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14yo charged with terror offence for alleged plan to attack mosques

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

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence over an alleged plan to attack two mosques in the Sutton area of south London. The plan, the latest in a flood of Islamophobic violence, was linked to “extreme right-wing terrorism”. The youth was originally arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, but a subsequent search of the address revealed “a number of documents of concern” according to the Met Police. He is in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ court tomorrow ,16 July 2026. “Very serious terrorism” For once, after months of the establishment ignoring Islamophobic violence, police officers responded…

Filton 25: Defiant Ellie Kamio celebrates ‘terror award’, confirms sentencing appeal

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

Ellie Kamio is one of the ‘Filton 25’ group of anti-genocide activists targeted by the UK government for damaging an Israeli death factory. In the sick farce of Keir Starmer’s war on UK, Kamio and three others were sentenced as terrorists despite being charged with no terror offence. The judge, deeply connected to the ‘security services’, banned the jury from knowing they could acquit — and banned jurors from knowing about his sentencing plans until after they convicted. Even the press were banned from reporting on it. But Kamio remains defiant and celebrates the ‘award’ of her ‘terror’ sentence. View this post…

Twelve arrested over far-right terror plot against Suffolk Islamic event

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

UK counter-terror cops have arrested twelve people over an alleged far-right threat against an Islamic event in Suffolk, England. The arrests took place mostly in southern and eastern England with one individual detained in Greater Manchester. On 13 July, the Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) had said: The investigation, which is extreme right-wing terrorism-related, is connected to a suspected threat directed towards an Islamic event held at Shrubland Hall, Suffolk over the weekend (9-12 July). Due to the concerns over the possible threat, and as a precaution, advice was provided via Suffolk Police to the organisers of the UK Ijtima event to…

Matt Kennard explains how the ‘War on Terror’ put the far right in charge

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:7 July 2026
Post last modified:8 July 2026

Journalist Matt Kennard’s book Irregular Army shows how the ‘War on Terror’ pushed the US further into authoritarian extremism. And following the release of a new expanded and revised edition, we spoke to him to find out why the book remains so relevant today. War atrocities, neo-Nazis, and Trump The Declassified UK co-founder told the Canary that: The War on Terror militarised American political life. It taught the public to accept permanent emergency, surveillance, secrecy, executive violence, and the idea that whole populations could be treated as enemies. That logic did not stay in Fallujah or Kandahar; it came home. The…

SOAS student ‘terror trial’ – final hearing approaches

Post author:The Canary
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:6 July 2026

Wednesday 8 July will be a key hearing in the case of 22-year-old pro-Palestine student activist Sarah Cotte. Like every day of the trial, supporters from the Defend the SOAS 2 campaign will protest outside the Old Bailey. They’ll draw attention to what they say is the application of a pernicious terrorism law that has not just been misapplied in this instance but which should be repealed in its entirety. They say that a victory in this case would reinforce the right of protesters to support the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, which has been under consistent attack in recent years. Cotte,…

EXPOSED: UK media’s hierarchy of racism after Edinburgh terror attacks

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:24 June 2026
Post last modified:24 June 2026

Islamophobia — The UK’s hierarchy of racism was clearly on display after the terror attacks in Edinburgh on 19 June, as an analysis of news coverage has shown. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) has previously called out the amount of anti-Muslim propaganda in the British media. And having now compared coverage of the Edinburgh attacks with coverage of the 29 April Golders Green attacks, it has found that the media is also underplaying terror attacks that target Muslims. Islamophobia — The UK’s racist media establishment The hierarchy of racism in the UK is particularly obvious on the right of the…

West Bank — continued terror attacks by Israeli settlers and occupation forces

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:17 June 2026
Post last modified:17 June 2026

The town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, has long suffered from settler attacks. And since 7 October 2023, these have been occurring on a weekly or sometimes even daily basis. Settlers attempt to burn Palestinian worshippers alive at the mosque Around 8pm on 14 June, a group of around 40 to 50 illegal settlers set fires in several areas of Deir Dibwan. When they entered the Al-Marah area, near the western entrance, they set alight residents’ vehicles. Flames engulfed parked cars and spread to nearby roadside areas, and across large areas of agricultural land. Two…

Book Review: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq

Post author:Nazli Tarzi
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:17 June 2026

The War on Terror has claimed countless Iraqi lives and left social systems irreparably fractured. The lasting injury is the subject of anthropologist Kali Rubaii’s debut book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror. Few studies have captured in such depth the ways Anbaris’ react, respond and heal from “war-induced social and ecological collapse.” Rubaii’s journey began in Fallujah a decade prior, supporting local hospitals through transnational solidarity work. She returned in subsequent years. Moreover, she came to form close relations with displaced Anbari farmers. After the guns go silent The portrait of Fallujah isn’t the city caricatured as the launchpad of…

Judge who served security services imposes draconian ‘terror’ sentences on Filton peace activists

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

Judge Jeremy Johnson has imposed draconian sentences on four ‘Filton 25’ anti-genocide activists. Johnson had earlier refused to recuse himself from the case over his connections to the security services, Johnson also announced that he would impose ‘terrorism connection’ sentences despite none of the four ever being charged with terror offences, let alone convicted. Palestine Action had not been proscribed as a terrorist group at the time when these activists were arrested. Johnson first protected himself against appeals and censure by claiming he was allowing mitigating factors. He then also claimed that “aggravating factors” included upsetting employees of the Elbit death…

Breaking: protest shuts down Waterloo ahead of Filton ‘terror’ sentencing

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

Protesters say they have shut down London’s Waterloo station in a protest against the Starmer regime’s plan to sentence anti-genocide protesters as terrorists: View this post on Instagram A post shared by غريب بين الغرباء (@solidarity.diary) Starmer regime — Rigged system The jury at the first trial refused to convict any of the six defendants on any of the state’s charges relating to damage to an Israeli-owned weapons factory. This was after police and security guards’ claims didn’t match CCTV evidence. At the retrial, security service-linked judge Jeremy Johnson banned any mention of the fact that the activists carried out their…