift.
The Israelis must have had a large vessel in the area to accommodate the numbers of boarding parties and the kidnapped flotilla crews.
At least some are now in Greece. The Zionazi thugs didn’t abduct everyone. They smashed some of the vessels up, destroying engines and navigation equipment and letting the stranded humanitarians seek help from Greek rescuers. The orgy of fascist violence happened just outside Greek waters.
Meanwhile the puppet government in London tells us we mustn’t say “globalise the intifada”, a slogan that puts the emphasis precisely on breaking the Palestinians’ isolation.
I forgot to say: two of our humanitarian brothers from that flotilla are in Occupation captivity, where they have been tortured. They are Saif Abu Keshek (Swedish-Spanish-Palestinian) and Thiago Ávila (Brazilian).
It doesn’t seem that any passport in the world is of much “strength” when someone has been kidnapped by Jewish supremacists under cover of their colonial terror state. That is the reality we are in.
Well, we all know that Israel is a criminal organization pretending to be a country. It is just a terrorist cell in reality.
The utter depravity of Israel illustrated in one story.
“Israel’s ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir celebrated his 50th birthday this weekend, treating guests to slices of a cake featuring a noose. Attendees included several top law enforcement officials.
The cake was an apparent allusion to Ben Gvir’s advocacy for legislation that would introduce the death penalty for Palestinians found guilty of “terrorism.” ”
https://www.rt.com/news/639386-ben-gvir-birthday-noose-cake/
And Starmer says this POS country has a right to exist, I disagree, excise the cancer.
Compare this inhuman ultra-racist death worship that quite possibly would have made Adolf Hitler feel nauseous with the care that Palestinian resistance fighters take to treat Occupation prisoners with humanity (which may they continue to do even in the face of enemies like Ben-Gvir – our side is better than the other side).
Yeah I saw that too. Just shaking my head but this is also very symptomatic of the israelis – the enjoyment to harm and spite others. There are of course many nations involved in wars but I have never seen such systematic sadism in a population, they really want to rub it in, it is like the mask have come off and this is their true face. This is what makes israel such a dangerous population because how do you stop a nation of people that think it is fun to kill and harm other people and even boasting about it?
“Other people” from whom they have stolen.
One has to understand the Jewish religion here, and the increasingly put-into-practice idea of playing God to the Palestinians. This is expressed clearly in the use of the crown symbol, for example – sprayed on the remains of people’s homes by Zionazi thugs after they’ve destroyed them.
See also the now very widespread use of sexual abuse as a weapon against both female and male Palestinians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/22/sexual-violence-in-the-west-bank-emerges-as-tool-to-intimidate-palestinians
The problem is indeed a cancer, it has suborned many non-members who occupy what on paper are influential positions in host countries, and it will lead to a f***ing damned sight more deaths of innocents if something isn’t done.
Just as a thought experiment….imagine if the puppet in Number 10 receives an order from his masters to ban the 16 May Nakba commemoration demo in London. What’s he going to do?
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/nakba-78-march-for-palestine-2/
It’s extremely unlikely there won’t be a powerful response to the Golders Green events that many may well find shocking.
Exactly. The inhumanity is staggering. The compunction is vile. It seems that no heinous crime is punished, including piracy on the high seas, torture, racism, genocide, sadism, murder.
They are preparing us for all out war with Russia, Iran and probably China, by upping them as the boogeymen and instilling as much fear into us of them, as possible.
“NATO is holding closed-door consultations with TV and film industry professionals across Europe and the US, The Guardian reported on Sunday. The move has prompted accusations that the bloc is working to leverage the arts for “fear mongering” and “propaganda,” it added.
The military bloc has held three private meetings with directors, producers and screenwriters in Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris, and is planning to convene with members of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) in London next month, the newspaper wrote.
The upcoming meeting will be overseen by the British think tank Chatham House and will discuss the “evolving security situation in Europe and beyond,” according to the report. NATO cyber and innovation technology deputy head James Appathurai is expected to attend, among other officials, the newspaper added.”
RoS. No need to worry because, as anyone with half a brain knows, Russia could easily crush the UK and NATO, as could China. The UK, EU and NATO are masters of backstabbing and underhand operations because in an all out, face to face, actual war their incompetence and lack of capability would lead to their quick destruction. The blowhards in westminster and brussels are all noise and no substance. The only major problem for the peoples in our country is that Starmer is determined to give all our money to the nation that supplies him with rent boys and the pedophile capital in the ME.
IMO, The UK would be much better off under the control of Moscow or Beijing rather than the zionist incompetents we currently have, but all out war is never going to happen it’s all noise.
This sounds more serious than recent ex-NATO DSACEUR Richard Shirreff’s terribly written novel “2017 – War with Russia”, and aimed at more than preparing for war with China and Russia. Certainly NATO with or without the USA wouldn’t stand a chance in all-out war with both those countries. If they flexed their airforce to help the Kiev regime they’d get nuked within a week. What looks inevitable is a huge crackdown in the “west” with great shock and awe and rapidity. In that sense whether there actually is a great power war on at the same time doesn’t matter much other than insofar as it plays to militarisation. Let it not be forgotten that in 2020-22 the British military was sent into supermarkets and hospitals. Small scale? Yes. Next time?
Yep, the Russia etc boogy is all about internal crackdowns.
The actual state of UK and wider NATO militaries is telling despite all the rearmament bluster. They’ve actually declined, since the start of the Ukraine war.
Now with the economic blowback from the Iran war, they won’t even be able to sustain current expenditure in real terms.
Yes, here we have the reality of the mighty UK forces.
“Gen. Richard Barrons, former head of the British Joint Forces Command and co-author of the UK government’s Strategic Defense Review, told media that the country lacked the funds to purchase new weapons until at least 2030.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20260504/senior-uk-official-admits-lack-of-funds-to-purchase-new-weapons-until-2030—reports-1124078397.html
“The Royal Navy’s fleet of frigates was reduced to just five today after the withdrawal of HMS Iron Duke – while the Army has ‘no money to buy weapons’.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15788813/Royal-Navy-warship-crisis-deepens-crippled-vessel-written-leaving-just-five-frigates-defend-Britain-no-money-buy-weapons-former-general-claims.html
How does Starmer align these facts with the BS he spouts ? Laughing stock !
Stevie Boy
May 4, 2026 at 16:16
“Russia could easily crush the UK and NATO”.
But not Ukraine it appears.
Strange that.
The US could easily, with a few nukes, crush both Russia and Iran, but it doesn’t. Strange that.
In Jonathan Cook’s latest article, posted May 1st, it says the following:
Newscord points to a further, veiled problem that skews western coverage: the omission of established but inconvenient facts that would present Israel in a depraved – that is, an accurate – light.
For example, observes Newscord, the BBC has entirely failed to report all but one of the hundreds of clearly genocidal statements made by Israeli officials, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu down.
This is exactly what I have been intending to research since well over a year ago, albeit in respect of the whole of the MSM, but have never got round to what would have been a lorra work. But I think we can take it for granted that the vast majority of people in Britain (and the West) are unaware of all but one or two of the genocidal statements made by the zionist mass-murdering psychopaths, if that! And the MSM for the most part blanked them all for the obvious reasons. Anyway, Jonathan continues:
It is easy to understand why. Legal authorities usually struggle to make a conclusive determination of genocide because, crucially, it depends on divining intent, which is typically hidden by those committing atrocities.
Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only do its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear that those actions are intended to be genocidal. That is behaviour only seen in those intoxicated by a sense of their own impunity.
Once again, the British media have obligingly taken it upon themselves to shield Israel from any legal jeopardy – all in the interests of objective reporting, you understand.
The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself – is finally being burst
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2026-05-01/west-bubble-illusion-israel/
And there was also another article from April 22nd about the Labour Together episode and their subversion of democracy etc, which Jonathan sums up brilliantly:
The real story tying Starmer and Mandelson is being buried by a conspiracy of silence
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-04-22/real-story-starmer-mandelson-silence/
Someone mentioned John Mann earlier in the comments, and I just happened to come across the following last night on youtube, posted three days ago:
Should pro-Palestine marches be banned in wake of Golders Green attack?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaC1_o-lHkQ (Good Morning Britain 11mins 33secs)
And also this, posted May 1st:
President’s sister among those on Gaza flotilla | RTÉ News
The Taoiseach has condemned the interception in international waters by the Israeli military of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza earlier this week.
All but two of the 175 activists detained by Israeli forces, and taken to the Greek island of Crete, have now been released.
It is understood the seven Irish people held have also been released.
This evening, Sligo GP Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, spoke to RTÉ News from the flotilla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgct7q7224U (7mins 46secs)
Check out what she says…. she hits the nail well and truly on the head. And also this, posted a couple of days ago:
Reuters Criticized Over London Stabbing Coverage For Missing 3rd Victim, Mehdi Hasan Calls Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycpijVMKycg&t=65s (DRM News 3mins 14secs)
Thanks for this info about John Mann (even if I don’t watch Youtube). A guy who successfully got his arse onto the permanent parliamentarians’ red benches and who has an interest in sport, housing, making profit by organising international conferences, smearing Jeremy Corbyn as being soft on child abuse, and antisemitism. Clearly there are no flies on him. So he is calling for a ban on pro-Palestine marches then. Well a big one is planned for central London on 16 May – the annual one in commemoration of the Nakba in 1948 when Jewish terrorists caused ~750,000 Palestinians to flee their homes and put many of the survivors under military occupation. (Note: anyone who uses the word “settlements” to apply only to land conquered in 1967 should perk up their ears here.)
Guess what. Tommy Robinson plans to lead a “Unite the Kingdom” march in London on the very same day. Whether his army of knuckle-walkers will be addressed by Elon Musk this time is unclear. Last time, Musk told them “Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you.”
Musk is the guy who hailed Trump’s 2024 election victory by giving an enthusiastic Nazi-fascist salute, but by that time he’d already made pals with the Anti-Defamation League (having previously pissed them off, but then Netanyahu came to have a public chat and all was then smiles) so they came to his assistance and said nah, it wasn’t a Nazi salute at all. Maybe it was just a Leone Carpi salute, huh?
https://archive.is/VGFUe
https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/uncovering-the-italian-muscle-jew-from-zionist-gymnastics-to-fascist-boxing/
And of course Roger Stone was just signing “OK”, not “WP” for “White Power” when he met the Proud Boys:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll/
Sometimes what’s in front of your face is what it looks like.
This is disturbing :
“The Community Security Trust (CST) works closely with police, government, and international bodies, including the Israeli Embassy, to protect the British Jewish community.”
No group embedded in the Met and with ties to govt, should be liaising with a foreign state. And it wouldn’t matter if Israel were the best behaved, most ethical state in the world. The fact it’s a violent, expansionist state; accused of mass slaughter(genocide), forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, and led by a man with seemingly no ethical boundaries, who is himself, a wanted war criminal facing arrest if he sets foot in the UK, makes this cosy arrangement with the CST and Israeli embassy, doubly inappropriate.
As I understand it, the CST doesn’t exactly so much as liaise with Israel as inreality they are an israeli/IOF force stationed in the UK. The CST ensures that brits show the proper deference and respect to the people who run our government.
The BBC is completely under the control of Zionists. Its editors are Zionist supporters and spike any truthful reporting on the genocide in Gaza and the piracy on the high seas.
Every nazi regime needs a pet media outfit. ‘Germany calling, Germany calling … ‘
I’m surprised there’re no lawyers willing to work on such a high-profile case pro bono.
In many countries, lawyers flock to such cases, and you need to pick and choose, because winning this type of cases is the best point on your CV you can imagine.
Could be the lawyers who’d otherwise take this on for CV purposes don’t think there’s much chance of winning.
This said, it may be a surprise to some people but a small proportion of lawyers (like my lawyers for example) are actually okay and not just in it for the money.
Why don’t the rulers change their law on jury rights rather than try to jail people for mentioning it? Hell, it’s almost as though they want to send a message.
Here’s a photo of the plaque at the Old Bailey.
Protestors could appear with photographs of the plaque at the Old Bailey on their placards and see if they get arrested. Another idea would be to wear badges with ‘I support Palestinian Action’ on them forcing the police to examine any badges with magnifying glasses to check if any law is being broken.
BBC reports today 5th May:
“The prime minster has warned Iran that attempts to incite antisemitism in Britain “will not be tolerated” at a summit in Downing Street.
Sir Keir Starmer said his government was “fast-tracking legislation to tackle these malign threats”.
Announcing an extra £1.5m in funding to strengthen community cohesion and protect Jews in areas where they face the greatest risk, the PM said: “It is not enough to simply say we stand with Jewish communities”.
Starmer might be reminded that Iran has a very large Jewish community of its own which is well integrated in Iranian society and with representation in its Parliament. Iran seems to be dealing with “anti – semitism” rather better than the UK.
Starmer might also be reminded or just informed even that Israel bombed to pieces a Jewish synagogue in Tehran – you can’t get a grosser anti – semitic attack than that can you?
If anything, incitement of antisemitism is caused by the actions of the Zionists. Their violence puts non-Zionist Jews in danger.
Evil personified.
“Smotrich: ‘My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don’t worry, there will be enough for everyone.”
https://nitter.poast.org/OunkaOnX/status/2051342805721862240#m
Funny, I always thought people swore to “tell the truth, THE WHOLE TRUTH, and nothing but the truth”. Those B’tards need confronting, to the effect that their oaths no longer stand.
Starmer and the BBC are using the antisemitic broad brush trope to intimidate voters away from the Greens and Progress. Tomorrow they will try and publicly smear a jew with this codswallop, to further hide Labours allegiance to the Zionist genocide which they complied with from day one of their very likely planned Hamas attack.
The zionists are dangerous and controling to any country, by funding politicians at elections and smearing them with free trips to occupied Palestine, using these countries know how, their police force and corrupt financial markets to further their long term aim of determining this counties resolve from there on.
The distopian world described in Graham Oakleys ‘Henry Quest’ is here to stay and by the confusion sown by Labour and the media, we can see that this election will be cataclismic.
Anyone who votes for the four grey parties will be supporting the continuation of GENOCIDE!
It is time that this rotten political system held up by a two tier judiciary farce is scrapped, hook line and sinker, time for a new bottom up new start, the stench is unbelievably bad.
“Starmer and the BBC are using the antisemitic broad brush trope to intimidate voters away from the Greens and Progress.”
As was done against Jeremy Corbyn. It’s important to see how this works, at least outside of the middle classes.[1] I sussed this when I heard my local shopkeeper who is from Yorkshire go on about Corbyn and antisemitism some time in the late 2010s. I was quite surprised because the guy is not particularly interested in political ideas, past history, etc. [2] He is not rich, not Tory, not middle class, and he is absolutely not one of the Yorkshire Tory middle class nose-in-the-air types who have always hated the guts of the miners and anyone else from the working class for that matter. He wants some kind of “revolution”, whatever he means by that, and he detests the banks and is quite sussed about them. Okay, so why on earth was this guy saying he wouldn’t vote Labour under Corbyn because of “antisemitism”?? On the face of it, you’d think voting for a Corbyn-run Labour party was what he would be into. But no. Why not? Because, mumble mumble, something to do with “antisemitism”. So what’s that all about then? Answer: it’s because he doesn’t want there to be so many people with brown skins living in Britain. He thought Corbyn was soft on the Muslims and on British people of Pakistani heritage. For him “There’s a problem with antisemitism” was code for saying “P***s out”.
We gotta take on board that people who think this way don’t feel much affinity with – and some of them may never have seen – Orthodox Jews with their distinctive dress and hairstyles and insular culture, and they wouldn’t exactly enjoy living somewhere like Golders Green or Stoke Newington. They’d think it was far too “foreign” and that Britain is too tolerant of immigrants who don’t integrate – much the same as they think about Pakistani-heritage British people, recent immigrants from Afghanistan….etc… etc…. Alf Garnett … etc.
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1) I don’t know many middle class people. They and I tend to rub each other the wrong way after about 10 milliseconds. But what I’ve described may well work in a similar way among those types too. Anyway at least if they’re not voting Green they’re doing something right.
2) Anyone who actually is interested in political ideas and past history will realise very easily that Jeremy Corbyn absolutely is not antisemitic, or racist in any other kind of way either, and in fact he has fought against racism all his life.
“It’s important to see how this works, at least outside of the middle classes.”
I doubt that the Blue, Red, Yellow or Tartan Tories even consider that there are people outside the middle classes, in the sense that they might think differently about things, who are not aristocrats. That was pretty bloody obvious during the run-up to the Brexit referendum.
BBC report:
Four of the Filton Six (Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21) have been convicted of criminal damage. One of them (Samuel Corner) has also been convicted of GBH.
M.J.
That’s right what an utter disgrace, those young principled people – will now be sentenced under terrorism laws – mind you the English government and the Zionists are joined at the hip, England needs a revolution to wipe the slate clean and start again.
The BBC report doesn’t mention that Corner was NOT convicted of the original charge of GBH with intent, only of GBH (no intent), a lesser charge.
As usual, see the Real Media site for more accurate reporting.
Also the Ch4 report tonight said Samuel had fractured the policewomans spine with a sledgehammer which sounds violent, horrific and incapacitating .But the hospital scan could find no damage for a long time until eventually they found a very tiny crack on one tiny part of a vertebrae which could possibly have been caused by a fall or a blow. They said there would be no lasting damage. Samuel was blinded at the time and could hear his friend on the floor screaming as she was tasered despite offering no resistance
Good points Feebee, already raised on Real Media, and elsewhere. I haven’t watched TV news for decades, unless following up a particular link, but good to see it’s getting some coverage. I’m not a lawyer, but the point about the vertebrae casts doubt about whether the injury counts as GBH (perhaps this couuld be grounds for appeal?).
The jury DID recognise that the injury was unintentional, meaning that the “offence” carries a much lower maximum sentence. It also clarifies that the Filton 6 had absolutely no violent intent, which destroys much of the State propaganda.
There’s a 43-minute video of Craig discussing the legal implications with Huda Ammori. A must-watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFdw2qzBPXE
(my internet connection keeps dropping out, which means it actually takes me more than 100 minutes to actually watch it …)
Lest we forget – did we hear anything from the “downed and then rescued” (but still unnamed) US airman? Does he actually exist?
Only in the minds of people who believe in him: a bit like God, really.
Brian Red
Last time I looked the he was a she.
The failed operation ( Codename : Operation Make an Arse of Yourselves) to grab the already ” obliterated” Uranium ended up with two big slow aircraft being downed and a rescue operation to find the non parachutist survivor who ( I’ve seen the picture ) was a woman.
The woman has not appeared on Fox news so it must be a lie.
Meanwhile – back in reality the Yanks tried a slight foray like a pushy child seeing how far they can go with their mother, edging up to The Straits and backed off.
If you listen carefully to the US’s Press Briefings you can almost smell the desperation.
Even Big Mouth Hegseth is say we don’t want further war and Rubio ( a Trump/Vance contender ) sounds like he is realising that the whole Regime Change plan is bolloxed.
The question for Trump is:
How does he get to pretend he has won, whilst simultaniously knowing he has lost?
This is the Media Man – The Showman and it will be quite a trick to convince his base that everything is going to plan, despite diesel prices a $5.20/US Gallon and his believing farmers not having access to fertiliser and their banks foreclosing on their loans.
Never mind the rapidly rising real costs in the Supermarkets
Apparently in Iran it costs ( relatively of course ) $ 1.20 to fill a tank of an ordinary family car.
The Americans will be envious about that – no doubt.
Of course Trump could un – blockade The Straits but, that would make him look like a fool for starting the chaos in the first place.
To be fair – Geniuses are the last to know that they are geniuses.
Unless, they really are just fools who think they are Geniuses?
I think this is the woman you are referring to.
“US Air Force (USAF) Major Amanda Ryder”
https://johnhelmer.net/what-the-captured-ryder-documents-reveal-of-the-us-israeli-plan-to-destroy-iran-and-what-comes-next/
“Last time I looked the he was a she. ”
If you mean Major Amanda Ryder, she was one of the pilots on the failed “rescue mission”, so a would-be rescuer, not the rescuee.
From John Helmer’s account: “Trump revealed by tweet that “we have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer”; and then next morning: “WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History”, so no, the invisible airman was a man.
Iran has created The Persian Gulf Strait Authority, any ship wishing to traverse the Hormuz Straits – must contact this government body first, fill out a form, and then pay a fee, only then will they be allowed to pass through the straits.
I’d imagine some nations ships – will not be allowed to pass no matter what.
They couldn’t get the defendant so they got the barrister.
“The lead barrister in the first Filton24 trial is being prosecuted for contempt of court for successfully defending his client, Charlotte Head.
The unprecedented prosecution of a barrister came after the defendants were acquitted of aggravated burglary”
https://nitter.poast.org/HudaAmmori/status/2051721639306608717#m
““The lead barrister in the first Filton24 trial is being prosecuted for contempt of court for successfully defending his client, Charlotte Head.”
thus confirming what many people have long suspected to be the true purpose of the court system: to put away people of whom the state disapproves.
Bayard
Not a Legal Scholar but, according to Craig ( if I have read him correctly?) the sentencing may be levied not on Criminal Damage Charges but, on Terrorism Charges.
Inferring, that this was an attack on a State Institution or a State Body in order to pressurise a State into a course of action or change of policy.
The question for The Judge ( if I have interpreted the sentencing properly?) is:
Which ‘ State ‘ was attacked ?
The Israeli one or The British one?
Last time I looked Israel was not In the UK.
“Inferring, that this was an attack on a State Institution or a State Body in order to pressurise a State into a course of action or change of policy.”
Notice how the definition of terrorism now does not involve any actual terror.
A morass of politics too.
The pile on against Polanski, it’s fair to say, is Corbyn-esque in scale. I wonder how this notion arose; that insists political parties must be held responsible for every comment someone choosing to join a party has ever made online? This vicarious liability, should it go back 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? Should parties spend a fortune conducting Stasi-like investigations of each and every one of their newly joined members – maybe the Israeli embassy can assist? Given members pay for the privilege of membership, and give up their time to campaign for free, why would anyone bother joining a political party? Joining a political party shouldn’t be like joining MI5 in terms of its vetting.
It’s a really shitty state of affairs that reflects our shitty press and politics. It’s a simple idea ,but wouldn’t it be refreshing, if a party said : we aren’t responsible, nor can we be held accountable, for the actions and comments of those who choose to join or endorse us.
Generally speaking people shouldn’t be judged on what they said several decades ago, but I don’t go for the idea of fictitious persons “doing” anything, let alone distanciating themselves from actions done by the real persons who run them. And in the case of “radical” politicians, many have been known to switch this way and that according to where their handlers send them – indeed such switches are a strong marker – and AFAIAA Polanski hasn’t apologised for his role as the treasurer of the Jewish Greens, essentially the Green equivalent (mutatis mutandis) of LFOI, CFOI, etc.
Who knows where this guy’s future lies? Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, where he’d probably have to wear a tie but in a position that would get him onto the Privy Council? Or a hasbeen best known for taking 10% of the overall voteshare away from Labour, possibly wrecking the hopes of Gaza Independents and the Workers’ Party too, and ushering in a Reform-Tory coalition?
Brian Red
All the things you say are possible.
‘ You train them – we buy them ‘ stuff.
In so called democratic politics where every policy is parameterised like very closed brackets we have to deal with the real.
In my view it is important to stop the Reform/Tory Coalition which could emerge post GE.
There is little doubt that Labour is going to get a tanking in Thursday elections – yet the cynic in me is relieved by the rise in alternatives to the Mainstream Core ( read rich representative ) parties and although parameterised can stall the rise of the Right.
Ironically and painfully in the next GE in order to stop the Right ( temporarily?) some lefties anarchists and others may have to vote Labour tactically and even ( I can’t believe I’m saying this) Lib Dem to keep the ersatz Fascists away from power.
This will be how high the stakes are.
These are all stalling tactics until the left gets its act together and not worry about who gets the pens and the pencils.
Good policies will attract good people not waffles and admin.
So, Nationlising every essential seivice.
Making sure everyone has a good income and looking after funding the NHS and Social Care etc ertc.
It’s quite easy really unless you are scared of offending the rich?
Reform will blow up when exposed to scrutiny. NHS privatisation,, brutal welfare cuts to give tax cuts to the rich and fracking the shit out of the country, will go down like a cold cup of sick. Really, they can be broken at a time of the left’s choosing.
At the moment Reform are simply useful, in that they are hurting the Tories.To destroy the two-party system and replace it with a more democratic one, both big parties must be destroyed simultaneously, That’s the lesson from Canada, where under FPTP the Tories went from govt to two seats in 1993, yet still came back because it was the Liberals(one of the big two) doing the damage.
Outside the world of pure imagination, Labour are offering you BlackRock/Palantir control of public services, insane militarism, genocide, illegal war, antisemitism psyops and venal, self-serving ‘representatives’.
Brian Red
I’d prefer it, if Sultana and Corbyn hadn’t acted like a pair of spoilt brats. Understanding the birthing of a new party is a delicate, difficult process. just like the birth of a human being. Quite why they acted as they did Idk? But Your Party is effectively dead as a result of the internal squabbling, and it shouldn’t be. It was infuriatingly selfish behaviour by both of them.
So that leaves which options?
In Wales, there is Plaid Cymru – basically an easy decision. in Scotland the SNP are still preferable to Labour. The way the central ‘come what may’ 2nd independence referendum pledge vanished the moment Sturgeon quit ,should quite rightly be a source of fury to that party’s members. How did the SNP’s leadership just walk away from a core promise so easily? In England, regardless of the doubts about Polanski – I know about his sketchy political past – but he has stood his ground in recent days. At their spring conference the Greens tried to pass a motion : equating Zionism to racism , i.e. becoming the UK’s first avowedly anti-Zionist party. The motion was talked out by wrecking tactics of Zionists, and it ran out of time. But its sponsors say they will bring it back for the autumn conference.
I agree Goose, the Greens should also reject party politics and the 300million plus GE costs. If they are genuinely interested in getting normal people into Parliament. To continue to argue a toss about FPTP and proportional electoral system to then have it talked out by the westminster club of solicitors and career politicians who are all prone to be corrupted, is ludicrously short sighted.
If there is an electoral system that takes the BS out of elections, chooses normal people at random to do the job, if they so wish, a system that has a bulwark against corruption, costing very little, then they should look at it, would you not agree?
Why are we so enured and regularly lied to by party politicians who just want power, make money and speak for more corporate take over of services, political parties are the problem, as much as their lack and inability to think put of the box.
I notice that Netanyahu’s spokesman, Starmer, is now urging that “all of society” must tackle the “crisis of antisemitism”. Reminder:
“Sir Keir Starmer is set to convene senior figures from across public life to drive a “whole of society” response to antisemitism, following the stabbings in London’s Golders Green.
The prime minister will warn that everyone bears a responsibility to stand with Jewish communities, saying that attacks on British Jews are “a crisis for all of us” and “a test of our values”. (Independent, 5 May)
A pity that successive governments, most notably including this one, couldn’t have been arsed to tell “all of society” to unite against the much larger “crisis for all of us” (sic) of ubiquitous knife crime, the vast majority of which is committed for reasons unrelated to the massacre of 72,000 Palestinians.
For the sake of balance….
There have been 32 murders in London alone this year.. Going by the names, none of the victims was Jewish, but around half of them were Muslims.
At least half of them were stabbed. The incidents were not treated as terrorism
At Golder’s Green, no-one died, and at least one of the suspects had mental health issues. The incident is being treated as terrorism.
It is now probably antisemitic to suggest that the problem is not one of antisemitism, but of civil order generally. The Jewish population is not a special case and should not be treated as one.
https://www.murdermap.co.uk/victims/london-murders-2026-total-how-many/
This is exactly the same – duplicitous, propagandised – scenario as the alleged ” horrifying ” increase in instances of ” Transphobic ” attacks: Wings Over Scotland has done excellent work burrowing below the screaming headlines and exposed the truth, the FACT of the matter is the so-called ” Trans Community ” is one of the LEAST subject to attack, at least for the reason of being ” Trans “: but to listen to some of it’s reps every city in the UK is crawling with ” transphobes ” just waiting for an opportunity to inflict violence on this innocent, gentle demographic – ” innocent & gentle ” except when carrying placards saying, eg ” Decapitate Terfs ” and inviting sick men pretending to be women who openly advocate inflicting violence on women to speak at rallies.
Of course there is an extreme fringe within or adjacent to most, if not every, socio/political entity, but the way groups like Jews and * Trans * are portrayed as only ever victims and never as the aggressors is just one more aspect of the War On Reality. see also…..” unprovoked “; ” 5 secs from manufacturing a nuclear weapon ” ; ” Narco-Terrorist President “; ” Starmer is a nice man “.
Has Gormless EVER shown a flicker of interest/concern for the quotidian concerns of * ordinary * people: eg their ever-increasing energy/food/everything costs, lack of good ( ie productive/fulfilling ) jobs and future prospects? Not to mention the fact of being herded into direct military conflict with Russia for reasons that SHOULD cause even the least interested in ” politics ” to ask the simple questions….Why and for who’s benefit, are Russians REALLY a threat to our ” way of life ” ( lol ).
The answer to that is NO, his only interest is keeping the UK in conflict, all the better to impose even more restrictions on people’s freedoms; and, his overriding obsession/mission, make any criticism of Jews/Israel illegal
Check under your bed, you’re far more likely to find a yarmulke than a ushanka
The Met have announced a dedicated unit or team of 100 full-time police officers just focusing on antisemitism incidents. Isn’t this a grossly over-the-top response? What about Islamophobia and other race hate incidents?
How many violent anti-Semitic attacks are there per year? In total, the UK Jewish community numbers something like 250,000 people. We’ve gone years without a single serious incident being recorded. Many believe the only reason the number of recorded incidents has shot up in recent years, is because various groups now forensically monitor social media, A single individual in say, the US or ME, could easily produce hundreds of anti-Semitic posts a day – presumably all recorded as separate incidents? There will always be incidents like random idiots opportunistically scrawling swastikas’ on walls and in school toilets and Jewish graves being desecrated by far-right thugs, but that was true when I was a kid. The backdrop has the NSPCC claiming in their latest TV ad, that anything up to 1 in 20 kids face sexual and physical abuse in the UK, wouldn’t that be a better use of police time?
One hundred FULL-TIME police officers… A country that has gone behind the looking glass.
It’s likely a ZOG commandment, although Rowley himself and his assistant held meetings with Tzipi Hotovely, the former Israeli ambassador in London, in November 2023 and August 2024.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-tzipi-hotovely-diary/
Either way, it’s virtually certain that a large proportion of the investigations conducted by these 100 full-time police officers will be aborted as soon as it’s discovered that the culprits are not Muslims or even far-right thugs.
Remember the hoopla when swastikas were ominously daubed on a Brooklyn synagogue by ‘Hamas Nazis’ on the day of Mamdani’s inauguration? Then this was captured on video..
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/fedora-wearing-bicyclist-who-scrawled-swastikas-at-nyc-yeshiva-caught-on-video/
Of course, experience shows that when new laws and restrictions are placed on the populace by one party they are never removed by other parties that come into power – which is why there is no outcry from them now. And the greens are no different.
The worst, most racist people in British politics and media are *shocked* by antisemitism, and everyone pretends to believe them.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/uk-israel-gaza-genocide-media
What is antisemitism these days? I mean, no one disputes that which is obviously anti-Semitic. But much of that which is classed as anti-Semitic these days, would, in any other era, be classed as sharp social commentary. Take this cartoon(link) for example, referencing Germany’s complicity, with the German FM saying recently that Israel has a ‘right’ to be in southern Lebanon: https://x.com/VegandiZ/status/2051957149912158250
No doubt the groups monitoring antisemitism would say it is anti-Semitic merely because it depicts Netanyahu, Israel’s flag and Merz trying to wash away the evidence. Some would say it’s highly offensive, but Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal and Germany’s role in facilitating Israel’s conduct via arms supply, is atrocious.
Strange it always seems to flare up at election time and involve left-leaning politicians skeptical of United States foreign policy. Our free, intrepid mainstream journalists somehow always miss that obvious connection!
Tom74
I do think Polanski messed up with that retweet, because of the timing, while the incident was still raw in people’s memories. Of course, kicking someone you suspect may be wearing suicide vest in the head makes no sense whatsoever, and I doubt that is taught as part of protocol. But raising it when he did, how he did, on X via a retweet, just handed his press tormentors ammunition to use against him.
Robert Peston, who is Jewish himself, on his ITV show, last night, harangued Jewish Zack Polanski over Israel’s right to exist. Many western presenters and reporters put this question to those critical of Israel, and on the face of it, it seems like a reasonable, straightforward question. And it’s hard to say ‘no’ without looking like a monster.
But it’s anything but straightforward : the Zionist claim to a “Jewish state” inherently conflicts with Palestinian rights of return and equality. If you support Israel, as currently constituted, built as it is on the idea of ‘Jewish supremacy’ how is that different from supporting apartheid-based South Africa, which was built on the basis of ‘white supremacy’? So Peston’s question is like asking, does South Africa have a right to exist? at the height of apartheid – to which the answer would obviously be, in its current discriminatory form, no, it does not.
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Did anyone see this X post(italics below) by the govt ‘s allegedly ‘independent advisor on antisemitism, John Mann. Quite what qualifies Mann as an expert on antisemitism, or anything else for that matter, remains a mystery.
The contrast between all previous leaders of the Greens and Polanski is huge on this issue. They and the Jewish Green group had no time for antisemites. He was an outlier before only in how strident his support for Israel was.
So Mann seems to believe someone who unquestioningly supports Israel, can’t possibly be an anti-Semite. Many believe the far-right, have only embraced Israel (recently) because Israel is seen as being at war with Muslims. It’s perfectly possible to hold no ill-feeling whatsoever to the UK Jewish community, and detest Israel due to its actions. Terrible to think Mann is advising policy.
The trial of Rajiv Menon KC is now being covered by the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/barrister-palestine-action-trial-facing-contempt-of-court-proceedings
The Guardian’s coverage is clearly pro-state propaganda, especially the articles linked within the article; a veneer of ‘balance’ that effectively depicts the actionists as violent thugs.
BBC content and opinion has been Identical with the Guardian’s for years. (Honourable exception, Martin Rowson – who has previously been suspended for annoying MIGA*)
*Make Israel….
I’m sorry, I don’t think this IS pro-state propaganda. The jury as directed could only bring in the verdict they did, or find some way, which lawyers here may be able to explain, to challenge the judge.The trial of Menon is a scandal, only the Guardian seems to be reporting it. The bubble of those who read Craig’s blog is far too small to challenge the actions of Mr Justice Johnson and the Home Secretary, I am grateful that the Guardian is getting that trial to a wider audience. If the BBC is reporting this trial, as Komodo seems to imply, I haven’t seen it.
The Guardian article I linked to above links to five month old Guardian reporting of the prosecution case only, making the defendants look like thugs. In five months, haven’t the Graun been able to report any of the defence evidence? The activists were violently attacked by security guards, and Elbit appears to have destroyed evidence and illegally colluded with police.
And juries can acquit according to their conscience; the judge can not punish them for acquitting, that’s the law, as established by Bushel’s Case in 1670 and inscribed on the wall of the Old Bailey. Being tried by our peers is a vital protection against tyranny; why are you denying its existence?
Maybe you’re just habituated to doing as you’re told, and therefore think everyone else should obey authority figures too. “Simon says do this”.
Sorry, my remark re Guardian/BBC commonality was general, not specific. And yes, the Graun reported Menon.
I think there’s a basic legal problem here, hinging on the use of terrorism legislation for alleged crimes which were previously completely covered by common law. Murder, criminal damage, threatening behaviour, breach of the peace, the lot. The only substantive difference is motive. But it seems that to prove terrorism, there is little or no motive rigorously to prove motive. Guilt by association appears to be admissible.
Contrast this case with that of the Bristol Colston statue: the jury acquitted the four defendants of criminal damage – as was their right – despite the usually strong arguments that damaging public property is criminal damage, and that the defendants acknowledged doing it. The reasons for the decision are not known, but retrospective vilification of the subject of the statue probably came into it. Who branded the anti-colonialist perpetrators of the damage terrorists? Absolutely no-one. Why not? Dunno, in the light of the PA prosecutions.
Q.H.Flack, I have found some of your comments on other sites, and I see that they are supportive of the Palestinians. I therefore apologise. However, I think you place too much faith in the Guardian which, for instance, has supported and continues to support Starmer, and played and continues to play a leading role in smearing Julian Assange.
Please look at my criticism above for what truth you can find in it, comparing with Craig’s posts and the Realmedia court coverage that he recommends, and which I summarised in my May 6, 23:24 comment above. I was horrified by the Guardian articles I referred to.
Clark, thank you for your generous apology. The Guardian could have reported more fully: I don’t know what risks a newspaper runs. Private Eye in answer to an email said they have a reporter on the Menon story.
And, since I am in confessional mode, my father was brought up as an agnostic, his parents thought of themselves as Germans, but in 1933 they learned they were Jewish. My father was sent to Buchenwald in 1938, when it was still possible to buy one’s way out. He came to London aged 18 and his parents had contacts so that my grandfather could get a job in Carlisle. But my 84 year old great grandfather could not leave, and despite not having donated any of his wealth to specifically Jewish charities before 1933, ended his life first in a single room in the Jewhouse, and then as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Not all ‘Jews’ believed in racial identity, and even after 1947 not all ‘Jews’ were Zionists. Nor are they now. And my uncle came home in tears because he was the one kid in his class who wasn’t allowed to join the Hitler youth. Virtue is earned, not just claimed.
OMW. the psychopathic fascist scum are really going for it:
Claims by the police commissioner that the Palestine Coalition was intent on marching near synagogues are simply not true
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley has claimed that the Palestine national marches have “set out with an intent to march near synagogues”. The Palestine Coalition issued a letter to Mark Rowley to retract these ‘incomprehensible and defamatory’ remarks.
But instead of retracting, the Met responded directly to Stop the War officer John Rees on X and doubled down on the claims
‘Untrue’…. what they mean is it’s a massive great Big fucking nazi-type Lie. I mean it’s not only a complete and utter falsehood, but it’s a totally transparent falsehood as well. *IF* that had been the case, it would have been spelt out long before now. And not only by Rowley, but every single zionist group and organisation in the country, along with the Starmerfuhrer and David hamas-raped-babies Lammy et al:
https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/debunking-the-mets-lies-about-the-palestine-movement/
And here’s Chris Nineham with Owen Jones, posted a few hours ago:
The Police Just LIED Over Gaza Protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuehnLT7JP8 (23mins 53secs)
It seems to get the job of the head of the MET you have to be a corrupt psychopath and hold deviant views. They’ve just replaced one Dick with another !
Another example of the vast cloying morass of injustice connected to Palestine. Read this and weep.
https://saifedean.substack.com/p/property-rights-the-root-cause-of
Israel has truly forfeited its right to exist.
Excellent article, extensively referenced. Thank you.
It can’t “forfeit” something it never had in the first place. To say that “Israel” had a right to exist is to say that the displaced and genocided Palestinians that were removed to establish it had no right to their life and / or land and property..
@DefendOurJuries
the Filton6 retrial judge who:
• Removed all defences
• Threatened defendants with contempt if they mention Israel, etc
• Lied to jurors about their rights
• Is to elevate sentences to include a “terrorist connection” (kept hidden from jury)
Receives a promotion…
https://x.com/DefendOurJuries/status/2052458713890296150
Another judicial themed post from Johann Spischak
ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou @nicopaulmichel has revealed that he is currently unable to use his bank cards even on European soil.
The reason? He is one of the judges who issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading the United States to slap him with financial sanctions. In a candid interview, Guillou described being stranded at a train station in the Netherlands, unable to pay for basic services because the only accepted payment methods were American or Chinese. “When you are a European citizen and a foreign country cuts off your payment options, you no longer have any way to pay,” Guillou warned, calling the situation a “huge vulnerability.” SHAME. Courtesy of france24_en #ICC.
https://x.com/SDGMasterglass/status/2052488780884463984
On this theme.
“The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has accused members of the court’s governing body of waging a “dangerous” and biased campaign to remove him from office over unfounded sexual misconduct allegations and his investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-karim-khan-details-dangerous-attempt-states-remove-him-position
Obviously, the common theme is Israel and zionists, not forgetting their sponsors the USA.
If someone asks why you aren’t a Zionist, show them this: https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2052723789335552456
Arab Israelis who make up ~20% of Israel’s population have always complained of second -class citizen treatment. Speaking Arabic in the Knesset is a big no-no too. And we know how ultra-orthodox non-Zionists are treated, with brutal videos on X.
Zionism : the idea of a Jewish state’ doesn;’t guarantee equality or an inclusive state. Any state built on the supremacy of one race or religion goes against our values, and should be unacceptable in 2026. We didn’t support South Africa’s belief in ‘white supremacy’, so why is ‘Jewish supremacy’ seen as acceptable?
Another interesting comment from X :
IDF data confirms that 2,069 British nationals have served in the Gaza genocide. That’s 40x the number the Starmer government admitted to. If 2,000 Brits joined a militia in a Muslim country, they’d be in Belmarsh
This is the GDR with digital surveillance instead of Stasi and neighbours ratting you out.