Met Police re-opens war crimes case on Britons fighting for Israel

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:23 July 2026
• Post last modified:23 July 2026

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought in Gaza. The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in August 2025. It alleged that ten UK nationals – including dual citizens – had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)…

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Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:22 July 2026
• Post last modified:22 July 2026

Andy Burnham’s new defence secretary is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes exhibits “rogue state behaviour” Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.“Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children.”In messages that Streeting released earlier…

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Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:21 July 2026
• Post last modified:21 July 2026

Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black drapes at the Paris airshow last year. One company at Farnborough, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), even threatened to report journalists to police for asking questions about its role in the Gaza genocide. IAI makes the Heron surveillance drone which its chief executive Boaz Levy…

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In pictures: Jewish anti-genocide activists lead London march for Palestine

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:19 July 2026
• Post last modified:19 July 2026

The UK establishment continues to demonise and repress anti-genocide protest. But Jewish activists against genocide and apartheid were, as usual, at the forefront of the giant march for Palestine in London yesterday, 18 July 2026. All images are courtesy of activist photographer ‘BetterThanReal.’ Oi Burnham – be better! Marchers celebrated the departure of now-ex PM Keir Starmer and challenged his successor Andy Burnham over his own links to the Israel lobby and whether he will be any better: Genocide: ‘Bought and paid for’ Protesters carried giant banknotes linking Starmer’s ministers and advisers to Israel-linked donations, and the UK’s collaboration in Israel’s…

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African leader’s grandson reveals why he helped Palestine Action

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

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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Cardiff Uni student assaulted by security staff for holding Palestine flag

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:15 July 2026
• Post last modified:16 July 2026

Security staff have twice assaulted a Cardiff University student — for holding a Palestine flag and then for trying to take a photo of them. The Caerdydd Students for Palestine (CS4P) group described what happened: As a student was on the way OUT of graduation she was physically assaulted and had the Palestinian flag ripped out of her hands with such violence it ripped her acrylic nails off. She was simply carrying the flag in her hands on her way out of the building. She was then assaulted AGAIN when trying to get photos of the staff after they refused to…

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Why was Bosnian support for Palestine so passionate during the World Cup?

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:12 July 2026
• Post last modified:12 July 2026

The sight of Bosnian fans at the World Cup raising Palestinian flags, chanting for Gaza, and showing solidarity in the stands and on American streets was more than just sympathy for a people enduring a cruel war. Rather, it seemed like a retrieval of a personal and collective memory that has not left them for three decades. While millions of fans around the world were watching what was happening in Gaza from afar, many Bosnians were reliving their own lives. They were not just spectators; they saw a part of their past in every image. Every scene from Gaza brings back…

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

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:11 July 2026
• Post last modified:11 July 2026

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

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:10 July 2026
• Post last modified:10 July 2026

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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Andy Burnham offers milquetoast sop to Palestine. Sadly for him we weren’t born yesterday

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:9 July 2026
• Post last modified:10 July 2026

Incoming PM Andy Burnham has said the Labour Party got it wrong on Palestine and will fix up. He’s pledged to put more pressure on Israel, including possible bans and sanctions. But is he to be trusted? Burnham told the Guardian: I know many people feel that at the start of Israel’s military action in Gaza my party didn’t get it right and I am sorry about that. The response has too often not been good enough. We need to do better. Adding: We’ve got to do more to put pressure on the Israeli government … Yes, we have taken some…

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Judge acquits Palestine Action Filton defendant

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:8 July 2026
• Post last modified:9 July 2026

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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Cops in unmarked car stop jogger with Palestine flag for ‘facial recognition’

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:7 July 2026
• Post last modified:7 July 2026

Two Essex police officers in an unmarked car have stopped a jogger in or near Southend on Sea for carrying a Palestine flag. The stop is just the latest in a string of incidents of police harassing or even arresting people protesting peacefully against genocide. Journalist and editor at the Grayzone, Wyatt Reed, published to X the video capturing these moments, first shared by Palestine Pulse. The jogger keeps his cool, records the incident and uses the opportunity to explain that he is upset about Britain’s collusion in Israel’s murder of Palestinian children. The police captured in the recording avoid saying…

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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:7 July 2026
• Post last modified:7 July 2026

RUK Advanced Systems Ltd helped fund a group of British MPs as part of a ‘PR and marketing campaign’ A British weapons firm owned by the Israeli government has been brought back to life, after its lobbying activities were exposed by Declassified last year. RUK Advanced System Ltd is registered in London, but records show it is a subsidiary of Israel’s state owned arms giant, Rafael. In October, documents were filed with Companies House to shut the business down, following our investigation. But it’s now been revived – and claims to be supplying British armed forces. Last year, we revealed how…

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Activist cleared of violent disorder in Palestine Action raid

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:6 July 2026
• Post last modified:6 July 2026

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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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:3 July 2026
• Post last modified:4 July 2026

Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza Foreign minister Hamish Falconer refused to answer questions on Wednesday about the UK government’s failure to stop British nationals fighting for the Israeli army in Gaza. It comes after more than 25,000 people signed a letter to the Foreign Office demanding they investigate UK citizens who fought in Gaza and may have committed war crimes. Thousands of British nationals have served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since the Gaza conflict began in 2023, according to a Freedom of Information response from…

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Knesset vote against ICRC ban for political prisoners in Palestine

• Post author:Charlie Jaay
• Post published:30 June 2026
• Post last modified:1 July 2026

A law to ban visits from the humanitarian organisation, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to prisoners in Palestine is now off the table for the Knesset. The legislation was unexpectedly defeated by 41-36 votes yesterday, meaning it has been removed from Israel’s political agenda for at least six months. The defeat was in part because the ultra-orthodox parties, United Torah Judaism and Shas, boycotted the vote in protest against the government’s failure to pass other laws important to their own community. These included military draft-related bills. “National security minister” and illegal settler, Itamar Ben-Gvir, blamed the Haredi Shas party leader, Aryeh Deri,…

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Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:30 June 2026
• Post last modified:2 July 2026

Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice to a room full of MPs. What he did not tell them, however, was that he had been on a trip to “the Gaza front line” last September funded by the newly-created Reform Friends of Israel, where he concluded that the Gaza famine was a “blatant lie”. And that trip is not the only example of pro-Israel pressure groups working with Reform. Just a…

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Palestine activist jailed as ‘terrorist’ speaks out

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:26 June 2026
• Post last modified:2 July 2026

“Other than hexing the man, I really wasn’t surprised”. This is how Leona Kamio, known as Ellie, describes what was going through her mind when a judge announced she would be sentenced as a terrorist alongside three co-defendants earlier this month. Kamio, a 30-year-old nursery teacher, had been convicted of criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli arms firm in Filton, Bristol, in August 2024. The jury that tried her had not been informed that any convictions could later carry a “terrorism connection”, she tells Declassified from Bronzefield prison in her first interview since being convicted.…

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Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:23 June 2026
• Post last modified:2 July 2026

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

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:19 June 2026
• Post last modified:20 June 2026

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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