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African leader’s grandson reveals why he helped Palestine Action

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African leader’s grandson reveals why he helped Palestine Action

The grandson of one of Africa’s most iconic post-colonial leaders has told a court in London why he helped the protest group Palestine Action. William Nyerere Plastow, 35, is charged with criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid at an Israeli-owned arms factory in Bristol in August 2024. A further joint enterprise charge of violent disorder was dismissed last week due to lack of evidence. Plastow was arrested days after the raid and kept in prison without trial until February 2026, apart from a brief spell out on bail four days before his mother died of cancer. The court…

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Defend Our Juries hit with five police raids over alleged Palestine Action video

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Defend Our Juries hit with five police raids over alleged Palestine Action video

Defend our Juries activists have been hit with five police raids in one day. The campaign group said the raids were linked to Palestine Action solidarity messages. Three raids were originally reported on 10 July according to an X post: Defend Our Juries can confirm that at least three home raids have taken place this morning. Individuals who have shared videos online declaring support for the unjustly proscribed direct action group Palestine Action were arrested. Saving lives is not terrorism. HOME RAIDS Defend Our Juries can confirm that at least three home raids have taken place this morning. Individuals who have…

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How Israeli atrocities fueled Palestine Action

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How Israeli atrocities fueled Palestine Action

Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching “a live-streamed genocide” of Israeli attacks in Gaza. “I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,” 53-year-old Hannah Davidson told jurors at the Old Bailey this week. “I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm.” Co-defendant Teuta Hoxha, a 30-year-old care worker, said she watched a video of a Palestinian father carrying two bags. “He was wailing. It was the type of wail that comes from the soul. “What he was saying was, ‘I have my son in…

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Judge acquits Palestine Action Filton defendant

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Judge acquits Palestine Action Filton defendant

An Old Bailey judge has declared Palestine Action ‘actionist’ William Plastow, 35, not guilty of the state’s charge of ‘violent disorder’. The case demonstrates why the state is so keen to prevent juries knowing their right to acquit or being told about the political context for damage to Israel weapons factories. The judge in the recent trial of four ‘Filton 25’ activists banned lawyers from informing the jury it could acquit. He banned discussion of political context. He also banned even the press from reporting that he would sentence the activists as terrorists despite no terror charges being brought. The alleged…

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Activist cleared of violent disorder in Palestine Action raid

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Activist cleared of violent disorder in Palestine Action raid

A jury has acquitted an activist of violent disorder at an Israeli-owned arms factory targeted by Palestine Action in August 2024. William Plaistow, 35, was acquitted on Monday at the Old Bailey due to what presiding Judge Patrick Field said was a lack of evidence over the incident in the Filton area of Bristol. “The prosecution has not produced enough evidence against him to show that he intended that there would be a violent disorder at Filton or that he assisted anyone to commit that offence,” Field said. Plaistow, who is from Manchester, still faces a criminal damage charge alongside seven…

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Leaked letter from Israeli elites threatens legal action over “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in West Bank

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Leaked letter from Israeli elites threatens legal action over “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in West Bank

Israeli elites from the Zionist state’s security, political and cultural scenes have issued a letter to Netanyahu and his government threatening legal action, citing the impunity given to “Jewish terrorism” and the “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West Bank. Amongst the Israelis who appear to have hit the end of their tether with the settler-colonial government are former prime ministers, former heads of all the state’s security services, former judges, a Nobel prize winner and a famous novelist. Issuing a “final warning”, they have insisted that Netanyahu and his genocidal officials take immediate action to “eradicate Jewish terrorism”. They…

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Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

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Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in trial of pro-Palestine activists A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time. The original proceedings brought against Rajiv Menon KC were thrown out last month for procedural reasons.But on 22 June, Mr Justice Johnson ruled that Menon’s case met the necessary “threshold conditions” to proceed and that it was in the public interest to do so. He said the case should be referred to a judge who can “deal with the…

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Defend Our Juries takes defiance of Palestine Action ban to next level

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Defend Our Juries takes defiance of Palestine Action ban to next level

Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling on 15 June, declaring the proscription of Palestine Action to be lawful, Defend Our Juries is escalating its campaign of defiance. Ordinary people from across the UK are publishing videos professing membership of Palestine Action and inviting support for the group, risking jail sentences of up to 14 years. See examples of the videos here, here and here. Defend Our Juries says many more will follow shortly. The holding of cardboard signs, which has led to more than 3,400 arrests under section 13 of the Terrorism Act, leads to summary only trials and a maximum…

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RMT confirms further strike action in Carlisle Support Services pay dispute

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RMT confirms further strike action in Carlisle Support Services pay dispute

RMT members employed by Carlisle Support Services, working on the Northern rail contract will continue their long-running dispute over pay by taking 48 hours strike action from Saturday 20 June. The action follows Carlisle Support Services’ continued refusal to negotiate a proper pay settlement through collective bargaining. This is despite increasing demands on frontline staff, including gate line operatives and revenue officers. Picket lines will take place at: Saturday 20 June – Skipton Station, 8am-10am. Saturday 20 June – Manchester Victoria Station, 11am-1pm. Sunday 21 June – Manchester Victoria Station, 11am-1pm. Carlisle Support Services has recently claimed that it has: honoured…

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Upholding Palestine Action ban risks stifling dissent, Quakers warn

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Upholding Palestine Action ban risks stifling dissent, Quakers warn

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group was lawful. This overturns an earlier High Court judgment. But Quakers and others have warned that the ruling risks stifling dissent. They have long argued that the Terrorism Act, introduced in 2000, is overly broad and threatens civil liberties particularly where it extends to property damage, placing the UK outside international norms. Five senior judges on Monday 15 June backed the home secretary’s position on Palestine Action. This allows the ban to remain in force despite widespread criticism and a civil disobedience campaign…

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Minister deploys ‘homophobic innuendo’ to defend Palestine Action ban

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Minister deploys ‘homophobic innuendo’ to defend Palestine Action ban

On 15 June, we reported that Labour minister Mike Tapp was gloating about the decision to maintain Palestine Action’s ‘terrorist’ proscription. A day later, we reported he was trying to ensnare Zack Polanski into saying he supports Palestine Action – something which would have landed him with a lengthy prison sentence. In other words, he’s a nasty piece of work. And the nastiness has only continued: Grow up. Homophobic innuendo isn’t going to get you out of this one. Neither is pretending you’re a victim of antisemitism, which you conflate with opposing genocide. You’re a government minister trying to get your…

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Climate action could sway half of young voters in the UK

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Climate action could sway half of young voters in the UK

Half of young people under 34 in the UK say they would be more likely to vote for a government that upholds the UK’s climate commitments. This is a finding of new research by Kantar for the Fairtrade Foundation. Fairtrade is warning that climate change is putting everyday staples under growing pressure and threatening the livelihoods of the next generation of farmers. Ahead of London Climate Action Week, the charity is launching Fair on the Planet, the second moment in its 2026 Do It Fair campaign. It’ll highlight how farmers growing products such as coffee, tea, cocoa and bananas are already facing…

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Palestine Action ban to stay in place as courts rule human rights protest is ‘terrorism’

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Palestine Action ban to stay in place as courts rule human rights protest is ‘terrorism’

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s appeal against the High Court’s ruling that the ‘terrorism’ ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. The appeals court decided that the ban was a proportionate infringement on UK human rights and did not exceed the government’s powers. Palestine Action The judge reading out the decision based this judgment on the home secretary being better placed than the courts to decide what was needed – an anti-judicial coup carried out by judges, effectively. The interference of pro-Israel groups in the decision to ban the direct action group was ignored.…

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‘Grotesque and dystopian’ sentencing of Palestine Action activists expected on 12 June

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‘Grotesque and dystopian’ sentencing of Palestine Action activists expected on 12 June

A judge is expected to sentence four Palestine Action activists as ‘terrorists’ on 12 June, despite the activists not being convicted as such. Judge Jeremy Johnson has indicated he may add a ‘terrorist connection’ to the charges of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona (Ellie) Kamio and Fatema Rajwani under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020. This is despite the jury convicting the Palestine Action four of criminal damage in their retrial. The conviction follows the four activists’ direct action to damage computers and drones, and spray red paint across the walls and floor of an Elbit Systems factory in Filton,…

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Police offered Manchester cafe owner cash, immunity to grass on Palestine Action

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Police offered Manchester cafe owner cash, immunity to grass on Palestine Action

Greater Manchester Police offered cafe-owner Shams Sadiq cash — and carte blanche to commit ‘certain’ crimes — if he would inform on anti-genocide group Palestine Action (PA) and his fellow Muslims. Sadiq, from Didsbury, was approached when he went to collect devices the police had confiscated after a 2025 raid connected to the group. The Starmer regime unlawfully banned PA as a terror group in 2025 at the behest of the Israeli government and lobby groups. The government is still trying to overturn the High Court’s ruling that the ban breached human and free speech rights. Police continue to arrest people…

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Reform is pretending its Makerfield candidate was Action Man

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Reform is pretending its Makerfield candidate was Action Man

Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election is one Robert Kenyon. So far, Kenyon has attracted a great deal of criticism for the things he’s said in the past and the things he’s saying right now. Kenyon isn’t the only one talking nonsense, however, with his party joining in too: He was a Lance Corporal in the Army Reserves. Stop trying to make it out as anything more than it is. He’s also a sexist and a perv. pic.twitter.com/O2Urc8Q0J2 — Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) May 26, 2026 Reform gets territorial As Reform Exposed notes above, Kenyon was a member of…

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Palestine Action Scottish Judicial Review: Stitch-Up Incoming?

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Palestine Action Scottish Judicial Review: Stitch-Up Incoming?

The proscription of Palestine Action was sold to MPs and the media on the basis of a deliberate campaign of lies, fronted by Yvette Cooper, then Home Secretary, and Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan police. Both have deep commitment to Israel. Cooper is owned by the Israel lobby. What is worse, they then attempted to reinforce these lies by fitting up young activists with false charges and corrupting all principles of justice in an effort to obtain false convictions. This was brought home to me most forcefully in examining thousands of pages of documents released to me by the Home…

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Palestine Action Global targets logistics firm DSV over Elbit link

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Palestine Action Global targets logistics firm DSV over Elbit link

In an international action, Palestine Action Global targeted multiple sites of transport company DSV. The sites were covered in symbolic blood-red paint, with graffiti highlighting DSV’s role in assisting genocide. Numerous windows were also smashed, and DSV vehicles were put out of action. Over the weekend (Friday 22 May – Monday 25 May), actions took place against the logistics firm, in the US, Germany and at two sites in France. In a previous coordinated action on 31 March 2026, Palestine Action Global had targeted DSV in several countries, including in the US and across Europe. The Danish-owned international transport and logistics…

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