Palestine Solidarity Campaign Hauls Up the White Flag on Palestine Action’s Proscription

 Our Slogan Should Be 

'We are all Palestine Action'  

Frank McGinnis, Barrister at Garden Court Chambers, on Palestine Action

I have just been sent a copy of a message from Lambeth & Southwark PSC to its members/supporters re the proscription of Palestine Action. I don’t know whether it derives from PSC nationally but I suspect it does. It says:

 " It is very important that members of the PSC and supporters of our branch do not take any protest action in the name of the PSC, as this could seriously jeopardise PSC's work and the movement – thank you."

 This is the very opposite of what is required. Meek compliance with the law rather than a refusal to comply with it will guarantee that the ban on Palestine  will be accepted.

Our slogan should be 'We are all Palestine Action'.  Palestine Action has been proscribed because it is the most effective group campaigning against the genocide. At a time of Genocide it is incumbent upon us to take risks and to defy the government when it outlaws free speech.

When you embed a lie within the law, it renders the law illegitimate and worthless. If thousands of people take up the cry that we are all Palestine Action then the law will be rendered inoperable. If we meekly comply with the law then we will do what this genocidal Labour Government wants us to do.

There comes a time to make a stand and that time is now. Free speech is the basis of all our democratic rights. Without it there is no democracy.

The proposed law the dictat of an unpopular government. It has no popular mandate and has been met with an avalanche of opposition stretching well beyond the usual suspects. From the Chartists to the Suffragettes to the Pentonville dockers, when the law is bad then the only way to change it is to break it.

Instead of advocating compliance PSC should be encouraging MPs in Parliament to say that they will declare themselves supporters of Palestine Action in the Commons protected as they are by parliamentary privilege.

For PSC to wave the white flag now is unforgivable and should be opposed. If thousands of us refuse to comply the law will be rendered inoperative. When Palestinians are dying in their thousands we have to also make sacrifices.

The time for token actions, which is the favourite action of PSC is over. If PSC had defied the Police over the demonstration at the BBC in January the Police's right to ban demonstrations on  grounds of 'antisemitism' would have been brought into sharp relief.

There is a time for civil disobedience and the time is now.  They cannot imprison and prosecute thousands of us.

We should ask left and socialist groups to carry the message on the front page of their papers that ‘We Support Palestine Action’. This is a Police State Law and should be treated as such.

Solidarity

Tony Greenstein

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The Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran Was At Israel’s Request

 The Attempt to Smear Palestine Action as Terrorists Can Be Defeated By People Declaring ‘We Are All Palestine Action’ & Refusing to be Deterred by the Lie that Protest=Terrorism

Sit in at Brighton Station & Demo In Protest Against the US Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Last Monday was a day of two demonstrations on two separate but interlinked issues. At midday there was the energetic and lively demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist’ group.

At 5.30 pm when back in Brighton there was firstly a sit-in at Brighton Railway Station and then a march and demonstration against the United States attack on Iran.  I am posting videos and photos from both demonstrations. I spoke twice at the Brighton demonstration and sit-in.

Rally at Brighton Clocktower

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

Just as in 2006 when a ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Hezbollah, which Israel got Bush to arrange when Israel was getting the worst of the fight, so too with the ceasefire that Trump arranged on Tuesday.

The ceasefire was clearly at Israel’s behest. Trump also came out with strident criticism of Israel for having broken the ceasefire not understanding that in Israel’s eyes a ceasefire means you cease and we’ll fire.

Rally at Brighton Clocktower

Demonstration Against the Proscription of Palestine Action 23 June 2025

Israel launched the attack on Iran hoping to remove its regime and thus establish complete dominance in the region.  The lie that Iran was developing nuclear weapons has been comprehensively discredited by US Intelligence.

However we should be clear. Israel and the United States attack on Iran never had anything to do with Iran' non-existent nuclear weapons. The aim is to eliminate the Iranian state from disrupting Israeli  and US plans for the Middle East. An extension of the Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia at its centre.

The latest manifestation of this is The Abraham Shield which is Israel’s New Blueprint for Regional Control After Gaza. The aim is the integration of the Gulf and Arab economies with that of Israel as the latter excludes the Palestinians, both physically and politically from having any say in their future. It is an Orwellian nightmare of total control by Israel and the Arab regimes of the destiny of the Arab peoples.

The attack on Iran has been the fulfilment of a 20 year wet dream by Netanyahu. He believed that with Trump in power that he could drag the US into the conflict. However despite the fact that the US bombed three nuclear installations, it was clear that the US didn’t want to get embroiled in Netanyahu’s war.

Netanyahu was under the impression that the surprise attack on Iran would be a cakewalk. It was anything but. Instead Iran gave Israelis a chance to experience what Palestinians in Gaza have experienced with demolished buildings and streets and an understanding of what war means in reality. One-third of Tel Aviv was damaged or destroyed.

Not since 1948 in the so-called War of Independence has Tel Aviv been bombed (by the Egyptian airforce).  If Hezbollah had done the same when they had the chance then Israel might have thought twice about devastating Gaza.

The Police were at their aggressive best

What now? Israel will not give up easily having been bruised in the current encounter. Iran will need to replenish their missile stocks and renew their air defences as well as trying to supply their allies in the region, the so-called Axis of Resistance, with new weaponry.

But the challenge is not only military but political and this is where the Iranian regime is fatally flawed.  It is a repressive, undemocratic regime that is at odds with its own citizens. Although Iranians rallied round when Israel was attacking it, they are not going to tolerate a corrupt and dictatorial clerical state that believes in using religion to justify its attacks on women, minorities and the working class.

Rally at Brighton Clocktower

Iran suffered a great deal of damage from Israeli air attacks on its infrastructure. It is also suffering from economic sanctions and the thinly veiled hostility of neighbouring Arab regimes. Both Jordan and Saudi Arabia were involved in shooting down Iranian missiles. Qatar hosts the largest US base in the region.

Iran is unable to respond to these treacherous regimes precisely because it is not dissimilar in its contempt and repression of its own people. That is the problem for those who believe that the struggle is simply military. The Iranian regime is unable to appeal to the wider Arab populace as Egypt's President Nasser was once able to. Theocratic dictatorships are not popular, either in Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Of one thing we can be sure and that is that Israel is not going to give up and it is going to enlist the Arab regimes in its plans. The Iranian regime, which believes it can ally with those regimes is very much mistaken if it thinks they will help it resist US imperialism and its Israeli attack dog.

The Mullahs are incapable of a genuine anti-imperialist alliance because that would mean allying with the very forces, the Arab street, which in Iran would also remove its own dictatorship.

The Iranian regime is often seen as anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist. This is a mistake.  It had a golden opportunity with its ceasefire with Israel to demand that Israel also agree to a ceasefire and withdrawal in Gaza. I doubt if the idea even entered the head of Khameini and Iran’s rulers.

In Lebanon the forces of the state and the Phalangists are encircling Hezbollah which has become very unpopular given the way they handled the confrontation with Israel. Allowing suppliers to provide them with pagers containing explosives without checking them raises the question as to how they were so careless.

It is clear that Hezbollah was penetrated from top to bottom by Zionist agents and that Israel was in possession of real time information about the whereabouts of Hezbollah’s leadership.

Rally at Brighton Clocktower

But the real problem is that Hezbollah became part of the corrupt Lebanese Establishment. It had no programme for social and political change that could unite the different communities. It had no proposals for ending the confessional nature of the Lebanese political system whereby a Christian becomes President, a Sunni Prime Minister, a Shi’ite Speaker of the Parliament etc. The 128 seats in Parliament are divided equally between Muslim and Christian despite Muslims being in a majority.

Rally at Brighton Clocktower

Changing this was the main goal of the Lebanese National Movement in the civil war of the 1970s. A civil war which saw Syria’s Assad intervene on the side of the Phalangists.

MSNBC on Donald Trump and his Lies About 'Obliterating' Iran's Nuclear Sites

Netanyahu succeeded in his aim in that the US bombed Iran's 3 nuclear sites last weekend. Unfortunately for Trump, despite his boasts that he had obliterated the facilities it is clear that the MOABs did not do the job as the facilities were too well protected.

The Familiar Face of Alexei Sayle

However the present ceasefire is not designed to last and we can be sure that Israel will be plotting with the traitorous Arab regimes, not least those of Jordan and Saudi Arabia how to renew the conflict.

It now seems that a desperate Israeli military has taken to threatening Iranian officials and their families: rebel or we’ll kill you

The guy on the right was the speaker before me

"WE ARE ALL PAL ACTION"

Meanwhile at home Palestine Action is due to be proscribed despite massive opposition to Starmer’s giant step towards a police state. It is clear to most people that the terrorists are the genocidaires not those who oppose them.

Even that beacon of fair-weather liberal opinion, The Guardian, has come out strongly against the proposals of Starmer and Cooper with its legal correspondent Haroon Sidique saying it would have a ‘chilling effect’ on other protest groups, which of course was the whole purpose.

Its leading article asked ‘if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t?’ begging the question as to why the Guardian backed Police State Starmer and the ‘feminist’ Yvette Cooper against Jeremy Corbyn in the first place.

The war of this miserable ‘Labour’ government against our democratic rights, coupled with their attacks on the disabled and working class people shows that it is nothing but a continuation of the Tories. Labour is preparing the way for Nigel Farage’s far-right racist Reform.

Tony Greenstein

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 

Frank Magennis, Barrister at Garden Court Chambers, on Palestine Action

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