If You Kill Palestinians Queuing for Food Then You Are Acting in ‘Self-Defence’ But If You Spray Paint The Planes That Help Kill Children You Are A ‘Terrorist’

These Are The Values Of Starmer & Yvette Cooper – Palestine Action Are No More Terrorists Than Were The French Resistance 

Tony Greenstein Speech at Brighton's Clocktower on 23 June after a march against the Attack on Iran

We are not walking but running into a Police State as Starmer and Cooper have decided to make War Crimes legal and opposition to them a criminal offence.

It is not unknown for imperialist countries to define their opponents as ‘terrorists’. The British did that constantly in the British Empire, The Nazis branded the French and Polish Resistance as bandits or terrorists. Starmer and Yvette Cooper are following a well-worn path. As Lord Carrington, a former Foreign Secretary noted, ‘one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.’

The Zionists have been calling for months for Palestine Action to be proscribed as ‘domestic terrorists’ and Luke Akehurst’s We Believe in Israel has been particularly active in calling for a ban. Akehurst’s group has been give access to Police and Intelligence information as the state seeks to clamp down on anything that effectively challenges the Zionists and Palestine Action certainly does that.

The racist Commissioner of the Met Doesn't Even Pretend to Political Neutrality 

Since being formed three years ago Palestine Action has been responsible for the shutting down of three Elbit factories and the Israeli Embassy has attempted to influence the decisions of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Attorney-General’s office in relation to prosecutions.

James Schneider on BBC Question Time on Why Palestine Action Should Not Be Proscribed

The move is a further escalation of Starmer's war on opponents of genocide and journalists. The government is actively colluding with Israel to abuse anti-terror laws, with potential prison sentences of up to fourteen years, against those who speak out for Palestinian lives and human rights and against Israel's mass slaughter of almost 400,000 innocent civilians.

In essence opponents of the Government’s foreign policy of support for Israeli war crimes are now being prosecuted as terrorists. Some PA activists such as the Filton 18  have been held in prison for more than a year before they even come to trial, as the government tries to 'make the process the punishment.

This is not a description of Palestine Action but the suffragette 

movement. Peaceful direct action has been historically important in shaping the UK. Here is Yvette cooper recognising that by wearing the colours of those suffragettes.  

The comparisons between the Suffragettes, a cause that Starmer’s bitch Yvette Cooper purports to support and Palestine Action are remarkable.

During their trials, suffragettes—especially those affiliated with the more militant Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)—were frequently treated harshly by British judges and authorities. While the language varied, judges framed the suffragettes as criminals, rather than legitimate political activists.

1. Criminal, Not Political

Judges and prosecutors consistently emphasized that suffragette actions were criminal offences, not political protests. Their acts—such as window smashing, arson, or disrupting government meetings—were treated under criminal law, with no recognition of their political motives.

A common judicial attitude was: “You are not political prisoners; you are ordinary criminals.”

2. “Terrorist” Comparisons

While the term "terrorist" wasn’t widely used in the modern sense at the time, some authorities did suggest that the WSPU’s militant tactics resembled political violence or even domestic terrorism. Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and others in government expressed concern that suffragette acts (like bombing empty buildings or attacking artwork) were dangerous and extreme.

·       Media and political opponents occasionally described the suffragettes as hysterical, dangerous, or subversive—language that echoed contemporary fears of anarchism or extremism.

3. Moral Condemnation

Judges often spoke to suffragettes with condescension or scorn, labeling them as irrational, overly emotional, or misguided. Women were frequently told that their actions were unfeminine or disgraceful.

Emmeline Pankhurst, was told that she was “a woman of great ability but misguided zeal,”. Mr Justice Phillimore added:

“Although your motives... are not the selfish motives which actuate most persons… the crime… is in fact a wicked one… it might have exposed other people to the danger of being maimed or even killed… whatever you may think, it is a wicked one… The sentence must be a severe one… three years’ penal servitude.”

Mr Justice Madden sentencing Mary Leigh after the Theatre Royal arson attempt (Aug 8, 1912) said:

“These crimes will cease when they get the vote… If they don’t get it, what are to be the consequences? Crime, crime

Madden framed suffrage agitation as a path to lawlessness.

There is an excellent article in The Guardian by Sally Rooney and surprisingly, there was a brilliant article by Andy Twelves in the Express of all papers.  Which is much like the Morning Star praising Margaret Thatcher.  Wonders never cease.

Ordinary people understand what Starmer and Cooper are doing, which is to attack the most basic rights of protest against the criminality by our war criminal rulers.

We need to build a strong civil rights movement that makes the proscription of Palestine Action unenforceable. We need public declarations by thousands of people that they support Palestine Action and its destruction of Elbit and the military equipment that kills thousands of people and a demand that Keir Starmer be prosecuted under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 for aiding and supporting the commission of war crimes by Israel.

If the proscription goes ahead we need a petition supporting Palestine Action by thousands of people and dare the filth and scum in government to prosecute us.

Things You Can Do

You can sign a petition protesting the government’s action here. 

You can sign a petition calling for David Lammy to resign

for his complicity in war crimes and lying to the British public.

https://www.change.org/p/david-lammy-must-resign-for-complicity-in-israeli-war-crimes-lying-to-british-public

There is also a crowdfunder at crowdjustice.com to fight the proscription of Palestine Action.  

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/palestine-action/

Tony Greenstein