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 18have 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.
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 Phillimoreadded:
“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.
Israel Prefers Killing Palestinians to Saving their Hostages - the Palestinian
Resistance Should Act Accordingly
John Kirby, US National Security Council
spokesperson, is on record as saying
that he hasn’t yet seen an Israeli war crime or violation of international
humanitarian law. Kirby’s determination not to see anything wrong with
exterminating 50,000 Palestinians (at a minimum) extended to describing
South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice as ‘meritless’.
John
Kirby – No Violation of Humanitarian Law
How have these apologists for genocide justified Israel’s
latest atrocity? Al Mawasi, which was specifically designated by Israel as a
‘safe zone’? Israeli planes bombed
the tents in this desolate area on the pretext of trying to murder Hamas leader
Mohamad El Deif. Their response is to say nothing.
Israel Bombs
Schools
As with Israel’s ignoring of the ICJ’s order not to
enter Rafah, Western leaders once again demonstrate that their claims to moral
superiority over Russia and China are as hollow as their words. Biden’s ‘red lines’
over entering Rafah vanished the moment the Israeli military entered.
Starmer's selective condemnations of violence -
his concern for Ukrainian childrendoesn't extend to Palestinian children
This framing is deliberate, it’s meant to justify the slaughter of children, again. pic.twitter.com/5gqSqEG7v8
Keir Starmer condemned Russia’s missile attack on a Kiev children’s
hospital but there has been no mention, still less condemnation, of Israel’s
strike on al-Mawasi, even though at least 3 times as many people died in the
attack. Like you I am sure that this was just an oversight!
However
you will be glad to know that Starmer found time to say“I am appalled by the shocking scenes at President Trump’s rally” where
someone took a pot shot at Trump.Not
once has Starmer said how appalled he was by Israel’s bombing and attacks
on every single hospital and health facility in Gaza. It’s all a question of
priorities.
Israel's
bombing of children in the 'safe zone in Khan Younis of Al Muwasi
Today
Israel flattened UNWRA’s headquarters in Gaza City. It is the 190th
UNWRA facility that has been attacked. Why? Because UNWRA was specifically set
up to support Palestinian refugees and Israel prefers them to disappear
entirely.
Murder at al-Mawasi
Qassam vs IDF in Tel al-Hawa: Pre-planned ambush w/ command & control using Qassam-built anti-personnel IEDs vs dismounted IDF soldiers: first, a Television detonated against ten soldiers followed by a Ra'adiya targeting the reinforcements in SW Gaza City. [Qassam Brigades 12/7] pic.twitter.com/5FTWfMehRl
Israel's Missile Strike on a School
Football Match
When
Israel recently launched
a missile strike on a school and football match in al-Awda school in Abasan
al-Kabira they murdered 31 Palestinians, mainly children.Their excuse was that:
“A warplane,
using precision munitions, attacked a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas
who participated in the hideous massacre on 7 October,”
Seeking to kill Hamas leaders is the favourite
excuse for Israel’s perpetration of massacres. An excuse Western leaders are
happy to go along with.
Education Minister Yoav Kisch Threatens
to 'annihilate' Lebanon - More Nazi Talk
The destruction of Hamas is being used as a pretext
for the genocide and destruction of Gaza. There is no difference between this
and the Nazis’ shooting
of 100 hostages in response to the killing of a single soldier, except that
Israel’s massacres far exceed a 100-1 ratio.
Nothing has been said by Starmer or Biden about Israel's repeated attacks on Hospitals
The silence of politicians and newspapers about
Israeli war crimes, the same people who were so eager to condemn Russia’s
attack on a hospital, speaks volumes. It does not go unnoticed in the Arab world
and the Global South. What Starmer, Biden, Blinken and Schultz are saying is
that the end justifies the means. That the goal of eliminating Hamas justifies any
and every atrocity. Which raises the question:
Is Hamas such a heinous terrorist organisation that
any amount of destruction, including the murder of 40,000 Palestinians, which a
letter in the Lancet says
is far, far higher (186,000), justified? Because that is the sole Israeli
declared war aim.
Hamas, which Israel was in large measure responsible for
creating, has arisen because of
Israel’s 57 year occupation of land that is not theirs. Israel’s occupation of
Gaza is illegal. It doesn’t belong to them. There is therefore an international law right on the part of the indigenous population to resist
that occupation in exactly the same way as the French resisted the Nazis and the
Algerians resisted the French.
Israel and the imperialists brand the Palestinian
Resistance as ‘terrorists’. This has always been the label that the West has
applied to those who resisted colonisation. The Mau Mau in Kenya were called
terrorists. Thatcher and Reagan described
the ANC as terrorists. The Nazis too branded the Partisans as terrorists.
As Lord Carrington, Thatcher’s first Foreign
Minister once remarked: ‘one man’s
freedom fighter is another man’s terrorists’.
British law, aka section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000, under which I was arrested last December, may
proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organisation but that does not mean it is a
terrorist organisation. The law may say that Black = White but that does not
mean it is. All it means is that the law has incorporated a lie and made it a
criminal offence to disagree.
We can rely on Britain’s police to prosecute
opponents of genocide rather than prosecute war criminals like David Cameron
for supplying Israel with weapons. Section 52 The International Criminal Court Act 2001 which makes conduct ancillary to an act of genocide
a criminal offence seems to be a dead letter as far as the police are
concerned.
It is Israel which is a terrorist state and the
British and US leaders are the enablers of terrorism for supplying Israel with
the means to commit mass murder.
The US has supplied
some 14,000 2000lb bombs. Gaza is 365
square kilometers, compared to
Britain which is a quarter of a million square kilometres, yet it has been
pounded by high explosives for 9 months. More bombs, 70,000 lbs, have
been dropped on Gaza than were dropped on London, Hamburg and Dresden in
WWII. The US and British governments are accessories to mass murder as long as
they supply Israel with weapons of mass murder.
We should be
demanding that the new Starmer government immediately ceases supplying Israel
with weapons to kill children.
Yet what has Starmer done? Contrary to previous
reports he is refusing
to withdraw the Tory government’s objection to the ICC issuing arrest warrants
against Netanyahu and Gallant.
This is despite Israel deliberately creating famine
in Gaza. Aid lorries are no longer entering Gaza since the Rafah operation.
It is abundantly clear that Israel is not interested
in any ceasefire that does not allow it to resume its genocide. Given the
choice between killing Palestinians and saving its hostages it has chosen the
former.
The
hostages who have been released have all looked healthy and been well treated. Even
the Israeli army, after freeing 4 hostages (and killing 200+ Palestinians in
the process) stated
that ‘the released hostages were all in
good health.’
The hostages have all told how their main fear
was of being killed by Israeli bombs. Contrast this with the emaciated bodies, wracked by torture, of Palestinian prisoners who have emerged from
Israel’s dungeons. 54 Palestinians have died as a result of torture in Israeli prisons. Israeli
doctors in Sde Teiman and elsewhere have, like the Nazi doctors of 80 years
ago, participated in torture including the use of medical procedures without
anaesthetic.
"Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas."
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he had told world leaders that "our war against Hamas is also their war against Hamas".https://t.co/B7H5ooXry9
Hamas is anything but a terrorist organisation. This
is simply a term of abuse. After October 7 Netanyahu spoke of ‘Hamas
– ISIS’ yet this is one
more lie from the world’s most infamous liar. ISIS beheaded those it captured.
Hamas has fed them and done its best to keep them alive.
ISIS was elected by no one. It ruled by fear and terror.
It was also a product of Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq. Hamas won
the Palestinian elections in 2006 but the Israel and the West didn’t like the
outcome. Hamas is the most popular
political current both in Gaza and the West Bank.
In 2001 Hamas’ military wing was proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. This was despite the
fact that Hamas have never attacked a target outside Palestine/Israel. Another
difference with ISIS (& Israel!). In 2021, for nakedly political reasons,
under pressure from the Zionist lobby, Hamas’ political wing was proscribed. The justification for this was non-existent.
Under the Terrorism Act 2000 ‘terrorism’ is defined
as
Under this definition the Israeli state should be
proscribed. Its war against the Palestinians in Gaza is being conducted for
racial, ideological and political reasons – settlement/ethnic cleansing. It has
involved serious violence. So it is a political decision not to brand Israel a
terrorist state.
During the Troubles in the North of Ireland the IRA
was proscribed and still is. Despite Loyalist and Unionist pressure, the
British government resisted the temptation to proscribe the IRA’s political
wing, Sinn Fein. If Sinn Fein had been proscribed then the Good
Friday Agreement of 1998 would
not have happened. We would not have had a quarter century of peace in Ireland.
The decision of Priti Patel to proscribe Hamas’
military wing had no factual justification. It was profoundly undemocratic
since it is the Palestinian people who elected them as its government in Gaza. Hamas
is no more a terrorist organisation than the ANC or Sinn Fein was.
The question is what the Palestinian resistance
should do in the current situation given that Israel and Netanyahu have made it
clear that they oppose any permanent ceasefire. Israel is determined to
continue its attacks on Gaza until it has achieved the ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinians. In January 11 Israeli cabinet members and 15 members of the
government attended
a conference calling for the ethnic cleansing and settlement of Gaza.
People should remember that the Nazis started with
ethnic cleansing and ended up with extermination. The same is true in Gaza
which today is a death camp.
Israel has systematically destroyed all civilian
infrastructure from schools, hospitals, universities, churches, mosques. It has
deliberately killed Gaza’s doctors,
108 journalists, humanitarian
and health workers. This has clearly been undertaken to destroy the Palestinians
as a people, the classic definition of genocide under the Genocide
Convention. Israel knows Hamas comes from the people and is therefore
destroying the people. Is it seriously believed that Israel bombed the world’s
third oldest church, the Greek Orthodox St. Porphyrius, because it was a Hamas
base?
Gaza is home to some of the oldest churches and mosques in the world, but
many have not escaped the widespread destruction of Israel's military
offensive.
The Israeli army claimed that Hamas were using
churches and mosques as bases to launch attacks from without providing one
single iota of proof. In the case of St. Porphyrius Al Jazeera reported
that
Israel’s
military says it is reviewing reports on casualties after Hamas says the attack on the Greek Orthodox Saint
Porphyrius Church in Gaza City killed and injured a ‘large number’ of people.
Suffice to say the Israeli military has not reported
its ‘findings’. The IDF has a 100% record of acquitting itself!
The choice facing the resistance is quite simple. In
a situation where the Israeli government has made clear its preference for
ethnic cleansing and genocide over saving its hostages, then the Israeli people
should be given a simple choice – either exchange their hostages for
Palestinian hostages (of which there are some 10,000) or accept that they won’t
be coming home.
Genocidal Zionist woman's hilarious
interview with Piers Morgan
The Palestinian Resistance should tell Israel that
every time a Palestinian child dies, be it from a sniper, a missile strike or
bombing then one of their military hostages will be shot. They should give them
a list of who will be shot first. Israel would then face a choice of continuing
to slaughter Gaza’s children and have its hostages die or immediately cease its
campaign of mass murder.
In addition the Palestinian Resistance should inform
Israel that until the aid lorries and food are allowed in unhindered, without
Israel shooting those trying to receive it, that none of their hostages will be
fed. Palestinian prisoners in Israel are on a starvation diet. The same should
apply to Israel’s hostages. That way political pressure will build quickly for
a ceasefire. At the moment Netanyahu is playing with the Palestinian resistance
like a cat with a mouse.
The double standards of the West and its prostitute
press are staggering. Just imagine that the Palestinian Resistance decided that
Israel’s war criminals, Netanyahu, Gvir, Smotrich and Gallant should be
assassinated and they planted bombs in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to achieve that
object, killing in the process dozens of Israeli civilians. You can be sure the
BBC would not fail to document every gory detail. But when it comes to bombing
schools, hospitals and tents, there is utter silence.
Our media is as complicit in Israel’s genocide as
Biden, Blinken and Starmer. They bear the same relationship to them as Goebbels
had to Hitler.
