From the BBC.

 

More than 100 people protesting the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror group have been arrested across the UK.

Britains Terrorists

 Daniella Lock writing in the LRB on the UK’s decision to label Palestine Action a terrorist group: ‘Given the large numbers of people it is likely to turn into “terrorists”, proscribing Palestine Action could impose a significant burden on the state to increase its surveillance of citizens who pose no threat, at a time when MI5 claims already to have “one hell of a job on its hands”. Its undermining of civil society may also make it harder to hold the government accountable for the proper use of terrorism powers. On the current picture, the real threat to the life of the nation comes not from Palestine Action but from the home secretary’s attempt to proscribe it.’

+ Liam Cunningham: “In Britain it is now terrorism to spray red paint on a plane.  That same plane used to dismember children is not terrorism. This is where we are.”

I am grateful to Counterpunch for the above.

Would Norman have been amused?

Israel’s barbarians shooting at children attempting to collect water.

 And my government does nothing except being complicit in this genocide of Palestine. It makes me feel deeply ashamed.of the moral cowards who govern our country.. God save our King.

Bob Marley

 

On AlJazeera’s nine a.m. news a few days ago I watched a young Englishman in distress -

 stood  by the Mahatma Gandhi statue in London, supporting peaceful supporters of Palestine Action, too frightened to speak to their interviewer for fear of being arrested.This is happening in England, the cradle of democracy, and where free speech had previously been a freedom cherished by her countrymen.

   It was apparent from the photograph that was bravely shown on the BBC website ( the usual timidity shown by the BBC News department apparently not extending this far)  that the protesters carrying banners sating “Support Palestine Action - I oppose the Genocide “ we’re mostly elderly and probably consisted of devout Christian’s and Quakers. I think that Churchill, a champion of free speech, would have been appalled at this incident and the draconian legislation which was too hastily introduced as a knee jerk reaction from this government, who have a track record of introducing legislation which has to be subsequently rescinded.

 

From the BDS movement.

 We must escalate pressure and peacefully disrupt all forms of complicity to contribute to ending Israel’s unspeakable genocide and to dismantling its regime of settler-colonial apartheid. Only then, can we enjoy freedom, justice, equality, and what Desmond Tutu calls “our full menu of rights.”