Would the government lie to try to crush Palestine Action?
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Craig Murray, who was formerly a British diplomat, has checked out the reports on Palestine Action from the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and finds no evidence there to back up the Home Secretary’s allegations about Palestine Action. He reminds us that the UN (and, we can note others such as Amnesty International) has made clear that Palestine Action does not meet international agreed criteria for designation as a terrorist group.
We can only speculate on the government’s reasons for trying to crush Palestine Action and any support for it, rather than dealing with that organisation’s attacks on property under existing laws, most obviously breaking and entering and criminal damage.
Could it be that they are worried about the strength of the movement in opposition to Israel’s actions and the UK government’s complicity? If so, they would seem to have scored a spectacular own goal given the large number of people who risked arrest and even imprisonment to oppose designating Palestine Action as a terrorist group. The organisers of the 9th August protest have called another for 1pm September 6th and are looking for 1,000 people to participate. You can find out more at Lift The Ban – Defend Our Juries .
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This article was originally published by Craig Murray's Blog on Tue 12 Aug 2025. Read the original here.
Yvette Cooper is lying
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The main reason for proscription rather than criminal prosecution of PA cases , is for the government to get rid of those pesky juries who keep acquitting activists whenever they can be heard! Just stopping XR from giving reasons for their direct action hasn’t been good enough for our Labour government… As a matter of fact the Telegraph headlined that ‘ PA hit security guard with sledge hammer’ and the jury still acquitted on that particular case in the past (as far as I understand).
I’ve been white hot with anger about this, and have had many discussions among friends where the consensus was support of this group, and by some whose agreement surprised me. I won’t be surprised if some of those closer to government, eg. civil servants and Labour back benchers many of whom must feel likewise, became whistle blowers so that the deceit and downright lies of members of this administration were revealed and Cooper and Starmer ‘outed’ as de facto acting for a foreign power. This blind political support of Netnyahu’s right wing clique is affecting our democracy and respect for law and institutions, most notably the police, and must end now.
for documentation of Craig Murray’s assertion, check
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/07/03/yvette-cooper-israel-lobby-palestine-action/
Well Done, Craig!!! This whole episode is so ridiculous and puerile that it destroys all credibility of the current UK government. And to launch this legislation while having little to say about the blatant genocide being perpetrated on the Gazan people makes us ask “What sort of people are heading our government?”