Just a quick note to say that I am very aware that lately I have been rather bitter, which is not good for anybody, especially me. The disappointments and state outrages have been no worse than usual; my frustration at my poor health, and the subsequent constraint of my ability to fight back, has rather soured my mood.
My twitter posts have been unpleasantly acerbic. Last Sunday on the Crispin Flintoff Show I gave a rant aimed at the soft zionist English Palestine Solidarity Committee, which I immediately regretted as over the top – not wrong in substance, but lacking kindness and tolerance.
The good news is I am aware of this and think I can overcome it.
It has been a very embittering time. The Genocide in Gaza is entering a new phase, and despite the radical shift in international public opinion, those in charge of states – and not only Western states – still show no genuine intention to stop it. The Palestinians have been written off already by those in power over us, erased as a factor. Israel is now simply repeating the Gaza playbook in South Lebanon. I know the villages and towns they are destroying and in many cases have been a guest of the people there. The killing and the destruction of a profound and ancient civilisation is heartbreaking.
I am deeply shocked by the cancellation of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. Until I entered the courtroom on Wednesday 27th, I was not worried.
Well, that is not quite true – I started to worry two days earlier when I found that although the permission hearing had been in Court No 1 and livestreamed, this much more substantive hearing would be tucked in Court No 6 and would not be livestreamed. Why was it being hidden?
I still find it hard to accept that the judge Lord Young who, in January, ruled in ringing terms that a Scot resident in Scotland, whose liberties were infringed in Scotland, was entitled to the jurisdiction of a Scottish court, has now ruled starkly that Scotland must accept the decision of the English Court of Appeal in the interests of “comity”.
It would be interesting if there were a clue somewhere that Scottish judges are subject to England. Here is a picture of Lord Young Scott (who is modelling the standard issue uniform):
Interestingly this costume is subject to one of those beloved British lies, which is a straightforward fabrication but which you will find in every publication on the subject.
The lie is that the St George’s crosses, adopted in these Scottish legal robes in Victorian times, were a stylised representation of previous fastenings or rosettes in those positions, and are not St George’s crosses at all.
The problem is there exist many dozens of portraits of Scottish judges in robes before this costume was adopted, and not one portrait, anywhere, shows anything that remotely could be fastenings or rosettes in these positions which later became stylised St George’s crosses.
The official explanation of why senior Scottish judges wear the English flag is simply and completely untrue.
A previous Lord Young in the 1890’s refused to wear the costume with St George’s crosses, which was a scandal at the time.
Let us return to our current Palestine Action case. In January Lord Young ruled this:
I am satisfied that it is appropriate to grant permission for this judicial review to proceed in Scotland notwithstanding the existence of English proceedings which are at a more advanced stage. As a matter of principle, a petitioner who has standing and whose petition sets out arguments of sufficient merit to satisfy s27B(2)(b) of the 1988 Act should not be refused permission because of the existence of parallel proceedings in another UK jurisdiction. The petitioner claims that his legal rights have been illegally circumscribed by the 2025 Order.
He is entitled to look to the courts of his place of residence for a determination of that complaint. The cases of Cherry v Advocate General 2020 SC 37 and R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] EWHC 2381 support the petitioner’s argument that there is nothing inherently objectionable with proceedings on the same issue progressing through different jurisdictions within the UK at the same time.
How can the same judge in the same case four months later then rule this, which is the precise opposite?:
In the current proceedings, the legal costs which will be incurred from now until the substantive hearing towards the end of June will increase exponentially. We know that a decision of the [English] Court of Appeal will have been issued prior to the substantive hearing. While that judgment may, or may not, be the final word on this issue, the judgments handed down by the Court of Appeal will be highly significant. It is
almost inevitable that the final decision on the legality of the 2025 Order will be made either by the English Court of Appeal, or by the Supreme Court on a further appeal in Ammori. The petitioner’s challenge to the 2025 Order in these proceedings is likely to be resolved, one way or the other, by the final decision in Ammori. It is said that a sist brings the petitioner’s right to have his claim determined to a practical end. But Ammori will resolve the issue he wants determined
The judge’s volte face was obvious in the courtroom literally in the first five minutes. His mind was not changed in the courtroom; it had been changed for him before we ever got to say a word.
His decision is to “sist” or postpone our case until after the English Court of Appeal case (and any appeal to the Supreme Court) – which means to close down our case permanently. I was informed by our advocates that because this is a “procedural” decision to kill our case administratively – thus avoiding an actual decision on whether the proscription of Palestine Action was legal – there is no chance of appeal.
I am really not happy to let the sleekit Lord Young get away with this and I have instructed the legal team to appeal against the sist. Even if leave to appeal is denied, I think we have to register protest and at least try to resist – the decision takes Scotland backward from the Cherry/Miller case where separate judicial reviews did proceed in Scotland and England over the prorogation of Parliament.
Cherry/Miller was a breakthrough against centuries of Scotland accepting the decision of English courts which have no jurisdiction here.
What is particularly unjust is that Lord Young stated that the reason for his ruling is that the Scottish judicial review had not started yet, whereas the decision of the English Court of Appeal is imminent.
This is infuriating because the Scottish judicial review was scheduled for March. It has been repeatedly – and deliberately – postponed by the Starmer regime by the repeated introduction of “secret intelligence” which has resulted in a number of “closed sessions” with the judge and the security services. We have no access to those sessions, we are never told what “intelligence” was given to the judge, and our interests are “represented” by government-approved barristers who are strictly banned from communicating with us.
It is this UK security service ploy which Lord Young allowed to delay the Scottish judicial review for months. Then something still more suspicious happened.
Last week’s hearing was originally scheduled for early May. It was then postponed for three weeks at the request of the Advocate General, a minister in the Starmer regime, who stated she wished to attend in person and that 27 May was her earliest available date. We protested, but Lord Young postponed the hearing to accommodate her.
During that postponement, the English Court of Appeal announced 15 June as the date they will give their decision in the Ammori case. The existence of that fixed date is now the peg on which Lord Young hung his ending of our case.
But here is the thing: it was really unusual of the Court of Appeal to announce a month in advance the date on which they will give their decision in Ammori. Why would they do that? If they have completed their work, why not give the judgement now? If they have not completed their work, why tie themselves to an entirely artificial deadline?
The English Court of Appeal actually asked the lawyers in Ammori about progress in the Scottish case during that appeal in England. They were very well aware of where we stood.
Was their date for judgement announced so far in advance in order to give Lord Young ammunition to torpedo the Scottish case? That seems to me extremely likely.
We need money to prepare an appeal, and in any event we need money because costs were awarded against us last week (pegged at 50% of the government’s costs). As lawfare is the government’s preferred method, I expect these costs will be substantial.
If we fail to appeal the sist, we may have a route to intervene when the English case gets to the Supreme Court. But unless that gives us a right to be heard (as opposed to just put in a written submission which will be ignored) I am not very attracted by this.
Given the major constitutional implications of Young’s rulings for the operation of the devolution settlement and the autonomy of Scottish legal system, the lack of any interest in the case by the Scottish government or by the SNP as a party – or the Greens or any other political party – has been a further deep disappointment to me.
The potential result of Lord Young’s ruling is that all the work we put into preparation for the Scottish judicial review which had been granted – hundreds of hours of work and tens of thousands of pounds of cost – is wasted. I am very conscious that this is your money from donations. It weighs on me.
One point we wished to raise at judicial review was the fact that the Home Office consulted nobody in Scotland about the proscription – they did not consult the Scottish Government, Police Scotland or the Scottish Counter Terrorism Strategy Board (CONTEST), let alone anybody in Scottish civil society. But they did consult the Israeli Embassy in London.
When I was taken so ill in Venezuela, family was of course uppermost in my mind, but something else was bothering me a great deal. If anything happened to me, the Scottish judicial review would fall. I am the petitioner and the legal team tell me I can neither be replaced nor can a judicial review case be run by my estate. No new petition can be raised by anyone else as it is now time-barred.
So I have to keep going.
Another thing that has greatly disappointed me at the moment is NHS Scotland. I did not have a routine pacemaker implant in Venezuela; it was undertaken as a part of an emergency procedure. I was kept in hospital for a week, and under close observation for another, before I was passed fit to fly. The Venezuelan cardiologist told me that it was essential I see a Scottish cardiologist immediately on return, and that my pacemaker be checked for attachment and function after six weeks.
Arriving home, my GP was excellent and saw me immediately. He sent an URGENT referral to cardiology at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
For a fortnight I was in daily expectation of being called in. Nothing happened. On a Friday I then phoned the Royal Infirmary and was put through to “cardiology waiting list”. After listening to music for 25 minutes, someone answered the phone. He was in a different department, and said the phone had been diverted to his extension. The person who did cardiology appointments was off work till Tuesday. He could not help me.
I called on that Tuesday but nobody answered the extension at all. I tried again the following Friday. After one half-hour wait listening to music, I hung up, dialled the switchboard and said this was not acceptable. The lady told me that the person who did cardiology waiting lists was off work until 1 June.
I found and phoned an NHS Lothian complaints number, and explained the situation. They logged a complaint and said somebody would phone me within 24 hours.
Nobody did.
On 1 June I called again and listened to music. After 20 minutes I took a screenshot to start documenting this.
Then after 35 minutes somebody actually answered. They again stated the person who did cardiology appointments was still off work and the phone had been diverted to them. I said that it was crazy that the entire system was failing because one non-medical member of staff was off work.
They agreed with me but said it was not their fault and they had to handle hundreds of calls. I commiserated.
While I was having that conversation, a letter arrived digitally from NHS Lothian on my phone. It said my referral would be assessed by clinicians, and I would then be added to the waiting list (I already waited almost a month). The letter included a link to see the current waiting times. If it was deemed urgent, waiting time would be another eight weeks. If not urgent, it would be fifteen weeks. 
After a month of trying I have not had so much as an ECG. I am getting odd pangs and twinges, sometimes in series, from the pacemaker but have no idea if this is normal or not. I am continually exhausted and find concentration very difficult. The function-and-attachment test after six weeks is now overdue.
I therefore felt obliged, against my principles, to book a private cardiologist appointment. This is deeply disappointing politically, and also very expensive. Seeing the consultant is £250 – an ECG, ultrasound, X Ray and pacemaker monitoring (all of which the Venezuelan cardiologist says should be done) is each charged as extra. So north of £1,000 in all.
I must confess, I had not understood how dysfunctional the NHS had become. I am told if you actually have a heart attack it is still good; but I would hope we could provide healthcare before the point of death. It is being hollowed out, piecemeal-privatised and viewed as an asset to be stripped for profit.
The frustration of ill health has only grown. My health issues are right now preventing me from attending the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, an event I had been looking forward to. I had also planned to visit Iran in July. I want to get to Cuba. And I long to get back to Lebanon. It is essential to see realities on the ground, speak directly with people shaping events, and report the truth to you in ways that I cannot do from a house in Edinburgh. My body is not currently up to supporting the intellectual fight, and that’s a real downer.
In going through all the things that are getting me down, I would add the Murrell/Sturgeon saga. When Murrell first went off to Saughton jail on remand, I was gleeful. Murrell was at the centre of Sturgeon’s plot to organise her close associates to make false complaints against Alex Salmond. Sturgeon and Murrell’s corrupt influence over the Lord Advocate and the Crown Office were central to having both Alex and me prosecuted and having me jailed.
Having tried at the time to warn everybody of Sturgeon and Murrell’s highly criminal machinations to have Alex Salmond framed, obviously I feel in part vindicated by the public acceptance that Murrell is indeed a criminal. But one of the ways I realised I had become unpleasantly embittered, is that I found I was posting tweets rejoicing at Murrell being sent to jail, and hoping he had my old cell in Saughton.
I don’t really think that.
Scotland’s antiquated jail system is a disgrace to any modern society. The conditions are inhumane and some aspects are positively Victorian – I still have backache from sleeping on a steel slab mitigated only by a slither of ancient foam rubber “mattress” which had completely lost all resistance. I don’t believe anyone should be subjected to deliberate physical suffering.
I should be better than crowing at Murrell’s imprisonment.
On the other hand, it is deeply frustrating to see Sturgeon getting away with it entirely and even playing the victim card, reaching effortlessly for the gender politics in which she has always wrapped her grasping psychopathy. It is precisely the same corrupt hold over the Crown Office, which got me jailed, that enabled Sturgeon to escape prosecution.
Still more troubling to me is the incredible cult following which still worships Sturgeon and refuses to believe she did anything wrong. I am not terribly worried that they cannot see she is implicated in embezzling funds to boost her lifestyle. I am worried they cannot acknowledge her systematically having blocked proper scrutiny of the SNP’s accounts.
But what really fills me with despair is that Sturgeon’s followers cannot acknowledge that she betrayed Scottish Independence; she never did anything to further it nor had the slightest intention of doing anything to further it.
The Union was close to toppling when Brexit was implemented against the wishes of a very large majority of Scots (my opinion on the EU is immaterial here). Sturgeon simply ignored that opportunity for action. She also went to the Supreme Court in London and argued a case on Scotland’s right to a referendum on Independence which was certain to fail, because it was grounded in UK constitutional law and not in international law. The UK Supreme Court would always rule in favour of the supremacy of the Westminster Parliament.
Sturgeon piled obstacles in the way of Independence and never once articulated a coherent plan to achieve it.
John Swinney adopts precisely the same stance. We now have sustained majorities in public opinion for Independence, but a Scottish government not prepared to take any risk to reach for it. Meanwhile, blind loyalty to the governing party in Scotland prevents any radical action. The frustration is that loyalty is caused by an urgent desire for Independence and the deluded belief that the SNP intends to achieve it.
The hero worship of Sturgeon that is so much in evidence is a large part of the problem: Scottish Independence has been driven into a cul de sac. The infuriating thing is that these cult members ought to be those with whom I am most politically aligned: but they hate me because I do not join in their idolisation of She Who Must Be Obeyed.
So this has been, and is, a difficult period for me personally. The political outlook is grim, and I am increasingly worried about my own condition. Also from the Crispin Flintoff Show, this extract of me talking about Sturgeon reinforces my concern. Something is wrong cognitively. My natural fluency is gone in this interview and I appear unable to finish a sentence or maintain a coherent line of thought.
This is all very depressing. The world is dominated by bad people who control advanced mechanisms of power. But there is no fulfilment in resignation, no honour in standing down in a battle against institutionalised evil. The only joy lies in resistance.
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And what do you know, another Cabinet resignation as the United States tries to bring down the British government. Not enough money for their dirty wars, apparently!
Them babies ain’t gonna kill themselves boy. It’s our patriotic duty to fund genocide, oy vey !
Al Carns has joined John Healey in deserting the ship. When Healey left, I thought that we’ve seen this sort of thing before. I wondered if it would be the beginning of the end for the PM.
I don’t know whether it will be, but let’s remember that Starmer showed some nerve at least in not joining the Gulf war whole-heartedly, as Trump would like. Granted he could have gone further.
Let’s remember Starmer is a genocide supporting cunt, end of.
I won’t defend Starmer’s stance on Israel, but concerning the Gulf, I’m sure the Tories and Reform would be worse. My point is, if Starmer is driven out, his replacement might not be better. We should be careful what we wish for.
How could any replacement for the replicant Starmer be worse, if they were were seen personally murdering women and children in Gaza/Lebanon or organising a meeting with Pres Putin and stabbing him live on air? Actually, some Brit Arse would probably be canonised for doing the latter and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the former.
It IS possible to imagine someone worse than Starmer, but it requires considerable effort. Oh wait…..maybe – if he was offered the office of Prime Minister and the * services * of some English Rose, eg Katie Price, that Warrior of Peace, Little Pee Wee Hegseth could be persuaded to take the gig
Not many who oppose Britain’s participation in the Gaza Genocide feel compelled to go to bat for Starmer. Especially on the basis of his enabling role in the criminal zionist attack on Iran.
Only when it was firmly established that the US was responsible for the double-tap strike that shredded 150 little girls in Minab did he permit Trump-Hegseth to use British airbases for further strikes.
That’s how noble, principled, decent, etc, etc Sir Keir Starmer is.
The problem is labour not starmer per se. Don’t matter who replaces him because labour would still be the problem. And, same with all the other parties.
Which, IMO, is why it’s perfectly acceptable to hate starmer because he is a card carrying member of labour. Just as, IMO, why it’s acceptable to hate Israelis because they live in Israel and support the genocidal regime which is based on the destruction of Palestine. Every card carrying member of labour is detestable. And, the same goes with all the other parties.
Essentially, I just hate the system and anyone who supports it. But that’s my problem.
@ Stevie. Ay, agreed the problem is bigger/deeper than just Starmer – the entire UK Political Caste is so rotten ( with a few, very few exceptions ) it doesn’t matter which puppet is being made to dance on Zionist strings.
That said, there is something particularly repulsive about Starmer – ditto his * former * mentor Blair; and I still believe he his path to ” Labour ” Leader & PM was greased by the Insecurity Services because of his eager-to-please nefarious interests slithering nature
I’m sure his path has been greased by someone to allow easier access, maybe by ukranian rent boys.
Judge Jeffries has returned .
Healey resigned because Starmer not keen enough for WW3?
John Healy shouldn’t escape his part in war crimes against humanity, with Gaza in mind – Healy MUST be one of the ones, standing in the dock at the Hague when the time comes – his hands are covered in the blood of innocent civilians.
“Defence secretary Healey authorised hundreds of UK spy flights for Israeli intelligence during a genocide.
He was never seriously questioned on this let alone held to account, and now freely leaves office. “
Talking about resistance. Something to fight against ? Scotland being sacrificed on the alter of AI.
“Scotland looks set for an AI data centre crisis after plans were revealed detailing a massive number of data centres planned for construction on Scotland’s Central Belt. … So far, at least 18 such data warehouse projects are seeking planning permission, the National reported, with a further six in the pipeline.”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/06/10/ai-data-centres-scotland/
There goes the neighborhood, no electric, no water, but plenty of slop.
I couldn’t actually remember (but I assumed it must have been the case and was 99.9% certain that it was), so I asked the Search Assist the following:
when was the coup in ukraine, and was it before russia annexed crimea?
And this was the response:
The coup in Ukraine, known as the Revolution of Dignity, occurred in February 2014, before Russia annexed Crimea on March 18, 2014. The protests led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, which created a power vacuum that Russia exploited to take control of Crimea. (from a wikipedia entry)
Well Putin/Russia may very well have taken advantage of a power vacuum, but are we really supposed to believe that THAT’s all there was to it. Hmm….
Anyway, whilst doing related searches I came across this brilliant article by Gideon Levy from July 2020, which is well worth checking out:
How Israel’s propaganda war has silenced Europe
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-propaganda-war-silence-europe-how
And also this one by David Hearst (co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye) from February 2019:
The truth about Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn and the new McCarthyism
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/truth-about-seumas-milne-jeremy-corbyn-and-new-mccarthyism
And this one (the first one I came across) from March 2024:
Victoria Nuland: Farewell to the queen of US foreign policy disasters
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/victoria-nuland-us-foreign-policy-queen-blunder-farewell
And also this piece in Haaretz from October 2022, which is behind a paywall, but I’m signed up for access to one free article a day, so I’m copying and pasting the whole thing:
Opinion We Won’t Recognize the Annexation
Gideon Levy October 02, 2022
Irony is hanging its head in shame; hypocrisy is embarrassed. Israel is giving them a bad name. The Foreign Ministry announced Friday that “Israel supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We will not recognize the annexation of the four provinces by Russia.”
Where to begin? With an occupying state preaching to a different occupying state? With an annexing state announcing that it won’t recognize a different annexation? Or perhaps with the gap that has finally opened up between the governments of Lapid and of Netanyahu: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel was silent, Yair Lapid’s Israel preaches morality. One is bad and the other is even worse.
The questions arise on their own: Which is better, hypocrisy or telling the shameful truth? Whataboutism, or closing your eyes to what is happening around you? Apparently, any move Israel takes regarding the war in Ukraine is reprehensible. If it is silent, its silence is disgraceful; if it speaks, its speech is hypocritical. That’s how it is when you go around with a hump. And yet, one cannot remain silent when an annexing state preaches morality to another annexing state.
The disgrace of silence and inaction was ascribed to fear of Russia, but what about the hypocrisy? What purpose does it serve? Does any country buy Israel’s self-righteousness – it doesn’t recognize the annexation of the four provinces – at a time when Israel is trying to persuade world leaders to recognize its own annexations and even to expand them again and again, if only it were allowed?
There is no fundamental difference between tearing Ukraine into shreds and tearing Palestine into shreds. Tearing apart Palestine is even less moral. The Ukrainians have a state, districts of which have been ripped away; the Palestinians do not have a state, and tearing away the remnants of their land means that they never will have a state. A prime minister who supports this, in his actions or omissions, cannot preach morality to another country. It would be better for him to stay silent, out of shame.
It’s amazing to see how not one muscle twitches on the faces of Israel’s decision makers and ordinary citizens when talking about the Russia occupation. How sanctimonious: the Russian occupation is so cruel and so brutal, so ugly; it violates international law and the resolutions of the international community. And the Russian soldiers? Did you see how cruel they are? They kill children and bomb homes. So many innocent victims in Ukraine that you could just cry. What about the Israeli occupation? Is it prettier? More legal? Is it not violent and brutal? Has it not killed thousands of innocent people, including hundreds of children? The Israeli occupation is simply older and more rooted. It is permanent, and presumably eternal.
How can Lapid be amazed by his British counterpart, Prime Minister Liz Truss, mumbling in his ear something about moving her country’s embassy to Jerusalem, a step that is absolutely a recognition of annexation, and in the same breath declare that his government does not recognize the Russian annexation? How can Israel oppose the reopening of the American consulate in East Jerusalem, a patently anti-annexation move, and not recognize the Russian annexation? In what world can Israel even speak without any shame about other occupations and annexations?
Israel is something different. It is always exceptional. It is always allowed that which is forbidden to others, including Russia. This land belongs to the Jews, only to them, for the same reasons and explanations that Ukraine is the land of the Russians. The Ukrainians and the Palestinians are not peoples, after all, and they obviously don’t have national rights as the Jews do in the Land of Israel. We are brothers, Israelis and Russians: We and they are unbridled conquerors.
If Russia continues on its path, Israel will have to join the international sanctions it has evaded so far. That will be the day: IsraeIi boycott, divestment and sanctions against Russia, much less moral than the original. It won’t keep it from screaming that BDS is antisemitic and seeks to destroy Israel. Sanctions are appropriate, then, as long as they’re imposed on Iran and Russia, not on Israel. Save us!
Afterthought: I should point out that I wasn’t aware at the time that Israel said that, and only learnt about it as of coming across Gideon’s article earlier. And I don’t suppose it got much coverage in the MSM (in the UK and the West), if any, and for the obvious reason.
Israel and Russia have an interesting relationship. A large proportion of Israelis are of Russian soviet descent and there is a large population of Jews in Russia. The bolshevik revolution was jewish led, apparently. The balancing act between the two is precarious. Netanyahu’s family is actually of Russian Soviet (Polish) descent.
Sometimes it’s difficult to separate the life sucking death squid from the host.
It’s supposedly darkest before the dawn …
I am sensing a change in the Narrative juggernaut.
There are early bird chirps … from unexpected
Is it limited hangout? Is it a sacrificial goat? Is it perhaps a wider move at appeasing the multipolar victors that demands that truth be admitted for peace to be had ?
The French, German and British ambassadors requesting a meeting with the Russian deputy foreign minister!
trees.
This one just caught my eye as it is pointing a finger at the illegal apartheid entity and it’s agents conspiracies in the control of the Collective Waste mind.
I am only worried about the msm source – Haaretz and Liberation as the ‘investigators’.
‘Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in NYC, Scotland elections
haaretz.com
Jun 11, 2026 · 7:45 PM UTC ‘
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“SCOTTISH ELECTION” !
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‘Israeli Firm BlackCore Suspected of Meddling in NYC, Scotland Elections, French Official Says
Last month, a Haaretz-Libération investigation uncovered systems for building an army of avatars, developed by Israeli company BlackCore, including a smear campaign of a left-wing French candidate
Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France’s local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, the head of France’s disinformation detection service Viginum said on Thursday.
A joint investigation by the French daily Libération and Haaretz, which analyzed BlackCore’s digital footprint, uncovered a toolkit of influence-operation systems routed through servers in Britain, Germany, Finland and Lithuania.
French authorities identified BlackCore – a self-described Israeli “elite influence, cyber and technology” firm – as the suspected operator behind a disinformation campaign targeting left-wing candidates in France’s 2026 municipal elections.
BlackCore is now the subject of two investigations in France – one by Paris prosecutors and another by the domestic intelligence agency, which is probing who may have commissioned the campaign.
Haaretz National Security
BlackCore’s systems appear to have shared web infrastructure with websites that housed the internal systems of two Israeli companies – Galacticos and SNI.
“This modus operandi was not limited to municipal elections in France,” the head of Viginum, Marc-Antoine Brillant, said. “It also appears to have been used to carry out foreign digital interference operations in other countries or regions, such as Angola, Togo, the elections in Scotland, and the 2025 municipal election in New York’’
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-06-11/ty-article/israeli-firm-blackcore-suspected-of-meddling-in-nyc-scotland-elections
(I am only putting link up because am quoting – it is not an endorsement of that site which I repeat I have never had reason to trust as anything else but another HasbaRat op.)
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“ Angola, Togo and SCOTLAND. “
Bloody hell!
I don’t particularly rate Haaretz it seems as spooky as any media outfit.
But it could be the start …
Fingers crossed – the darkness is scary, but the odd chirrup is foretelling a coming dawn.
DunGroanin
On the Scottish Elections (most recent one) – the so called votes lay overnight before they were counted, that has never happened before, we know the likes of Peter Murrell called in England’s GCHQ, to handle the internal election for a new SNP leader in which Humza Yousef won it, I use the word won loosely of course – not to mention that Sturgeon is a English asset, recently she came out and said she feels British, probably the first truthful words she’s spoken in years.
@DunGroanin, yes, the Guardian has just reported on that Israeli election interference operation against the SNP (France alleges), while another Israeli firm, Cyabra, was apparently blaming the Russians or Iranians for doing similar things (lapped up and regurgitated by British corporate media). I mean you can see the sense of having one supposedly ‘independent’ psywar corporation covering for another, or perhaps stoking a fake, degraded online battle to disaffect voters, a cheap exploit (although British politicians can be bought extremely cheaply too, the evidence suggests, I’m guessing old school blackmail is now married to new style phone hacking).
Maybe I’m missing something ? Hard to see how meddling has made a difference, the Scots insistence on self harming by voting SNP ensures Scotland is screwed and that would have happened anyway, as I see it. What were the alternative choices ? I’m sure someone can put me right !
Stevie Boy.
There’s been an indy majority at Holyrood for the last decade – infact there’s an indy majority at Holyrood right now – but there are no indy parties at Holyrood – Scots gave the SNP six mandates to dissolve the illegal union, three at Holyrood and three at Westminster, but the SNP are NOT a party for indy they are a self-serving party of grifters and careerists – who want the status quo to remain intact – and in return their colonial masters at Westminster will mostly not interfere in their shit agendas.
There are no indy parties at Holyrood – Labour Lib/Dems Reform and the Tories are all branch offices of their London HQs – the English Electoral Commission said that “Scottish Labour” is a (OIM) Optional Image Mark for London Labour.
I doubt very much, the SNP secured 58 seats, at the last election without help from Westminster and the English security services – roughly only 53% of eligible voters actually voted at the last elections – many people know the Scottish Colonial Admin (SNP) are a road block to freeing Scotland – the answer to your question is that there’s no party at Holyrood for indy minded Scots to vote for – and no real option for them, Holyrood is a child of Westminster, a cesspit frequented by traitors to Scotland if you like.
Actually, Westminster is a cesspit frequented by traitors to the UK, which I don’t like.
Tony Greenstein has had his bank account frozen, and they didn’t even tell him that they HAD frozen it (along with the account of a registered charity), let alone the reason WHY:
After 8 Days Santander Finally Contact Me To Say They Can’t Tell Me Why They Have Frozen Our Accounts
According to the National Crime Agency It’s a Crime to Send Money to a Palestinian Kindergarten but Not A Crime to Fund Settlements Built on Stolen Land
On 2 June Santander froze not only my personal accounts but the accounts of a registered charity, the Brighton Trust, for the crime of sending money to a Palestinian kindergarten, the Al Tafawk Centre in Jenin.
The most obvious culprit is the National Crime Agency which is a law unto itself…..
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2026/06/after-8-days-santander-finally-contact.html
No Kangaroo Court or mention of terrorism in this on yet – it should’ve been a no brainer for the jury, not guilty’s all round.
“A jury at Birmingham crown court is deliberating whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory in Wolverhampton.
Defendants Iain Evans, Hisham Alkhamesi, Frank Sherman, and Hana Yun-Stevens believed the factory, used by arms firm Moog, supplied weaponry to Israel.
They climbed onto the roof in August 2025, smashed equipment and unveiled a banner saying “Free Palestine” while wearing T-shirts with the names of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Social media posts relating to the action and shown to the jury described Moog as a manufacturer of fighter jet components which are supplied to Israel.
During the five-day trial, the defendants told the court that they had been on protests but felt unable to effect change, leading to the decision to engage in direct action.
Jurors were unable to reach a verdict this week and have been discharged until Tuesday”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/we-wanted-to-save-lives-palestine-activists-tell-court/
Didn’t the jury get menaced by the judge?
Good afternoon Moderator:
Hopefully this link will work ?
I have posted a poem on Gaza in the forum called Contemporary poetry its is reference is #106817
The title of the poem is Answer the Call
Link: Link Here
Hi Moderator, my I.T skills aren’t great so if you could create the link that would be great.
Many thanks.
The Filton Four have just been sentenced, each to several years in jail. The one convicted of GBH got consecutive sentences and the biggest total. The sentences were heard at a demonstration outside the court, which is still going on at the time of writing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eju4sTnaC8w
Judge Jeffries has returned .
Its no longer a jury that decides if you are at terrorist – its the government.
“The Palestine Action defendants have been sentenced for a combined total of more than 25 years.
Charlotte Head – 6 years
Leona Kamio – 6 years
Fatema Zainab – 5 years and 8 months
Samuel Corner – 8 years and 8 months”
https://nitter.poast.org/declassifiedUK/status/2065492190734754140#m
Absolutely disgusting, welcome to the UK, a genocidal nazi regime.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/judge-sentences-palestine-action-protestors-terrorists
I believe this sentencing took place well beyond normal court hours. I have been subjected to hearings outside court hours, in deserted court houses, which appeared not to be legitimate or enforceable. Something is fishy.
AI indicates a number of grounds for appeal:
1. Violation of the Right to a Fair Trial: The fact that a “terrorist connection” was decided during a pretrial preparatory hearing in March 2025 but deliberately kept secret from the jury means the jurors were unaware that a criminal damage conviction would carry terrorist-level penalties.
2. Prejudicial Restraints on Defence: The judge banned the defendants from explaining their motivations to the jury, forbidding them from mentioning the context of Gaza, genocide, or international law. This severe restriction on presenting a full defense is a core vulnerability for an appeal.
3. Misapplication of the Terrorism Act: The judge argued that the activists were trying to “influence the Israeli government”. Appellate lawyers are highly likely to challenge whether Section 69 was legally intended to encompass domestic protest actions targeting foreign governments through property damage.
4. Judicial Bias: The defense already made applications for Mr Justice Johnson to recuse himself due to alleged “loss of objectivity” and “apparent bias”. The history of these procedural friction points, including an unprecedented attempt by the judge to prosecute a lead defense barrister for contempt of court, will form a central pillar of the appeal.
Good luck to them with their appeal.
Why not write one of your letters to Sir Keir? If a decent man like him were to find out what this judge has done …
Starmer is not my MP. I did write to my MP at the time of the proscription of PA, that in my view it was an over-reaction. Whether the English courts agree with the legal challenge to the proscription, I look forward finding out on Monday.
Have you written to your MP yourself about the proscription?
I knew he was already well aware of the proscription because he voted for it. How on earth was your MP unaware?
In any case I was referring to yesterday’s sentences. There’s nothing stopping you from writing directly to the man at the top. Given you consider him thoroughly decent and honourable, how do you think he will respond to being informed?
My MP was not aware of my opinion till I wrote to him as a constituent. In my view MPs need to know the views of those they represent.
Perhaps you should do likewise yourself, before encouraging others to go further?
How much pressure do you think my MP would feel if I told him I opposed his vote to proscribe anti-genocide activists but that I nevertheless consider his leader Sir Keir to be a thoroughly decent human — despite knowing very well it’s Sir Keir’s legislation?
Or if I also told him that I know Sir Keir is a genocidaire and war criminal, but that I will nevertheless always consider him to be one of the good guys?
Do you think he would say, wow, this guy is someone I ought to take seriously?
The sentencing delivery can be accessed here, outside broadcast captured at Woolwich Crown Court: https://dscvry.com/sentence.htm
The basis for the introduction of a ‘terrorism connection’ to the proceedings post-trial – that the defendants were ‘attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons’ – had not been heard by the jury/court. Not only had the defendants not been tried on that particular charge for which they have been sentenced, but section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 requires that design necessarily be proven in order to establish an infraction of the Act.
Now, famously, Johnson J in his handling of proceedings forbade the defendants from expressing either their intent or motivation regarding the Israeli [or other] government, which are necessary for satisfying the joint conditions of said section one in order to invoke the existence of a ‘terroristic’ connection. An establishment ass, albeit vindictive with it.
It is simply BOTH a mistrial AND a miscarriage of justice.
In the audio, Johnson has changed the grounds on which TA2K was supposed to apply to ‘influencing the UK govt’, claiming that he had never mentioned anything about influencing the Israeli government. On his mother’s life, maybe …
azymax
Sorry to be a pain, but prior to now and reading your post, I’d only come across the first part of the quote you mention – ie that the defendants were attempting to influence the Israeli government, and not the other part – ie by restricting their access to weapons. I mean it’s such a totally ludicrous thing to say it beggars belief (even if HAD just amounted to the first part), but to say they were trying to influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons is nonsensical. I wonder what Judge Johnson would say/claim if asked ‘in what way does he think the defendants thought they would influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons?’. Needless to say, THAT didn’t enter into their reason for busting into the factory and smashing stuff up, and Johnson and Elbit and the police and Starmer and just about everyone else on the planet who is aware of the story and what they did KNOWS it, and knows their reason for doing what they did.
And I didn’t get the OTHER bit (that I’ve come across in newspaper articles) – ie that Johnson said/claimed that their motive in doing what they did was to (also) ‘intimidate a section of the public’. Oh, right, it just occurred to me that he was presumably referring to all the zionists in the uk – both Jews and non-Jews (like Starmer and Lammy et al) – who fully support the mass murder of women and children and infants and toddlers and babies in Gaza (and the West Bank and Lebanon and Iran), and doctors and nurses and journalists and first responders and the elderly and infirm and non-combatant men, and the complete and utter destruction of their homeland. I can’t think of who else he would have meant, if not them. And if that IS the case, then what Johnson is in effect saying is that it’s criminal (?) of the defendants to intimidate the people who support a genocide. Presumably THAT is why he didn’t actually specify who this ‘section of the public’ was. Needless to say, THAT didn’t enter into it EITHER!
Anyway, I hope you get to see this, given that Craig posted a new article yesterday afternoon.
1. Jonathan Cook on the Filton Four trial:
Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel’s genocide
Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson’s dirty work is not yet complete
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/legal-profession-revolt-against-the
2. Jonathan Cook on fb only recommended his latest comprehensive piece about Gaza on ME after his initial direct post within fb had been removed:
Gaza is not an aberration – Israel planned this genocide decades ago
Jonathan Cook
11 June 2026
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-not-an-aberration-israels-genocide-gaza-was-planned-decades-ago
Which arbitrarily brings me to this: The new installment of a Facebook-“biopic” where Mark Zuckerberg this time appears to be the bad guy truly.
If that makes it a better movie I somehow doubt judging by the trailer, both in narration and acting: (Although Jesse Eisenberg as MZ in the 2010 movie was something that one needed to get used to, especially that Eisenberg shtick of simulating what he assumed as some form of behavioral disorder… and which he tends to identify in every character he is paid to play since…)
THE SOCIAL RECKONING
2:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4LkaXwGuY
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Slàinte
Music: Kris Kristofferson (6 Mar 1990) – “Don’t Let The Bastards (Get You Down)” – YouTube audio video, 3m 44s
Judge Johnson seems to think that jailing the PA with fabricated collaborated evidence, most of it selected by Elbit and the police, who have not been to court for cross examination, will be enough of a threat and example set to like minded determined activists, it us not!
It resemblesa farce to be be reconned, an abomination of the justice system which is being used to shut up and create fear among others who are equally appalled at the genocide that is going on.
True fascism is spreading and the rights excesses aka Robinsons lot, are dancing in the streets of Belfast, turning communities into factional splits and anger on the streets.
Shame on you judge Johnson, you are a law bender and a discredit to justice, RESIGN!
Similarities indeed.
“The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today’s British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters.
Here’s a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would’ve been thrown out by every jury in the land.
Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa’s apartheid regime.”
https://nitter.poast.org/DerbyChrisW/status/2065694836573733229#m
There were audible gasps in the court as Johnson read out the sentences – these brave disruptors of the supply line for the genocide in Gaza – are being given long sentences, to deter any others from trying to disrupt the supply of weapons to the Zionists to keep their genocide going till the end.
“Defence lawyers argued that the term “serious” was intended by parliament to imply something “sinister” such as causing “excessive fear” or “harm” towards persons.
Menon also raised concerns that there is a pattern of courts finding “terrorism connection” in cases involving minorities or those supporting them, but not white supremacists.
Neither Thomas Mair, the neo-Nazi murderer of British MP Jo Cox, nor Thomas McKenna, who was procuring firearms to provoke a “race war” were given criminal convictions with a “terrorism connection”, he noted.
“So apparently, stockpiling weapons in preparation for a race war against Muslims and immigrants does not amount to an act of terrorism”, Menon declared to the court.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-action-activists-will-be-sentenced-as-terrorists/
The first, excellent review of Norman Finkelstein´s Gaza book is out:
Spread the news. As many as possible should read it.
The book could help cause a crack in the wall.
Remember, walls are there to be torn down.
“Cleaning the Stables
Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places by Norman G. Finkelstein (OR Books, 2026)”
https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/cleaning-the-stables
book
https://orbooks.com/catalog/gazas-gravediggers/
Last two paragraphs of the review
“(…)
Which returns me to the question I started with, and to the thing the book cannot resolve about itself. Accountability work has a long horizon. The archive Finkelstein has assembled will matter when the political conditions that currently make accountability impossible eventually shift, and in that sense the book is a deposit against a future reckoning. Archives have their uses. They do not have strategies. The epilogue knows this, and says so without flinching: “This book was written to expose lies and restore Truth. It will not save lives. The genocide in Gaza is too far gone.” He reaches, finally, for Rousseau, and frames what is left as a “purely spiritual act,” justice pursued for its own sake regardless of result.
The narrowing this represents is not Finkelstein’s alone. It belongs to a tradition. The most serious responses the left has produced to Gaza have taken the form of the legal brief, the commission report, the forensic monograph, and now this book, all of them addressed, explicitly or not, to institutions the same documents prove cannot act. That is not an accident of temperament. It is a statement about where the left, after decades of retreat, still imagines power to lie, or more exactly about where it has stopped imagining it can build any of its own. The alternative to documentation is organisation, and organisation asks for a social base, a theory of power and a willingness to act outside the frameworks that have already failed. Those are harder to assemble than a meticulous record of betrayal. Finkelstein is not the author of that deficit. He is its most eloquent symptom, and Gaza’s Gravediggers is the most exacting account we are likely to get of how the high officials of the international order behaved while a people was destroyed in front of them. What it cannot tell us, because nobody can yet, is whether anyone will ever be in a position to use it.
(…)”