Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation. It was banned because large corporations, like the Elbit weapons firm, have captured the UK government
Every time I drive past those estates and multi-million pound homes on the south coast and other scenic locations in the UK I wonder where all that money comes from and remember that weapons and "defence systems" are likely the UK's most profitable physical export. What else does the UK produce? "Financial services", I guess.
There was also no mention in the programme of the Judicial Review raised by Craig Murray currently going through the Scottish courts challenging the legality of the proscription here.
"Lord Young’s ruling explicitly means that a Scot can always go to Scottish courts against an infringement of their human rights, no matter if identical action is being taken in England. It emphasises the independence and equality of the Scottish judicial system.
On consultation, there is one outstanding fact that I wish to bring to your attention. In England it is being argued - correctly - that while the Home Office consulted the Israeli Embassy, weapons manufacturers and communities including for some reason Lebanese Christians, they failed to consult any Palestinians, any pro-Palestinan organisation, any human rights organisation. They plainly and selectively consulted only those they thought would agree with them.
And to the point here they consulted with nobody - literally nobody - in Scotland. Not the Scottish Government. Not Police Scotland. Not the Scottish counter terrorist strategy board (CONTEST). Yvette Cooper just imposed the proscription on Scotland with no consultation at all."
Thank you Jonathan for a reminder of the UK government’s opprobrious support for Israel. And, as justification for this succour, they have elected to abandon Aristotelian syllogism - logic on which civilisations have been built - for the lies on which Israel have been built.
A desperately sycophantic UK government has adopted the ignoble and farcical reasoning that Palestine Action, that sledgehammer wielding, property damaging youngsters that has now become the epitome of ratiocination and the incidental exposure of the establishment’s perverted bias, must be regarded as such a dangerous “terrorist” group as the IRA, Bader-Meinhof gang and the Red Brigade, once were. Such is their tendentiousness, that highly respectable but ordinary British tax paying citizens, have been arrested and imprisoned for protesting the slaughter of their fellow human beings. If the consequences of this government’s behaviour was not so tragic, their attempts at moral and legal probity would have been amusing.
What is amusing is how various public figures like Lord Walney, struggles to look and sound dignified in the face of some simple moral probing: “is being a friend of Israel the right position to have given the mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza” to which he replies with an uncomfortable but straight face, “what you say on that, is highly contested”. I sometimes wonder if I live on the same planet as the aristocracy, the political and social elite and other such imbeciles. According to a self-contented and lordly Lord Walney, not only him and the general elite, but the entire UK are friends of Israel. One wonders if the Lord or the government for that matter, can nowadays be said to speak on behalf of the entire UK. To be honest, if I had a friend that somehow turns out to be a serial rapist-killer-white supremacist, I think the normal thing to do would be to put as much distance between myself and said friend as possible. But, alas, the elite cannot be trusted to be and act like normal human beings anymore, can they?
I can guarantee that if Elbit were not Israeli and were seeking to sell arms to a country that the American Empire doesn't like, they'd never get to a point where anyone were to need to attack them.
Thank you, Mr. Cook for your continuous reporting on this. I am at a loss for words on what the IDF has done since 10/7. Keep up the good work. The rest of the world needs to know about this.
The worst part is that the parasite class (who just happen to be Jewish) does not care if countless Jews are thrown in front of the bus like they were on 10/7, or for that matter when Hitler ruled Germany. As long as they get to hold on to the power they have, they will sacrifice anyone. THAT INCLUDES YOU!
And yes, exactly the zionst-owned media are STILL at it trying to manufacture a public image of zionists as victims vs palestinians as "aggressors", even in the midst of the multidecade zionist genocide against palestinians. Incredible.
Isn't transnational conspiracy to commit or assist mass murder......the sort of thing the ICC was set up to deal with?
It's not that it is accidental or that he doesn't know what he is doing - he had a long career spying on people and organizations undercover while playing the role of "human rights lawyer".
One expects corruption, lies, subterfuge, greed, self-interest and immunity for the elite and privileged from right-wing governments.
It ought not to be the case from (supposed) left wing governments.
Sadly, I now find it so difficult to tell the difference that I doubt there is any.
Humanity seems to favour the self-centred, self-aggrandising, bullying, prejudiced, hateful, lacking in conscience and ignorant of humane values.
I fail to see that this will improve as it doesn't appear to me that it ever has.
Indeed, it appears that if humanity learns from tragedy, horror, demagoguery, it quickly once again forgets.
So
The rise of hate, violence, prejudice, might is right and outrageous arrogance and self belief that is clearly false appears to be a characteristic of our times, virtually if not entirely, the World over.
The only difference I see today is that this time it really will mean the end of our race, either through military insanity or failure to act on climate change or both.
How can anyone who is both reasonably intelligent and reasonably informed choose to bring a new human being into a species replete with hate, lust, entitlement, control, exploitation, injustice and all that such entails for those who are subject to it?
- Instinct?
Then, if our instinct is still such after 300,000 years of the modern human, it will probably be a good thing that our race ends sooner rather than later.
Thank you Jonathon for your insightful work in such perplexing times. The current contortions in UK politics demonstrate the severe consequences of Britains complicity in the genocide.
Every time I drive past those estates and multi-million pound homes on the south coast and other scenic locations in the UK I wonder where all that money comes from and remember that weapons and "defence systems" are likely the UK's most profitable physical export. What else does the UK produce? "Financial services", I guess.
Rule Britannia, Scum of the Earth!
There was also no mention in the programme of the Judicial Review raised by Craig Murray currently going through the Scottish courts challenging the legality of the proscription here.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-186235679
"Lord Young’s ruling explicitly means that a Scot can always go to Scottish courts against an infringement of their human rights, no matter if identical action is being taken in England. It emphasises the independence and equality of the Scottish judicial system.
On consultation, there is one outstanding fact that I wish to bring to your attention. In England it is being argued - correctly - that while the Home Office consulted the Israeli Embassy, weapons manufacturers and communities including for some reason Lebanese Christians, they failed to consult any Palestinians, any pro-Palestinan organisation, any human rights organisation. They plainly and selectively consulted only those they thought would agree with them.
And to the point here they consulted with nobody - literally nobody - in Scotland. Not the Scottish Government. Not Police Scotland. Not the Scottish counter terrorist strategy board (CONTEST). Yvette Cooper just imposed the proscription on Scotland with no consultation at all."
Thank you Jonathan for a reminder of the UK government’s opprobrious support for Israel. And, as justification for this succour, they have elected to abandon Aristotelian syllogism - logic on which civilisations have been built - for the lies on which Israel have been built.
A desperately sycophantic UK government has adopted the ignoble and farcical reasoning that Palestine Action, that sledgehammer wielding, property damaging youngsters that has now become the epitome of ratiocination and the incidental exposure of the establishment’s perverted bias, must be regarded as such a dangerous “terrorist” group as the IRA, Bader-Meinhof gang and the Red Brigade, once were. Such is their tendentiousness, that highly respectable but ordinary British tax paying citizens, have been arrested and imprisoned for protesting the slaughter of their fellow human beings. If the consequences of this government’s behaviour was not so tragic, their attempts at moral and legal probity would have been amusing.
What is amusing is how various public figures like Lord Walney, struggles to look and sound dignified in the face of some simple moral probing: “is being a friend of Israel the right position to have given the mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza” to which he replies with an uncomfortable but straight face, “what you say on that, is highly contested”. I sometimes wonder if I live on the same planet as the aristocracy, the political and social elite and other such imbeciles. According to a self-contented and lordly Lord Walney, not only him and the general elite, but the entire UK are friends of Israel. One wonders if the Lord or the government for that matter, can nowadays be said to speak on behalf of the entire UK. To be honest, if I had a friend that somehow turns out to be a serial rapist-killer-white supremacist, I think the normal thing to do would be to put as much distance between myself and said friend as possible. But, alas, the elite cannot be trusted to be and act like normal human beings anymore, can they?
I personally ally do not cindem any freedom fighters tactics. I also believe that Hamas is needed by the Zoids as excuse to continue their genocide.
The Zoids are everywhere. Worse than Hikters nazis
I can guarantee that if Elbit were not Israeli and were seeking to sell arms to a country that the American Empire doesn't like, they'd never get to a point where anyone were to need to attack them.
It's not so much a failure of this government- it's a success of the power of US based financial interests.
Good to hear about this programme. Hope Palestine Action will be de proscribed
Shame he did ask that question of PA founder but not the corresponding question to z campaigner
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was making concessions in order to gaurantees programmes broadcast
Thank you, Mr. Cook for your continuous reporting on this. I am at a loss for words on what the IDF has done since 10/7. Keep up the good work. The rest of the world needs to know about this.
The worst part is that the parasite class (who just happen to be Jewish) does not care if countless Jews are thrown in front of the bus like they were on 10/7, or for that matter when Hitler ruled Germany. As long as they get to hold on to the power they have, they will sacrifice anyone. THAT INCLUDES YOU!
This is no different from us arresting the guy that shot that ceo and call him a terrorist.
Thank you, once again.
And yes, exactly the zionst-owned media are STILL at it trying to manufacture a public image of zionists as victims vs palestinians as "aggressors", even in the midst of the multidecade zionist genocide against palestinians. Incredible.
Isn't transnational conspiracy to commit or assist mass murder......the sort of thing the ICC was set up to deal with?
It's not that it is accidental or that he doesn't know what he is doing - he had a long career spying on people and organizations undercover while playing the role of "human rights lawyer".
One expects corruption, lies, subterfuge, greed, self-interest and immunity for the elite and privileged from right-wing governments.
It ought not to be the case from (supposed) left wing governments.
Sadly, I now find it so difficult to tell the difference that I doubt there is any.
Humanity seems to favour the self-centred, self-aggrandising, bullying, prejudiced, hateful, lacking in conscience and ignorant of humane values.
I fail to see that this will improve as it doesn't appear to me that it ever has.
Indeed, it appears that if humanity learns from tragedy, horror, demagoguery, it quickly once again forgets.
So
The rise of hate, violence, prejudice, might is right and outrageous arrogance and self belief that is clearly false appears to be a characteristic of our times, virtually if not entirely, the World over.
The only difference I see today is that this time it really will mean the end of our race, either through military insanity or failure to act on climate change or both.
How can anyone who is both reasonably intelligent and reasonably informed choose to bring a new human being into a species replete with hate, lust, entitlement, control, exploitation, injustice and all that such entails for those who are subject to it?
- Instinct?
Then, if our instinct is still such after 300,000 years of the modern human, it will probably be a good thing that our race ends sooner rather than later.
Thank you Jonathon for your insightful work in such perplexing times. The current contortions in UK politics demonstrate the severe consequences of Britains complicity in the genocide.