Do Not Forget the Hunger Strikers, 3 of
Whom Are Dying as Lammy & Starmer Join the US's Narcissist-in-Chief in
Destroying International Law
Tony
Greenstein Speech at Trial of Filton 24 at Woolwich Crown Court 9 January 2026
Last Friday
I went to the demonstration outside Woolwich Crown Court. Inside the trial of
the first 6 of the Filton 24 was drawing to a close. The Jury should be going
out today. There is a good report of the trial from Real Media here.
The Video The Government
Doesn’t Want You To See
Not
surprisingly there was a heavy police presence but despite the bitter cold
there were about 100 protestors there. It was a lively demonstration and made a
lot of noise with food and tea/coffee provided.
Geert Wilders – Dutch Fascist
MP is Told He is Evil
There were a
wide range of speakers, including a Christian Vicar who got us all singing
along and I spoke on behalf of Jewish Network for Palestine.
We are
living in an age of imperialism and authoritarianism. War abroad is accompanied
by repression at home and the trial of the Filton 24 is a good example of this.
Their only crime is doing their best to stop the Genocide but according to the
judge Mr Injustice Johnson, trying to prevent Genocide is no excuse for criminal
damage. British Judges are probably the most amoral part of British society
after Keir Starmer and this government.
There are
going to be 3 more trials and we face the prospect of the hunger strikers dying
whilst war criminals Starmer and Lammy look on by, demonstrating their callous
indifference to the possible death of 3 young people as they demonstrate their
loyalty to Zionism.
This
‘Labour’ Government has no shame at all. All the hunger strikers are
unconvicted and but for false allegations of a terrorism connection would
already have been released on bail. ‘Terrorism’ is the go to allegation as ‘terrorism’
becomes the catch-all smear made against direct action protesters.
If anything
is a good example of terrorism it is piracy on the high seas and the boarding
of ships by the United States yet that was what happened this week with the complicity
of the British navy thanks to Britain’s most unpopular Prime Minister, Keir
Starmer.
Below is an Open
Letter from the Lemkin Institute to Keir Starmer calling for him to
intervene to prevent the deaths of the hunger strikers. The Institute is named
after Raphael Lemkin, (1900–1959) who was a Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist
who coined the term "genocide" in 1944 and campaigned tirelessly to
make it an international crime.
Lemkin is
known as the "father" of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention and
personally lobbied the United Nations to adopt the convention.
Let us keep
the pressure up on the war criminals who rule us and the British state.
My Trial for Supporting a Proscribed ‘Terrorist’
Organisation Begins on January 5
Webinar 'Free Speech is not Terrorism' 11.12.25 Defend Tony Greenstein
& Support the Hunger Strikers
The
webinar held yesterday was excellent. Andrew Feinstein, the ex-ANC MP and major
challenger to Starmer at the last election, kicked off with a wide ranging
speech dwelling not least on the pathetic corrupt nonentity that is the current
MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
Clare Hinchcliff, mother of Zoe, speaking on behalf of the Filton 24
The
next speaker was Francesca Nadin who outlined how desperate the situation of
the 8 hunger strikers is. Five of them have been hospitalised. That disgusting
waste of space, David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, coconut (white inside
Black outside) and ‘Christian’ no less, has refused
to meet with MPs over the hunger strikes.
Andrew Feinstein
The
hunger strikes have forced the BBC and mass media
to at last cover the hunger strike. People need to emphasise that there
youngsters are innocent until proven guilty. It is only because the State has
alleged they are terrorists, though charging them with ‘ordinary’ crimes of criminal
damage, that they have been denied bail.
They
have a right to be treated as innocent and to be granted bail.Their only ‘offence’ is to oppose genocide.
Francesca Nadin Speaking on Behalf of the Palestine Prisoners Society
So
far 43 MPs have signed an Early
Day Motion ‘Palestine Action Hunger Strike’. There are 20 Labour, 4 Green,
5 SNP, 4 Plaid Cymru, 6 Independent (inc. Jeremy Corbyn), 1 Your Party, 2 SDLP
and one Liberal-Democrat signatures. Given that the Lib-Dems are the third largest
party with 72 seats the fact that only one of their MPs is prepared to put
their name to the Early Day Motion speaks volumes. The EDM itself is extremely
anodyne, reading that@
Huda Ammori - the co-founder of Palestine Action
‘That this
House expresses its extreme concern that six prisoners associated with
Palestine Action have felt that they had no other recourse to protest against
their prison conditions but to launch a hunger strike; and calls upon the
Secretary of State for Justice to intervene urgently to ensure their treatment
is humane and their human rights are upheld.’
We
should not be too surprised at the Lib Dems – after all in their incarnation as
Liberals under Asquith they faced down Suffragette Hunger Strikes before
introducing the Cat and Mouse Act and force feeding. Scratch a Lib Dem and you
get a Tory. No one should ever have an illusion in what is an alternative party
of capitalism.
We
heard from Clare Hinchliffe about the ordeals of the Filton 24 and the 6 people
who are currently on trial at Woolwich and the ordeal it is for them. Theprocess is the punishment and they spend more
time in prison vans than in court and are practically denied time to see their
barristers.
Woolwich
Crown Court, which I attended is a fortress designed to intimidate. The media
have been covering the trial with one purpose in mind – to exaggerate the
prosecution evidence and gloss over what actually has been happening.
With
the connivance of the Judge, the Prosecution has engaged in dirty tricks. As
hersays:
the prosecution released to the
media highly edited video footage from the current trial in Woolwich Crown
Court of six activists accused of the attack inside Elbit Systems’ Filton
factory on August 6 2024.
While that video has fuelled tens
of thousands of Zionist troll posts on social media, the remarkable thing is
that it is almost impossible to establish what it shows.
In fact, had it been put out
without the prosecution narrative, nobody would have discerned that is what
they were looking at. It shows chaotic fast-moving footage from bodycams.
The first sledgehammer seen is
plainly in the hands of a security guard – as testimony in the trial, ignored
by the MSM, has explained.
Here are some key facts:
·Every single prosecution witness who gave evidence
about the melee was obliged to change their statement when confronted by the
defence with video evidence which contradicted it. This included much more video
than was released by the prosecution.
·The prosecution produced a misleading account of
the number and location of CCTV cameras in the factory. They were obliged to
present a new map showing more cameras.
·The video evidence was left in or given into the hands
of Elbit. A search of Elbit’s premises in November 2025 found the USB sticks of
video in their Metropolitan Police evidence bags in Elbit’s safe.
My
own trial begins on January 5th at Kingston Crown Court and I have a
pre-trial hearing tomorrow (Friday) at which various matters will be discussed.
One will be an application to
delay the trial as the Supreme Court decision in R v ABJ & BDN has been heard but
judgement has not yet been handed down.
There is also a challenge to the
decision of the CPS to bring the prosecution. This decision needs the consent
of the Attorney General, Richard Hermer. Hermer disqualified himself because he
has or had relatives serving in the Israeli army.
He therefore handed the decision
to his solicitor general, Sarah Sackman.Sackman not only has relatives who’ve served in the Israeli army she has
been Vice-Chair of the Genocide supporting Jewish Labour Movement.
She was at the heart of the fake anti-Semitism
smear campaign in the Labour Party and has opposed the arrest warrants on Netanyahu
and his fellow criminal Yoav Gallant.
Sackman is supposed to declare an
interest but this trollope, true to her Zionist and racist beliefs nodded
through the prosecution. It will be interesting to see if the British judiciary
also nods it through given their record in recent years for eroding
free speech in Britain.
Either way I am calling for a
demonstration outside the court on 5th January 2026 and for people
to be in the public gallery for the trial which is time tabled for one week.
FreeSpeech on Palestinian is on trial, not just
me. Whether we are allowed to say what we think without the thought police
cracking down on us.
Now We Need to Build Support for the Hunger Strikers & Defeat
Lammy’s Attempts to Abolish Juries
Natalie Strecker Speaking After Her Victory
The acquittal of Natalie Strecker on charges
of inviting support for proscribed organisations, Hamas and Hezbollah, is a
victory for the all of us and a defeat for a government that has given
unstinting support to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.
'Freedom of Speech and Protests Against Genocide are not Terrorism
Please Register for
the Webinar on December 11th 6 pm
However we cannot rest on our laurels. The
government and its Zionist Attorney General Richard Hermer sent a senior King’s
Counsel to Jersey to inform the Judge, Sir John Saunders and the Jurants that
International Law was to be disregarded.
International law, be it the Genocide
Conventionor the European Convention on
Human Rights is now a frivolous extra to be disregarded by British courts. One
wonders what the point is of signing onto such treaties if they are going
to be comprehensively ignored.
We have a miserable ‘Labour government’ that
is inhock to Trump who has sanctioned
the International Criminal Court for daring to issue arrest warrants for
Netanyahu and Gallant on charges of war crimes like some second-rate mafia boss.
Trump has attacked anyone standing up for
human rights. Francesca Albanesa has lost
all her bank accounts, as a full spectrum attack is made on anyone committed to
what remains of international law.
Not surprisingly Starmer and Hermer, both of
whom were human rights lawyers, have not only failed to criticise a lawless and
rogue American government they have actively aided him with their persecution
of those who campaign against Israel’s genocide.
Bringing up the rear, the ever pathetic David
Lammy is embarked on abolishing juries in most trials as the government does
their best to ensure that the only independent voice in our constitution is
silenced. Juries have a habit of acquitting defendants in trials whereas judges
do their best to secure convictions.
Judges can be relied on to reflect Establishment views because they come from the very same Establishment
It took a long fight before juries
were able to establish their right to reach a verdict that the judge in the
trial did not like. The government
has attempted to roll back the right of jurors, derived from the 1670 case
of Edward Bushells, to deliver a
verdict contrary to a judge’s directions and in accordance with their
conscience.
Hunger
striking UK political prisoners learn lessons from Palestine
This
despite a plaque commemorating this case being on the wall of the Old Bailey. The arrest of Trudy
Warner and others who had the temerity to inform jurors of their right was a
warning shot across the bows. However Judge Saini in the High Court made it clear
that Bushell’s was still good law despite the behaviour of Judge Silas Reid and others in
ordering the police to arrest those holding signs informing jurors of their
rights. Although the Tory government appealed
Saini’s judgment the incoming Labour government dropped
it.
Before the Bushell’s
Case in 1670 juries had been
little more than creatures of the judges. They were termed the Judges 13
voices. It was not unusual for judges to instruct juries that they must return
a verdict of guilty.
In 1670 a jury
refused to convict William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania and a prominent
Quaker and William Mead, for preaching to an ‘unlawful and tumultuous’ assembly.
They were only prepared to state that they had been preaching, which was a statement
of fact.
The jury was then locked up for 2 days without food, water
or a chamber pot. The jury was heavily fined but Edward Bushell refused to pay
the fine and was imprisoned for contempt. He then petitioned for habeus
corpus and the Court of Common Pleas under Chief Justice Vaughan
established that juries could not be punished for their verdicts.
The independence of the judiciary was brought
into stark relief when 3 pro-Israel conservative judges, led by Robert Maxwell’s
former lawyer Dame Victoria Sharp, replaced
a more liberal judge, Martin Chamberlain, at the last minute in the Judicial
Review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist’ organisation.
The current legal
establishment will adapt themselves to the legal framework of whatever sort is
ordained by the rulers. Anybody expecting judges to defend liberties is likely
to be sorely disappointed. They will happily remove the ability of juries to
defend liberty too.
Democratic rights such as freedom of assembly
and speech were established in the teeth of opposition to them by His Majesty’s
loyal judges. If our few remaining democratic freedoms and civil liberties had
rested in the hands of the judges they would have disappeared long ago.
This government, like its predecessor, have
deliberately used the label ‘terrorist’ in order to suppress and close down
protest movements. In this the judiciary have played a supporting role.
Protest Outside the BBC at its Silence
As Professor John Dugard KC, a distinguished South
Africa International Lawyer and ad-hoc judge of the International Court of
Justice said:
Terrorism is an emotive word that has no place in
the assessment of the conduct of either a government or a resistance movement.
One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. Few would today label
members of the French resistance in World War II as “terrorist” and most would
have no hesitation in describing the Nazi forces as “terrorist”. Yet today most
western states refrain from describing the acts of government forces as acts of
terror but have no hesitation in so describing the acts of resistance movements
and other non-state actors.
We all know
what terrorism is. It is the planting of a bomb in July 2017 that killed 22 young
people at the Manchester Arena Ariana Grande Concert or the attack by ISIS
on the Bataclan concert in Paris that murdered some 100 people.
True to form - the BBC is REFUSING to cover the hunger strikes
It is the State
of Israel not Hamas or Hezbollah who are terrorists. Israel thinks nothing of
bombing schools and hospitals, shooting children in the head and dropping 2,000
lb bombs on refugee camps. Yet instead of condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza,
Starmer is helping to supply the weapons of mass murder that enable the Israeli
government to carry out its genocide.
The judiciary have proved their mettle by
remanding in custody the Filton 24 who have been charged with the non-terrorist
offences of criminal damage but have been held in conditions reserved for
terrorists. Their only ‘crime’ was to have attack an Elbit factory that was
manufacturing Quadcopters that are used by Israel after a missile or bomb
attack to pick off the survivors.
It is incumbent upon us to step up the fight
for the six hunger strikers, two of whom have already been hospitalised. That
is why it is disappointing that neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana have
bothered to sign Early Day Motion 2386 calling on the government to intervene. Nor
have the two Muslim independent alliance MPs.
Free the Hunger Strikers
The political prisoners for Palestine currently on
hunger strike are (L to R):
T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Jon Cink, Heba Muraisi,
Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib Their demands are:
1.An end to
censorship in jail. Prisoners’ letters and phone calls have been blocked.
2.Immediate
bail. Most have been held over the usual six-month time limit.
3.The right
to a fair trial. An end to government demonization and lies.
4.Deproscribe
Palestine Action and drop the “terror” link on these cases.
On Friday December 11th Clare Hinchcliffe of
the Filton 24 campaign will be speaking at a webinar organised by Jewish Network for Palestine along with Andrew Feinstein, Fahad Ansari, Huda Ammori, Richard
Medhurst and myself among other speakers.
I will be facing the same charges that Natalie faced,
namely ‘inviting support’ for a
proscribed organisation when my trial begins at Kingston Crown Court on January
5 next year.
It is essential that we step up the campaign to have the hunger
strikers freed. So far Palestine Solidarity Campaign has said nothing and done
nothing. The BBC has, as expected, refused to cover the hunger strikes.
