So apparently this IS terrorism…but arming a genocide isn’t??? Do they think we are stupid?

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful, days after four activists were sentenced as terrorists for criminal damage — a first in our legal history. More than 3,000 people have been arrested since the proscription - most for holding placards - and over 700 charged under the Terrorism Act. Not everyone will agree with the protesters’ politics, but the misuse of counter-terrorism powers to criminalise dissent should terrify us all. I voted against the proscription last year and I will continue to stand up for the right to protest.

Read that again: “The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s.” That’s because of the proscription of Palestine Action. It is absurd. It is self evidently absurd. And history will damn every last person implicated

This Governments branding of protest as 'terrorism' has seen grandparents arrested and dragged through the courts simply for holding up signs. It's deeply authoritarian when people are speaking out against a genocide and for a free Palestine.

Today’s ruling to uphold the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action is a travesty of justice. One by one, the very foundations of our democracy are being destroyed — all to oil the wheels of British complicity in genocide. Our government has participated in the mass murder of Palestinians. That is the real crime, and we must bring about justice.

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" This from a Labour government minister. We are in very, very dark times.

Police have made 2700 arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them. We need to urge them not to amnesty.org.uk/get-involved/… via @amnestyuk

U.S. media should focus less on how unhappy Israel is about the deal and more on how dangerous Israel is to peace.

The US and Iran was supposed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding today before the Israeli strike on Beirut. Trump is either dishonest (complicit) or weak (incapable of restraining Netanyahu). Either way, it will be very difficult to make a deal with the US.

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of. Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time. A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

‘Let’s blow up as many people as possible’ says Israel 🇮🇱. Israel wants perpetual war, and as they have done each time before, will hijack any chance of peace.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

A doctor kidnapped from a besieged hospital, tortured and held without charge for over 500 days, would surely be called a HOSTAGE. Unless he’s Palestinian.

🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future. The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end. Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest. Read our position: Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: amn.st/6015B87ZCx

Trump has been repeating the exact same meaningless cycle every single week since he and Netanayau started this war on February 28. 1) We won!; 2) They're begging to surrender!; 3) Order Barak Ravid to announce that a deal is imminent; 4) Bomb again; 5) Back to #1.

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No, she’s facing “backlash” for whitewashing Israel’s genocide. Why did you leave that part out?

During the hegemonic era, security relied on dominance, or "peace through strength." There was no need for the West to understand the security concerns of its opponents, and diplomacy was replaced by ultimatums and threats. Western hegemony is now over, and the Political West must learn diplomacy again. As Hegseth demonstrates, the only plan is to strike Iran hard and hope that it will do as the US demands.

What a weird way of saying ISRAEL KILLED Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.

Iran – by refusing to submit to US and Israeli aggression, and in realising its power to throttle global oil supplies – has shown that US "full-spectrum global dominance" was never as complete as the “masters of the universe” assumed. It has an Achilles’ heel, after all. The truth is we should all have been terrified by the idea that our leaders might assume and behave as if history had, as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed, come to an end. In practice, it could mean only an end to constraints on capitalism – an end to any humanising limits on its reach, on its ambitions, on its cruelty. Like King Midas, the Epstein class expected to monetise everything it touched. And like King Midas, hubris will be its downfall. There are constraints, both immediate and long term, that even the billionaires cannot overcome. A finite planet, with finite resources, cannot be plundered indefinitely. A delicately balanced biosphere, which evolved over billions of years to the point where it became compatible with higher life forms, cannot be abused, filled with our toxic detritus, forever. Similarly, countries and peoples cannot be humiliated, turned into objects ripe for exploitation and humiliation, year after year, decade after decade, without a reckoning eventually. The “end of history”, as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. The end of struggle, the end of freedom. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate. In Gaza, in Lebanon, in Iran, we see peoples refusing – however imperfectly, however violently – to submit to their enslavement. In the West, with our colonial arrogance undimmed, we call it “terrorism”. We call any solidarity with it “hate”. We send our own truth-tellers to prison as criminals. The genocidal abuse of peoples in Gaza and Lebanon – the chief victims of the “end of history” – serves as a reminder to westerners of what the system that triumphed nearly half a century ago is really about. What it requires. Where it is heading. But more dangerously for the billionaires, the resistance to that abuse, the struggle against subjugation, against being disappeared, reminds western publics that enslavement is not inevitable, that dignity might still be possible, that another way can, at the very least, be imagined. Struggle must continue because submission is death. That is the message from Gaza and Lebanon. It is the reason our rulers are so desperate to crush any sense of hope. They need us to believe that history came to an end in 1991. Because otherwise, their days are numbered. This is an extract from my latest article. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️