UK Government Tries to Ban Dissent, Loses, Calls it 'Terrorism'
The British state, ever keen on protecting its lucrative arms trade, attempted to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organization for disrupting arms manufacturers supplying Israel. Remember when Daniel Ellsberg exposed the Pentagon Papers and faced espionage charges? Or when Julian Assange revealed war crimes and was hunted globally? This isn't about terrorism; it's about criminalizing
activism that threatens state-sanctioned violence and the profits that come with it. One might wonder if the UK's 'anti-terrorism' laws only apply when the 'terror' isn't being committed by their allies, or when the 'terrorism' isn't generating tidy sums for military industrial complex shareholders. Apparently, protesting arms factories is more dangerous than supplying weapons to a state engaging
in what the ICJ calls a plausible genocide. Priorities, indeed.