Palestine Action

[Jeff Mansfield]

Re: Palestine Action

FIFA President Gianni Infantino("FIFA doesn't do geopolitics") is present at the so-called peace conference in Sharm El Sheikh. There's a Photo of him with Trump on Twitter.

There's money in keeping politics out of sport as long as you ban Russia while letting Israel stay and play in Europe. Just follow American orders and you'll be fine, son.

[jon1959]

Re: Palestine Action

[jon1959]

Re: Palestine Action

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/17/legal-challenge-to-palestine-action-ban-can-go-ahead-court-rules

A legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action can go ahead next month after the court of appeal rejected the Home Office’s attempt to block the case.

[jon1959]

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/20/palestine-action-activists-awaiting-trial-in-prison-to-go-on-hunger-strike

Pro-Palestine Action activists have threatened to go on hunger strike on the anniversary of the Balfour declaration in protest against being held in prison while awaiting trial.

Prisoners for Palestine have said an undisclosed number of inmates will begin an open-ended hunger strike on 2 November if their demands are not met.

A letter detailing their demands, which include immediate bail, lifting the ban on Palestine Action and an end to censorship of their communications, was handed in at the Home Office on Monday by two previously imprisoned activists, Francesca Nadin and Audrey Corno.

They said: “The government must make the correct decision and give the prisoners the basic legal rights that they have been denied. The government has left the prisoners with no other option but to hunger strike for their freedom and justice.

“The prisoners are firm in the knowledge that they have massive support both here and internationally, and that the people will come together to take action in their name. This is a direct result of not only the government’s appalling actions towards the prisoners, but also their active participation in the genocide in Gaza.”

[JamesWales]

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-hunger-strike

Pro-Palestine Action activists have threatened to go on hunger strike on the anniversary of the Balfour declaration in protest against being held in prison while awaiting trial.

Prisoners for Palestine have said an undisclosed number of inmates will begin an open-ended hunger strike on 2 November if their demands are not met.

A letter detailing their demands, which include immediate bail, lifting the ban on Palestine Action and an end to censorship of their communications, was handed in at the Home Office on Monday by two previously imprisoned activists, Francesca Nadin and Audrey Corno.

They said: “The government must make the correct decision and give the prisoners the basic legal rights that they have been denied. The government has left the prisoners with no other option but to hunger strike for their freedom and justice.

“The prisoners are firm in the knowledge that they have massive support both here and internationally, and that the people will come together to take action in their name. This is a direct result of not only the government’s appalling actions towards the prisoners, but also their active participation in the genocide in Gaza.”

Getting a bit satirical now.

[JamesWales]

Re: Palestine Action

(alleged) Palestine Action members used sledgehammers in break in, fracturing one police officers back

"The evidence demonstrates that all of these defendants used them for that purpose, to threaten or to attack the security guards and to lend support to one another as they did so," she said.

I'm guessing this is the kind of thing Yvette Cooper was alluding to when she said people don't have the full information as to why they were proscribed?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79727zeqyvo

[jon1959]

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JVL Introduction

The court hearings against six Palestine Action members arrested while trying to damage an Elbit Systems factory is underway, at the same time as the Judicial Review into the proscription of that organisation. Here Jonathan Cook, using some of the observations of Craig Mrray, attests that much of the procedure is a travesty of justice. Key is that there is a video circulating that is not the whole video but will carry influence. There is partial and sometimes unclear evidence.

Meanwhile others imprisoned on the same charges, still untried and posing no danger to the public, are on hunger strike in protest at the length of their incarceration. At least six of them have now been hospitalised and finally MPs are raising concerns but the so called Justice Secretary (David Lammy) is not responding.

The dreadful nature of this – and other – trials has important repurcussions for us all whether or not we support Palestine Action.

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/democracy-and-justice-on-trial/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=today-on-the-jvl-blog-newsletter-total-articles-for-you_1

[JamesWales]

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Terrorism charges, risk of death, careers in ruins etc. Supporting Palestine Action is sounding less and less like a nobel cause and more like the effects of a Class A drug

[jon1959]

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Terrorism charges, risk of death, careers in ruins etc. Supporting Palestine Action is sounding less and less like a nobel cause and more like the effects of a Class A drug

Sounds to me like a lot of people with deep convictions, principles and courage. The vast majority of people arrested (typically elderly peace campaigners who value civil liberties) are not members of Palestine Action.

But they understand naked state repression, silencing of campaigners against genocide, and massive authoritarian over-reach when they see it.

I'm not prepared to get arrested for this cause (not now, maybe not ever) - but I admire those who have the guts to put themselves in that position for the greater good!

[jon1959]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo

Six Palestine Action protesters have been cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm.

Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder but the jury reached partial or no verdicts on those counts.

The Elbit Systems building near Bristol was targeted in a raid in the early hours of 6 August 2024.

After the verdicts were delivered, the six defendants hugged in the dock and waved to supporters in the public gallery, who cheered loudly after the judge left the court.

The jury at Woolwich Crown Court had been deliberating for more than 36 hours after a trial that began in November 2025.

Rajwani, Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty of violent disorder. No verdict was reached for charges of violent disorder for Head, Corner and Kamio.

Corner was accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent by striking police sergeant Kate Evans in her back with a sledgehammer. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on this charge.

Prosecutors must now decide whether to ask the judge for a second trial of the defendants on the unresolved charges.

[jon1959]

Re: Palestine Action

The High Court rules the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Yvette Cooper didn't follow her own policies. The police will stop arresting Grannies Against Genocide. Government to jump back in the hole and keep digging with an appeal. The proscription not lifted immediately - decision likely in a week or so.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/palestine-action-ban-ruling-starmer-labour-latest-news-b2919762.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/feb/13/high-court-to-rule-on-lawfulness-of-home-offices-decision-to-proscribe-palestine-action-live

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8x90q9nyzyt

[stevo]

Re: Palestine Action

Nice to see common sense is prevailing

[delmbox]

Re: Palestine Action

The High Court rules the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Yvette Cooper didn't follow her own policies. The police will stop arresting Grannies Against Genocide. Government to jump back in the hole and keep digging with an appeal. The proscription not lifted immediately - decision likely in a week or so.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/palestine-action-ban-ruling-starmer-labour-latest-news-b2919762.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/feb/13/high-court-to-rule-on-lawfulness-of-home-offices-decision-to-proscribe-palestine-action-live

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8x90q9nyzyt

Excellent news. I bet the police are pretty relieved themselves

[JamesWales]

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These are amongst the worst political activists in the UK at the moment, but I guess we have to let the legal process do it's thing. I assume the government will appeal.

Seperate to the case in Bristol the other week of course, but they got off when there is video footage of one of them slamming a sledge hammer in a female police officers back during an armed robbery so god knows whats going on

[jon1959]

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These are amongst the worst political activists in the UK at the moment, but I guess we have to let the legal process do it's thing. I assume the government will appeal.

Seperate to the case in Bristol the other week of course, but they got off when there is video footage of one of them slamming a sledge hammer in a female police officers back during an armed robbery so god knows whats going on

The government will appeal. Hopefully they will be humiliated again. The government has enabled genocide and (after meetings with Israeli lobbying groups, Elbit Systems and the Israeli embassy - possibly also responding to Trump who called PA 'terrorists' after they spray painted one of his Scottish golf courses) and silenced and criminalised opponents of genocide.

There is a right side of history and a wrong side!

In the Filton case 'no verdict' was returned against three of the defendants on a couple of charges. There may be another trial - there may not. But if you read the detailed coverage of the trial it is clear that the prosecution case was shredded - confused, contradictory and often dishonest.

The security guards piled in with sledgehammers and whips (!); the police piled in with tasers and PAVA spray and initiated the violence. The protestors were trying to destroy equipment and arms (Elbit Systems the biggest Israeli arms manufacturer) and brought in tools to do that. They had already been attacked when PC Kate Evans was slightly injured in the confusion. The injury turned out to be far less serious than originally claimed and reported in the UK press! The prosecution (AKA the government) tried to portray the protestors as setting out to inflict injury on others but the jury clearly decided that was made up nonsense.