370 Heard Journalists & Palestine solidarity activists who Have
Been Arrested for Taking Action Against Elbit & Supporting the Victims of
Israel's Genocide
Not a Headline You Would See in the 'liberal' Guardian
At the same
time as the International Criminal Court has, at last, issued arrest warrants
for Israel’s war criminals, Netanyahu and Gallant, the British Police are doing
their best to attack Palestine solidarity activists and clamp down on free
speech on Palestine.
The Government's senior law officers - two Zionists and a Quisling - (r to l) Solicitor General, Justice Minister & Attorney General
All with
the complicity of Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer, the Zionist Attorney General
and his deputy, arch Zionist and former Vice President of the Jewish Labour
Movement, Sarah Sackman, who have authorised the Police’s attack on Palestine activists
The Police
have consciously targeted journalists who are not part of the mainstream
prostitute media, stealing their equipment and imposing bail conditions aimed
at preventing them working.
The mass
media – from the right-wing Daily Mail to
the ‘liberal’ Guardian Independent have kept quiet about this attack on basic
democratic rights. Despite being invited to send a speaker, Liberty (the former NCCL) chose not to
respond. It seems attacks on Palestine activists doesn’t fit with their
definition of civil liberties. The Overton Window is getting narrower and
narrower.
Natalie Strecker - Jersey Palestine Activist
The meeting
tonight, which was chaired by Asim Quereshi from Cage, started off with a recorded message
from Natalie Strecker, a peace activist from Jersey in the Channel Islands.
Natalie was unable to speak directly to the meeting because of the stringent
bail conditions imposed. Her local paper, the Jersey
Post, puts the ‘liberal’ media to shame with its forthright defence of
free speech.
Andrew Feinstein - former ANC MP
Andrew
Feinstein, the former ANC MP, was the first speaker who drew the parallels
between the fight against apartheid in South Africa and today’s fight against
apartheid Israel.
Sarah Wilkinson
Andrew
pointed out that the use of the term ‘terrorist’ is nothing new. The ANC and its
leader, Nelson Mandela, were also branded as terrorists by Thatcher and Reagan.
Andrew told us how Thatcher had told the South Africa authorities that it would
be best to murder Mandela in prison rather than allow him his freedom.
Asa Winstanley
There were
a whole range of speakers tonight.Asa
Winstanley from Electronic Intifada whose home was raided and equipment stolen.
Sarah Wilkinson, whose home was trashed and who was effectively kidnapped by
the anti-terrorist police. At one time she feared she was going to be killed.Richard Medhurst, a journalist based in The
Netherlands was the last to speak about his experiences.
Clare Rogers
Clare
Rogers spoke from the Filton 10, a group of Palestine Actionists who put out of
operation an Elbit research and development factory in Bristol which
manufactured equipment like the Quad Copters that have killed so many children.
The 10 who took part were kept in solitary confinement for a week, as if they
were terrorists but despite that are being charged with non-terrorist offences.
Huda Ammori from Palestine Action
Huda spoke
from Palestine Action and Les Levidow spoke from the Campaign Against
Criminalising Communities.
370 people
attended the webinar and over 600 registered for it.
I hope you
enjoy it!Let’s begin the fightback
against those who make criminals of those who oppose genocide and the Police
who support those profiting from the deaths of thousands of children.
The ‘Liberal’ Establishment –
from the Guardian to Liberty - has averted its eyes as the Police
Raid & Arrest Dissident Journalists & Palestine Solidarity Activists
Natalie Strecker, a pacifist based in Jersey,
is the latest activist to be arrested by the Police on their favourite pretext,
supporting a proscribed organisation contrary to s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act
2000. It’s called the ‘rule of law’.
The Jersey Post has more courage and integrity than the 'liberal' Guardian when it comes to Police attacks on activists
Since October 7 the Police have been very busy
trying to take out key Palestine solidarity activists. Electronic Intifada journalist Asa Winstanley had his house raided
and his electronic devices stolen by the Police a few weeks ago. Asa wasn’t
actually arrested but this gives a clue to the Police’s motivation. Stopping
the publication of alternative news. They prefer the ‘reliable’ media to be our
sole source of news – from the BBC to
the Guardian to the Daily Mail.
Sarah Wilkinson Interview
Sarah Wilkinson was also arrested recently by
Police thugs in balaclavas, who stole her passport, without even telling her,
whilst making it a condition of bail that she surrender it. They stole her
money, overturned her grandmother’s urn of ashes, hid her bank cards and trashed
her house. She was forbidden to even use a phone until the police were forced
to withdraw the bail conditions.
Palestine Action, a direct action group
committed to putting Elbit and other suppliers of arms to Israel have been the
victim of extreme repression with the Filton 10 being held until their trial in
a year’s time for doing what the Police should be doing, which is stopping the
activities of those contributing towards genocide in Palestine.
Only today
we hear that another 10 Palestine Action activists have been arrested.
But there is one law that the Police have ignored
- the International
Criminal Court Act 2001 - which makes being party to and aiding in the
commission of war crimes and genocide a criminal act. We can’t imagine why they
are not interested in enforcing this Act!
Sections 52 and 53 make it quite clear that genocide
and acts ancilliary to genocide, whether committed in this country or abroad,
will be treated as committed in this country.
Proceedings will only be initiated by the Attorney
General but I’m sure Richard Hermer wouldn’t want to be seen to be endorsing acts ancilliary
to genocide by his colleagues, such as supplying spare parts for aircraft that
bomb civilians!
I’ve been arrested twice in the past 12
months. Firstly on December 20 2023 when my flat was raided and all my
electronic devices were stolen. The second time was at the picket of notorious
racist, Israeli Ambassador
Tzipi Hotoveli’s residence when I compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to
those of the Nazis. My ‘offence’ was ‘racially aggravated harassment’ of a
Zionist, Richard Millett, the sole Zionist counter-demonstrator, who has called
holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos ‘scum’ for opposing Israel’s genocide.
There are no known examples of the Police
arresting Zionist demonstrators for violence, genocidal speech or racism.
Police harassment is strictly in one direction only.
I was recently informed that I was not being
charged, making my arrest and detention unlawful. A couple of weeks after my
arrest 79 year-old Israeli ProfessorHaim Bresheeth, who is suffering from cancer, was arrested at the same
spot and held all night in a cold cell inHolborn police station. He too has been told that he is not going to be
charged. Another unlawful arrest and detention.
Richard Medhurst, another journalist, was
stopped at an airport, detained, arrested and held in abysmal conditions and
again all his electronic devices were stolen.
Others arrested under the same pretexts
include Richard Barnard, an activist in Palestine Action.
Thomas
Bingham, former Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law
Lord, was described
as ‘the greatest jurist of our time’ by
Lord Hope of Craighead. Bingham formulated 8 rules of law in his book The
rule of law. A number of them are applicable to the present, cavalier
disregard of the law by the Police in their attempt to ride roughshod over our
rights and to suppress political dissent.
The most important for our purposes is the
eighth rule – which states that
The rule of law requires compliance by the
state with its obligations in international law as in national law.
Britain is party to the Genocide
Convention which therefore makes it part of British law but for the police
it is a no-go area.They are not
interested in enforcing provisions of international law that have been
incorporated in domestic law. Bear in mind the third of Bingham’s rules of law:
‘The laws of the land should apply equally to all’. It is clear that
there is one law for activists and another for government politicians and war criminals
like Starmer and Lammy.
Article 2 (a)-(d) of the Genocide Convention makes
it crystal clear that Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is a classic example of
genocide. Only the fifth provision, the forcible transfer of children out of
the area is inapplicable, because Israel prefers to kill Palestinian children
to transferring them out of harms way.
The fifth provision also makes it clear that
genocide can take place without anyone being killed so our idiot of a Foreign
Secretary, David Lammy’s assertion, that not enough people have been killed for
it to be a genocide, is simply wrong. Starmer’s denial of a genocide is more
sinister. He knows full well that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.Starmer is no different from a neo-Nazi holocaust
denier.
It is no surprise that the Guardian has failed to cover the
continued series of raids that have taken place. What is more surprising is
that Liberty, the old National Council
for Civil Liberties, has not responded to our invitation to provide a speaker.
It is as if all the erstwhile liberals have hauled up the White Flag and surrendered
to the security state.
(1)The law must be accessible and so far as
possible intelligible, clear and predictable.
(2) Questions
of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of
the law and not the exercise of discretion.
(3) The laws of the land should apply equally
to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation.
(4) Ministers
and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in
good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred,
without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably.
(5) The law must afford adequate protection of
fundamental human rights.
(6) Means
must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay,
bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve.
(7)
The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair.
(8) The rule of law requires compliance by the
state with its obligations in international law as in national law.
In the
parliamentary debate in the House of Lords’s Constitution Committee, former
Attorney-General 2010-14, Dominic
Grieve KC, said the rule of law encompasses:
“the system of rules that we have
in our country to ensure that the decisions we make and the way the Executive
and, ultimately, individuals, organisations and institutions behave are subject
to the law—both our own domestic law and international law—and that the
processes by which the law can be applied work.48
David Gauke,
Lord Chancellor 2018–19 stated that the rule of law means:
“the … sense that the law applies
equally to everyone, that no one is above the law and, in particular, that the
Government must comply with the law.”49
Lord Keen of
Elie KC, Advocate General for Scotland 2015–20 s said:
“that all institutions and parties
should be equal before the law and subject to the law, that the law should be
publicly available, and they should be capable of ascertaining what their
rights and obligations are thereunder … It extends not just to domestic law but
to the sphere of international law.”50
It is clear that the actions of the Police and
the refusal of the present Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer KC
to take any action in regard to the enforcement of Britain’s legal obligations to
oppose genocide make a mockery of the Attorney General’s position as an
independent legal adviser to the government.
This is not surprising since Hermer was
appointed by Starmer to advise the government
on compliance with the law.It’s not
often that a poacher appoints the gamekeeper! The same contradictions occurred
in 2003 when the then Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, completely
changed his position on the legality of the invasion of Iraq under
political pressure.
Richard Hermer has also bucked under the
pressure and is now openly condoning the refusal of the government to ban arms
sales to Israel even though they are contributing to the ongoing genocide.
One thing is for sure. We are not going to be cowed
by this Police State repression whilst genocide in going on in Gaza. We
understand full well the role that the Police have in backing Starmer’s policy of
giving 100% support to Genocide Joe Biden and Killer Kamala. That is why we are
holding a meeting on the arrests this Friday.Please come along.
It is
difficult to think of anything more disgusting than using the memory of the Jews
who died at the hands of the Nazis to justify the murder of Palestinian children
and their parents in Gaza.
The Western
powers – the United States, Britain and especially the German state - are happy
to go along with this rewriting of history. After all it lets them off the hook
and avoids western leaders having to answer uncomfortable questions such as why
the US and Britain refused to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
Stephen Kapos and other descendants of holocaust survivors
A recent
example of this is how the riot and racist attacks of the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans
in the Netherlands was turned into a second Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom
of November 9-10 when 100 Jews were murdered and nearly all synagogues were
burnt to the ground.
This could
only happen because the attacks by Israel’s racist thugs on Arabs in Amsterdam
was conveniently
ignored, just as Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are ignored. The chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ ‘May Your Villages Burn’
and ‘There is no school in Gaza today
because there are no children’ somehow disappeared down the memory hole of
Starmer, Scholtz, Biden and the Netherland’s idiot Prime Minister Schoof.
Instead the
fightback of Amsterdam residents who gave the Israeli thugs a deserved
thrashing was paraded as an anti-Semitic
pogrom.
There was
nothing more sick than the fascist leader of the Netherlands, who leads its
biggest parliamentary party The Freedom Party,
Geert Wilders, bemoaning the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks whilst using it as a
pretext to call
for the deportation of Moroccans living in the Netherlands.
Dutch Nazi Party (NSB) marching in Amsterdam
Netherlands
had the highest rate of extermination of Jews of any Western country in the holocaust.This was in part because it had a relatively
strong fascist party the NSB, which helped the Gestapo winkle out Jews in
hiding like Anne Frank. It doesn’t take much imagination to recognise that 84
years ago, Geert Wilders would not have been a member of the Communist Party
which organised the strikes against the Jewish deportations. Geert Wilders would
have been a prominent leader of the Dutch Nazi Party, the NSB. The idea that
this fascist would have joined Dutch workers in their strike against the deportations
is absurd.
Ursula von der Liar
The same is
true of the far-right President of the European Commission, Ursula
von der Leyen. A member of the Christian Democrats, whose antecedents lie in the Weimar
conservative parties including the anti-Semitic DNVP
which helped put Hitler in power. If Von Der Liar had been alive 90 years ago
she would have been a cheer leader for the Nazis but today Jews are a useful stalking
horse for western imperialism in the Middle East.
We
organised this webinar precisely because western leaders and its prostitute
media have turned the Nazi holocaust into a justification for their war plans
and racism.
Tom Suarez
The first
speaker was Tom Suarez who has written two excellently researched books, State of Terror and Palestine Hijacked. Tom
described Zionism as a cult and Anti-Semitism as its drug. He described the
cruel cynicism of Zionism which opposed all rescue plans for Jewish refugees
from the Nazis that didn’t involve Palestine as its destination. He recalled the opposition of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, to the Kindertransport in 1938/9, after Kristallnacht, which saved
10,000 German Jewish children from death.
As Ben-Gurion
explained to the Central Committee of Mapai, the Israeli Labour Party, on 9
December 1938:
If I knew that it
would be possible to save all the children in Germany by
bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting
them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second
alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also
the history of the People of Israel.
Letter to the Jewish Chronicle 5 February 1993
This was
the policy of the Zionist movement throughout the war. Another example he gave
was of the deliberate sabotage of the efforts of Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld,
Chair of the Chief Rabbi’s Rescue Committee by the Board of Deputies, which at
that time was controlled by the Zionists. Indeed its President Selig Brodestsky
openly boasted of this sabotage. You can read about this in my book Zionism During the Holocaust.
HMS Patria
Tom
described how the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israeli Occupation Forces, sank
the Patria, because they preferred dead refugees to them being transported by
the British to Mauritius. Over 250 of the 2,000 refugees died. The Haganah lied and claimed that the refugees themselves had sunk the boat because they preferred dying to living anywhere but Palestine. The habit of lying hasn't left them.
Tom
emphasised how anti-Semitism is key to holding Jews in the diaspora in
permanent fear, be it fake or genuine. The holocaust has been weaponised in
order that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing.
The Patria sinking in Haifa harbour
After the
war the Zionists insisted that Jews be separated from non-Jews in the Displaced
Persons camps and in the Jewish camps there was a reign of terror to force them
to go, not to the United States or Britain but to Palestine. Those who didn’t
want to go were beaten up and worse.
Rabbi
Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine ran a kidnapping operation for Jewish children
who had been placed with non-Jewish families during the war. They were torn
from those families, regardless of their own wishes. In some cases children
whose parents were in England were still forced to go to Palestine.
The second
speaker was Haim
Bresheeth, the Israeli academic who was recently arrested by the police in
London as part of their attacks on Palestine solidarity supporters. The third
speaker was Tony Greenstein, author of Zionism
During the Holocaustand the final speaker was Stephen Kapos, who was a
child survivor of the Hungarian holocaust. He was sheltered by a Christian group
in Budapest.
Stephen Kapos
The session
was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. On January 27 we
will be holding a similar meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day. We are determined
not to allow the Zionists a monopoly over the holocaust narrative in order to
use one holocaust to justify more holocausts.
I was arrested on October 4,
the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street when the Met Tried
to Force the British Union of Fascists on Jewish East Enders – 300,000 Stopped Them
– the Met is Still the Same Racist Force
You
may remember that I was arrested
on October 4th for daring to make a comparison between Israel’s holocaust
in Gaza and the Nazi holocaust. Two days ago I was informed by the Police that
they weren’t bringing any charges.
Israeli military Captain. Daniel Hatniel serving as deputy of Israel’s West Bank intelligence command & ex-spox of an MK
“The little finger of a soldier of ours is worth as much of Gaza… Amalek like Hamas symbolize an idea.. There must not be one of the Amalek left on earth” pic.twitter.com/oA3fDWtEks
The Police trying to find a way through Cable Street 88 years ago - genuine anti-Semitism has never bothered the Met
It
is ironic that on October 4, 1936 the Met, under Commissioner Philip Game, tried
to force thousands of Sir Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists and
National Socialists through the Jewish East End. However up to 300,000 East End
workers, including Catholic dockers and thousands of non-Jewish workers were
having none of it. What ensued became known as the Battle of Cable Street. The Met then was riddled with anti-Semites just as today it
is riddled with Islamaphobes. After battling for hours Philip Game was forced to admit defeat as barricades were thrown up.
Notice published in the Jewish Chronicle urging Jews to keep their heads down - when it comes to genuine anti-Semitism the Jewish & Zionist Establishment has always preferred a policy of keeping one's head down
The
Met hasn’t changed even if the target of its racism has changed. But even now
it has a penchant for arresting anti-Zionist Jews who don’t conform their idea
of ‘proper’ Israel supporting nationalist bigots.
In
1936 the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionists told Jews they
should stay at home and keep their heads down. Jewish workers ignored them in
their thousands. Today there is no Jewish working class. Jews have migrated socio-economically upwards
and politically rightwards such that their best friends today are bigots like
Tommy Robinson and friends.
In
my response I told DC O’Connor it was as I had predicted when I applied to vary my bail. The Police never had
a case for racially/religiously aggravated harassment. It was simply another
example of the Police deliberately trying to close down free speech on
Palestine . If there was any harassment it was on the part of the police.
The person whose complaint against me led to my arrest was notorious Zionist fanatic Richard Millett who above describes a holocaust survivor who opposes genocide as 'scum' - this is the kind of person the Met takes seriously
I
pointed out the even more outrageous arrest, two weeks later, of Professor Haim
Bresheeth, a 79 year old Israeli academic suffering from cancer who was kept
all night in a cold cell in Holborn police station by these bastards in
uniform. He too was told he wouldn’t be charged.
Professor Haim Bresheeth - 79 year old Israeli academic who the Police arrested
It
is noticeable that on no occasion have the Police arrested supporters of Israel’s
genocide for their language. Supporting genocide is not an offence in the Met’s
eyes, Opposing it is, despite the fact that committing or aiding the commission
of war crimes or genocide is a specific offence in the International Criminal
Court Act 2001, Section 52 of which specifically states that:
(1) It is an offence against the law of England
and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to an act to which this
section applies.
(2) This section applies to an act that if
committed in England or Wales would constitute—
(a) an offence under section 51 (genocide, crime
against humanity or war crime), or
(b) an offence under this section,
However
the Met pick and choose which legislation they will enforce and which legislation
they won’t enforce. They call it the ‘rule of law’ but in reality they turn the
law into an instrument of political oppression.
The
Met and the Anti-Terrorist Police are also engaged in a wholesale abuse of
anti-terror legislation in order to clamp down on Palestine solidarity activists.
In short the Police are, ever more obviously, becoming a political police whose
job it is to attack critics of British foreign policy.
This man, believed to be one of the Zionist counter-demonstrators, was photographed pointing out Palestinian protesters to arrest. This is the collusion Palestine solidarity activists face in London
At
the weekly protest at Swiss Cottage the Police eagerly video the speeches Palestine
solidarity supporters make for any hint of a pretext with which to arrest them.
Arrests are made, despite the Police being fully aware that charges are highly unlikely to
follow. It is another form of intimidation. That is one reason why I informed Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, in a complaint I made on 15 November, that I will be bringing
proceedings against the Met for Wrongful Arrest and Unlawful Imprisonment. You can read my complaint letter here.
When it comes to the billions of pounds lost in COVID fraud the Met are remarkably disinterested in enforcing the law
I
have also made it clear that I will continue to compare Israel’s behaviour in
Gaza with that of the Nazis. The false IHRA
definition of anti-Semitism, which asserts that such a comparison is anti-Semitic
is not, by its own admission, legally
binding. In the Opinion
of Hugh Tomlinson KC:
‘It is perhaps
worth pointing out that the fact that conduct is “contrary” to the IHRA
Definition could not, of itself, render that conduct “illegal” in any
sense.’
The
IHRA has been described
by Geoffrey Robertson KC as ‘not fit for
purpose’.
Sir
Stephen Sedley, a former Court of Appeal judge and himself Jewish, went even further
in an article in London Review of Books, ‘Defining Anti-Semitism’, when he wrote
that the IHRA ‘fails the first test of
any definition: it is indefinite.’ So what the hell are the Metropolitan
Police doing implementing a definition that is not legally binding, which is
not fit for purpose and isn’t even a definition. Apart from pleasing their political masters?
I
intend to go back to the demonstration at Swiss Cottage in the near future to explain
why Israel’s behaviour is certainly comparable with the Nazis. In some respects
it may even be worse. Even the Nazis didn’t single out hospitals and their medical staff for death
and destruction. It is a little known fact that the Jewish hospital in Berlin survived unscathed
throughout the war and was still in operation when Berlin was liberated. If I
am arrested again, so be it.
The theft of Palestinian organs, from those Israel has murdered, is another example of their Nazi-like mentality
If
my speech offends racist Zionists and genocide supporters that's also fine. No one is
forcing them to listen. Perhaps they will even learn something. In Israel it is not unusual to make such comparisons. As Stephen Sedley ruled, in the landmark
case on free speech, Redmond
Bate v DPP,
“free
speech includes not only the inoffensive but also the irritating, the contentious,
the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and provocative, provided it does
not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth
having
For
example the late Professor Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Premszyl
ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland wrote
an article in Ha’aretz, that in Israel there was a ‘Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early
Nazism’. No doubt the
idiot who approved my arrest would have had no compunction in arresting a holocaust
survivor for making such a comparison!
Jewish kids dressed as Israeli soldiers in N15 area with fake guns walking past local mosque as children leave
The comparisons begin with Defence
Minister Yoav Gallant when he began the genocide, when he described Palestinians as “human animals” – the
very same phrase that Himmler used about the Jews on October 4, 1943, in a talk to SS
generals. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke about how “justified
and moral” it would be to starve two million Palestinians, which is no
different from the Nazi policy towards the Russians and Hans Frank’s implementation
in Poland of ‘death by hunger’ against the Jewish ghettos.
We
are facing a full square attack on basic democratic rights and freedom of
speech by the police, backed by the State, Starmer and much of the judiciary. Erstwhile
liberals such as Libertyare keeping quiet
whilst anti-genocide activists are gaoled and harassed.
However
those who stand silent are likely to find that the situation gets worse rather
than better. So join the pickets of Hotoveli each Friday night and show that
the Police and Starmer will not be allowed to introduce a police state by the
back door.
