Palestine Action? Meet Lord Dannatt!

See this morning’s Sqwawkbox post

Defend Our Juries is campaigning to lift the ban on non-violent direct action group, Palestine Action, listed last month by UK home Secretary Yvette Cooper as a terrorist outfit comparable to ISIS or Murder Maniacs Cult. Now the D.O.J. website giving legal advice to anyone arrested for publicly expressing support has been closed down, The Sqwawkbox reports today.

Note to self: write post on inroads into UK civil liberties – unlawful raids, seizures and arrests of journalists, censorship, and breaches of the separation of executive and judicial powers – as Labour and Conservative governments alike stifle protest at their criminal participation in a genocide.

See this Novara Media report. Yvette Cooper – who, like hubby Ed Balls, gets funding from the Israel Lobby – is rattled by widespread sympathy for Gaza’s suffering, and for a Palestine Action taking tangible steps to disrupt the British based enterprises who profit from it.

Arrests of octogenarian vicars and former magistrates make for bad optics! Likewise attempts to blacken their names as terrorist supporters. Better to paint them as naive dupes.

This week Cooper has taken to the TV studios to assure us that Sincere but Deluded of Middle England is being led down the garden path by a Palestine Action which, had they her depth of wisdom, insight and factual knowledge, they’d back away from faster than you can say “Elbit Systems”.

There are just two problems with Yvette’s message as she peers earnestly into our living rooms, wearing the more-in-sorrow-than-anger  face she keeps in a jar by the door:

• she offers the square root of sweet FA to back her claim that Palestine Action are violent;
• she repeatedly forgets to tell us her advisors on this matter are, like Mr and Mrs Balls, in cahoots of the most intimate kind with Israel’s hasbara  industry.

Over to Novara Media for eighteen minutes and fifteen on the maze of conflicting interests at play.

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