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 1st
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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.
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) September 6, 2024
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
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.
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) November 28, 2024
From here, actionists are able to dismantle the factory and halt the production of weaponry. pic.twitter.com/CiivraNDTi
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 19th 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
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