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19 March 2025

Brighton Palestine Solidarity Activists Occupy Brighton Railway Station & March to and through Churchill Square Shopping Centre as Israel resumes Gaza’s Genocide

The Time has Come to Make Our Demonstrations Effective not Symbolic – We Should Mobilise at Bibi’s Broadcasting Corporation and tell the Met that We Won’t Allow Jews to be used as the Moral Alibi for Genocide

Brighton Railway Sit in and Demonstration Against Genocide in Gaza

In Brighton yesterday evening hundreds of us occupied Brighton Railway Station and greeted commuters with our message – STOP THE BOMBING, STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA. I spoke as did others before we took to the streets for an impromptu demonstration. 

Starmer's double standards on war crimes

Our numbers swelled by the end to over 500 as we marched down Queens Road before turning into Western Road and then streaming through the Churchill Square shopping centre. School kids and shoppers who were there greeted us rapturously. The only angry red-faced person was a Zionist Jeweller closing his shop!

And then it was back to the Clocktower for a final rally. Further events and a march are planned in Brighton.

UK police officer: You can protest for Israel, not Palestine

The time has come to take the law into our own hands. When our government continues to supply weapons to Israel and the Police refuse to enforce the International Criminal Court Act 2001  then we have to do it for them. The Police don’t even bother to disguise their support for Israel as the idiot Met Inspector in this video made clear.

Trump gave the green-light to Israel to renew the genocide. However this time around Netanyahu may find murdering Palestinian women and children more difficult than before. The outrage of the world needs to descend on the Jewish Nazis in Tel Aviv.

Francesca Albanese on the West’s Genocide Denial

The Arab masses need to force their Quisling regimes – from Egypt to Jordan to Saudi Arabia to Iraq – to call a halt to the genocide by calling a halt to the West’s oil.

Starmer refuses to describe genocide in Gaza as genocide

Palestinian children are being slaughtered in Gaza in order that Netanyahu can preserve his government coalition with openly neo-Nazi Itamar Ben Gvir, the former Police Minister, rejoining the coalition as Police-Security Minister.

It is incumbent on the Palestine solidarity movement to rise to the challenge. Symbolic protests are not enough when war crimes are being perpetrated by our leaders.. If laws need to be broken to prevent genocide then that is justified whatever our judges and rulers may think. That was the lesson of Nuremberg. The law against Genocide and the Genocide Convention is the Supreme Law of our times. All other laws are secondary.

This time the world must make it clear to Netanyahu and his Western enablers – Trump, Starmer, Lammy et al. that there is a price to pay for supporting genocide. The timidity of PSC and Stop the War Coalition nationally must end.

We must rally at the BBC, which is acting as the British arm of the Voice of Israel. It carried Netanyahu’s lies about how Hamas had broken the ceasefire when everyone knows that it was Netanyahu himself who broke the ceasefire and refused to move into Phase 2 of the ceasefire for fear of bringing down his coalition.

Instead of allowing Hamas equal time the BBC then switched to another Zionist, this time from Chatham House, the British Establishments International Affairs think tank.

We should say out aloud that it isn’t Hamas but Netanyahu and his western enablers who are the terrorists. Those who deliberately murder children and their families are the ISIS terrorists of our time. It is no accident that the ISIS-Al Qaeda HTS, which is formally proscribed by Britain, has been given a free pass by the British and European governments with favourable interviews with Blair’s eminent grise Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart.


Not only that but Establishment figures like former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, have openly praised HTS calling them ‘a liberation movement, not of a terrorist organisation.’ Sawyers said:

"It would be rather ridiculous, actually, if we're unable to engage with the new leadership in Syria because of a proscription dating back 12 years."




This is a clear breach of s.12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 under which I and others like Sarah Wilkinson and Richard Medhurst are being prosecuted. The situation today in Britain is that if you speak out in support of a proscribed organisation slaughtering Christians and Alawites and others in Syria that is fine. But if you support the Palestinian resistance against genocide, including the elected Hamas government in Gaza, then you are prosecuted.

In my view Netanyahu’s attack on Gaza is a sign of political weakness not strength. We have it in our power to force an end to the Genocide and an end to the arms shipments which enable the genocide. Of course the German government, which is Israel’s second major arms supplier, will be reluctant to cut off the arms supply since Genocide in Gaza makes the German state feel more comfortable about all the other genocides, including the Holocaust, that they have perpetrated.

Today there can be no excuse for timidity. The Zionists may seem to be strong however they have lost all moral legitimacy. As I said yesterday when speaking, although it may not appear to be the case, Zionism is approaching its end game. The narrative of Jews fighting for a homeland in Israel no longer washes. Israel is seen as Western imperialism’s attack dog. Its main supporters are the very anti-Semites that Zionism claimed it needed a state to get away from.

In recent days the far-Right Chief Rabbi of Britain, Ephraim Mirvis, has been embarrassed into withdrawing from a conference on anti-Semitism organised by Israel’s fascist Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli. Chikli, being a good Zionist, decided that given he is holding a conference on anti-Semitism who better to invite than anti-Semites!

Starmer’s Many Lies

As the Jewish Chronicle noted

Chikli has previously faced criticism for his efforts to strengthen Israel’s ties with Europe’s far-right parties, which had been boycotted due to their associations with antisemitism and Nazism.

The conference guest list includes a who’s who of European fascist and far-right parties.  In attendance will be Jordan Bardella, president of the French National Rally party founded by antisemite and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen; Marion Marechal, a far-right French member of the European Parliament and Le Pen’s granddaughter; Hermann Tertsch, a far-right Spanish member of the European Parliament; Charlie Weimers of the far-right Sweden Democrats party; and Kinga Gál, of Hungary’s Fidesz party.

In the fight against ‘anti-Semitism’ (for which read anti-Zionism) the Israeli government and Zionist movement decided to invite genuine anti-Semites. None of us should be surprised. When Hitler came to power, the only political movement to welcome the rise of the Nazis was the Zionist movement.


People forget that 90 years ago people like Berl Katznelson, a founder of Mapai (Israeli Labor Party) and editor of their paper Davar and deput to David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister’s, spoke of the rise of Hitler as ‘an opportunity to build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have.

Others like the national Zionist poet Hayim Nahman Bialik argued that ‘Hitlerism has perhaps saved German Jewry, which was being assimilated into annihilation.’

Starmer on Srebenica's inhuman genocide

Zionism today wants us to forget their friendly relations with the Nazis. Anti-Semitism has always had a fatal attraction for the Zionist movement, which most Jews saw as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism.

Starmer on cutting off food

Meanwhile Starmer has gone out of his way to support the Genocide. When Lammy said Israel had broken international human rights law by its blockade of Gaza for 15 days, Starmer’s spokesman contradicted him by saying that Israel ‘was at risk’ of breaking the law but in any case the government cannot form an opinion as that is the job of the courts.

This is what Starmer Supports – A Child is injured then all are killed

Liar Starmer never had any problem calling out Russia’s breaking of law and accusing it of war crimes in Ukraine. But when it comes to the Palestinians Starmer has reiterated his former view that preventing the entry of food, fuel, medicines etc. is perfectly alright. Starmer is beyond despicable. A corrupt Zionist who was top of the list when it cames to freebies. Even his wife’s knickers were donated! Starmer has unflinchingly backed up Trump on Israel.

The Palestine solidarity movement in Britain must redouble its efforts to stop Starmer, Lammy and all the other war criminals.

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29 November 2024

Today I Was Charged with the 'Crime' of Defending the Right of the Palestinians to Resist Genocide

While the Telegraph & GB News Had a Collective Tantrum About Allison Pearson, They've Ignored the Raids & Arrests of Activists for Speaking Out on Palestine

Jewish leftist Greenstein charged under Terror Act as Starmer assault on anti-genocide speech continues

Brighton man charged with terror offences over Hamas comments


Tony Greenstein's interview on Al Jazeera about Police repression of Palestine solidarity activists


Please Donate to the Crowdfunder Which I've Set Up to Pay For Legal Expenses & Costs

Whilst Telegraph nonentity Allison Pearson is described by the Standard as a ‘free speech martyr’ and the Spectator’s Laurie Wastell attacks Private Eye for not applauding this racist ‘heroine’, the Anti-Terrorist Police have been raiding the homes of Palestine solidarity activists and dissident journalists up and down the country, without a word of protest from the Torygraph, Spectator or Guardian.

Allison Pearson - Torygraph Presstitute

Sarah Wilkinson, a Palestinian supporting journalist, was raided by police thugs in balaclava who trashed her house, stole her money, hid her credit cards and took her passport (whilst making it a condition of bail that she surrenders it). Not a peep out of the Scum, Mail etc.

Our 'free press' only get worked up when the police arrest by mistake one of their stenographers

Sarah was asked for details of activists in Gaza, including their location. Given the close collaboration between the Israeli and British military this suggests that they were setting these people up for assassination.


Fiona Rayan's Xmas message that Jesus was a Palestinian led to the Filth arresting her and the courts sentencing her to a suspended prison sentence

Asa Winstanley, a journalist on Electronic Intifada, had his house raided on October 7 and all his equipment seized, although he wasn’t arrested. In the wake of the raid on Winstanley’s home, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on British authorities to cease using counter-terrorism laws to intimidate the press.  

The National Union of Journalists  “condemned the rising use of counter-terrorism legislation against journalists as an intimidatory measure harmful to public interest journalism and press freedom”.

Its general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said that

The UK government cannot on one hand state its commitment to valuing media freedom whilst endorsing the targeting of journalists through raids and seizures.

Richard Medhurst, another pro-Palestinian journalist, was arrested at Heathrow airport, held in solitary confinement for 24 hours, had his equipment seized and is facing a charge under the notorious Terrorism Act 2000, which carries a 14 year sentence.

The NUJ and International Federation of Journalists also expressed grave concern over the chilling effect of Richard Medhurst’s detention and wrote to Matt Jukes, UK Head of Counter Terrorism Policing with concerns.


These arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. Up and down the country activists, including families of activists, have been raided by the Police using counter-terrorism powers in their efforts to defend the genocidal state of Israel. They have particularly concentrated on attacking activists associated with Palestine Action.

I am pleased to say that the Police have failed. I was arrested driving activists to the Shenstone UAV drone engine factory three years ago. It has been the scene of repeated attacks by PA. As the Canary reported

On Monday 25 November, Palestine Action started the week by shutting down the UAV Engines plant, locking-on inside vehicles, to block the factory gates. On Wednesday 27 November, they were back again, to once more blockade the gates to the Shenstone plant, and close production down.

Now, Palestine Action returned, and this time its actionists scaled the roof of one of the factory’s two buildings. The action coincides with blockades at the Department of Business & Trade and the Foreign Office by allied groups, including the Palestinian Youth Movement.

In addition to these actions, on Tuesday 26 November, the UAV Engines factory was the scene of a well-attended protest by Palestine solidarity activists from the local community.

There was a similar report in the Morning Star. The Police claim to be politically neutral but it is clear that when the capitalist state is involved in a war, as the British state certainly is in Gaza, then all such pretences are dropped.

Not one genocide supporting Zionist has been arrested despite genocide being a crime under both national and international law.

On 20 December 2023 I was arrested in a dawn raid on my home on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation. No my ‘crime’ was not supporting the terrorist State of Israel which has carried out a genocide in Gaza and is doing so to this day. It was supporting the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, of which Hamas are a component. Needless to say all my electronic devices were also seized.

Nor am I being charged with being an ancillary to, i.e. helping Israel to commit a genocide by for example giving them the weapons to murder babies, children, women and men. Although this is illegal under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. If the above law was being enforced then it would be those who make millions from the death of children who’d have been hauled up before the courts.

The war criminal leaders of the West – Genocide Joe, Killer Kamala, Blind Blinken, to say nothing of Sunak, Starmer, Lammy, Scholtz et al. are not facing justice. It has taken over a year for the International Criminal Court to even issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

It is those who are opposed to these genocidal monsters who are facing Stasi-like repression from the British state and its echo chamber scribblers in the mass media – from the BBC, Daily Mail to the ‘liberal’ Guardian. It is opponents of genocide, racism and apartheid who are being criminalised.

My arrest was for a tweet I made on 15 November 2023 by someone identifying himself only as James who demanded:

“Just tweet I support Hamas!’ 3 words is all you have to tweet and then we know where you stand.”

I refused to take the bait and responded “I support the Palestinians that is enough” before going on to say ‘I support Hamas against the Israeli army’. As I told my police interrogators after my arrest I would have supported the devil against Israel’s genocidal army.


In fact because of a hospital appointment the date of charging was put back to Friday 29 November


But one tweet was enough for a dozen police to descend on my flat in the early hours of the morning to conduct a raid. The Police often complain that they are under-resourced when it comes to burglary, rape and other trivial offences. But when it comes to defending the government’s criminal foreign policy, because that is what it’s really about, then the Police have an abundance of people.

We are facing a concerted attempt to close down free speech in Britain using ‘terrorism’ as the State’s chosen weapon. Of course me or dozens of others expressing a viewpoint about Hamas, or supporting the right of Palestinians to defend themselves, has nothing to do with terrorism.

In the words of George Orwell

‘If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’.

Today the Police have determined that there are certain things that we are not allowed to tell people. Liberty is the last thing on their minds.  In the words attributed to Voltaire “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Freedom of Speech and Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights has become a dead letter.

Voltaire

The Police, the Judiciary, the Wealthy and Corrupt have never much liked the idea of freedom of speech but today it is under systematic attack. Once again there is no difference between Starmer and the Tories when it comes to extinguishing the flame of liberty. Supporting Israel’s ‘right to genocide’ is more important than freedom of speech.

Lord Waheed Ali - Bribing the rich but never the poor

But our rulers aren’t stupid. When they attack our right to protest or suppress freedom of speech they do it, not in the interests of the corrupt rich funders of Starmer, like Lord Waheed Ali, who freely donates gifts to his corrupt political friends – Starmer, Reeves and the already rich - but out of concern for the ‘safety’ of Jews or some other minority.

When I was arrested by the Police on October 4th for comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to those of Nazi Germany I quoted the key case on freedom of speech, Redmond-Bate v DPP [2000] HRLR 249, a case concerning a Christian fundamentalist street preacher who was clearly irritating those around him.

Lord Justice Sedley ruled that:

'Free speech includes not only the inoffensive, but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to promote violence.

Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having,'

Sedley was one of the few radical judges in Britain, as well as being Jewish and anti-Zionist. My interviewers hadn’t even heard of the case and I suspect this is true for most politicians too.  In Redmond Bate, Sedley was merely restating old principles that are being forgotten as ‘terrorism’ is used as a weapon to silence anyone who disagrees with Starmer’s support for genocide in Gaza.

One might expect that the Counter-Terror Police would concern themselves with terrorism but that would be a mistake. As we learnt from the Manchester Arena bombing which killed 22, mainly young people, at an Arianne Grand concert, the evidence points to a close link between the perpetrator Salman Abedi, MI5 and the Libyan February 17 Martyrs Brigade and Tripoli Brigade. The subsequent public inquiry report by Sir John Saunders was seen by the families and others with knowledge of what happened as a whitewash.

In essence Abedi was being used to wage war on Britain’s enemy, Col. Ghadaffi, without MI5 realising that he had turned on the infidels who had funded him. Hence Saunder’s cover-up.

The reality is that terrorism in Britain, primarily from ISIS, is a direct consequence of British and US foreign policy. There was no ISIS before the illegal invasion of Iraq just as there was no Al Qaeda and Taliban before the United States and western powers began supporting the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.

Hilary Clinton: "we have helped to create the problem we are now fighting"

Although it has disappeared down the memory hole, during the cold war against the Soviet Union, the West often sponsored Islamic fundamentalist groups.

Indeed in its efforts to dislodge President Assad in Syria, the West via Qatar and Saudi Arabia began financing ISIS and Al Qaeda’s offshoort, Al Nusra. Indeed Israel was providing hospital and medical care for them!

This is the hypocrisy which lies behind the current police raids on ‘terrorist’ supporters. Only yesterday they were our friends. Indeed Hamas itself owes its origins to the time when Israel preferred to use it against its Palestinian opponents. Indeed Netanyahu is accused of having done much the same until October 7.

Tony Greenstein 

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