“I don’t think you should get too excited about that.” A top government anti-terror advisor has suggested there is no evidence to support Home Office claims that Palestine Action is linked to Iran. Jonathan Hall KC told Channel 4’s Dispatches it was “wrong” for the government to insinuate the group may have been funded by Iran’s government via proxies. Last year, Private Eye reported that the Iran funding claim was planted in the British media by a PR firm that works for Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems, whose factories were targeted by Palestine Action. Head to the link in our bio to read our report on Hall’s comments.
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They aren’t even trying to make a believable story.
Why were politicians given the power to unilaterally designate terror groups in the first place? I imagine it was after 9/11 and possibly the london subway bombings and the like, I remember a law allowing them to denaturalize a citizen, to strip citizenship away from someone, even if they never lived anywhere else, rendering them stateless.
From the beginning we all said this is how it will be abused, yet we gave the power to officials anyway as if they wouldn’t abuse it in time.
Is there no way to challenge the designation? No way to bring it to court, to a jury trial? Because allowing politicians to decree who is a terrorist is an existential threat to freedoms, including freedom of expression.
What about their other laws outlawing protests that are disfavored that came into play under Starmer as well? When did these laws all get passed, under whom, and under what justification?
How can we overturn them?
