Tag: israel
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The UK government and police have taken newly repressive measures to discourage anti-genocide and anti-Zionist protests through criminalisation of the slogan ‘Globalise the Intifada’. Keir Starmer tells us that “if you stand alongside people who say ‘globalise the intifada’, you are…
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On Friday 12 June 2026, at Woolwich Crown Court, four remarkably courageous and principled members of Palestine Action were each condemned to five or more years of prison. They were punished for destroying around 40 lethal drones made by the…
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Extended version of an open letter opposing criminalisation of the slogan Globalise the Intifada 11 May 2026 We are profoundly alarmed by the growing attempts of politicians and public authorities to mischaracterise the phrase “globalise the intifada” as a call…
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The Metropolitan Police arrested hundreds of people for holding cardboard signs with the words “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” in Trafalgar Square on 11 April, despite the High Court ruling that the government’s ban on the direct action…
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13 February 2026 Glasgow TUC welcomes the striking down of the ban on Palestine Action and today’s decision of the Judicial Review to proscribe the protest group as a terrorist organisation as unlawful. We said it at the time and…
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Dozens of members of the national executive committees of the UK’s education unions NEU, UCU and EIS representing over 600,000 educators in schools, further education and universities are among 800 educators and trade unionists who have signed an open letter…
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Around 1000 people defied calls from Keir Starmer and the Met Police for the suspension of the Defend our Juries protest against the proscription of Palestine Action on Saturday 4 October. Trade unionists from round the country joined hundreds taking…
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As the organisers of the trade union delegation to the Witness Circle at the Lift the Ban action on 4 October, we believe that Defend our Juries is right to highlight the contradictions in the call from the Metropolitan Police…
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Delegates at the annual congress of the TUC, representing 5.6 million workers, voted unanimously to demand the repeal of the proscription of Palestine Action. Congress also condemned the “serious escalation in authoritarianism” embodied in the Labour government’s attack on protest…
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Eyewitnesses from the “Witness Circle” of civil society organisations at the “Lift the Ban” protest in Parliament Square have described the police as “completely overwhelmed” by the sheer numbers of people holding signs with the words “I oppose genocide. I…