This from the Lift the Ban page of the Defend Our Juries website:
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, Palestine Action have been branded as a ‘terrorist organisation’, for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government’s complicity in genocide.
Defend Our Juries and partner organisations are now calling on at least 500 individuals to sign up for action on August 9th 2025. This action would be the first of its kind in opposition to the proscribing of a direct action group. The action is conditional on reaching our target of at least 500 commitments.
For more background – and a ton of solid gold legal guidance – see today’s excellent episode of the Crispin Flintoff show.
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Good one. I took part in last Saturday’s Edinburgh action (top left out of a dozen or so in Craig’s photo here: https://x.com/craigmurrayorg/status/1946660389162238189) and it was a great experience. Surprisingly we didn’t even get arrested! 😀
Excellent – clocked you! (I recall your face from the days when I still used FB.)
The real reason why the Genocide has not been stopped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-9yO7u6AaE&ab_channel=TheChrisHedgesYouTubeChannel
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-07-21/israel-genocide-big-business/
I’m loath to criticise either Jonathan Cook or Francesca Albanese, a heroic figure, but are they being reductive? I’d say immediate profits are but one of the reasons. I went into more structural aspects of why the West backs the Zionist enterprise so unconditionally, even when being mildly critical for form’s sake, in my review of Stephen Gowans’ book, Israel: a beachhead …