Freedom of Speech is not Terrorism - Opposition to Genocide is not Terrorism - Supplying Weapons to Enable a Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing is a War Crime

 My Trial at Kingston Crown Court Begins on 5 January 2026 – My Charge? Supporting the Right of the Palestinians to Resist The Occupation

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Background to My Arrest

Nearly two years ago I was arrested in a dawn raid by a dozen police officers. My ‘crime’ was posting a tweet a month before. A Zionist had asked me to say 3 words ‘I support Hamas’.  I responded and said ‘I support the Palestinians, that is enough. And I support Hamas against the Israeli army.’

If anyone should have been charged with inviting support for Hamas it is James!

The Prosecution will say that it is a crime to support the resistance of Palestinians to the genocidal Israeli army because Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Using this ‘logic’ it would have been a crime to support the French Resistance, whom the Nazis also termed terrorists. My response at 6.30 a.m. was just 3 words ‘this is Orwellian’.  Perhaps rape and burglary had gone out of fashion? The Police were therefore left with no choice but to go into the business of thought crime.

In fact rape has effectively been decriminalised because the police say they don’t have the resources to deal with it. However they do have dozens of police available at a moment’s notice to go arresting supporters of the Palestinians as ‘terrorists’. Indeed the Metropolitan Police seem to do nothing else these days.

But perhaps, given the Met have a rape and misgyny problem, with officers such as Wayne Couzens, the murderer of Sarah Everard and David Carrick, it is safer to concentrate on ‘terrorism’.

Earlier today we were made aware of plans for a pro-Palestine protest outside St John’s Wood Synagogue this afternoon.

We understand why the group's decision to protest at this location will cause concern to some communities.

There is no legal mechanism to ban the protest from… pic.twitter.com/sg58LqLna9

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 23, 2025

This begs the question - why would the Met want to ban a demonstration?  The Police have now become the judges of what is an acceptable protest

What the Met are doing is supporting British foreign policy which is giving support to the genocide in Gaza. Having received no less than 9 complaints from Zionists like @Heidi Bachram, they decided to spare no expense in arresting me. Ms Bachram was operating in the best traditions of Jews who had betrayed fellow Jews to the Nazis.

I was arrested initially under s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 which makes it an offence to ‘express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed (i.e. terrorist) organisation.’

My Police interviewers did not understand when I told them that I would have supported the Devil himself against the IDF.  I gave them the example of how, in 1944, over 200 Jews deserted from the Polish Home Army (AK) because they had been told by their officers that they would be shot in the back when they went into action.

A saying common in AK was that ‘‘Every Pole has two bullets—the first for a Jew and the second for a German,'” It caused a major scandal when Tom Driberg MP raised it in the House of Commons, against the wishes of the Board of Deputies. Anti-Semitism was rife in AK so it is unlikely that I would have supported it.

However when AK led the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 against the Nazis then of course I would have supported it. The same with Hamas. I support it against a genocidal army but not against its own people.

Hamas was elected by the Palestinians in free elections in 2006.  What proscription effectively is is a racist definition of all Palestinians as terrorists. Britain has no business defining a group fighting the occupation of their own country as ‘terrorist’ whereas the Israeli state, which is illegally occupying that land and committing genocide is certainly a terrorist state but one acceptable to the British state. 

What is being embedded in British law is its foreign policy. It is political opinion which is cemented into the law, which is a complete abuse of the law which is there to regulate behaviour not opinion.

As John Stuart Mill argued in ‘On Liberty’ [Chapter 1, 2003 ed.] that

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

In the eyes of the law and prosecution Hamas are ‘terrorists’ when it is abundantly clear that it is the Israeli state which is a terrorist state. By comparison Hamas are akin to virginal choir boys.

As Lord Carrington, Thatcher’s first Foreign Secretary said, ‘one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.’ All resistance organisations are termed ‘terrorists’ by those they oppose. The Czech and Yugoslav resistance were called ‘terrorists’ by the Nazis.

We live in authoritarian times when protest and opposition to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza is equated with terrorism and dissent is equated with subversion. The latest outrage is a senior government lawyer declaring, at the trial of Natalie Strecker on charges of ‘terrorism’ in Jersey, that international law should be disregarded.

The Genocide Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, both passed in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, are effectively dead in the water, murdered by the new imperialism of which Trump and Starmer are such excellent representatives.

Starmer's hypocrisy over genocide - he argued there was genocide in Vukovar but no genocide in Gaza

Starmer, the ‘human rights lawyer’ argued that the massacre in Vukovar in November 1991, when 1,200 civilians were murdered, was a genocide but the possibly hundreds of thousands killed in Gaza are not a genocide despite the clear statements of Israeli government ministers of their desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

We caught up with former Labour MP Chris Williamson at the Your Party conference

Last week we had the spectacle of the Government’s ‘Justice’ Ministry blatantly trying to fix the outcome of Palestine Action’s Judicial Review by having the judge hearing it, Martin Chamberlain, removed and 3 pro-Israeli, security judges replace him.

The new judges are Dame Victoria Sharp, Dame Karen Steyn and Sir Jonathan Swift.  All right-wing and all pro-Israel. There is an excellent article on Electronic Intifada giving the background to these stooge judges. All are paid up members of the British Establishment.

As part of his authoritarian agenda Starmer is now trying to introduce ID cards, an essential part of the surveillance society that reduces us to mere numbers. And in order that juries don’t continue to acquit defendants whom the Establishment believe are guilty, Starmer and Lammy are proposing to abolish juries for all but the most serious cases of murder and manslaughter.

My Trial On 5 January 2026

The Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] then changed tack and charged me under s.12 of the TA with ‘inviting support for a proscribed organisation’ on the basis of a blog, Full Support for the Gaza Ghetto Uprising and four tweets. Of course I did no such thing and indeed I have long been a critic of Hamas’ conservative politics, see e.g. my condemnation of their use of torture, however I’m not prepared to demonise them either. In resisting genocide I have no hesitation in supporting them against the mass murderers of the IDF.

The CPS had to get the Attorney General, Richard Hermer’s approval for the prosecution to go ahead. Given that Hermer has “dear family members currently serving in the IDF” that was not too difficult.

The police have not once arrested supporters of Israel’s genocide despite aiding and supporting genocide being a criminal offence under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.  The CPS and Attorney General Hermer are selective about which laws they implement.

Although the issue of Palestine-Israel is always posed in the mainstream media in terms of Israel’s ‘right of self-defence’ it is the Palestinians’ rights of self defence which is at the heart of the issue of whether they were entitled to break out of Gaza on October 7.

Palestinians in Gaza had been under siege for 17 years They were subject to the Israeli policy of ‘mowing the lawn’, i.e. periodic massacres and bombing aimed at keeping the population quiet and submissive whilst they got on with their project of ethnically cleansing the West Bank before turning their attention to Gaza.

This was in conjunction with another policy of putting Palestinians in Israel ‘on a diet’. As Dov Weissglass, the lawyer and adviser to then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon explained: ‘The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.’ The figure arrived at was 2279 calories a day, 8% less than previously calculated. It is reminiscent of Nazi calculations as to how much food they would allow into the ghettos. They too made calorific calculations.

How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics | Soumaya Ghannoushi | MEE Opinion

The project Israel is embarked upon is that of a Greater Israel. This involves the occupation of land in all the neighbouring countries, the biblical Greater Israel or Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) which has always been the Zionist goal. That is why Israel is the only state in the world not to define its borders.

At the present moment Israel is in occupation of parts of Lebanon and Syria, without a squeak of protest from the ‘international community’ or the ‘rules based order.’

October 7 forced changes in the plan.  Gaza became the primary target although violence has increased massively in the West Bank where whole villages have had to be abandoned as a result of violence from settlers and the army. Over one thousand Palestinian civilians in the West Bank have been killed by the Israeli military or settlers since October 7.

October 7 was intended by the Palestinian resistance to be a short operation aimed at capturing Israeli hostages and exchanging them for the thousands of Palestinian hostages who had been convicted of the ‘crime’ of opposing an illegal occupation.  Israel’s military courts have a 99.74% rate of conviction and one-third of Palestinian prisoners, hundreds of whom are children aged 12 and upwards.  They are held in Administrative Detention without any trial. Palestinian prisoners are as much hostages as the Israeli hostages were.

oh my god. One of the three authors of the New York Times' "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax is Anat Schwartz. She liked posts calling for Gaza to be turned into a "slaughterhouse". This the person the NYT hired to write about Palestinians and frame them as sub-human monsters pic.twitter.com/vlaKLVxwil

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) February 24, 2024

Israel used October 7 to create a genocidal narrative. Instead of a well planned military operation it was alleged to be an orgy of atrocities – mass rapes and the wanton killing of babies. The original story of ‘40 beheaded babies’ has been completely discredited but almost a dozen British newspapers — including The Times, Metro, The i, Daily Express, The Scotsman, and Financial Times ran stories on their front pages citing Israel’s i24 claims. None have retracted.

In fact only one baby, Mila Cohen, died on October 7 and that accidentally. This is confirmed by Israel’s own social security statistics.

‘Rape atrocities’ were a well worn racist, colonial narrative in which the indigenous population and Black people were portrayed as savages with the men being portrayed as having uncontrolled sexual appetites and urges. This was not dissimilar to how Jewish men were portrayed in Nazi Germany.

The Israeli government constructed a similar narrative. Israel’s October 7 rape atrocity narrative was given legs by the New York Times in Screams Without Words. Anat Schwartz, an Israeli, was assigned to cover the allegations that Hamas systematically used sexual assault as a weapon of war during the October 7 attack.

The NYT article has long since been discredited. Schwartz was soon discovered to have liked a tweet supporting turning Gaza into a slaughterhouse. The Intercept demolished the NYT’s propaganda piece in “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé.

The article’s prime example of a woman who had been raped and killed, Gail Abdush, was contradicted by her own family.  Even the NYT’s Daily podcast refused to run the story. Schwartz was dropped but the NYT refuses to admit that Screams Without Words was fiction rather than a serious piece of investigative journalism.

The final nail in the coffin of the rape atrocity story was the admission by Moran Gaz, who was in charge of Israel’s Southern Prosecutor's Office, that she had no rapes to investigate or people to charge. In December 2024 Ynet, the widest circulation Israeli newspaper, published an interview with Gaz, saying that

In the end, we have no complainants. What was presented in the media compared to what will ultimately emerge will be completely different.

But the damage had been done. As the old saying goes, by the time the truth gets its boots on a lie has travelled half-way round the world.

The atrocity propaganda was carried by the mainstream media but when it was proven to be untrue, there was no admission of fault. This is how BBC style propaganda works.

The British first invented atrocity propaganda against the Germans in the first world war. Israel has perfected it to a fine art. The depiction of Hamas as ‘terrorists’ is of a piece with this atrocity propaganda.

The definition of ‘terrorism’ in the Terrorism Act 2000 is wide enough to allow the government to demonise anyone they want to. It gives the government of the day an arbitrary power to classify anyone they dislike as ‘terrorists’ regardless of who they are. Hamas military wing was proscribed in 2001 and Priti Patel, a crook who became Home Secretary, proscribed its political wing in 2021.

This decision was a warrant for genocide. Hamas was the elected government in Gaza and formed an administration. Civilians who were members of its political wing included doctors, teachers, nurses and academics. By branding the political wing a terrorist organisation this gave the green light to Israel to attack hospitals, schools and universities because ‘terrorists’ were working there.

 The ban on commenting on Hamas is a clear breach of Article 10 of the ECHR on freedom of speech, which our judges have done their best to negate.

Hamas is a resistance organisation, which Netanyahu did more than most to create and support in his effort to combat a Palestinian state.

Because my trial is imminent I am organising a webinar around not only my case but the attack on Palestine solidarity activists. Natalie Strecker is awaiting a verdict in a similar trial in Jersey and her charges are similar to those facing me. The trial of the first six of the Filton 24 has already begun. Richard Medhurst who is speaking also faces the prospect of being charged.  Despite being a journalist he is the ‘wrong type’ of journalist.

Please register and join us and also get involved in the campaign against the persecution of Palestine solidarity activists. I am calling for a demonstration outside Kingston Crown Court on January 5^th at 9.30 and for people to attend the trial which is estimated to last a week. It is important that the movement makes its presence felt.

Tony Greenstein

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Stop Starmer's Police State Webinar 30 August 2025

Last Saturday over 200 people attended our Webinar ‘Stopping Starmer’s Police State – Defending the Right to Protest’ to listen to six different speakers, three of whom have been arrested under the Terrorism Acts, one of whom is the mother of a daughter, Fatimah, who is in custody, Huda Ammori the co-founder of Palestine Action and Franck Magennis, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers who is presently one of the lawyers involved in seeking the deproscription of Hamas.

It says something about the nature of the Tory Party and its far-right leader, Kemi Bad Enoch (presumably her mother had forewarning of how she would turn out when she was named!) that its Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, someone who is more comfortable in the company of neo-Nazis and asylum protesters, has branded as ‘sickening’ the bid to deproscribe Hamas.

Natalie Strecker’s pre-recorded speech

Unfortunately Natalie Strecker, who has been charged with a terrorist offence in Jersey, under laws similar but not identical to our own, did not feel able to attend and speak in person. She did however kindly agree to send us a video with her message and it is shown above

Filton 24 supporters stage demo outside prison holding activistsc / London

The first speaker was Sukaina Rajwani, whose daughter Fatema Zainab is one of the Filton 24, who have been incarcerated for a year now and can expect to stay in prison for another year before even facing a trial. This is completely outrageous. They are charged with non-terrorist offences yet they are being kept in appalling conditions in prison as if they were terrorists.

Teuta Hoxha has been held in prison without trial for the last nine months, and has been on hunger strike since 11 August as a protest against the denial of her basic rights. She says that she and her Palestine Action co-defendants are being monitored by the Counter Extremism Unit. See Filton 24 hunger striker tells the Canary government is monitoring her under counter extremism

It is a sad, sick comment on Starmer and Cooper’s Britain that young women and men who are trying to stop a genocide are treated like the worst criminals whilst arms manufacturers, who profit from the bodies of babies torn to shredd are feted, wined and dined.

One person who should be in gaol is Lord Dannat, a former head of the British army and a member of the House of Lords. He urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the request of the US defence company Teledyne that employs him as an adviser.

Despite his claims of non-interference, police transcripts in a trial disclosed internal objections to his involvement, although a judge ultimately ruled that he had not interfered in the active investigation.

The revelation arrives amid existing scandals: Dannatt was already under two separate investigations. One from the House of Lords watchdog concerning a covert video of him offering access to ministers for commercial clients, and another into lobbying on behalf of CF Industries to save a fertilizer plant – where he received honoraria and leveraged his peerage for legitimacy. See Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm and Scandal-hit Lord Dannatt now caught lobbying for arms industry against Palestine Action

Next up to speak was Mick Napier, Chair of Scottish PSC who has spent most of his active life being arrested. It is ironic that despite Scotland being ruled for most of that time by the Scottish National Party, the SNP has given next to no support to the Palestinians who are also fighting for their freedom from an alien occupation. Indeed the record of the Scottish Police is as bad as those in England. See SACC Statement on the Arrest of Mick Napier.

The next speaker was Richard Medhurst, a journalist who was arrested by the counter-terror police at Heathrow Airport and accused of ‘expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a terrorist organisation’. He was detained for 24 hours, his electronic devices seized and he has been waiting for over a year to see if he is going to be charged. See his account here.

Huda Ammori, the co-founder of Palestine Action was the next to speak and as always she gave a barnstorming speech outlining the growth of the campaign against Palestine Action’s proscription.

Next up was Franck Magennis, a prominent Irish and socialist barrister from Garden Court Chambers. Franck is involved in the attempt to secure de-proscription of Hamas. He has been targeted by the Israeli government front group the so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism for having told the racist Chief Rabbi Mirvis to shut his racist, Zionist mouth!

The CAA have submitted not one but two complaints against Franck.  Presumably on the basis that if one doesn’t succeed the other might! Among the things they objected to was the statement that:

“Zionism is collapsing. Keep hammering anyone who still identifies as a Zionist. Their apartheid state is a pariah. It’s on its way out, just like South Africa, like Jim Crow, like the French in Algeria. Escalate!!”

Most people would agree that this is a good example of the exercise of free speech but given that the CAA is an Israeli front group it’s not surprising that they believe that British standards of free speech should mirror those of Israel – where pro-Palestine speech normally results in arrest and a beating.

I was the last speaker and I will leave you to watch to find out what I said! Apart from, that is, taking Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Ben Jamal to task for having done nothing to support the campaign to destroy the proscription of Palestine Action. PSC still labourd under the illusion that they can, by staging demonstrations in London that no one reports and writing protest letters to MPs that no one reads, win over the British Establishment to the Palestinian cause. Softly, softly and mainstreaming is what they call a strategy.

After all the speakers had spoken there was a Q&A session. The meeting was co-chaired by Esther Giles of the Socialist Labour Network and Haim Bresheeth of Jewish Network for Palestine.

The meeting itself was sponsored by the JNP, Jewish Voice for Labour, the SLN and Scottish PSC.

Tony Greenstein

ALL OUT ON JUNE 19 - At 10.30 am 19 June at Kingston Crown Court, I will have a pre-trial hearing accused of ‘terrorism’

 My Alleged Crime is Support for a Proscribed Organisation, Hamas But Supporters of Syria’s HTS/ISIS/Al Qaeda Regime Have not Been Prosecuted

Tony Greenstein Speech At the Birmingham Palestine Solidarity March Sunday June 1^st

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The charge sheet is deceptive.  I am charged with

‘Express(ing) an opinion or belief in support of (a) proscribed organisation that will encourage support of it (and that) on 7th October 2023 expressed an opinion or be1ief that was supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, and the support is not, or is not restricted to, to the provision of money or other property.

This charge is a lie. The Crown Prosecution Service had to obtain the consent of the Attorney General to prosecute, but that wasn't difficult.

Attorney General, Richard Hermer,  although critical of Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank and its contempt for international law, is a liberal Zionist.

In a statement to the Jewish Chronicle he explained that:

As it happens, I am from a “Blue-Box” Jewish family, a former Jewish youth movement chanich/madrich (a movement that my kids are now actively involved in), a graduate of the Machon, a former active member of UJS, a former volunteer for Searchlight magazine and a current member of Alyth Gardens shul.  I actively support a range of Jewish and Israeli organisations.  

I have dear family members currently serving in the IDF.  I also happen to believe... that the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank is unlawful, deeply damaging to the interests of Israel and wholly contrary to the values of tikkun olam that I grew up with and continue to guide me.

Hermer’s opposition to the occupation of the West Bank does not derive from the damage to the Palestinians (who he doesn’t mention) but the interest of Israel.

 Hermer was also a sabbatical officer for the Israeli Embassy funded, ardently pro-Zionist Union of Jewish Students.

The Solicitor General, Sarah Sackman is also the Deputy Attorney General. She is no liberal Zionist. She was the Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Genocide aka the Jewish Labour Movement, which has mobilised support for continued arms sales to Israel. The JLM was behind the false anti-Semitism smear campaign which helped destroy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.

My lawyers have, quite ludicrously, not been allowed to give me copies of the material in which I am alleged to have offered support to Hamas, even though I wrote it.

Sarah Sackman as part of the JLM Zoom Meeting with Kid Starver

Activist Sarah Wilkinson was reportedly asked to reveal the location of her contacts in Gaza when she was arrested by UK police earlier this week.

Wilkinson was taken from her home after a morning raid by Counter Terrorism Police on 29 August. According to her son, Jack: “They… pic.twitter.com/oSXvp54F5Y

— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) September 6, 2024

 

It is clear to anyone who isn’t blind that the charges against Sarah Wilkinson, Richard Medhurst, Natalie Strecker, the Filton 18 and myself have nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with attacking Palestine solidarity activists.

The One Paper You Wouldn't Expect to Turn It Into a Free Speech Issue is the Conservative Jersey Evening Post

If the Police seriously believed that we were engaged in the commission of acts of terrorism they would charged us with commissioning acts of terrorism. They haven’t.  The charges against us are about expressing opinions or beliefs that they don’t like.

Alistair Campbell &  Rory Stewart Interview the Head of the Proscribed Organisation HTS, Ahmed al-Sharaa

However there are some supporters of proscribed organisations who aren’t prosecuted. Step forward Alistair Campbell, who wrote the ‘dodgy dossier’ which was a crucial document in fixing the evidence for going to war in Iraq in 2003 and ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart who interviewed the Al Quaeda/ISIS President of Syria, Mohammed al-Jolani, as part of the Establishment’s quest to rehabilitate someone who is presiding over the slaughter of Druze, Alawites & Christians. 

For the first and last time I agree with the former Jewish Chronicle Editor, Jake Wallis Simons when he says ‘Shame on Rory Stewart and Alistair Cambell’.

Kingston Crown Court

Whenever the word ‘terrorism’ is mentioned the Judiciary go weak at the knees. I wanted the trial to be held in Brighton or Lewes Crown Court which are near where I live, since I have a responsibility under a Court of Protection Order for an autistic son. However because this is a ‘terrorism’ trial there are only 3 courts in the South-East that can hear it – the Old Bailey, Woolwich and Kingston Crown Court.

‘Terrorism’ legislation is being used, not to combat genuine terrorism but as a blunt weapon to silence supporters of the Palestinians and opponents of genocide. It is an abuse of the law which our judges are happy to endorse.

As John Dugard, a Professor of International law and an ad-hoc judge of the International Court of Justice observed,

‘‘The label of ‘terrorist’ is ‘a bid to discredit and silence opponents”. 

In the 1980s Thatcher and Reagan called the ANC a terrorist organisation and Nelson Mandela remained on the United States terrorist watch list until 2008. 

Gaza is a post-apocalyptic killing zone: UNRWA chief - Philippe Lazzarini

The accusation of ‘terrorism’ is being used to close down free speech on Palestine and Hamas is the pretext. Previously it was the PLO which was demonised. If proscription had been in operation 50 or 60 years ago then support for any national liberation or anti-colonial movement, from the Vietcong to the ANC, would have been a criminal offence.

What has been done, with the willing complicity and support of Starmer, Hermer and Lammy is to criminalise political opposition to the British government’s support of genocide.

Hamas is not a terrorist but a resistance group. It hasn’t blindly killed thousands of babies and children and then tried to turn October 7 into a second holocaust by engaging in the propogation of atrocity propaganda such as the story of 40 Beheaded Babies.

You might expect the ‘free press’ to take up this abuse of the anti-terrorist laws but instead they are its main cheerleaders. As George Orwell remarked in an essay The Freedom of the Press

‘The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.’

Except today the British press is dishonest on virtually every topic that impinges on the interests of their billionaire owners.  Included in that dishonesty is the broadcast media – not merely GB News and LBC but the BBC and Sky News.

In the United States we are seeing the destruction of even the most basic forms of democratic rights as Donald Trump sets loose the Marines and National Guard at those protesting at the activities of the ICE immigration squads.

It may not be as bad here but when you have a dozen police knocking at your door at 7 a.m. in the morning over a tweet which I posted a month before, you realise that the police state is not far away. When the police officer in my case, Chris Beckford, was asked to explain why he needed to keep possession of my digital devices, he stated when there was copious amounts of evidence in the public domain already:

However, that evidence only shows what Mr Greenstein presents publically. It is important to the investigation that we fully understand Mr Greenstein’s mind set and ideology. This not only comes from public sources, ie his blog and social media, but from his internet search history and communication with others. How, and indeed if, he talks about Hamas with others away from the public domain provides highly relevant insight into Mr Greenstein.

This is the language of the thought police who want to get into your mind. PC Beckford was not an ogre, quite the contrary. A quite affable guy but his mentality was that of Orwell’s 1984. The desire to get inside your mind is the stuff of which nightmares are made.

What is the prosecution based on?  Two things. Firstly a tweet on 15 November 2023 and secondly my blog of October 7 Full Support for the Gaza Ghetto Uprising.

In my blog I say virtually nothing about Hamas but I make it clear that I support the Uprising and that is the real reason for my prosecution. Support for the oppressed and colonial peoples is now a crime.

We cannot expect the British press to support free speech because it is in bed with the political class.

The reporting of my case in the Brighton Argus ‘Brighton man charged with terror offences over Hamas comments’ was par for the course in a paper which, under its present Editor Aaron Hendy, has gone from bad to oblivion.

Contrast the even more abysmal Jo Wadsworth, Editor of Brighton & Hove News whose innovative headline was ‘Tony Greenstein charged with terror offences’.

Wadsworth, who is to journalism what Harold Shipman was to care for the elderly. She once threatened to report me to the Police after I accused her of wallowing in the blood of Palestinian children. These people can get very precious.

BREAKING: Palestine Action are on a roof above Elbit's Israeli drone maker in Shenstone, Staffordshire.

From here, actionists are able to dismantle the factory and halt the production of weaponry. pic.twitter.com/CiivraNDTi

— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) November 28, 2024 

The Police in this country have prioritised the defence of War Criminal Arms Factories like Elbit even whilst ‘ordinary’ crime like rape and burglary has soared. Rape has effectively been decriminalised as conviction rates have fallen to 1%.

There are a number of reasons for this. It isn’t just the attitudes of the Police but also the fact that the Police  prefer to spend their time harassing Palestine protests and activists to doing the boring work of tracking down rapists and violent criminals. Its so much more enjoyable persecuting political opponents than doing the hard work tackling rape. 

Many police officers don’t even accept that there is such a crime as rape. The murderer of Sarah Everard, Wayne Couzens was known by the nickname of ‘the rapist’.  Apparently this was considered to be quite a joke.

Please come and support me on June 19^th because it’s not me who is on trial but the right to freedom of speech and the right to support the Palestinians. See also

How to fight illegal police raids and win, with Asa Winstanley

Illegal police raid on my home won’t stop me covering Gaza – Asa Winstanley