Defend Free Speech Webinar on Palestine – Free Speech is not Terrorism

 Unless It’s Postponed, My Trial for Supporting a Proscribed ‘Terrorist’ Organisation Begins on January 5

Webinar 'Free Speech is not Terrorism' 11.12.25 Defend Tony Greenstein & Support the Hunger Strikers

The webinar held yesterday was excellent. Andrew Feinstein, the ex-ANC MP and major challenger to Starmer at the last election, kicked off with a wide ranging speech dwelling not least on the pathetic corrupt nonentity that is the current MP for Holborn and St Pancras.

Clare Hinchcliff, mother of Zoe, speaking on behalf of the Filton 24

The next speaker was Francesca Nadin who outlined how desperate the situation of the 8 hunger strikers is. Five of them have been hospitalised. That disgusting waste of space, David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, coconut (white inside Black outside) and ‘Christian’ no less, has refused to meet with MPs over the hunger strikes.

Andrew Feinstein

The hunger strikes have forced the BBC and mass media to at last cover the hunger strike. People need to emphasise that there youngsters are innocent until proven guilty. It is only because the State has alleged they are terrorists, though charging them with ‘ordinary’ crimes of criminal damage, that they have been denied bail.

They have a right to be treated as innocent and to be granted bail.  Their only ‘offence’ is to oppose genocide.

Francesca Nadin Speaking on Behalf of the Palestine Prisoners Society

So far 43 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion ‘Palestine Action Hunger Strike’. There are 20 Labour, 4 Green, 5 SNP, 4 Plaid Cymru, 6 Independent (inc. Jeremy Corbyn), 1 Your Party, 2 SDLP and one Liberal-Democrat signatures.  Given that the Lib-Dems are the third largest party with 72 seats the fact that only one of their MPs is prepared to put their name to the Early Day Motion speaks volumes. The EDM itself is extremely anodyne, reading that@

Huda Ammori - the co-founder of Palestine Action

‘That this House expresses its extreme concern that six prisoners associated with Palestine Action have felt that they had no other recourse to protest against their prison conditions but to launch a hunger strike; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Justice to intervene urgently to ensure their treatment is humane and their human rights are upheld.’

We should not be too surprised at the Lib Dems – after all in their incarnation as Liberals under Asquith they faced down Suffragette Hunger Strikes before introducing the Cat and Mouse Act and force feeding. Scratch a Lib Dem and you get a Tory. No one should ever have an illusion in what is an alternative party of capitalism.

We heard from Clare Hinchliffe about the ordeals of the Filton 24 and the 6 people who are currently on trial at Woolwich and the ordeal it is for them. The  process is the punishment and they spend more time in prison vans than in court and are practically denied time to see their barristers.

Woolwich Crown Court, which I attended is a fortress designed to intimidate. The media have been covering the trial with one purpose in mind – to exaggerate the prosecution evidence and gloss over what actually has been happening.

Tony Greenstein

For an alternative version see Jonathan Cook’s The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms and Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show? and Craig Murray’s The Filton Trial.

With the connivance of the Judge, the Prosecution has engaged in dirty tricks. As her  says:

the prosecution released to the media highly edited video footage from the current trial in Woolwich Crown Court of six activists accused of the attack inside Elbit Systems’ Filton factory on August 6 2024.

While that video has fuelled tens of thousands of Zionist troll posts on social media, the remarkable thing is that it is almost impossible to establish what it shows.

In fact, had it been put out without the prosecution narrative, nobody would have discerned that is what they were looking at. It shows chaotic fast-moving footage from bodycams.

The first sledgehammer seen is plainly in the hands of a security guard – as testimony in the trial, ignored by the MSM, has explained.

Here are some key facts:

·         Every single prosecution witness who gave evidence about the melee was obliged to change their statement when confronted by the defence with video evidence which contradicted it. This included much more video than was released by the prosecution.

·         The prosecution produced a misleading account of the number and location of CCTV cameras in the factory. They were obliged to present a new map showing more cameras.

·         The video evidence was left in or given into the hands of Elbit. A search of Elbit’s premises in November 2025 found the USB sticks of video in their Metropolitan Police evidence bags in Elbit’s safe.

My own trial begins on January 5^th at Kingston Crown Court and I have a pre-trial hearing tomorrow (Friday) at which various matters will be discussed.

One will be an application to delay the trial as the Supreme Court decision in R v ABJ & BDN has been heard but judgement has not yet been handed down.

There is also a challenge to the decision of the CPS to bring the prosecution. This decision needs the consent of the Attorney General, Richard Hermer. Hermer disqualified himself because he has or had relatives serving in the Israeli army. 

He therefore handed the decision to his solicitor general, Sarah Sackman.  Sackman not only has relatives who’ve served in the Israeli army she has been Vice-Chair of the Genocide supporting Jewish Labour Movement. 

She was at the heart of the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign in the Labour Party and has opposed the arrest warrants on Netanyahu and his fellow criminal Yoav Gallant.

Sackman is supposed to declare an interest but this trollope, true to her Zionist and racist beliefs nodded through the prosecution. It will be interesting to see if the British judiciary also nods it through given their record in recent years for eroding free speech in Britain.

Either way I am calling for a demonstration outside the court on 5^th January 2026 and for people to be in the public gallery for the trial which is time tabled for one week.

Free  Speech on Palestinian is on trial, not just me. Whether we are allowed to say what we think without the thought police cracking down on us.

Tony Greenstein