UK Labels Palestine Action 'Terrorists,' Meanwhile UK Arms 'Terrorists'?
While a UK judge ponders if targeting Elbit Systems – a major Israeli defense contractor supplying components to Israeli forces (per Elbit's public statements) – constitutes 'terrorism,' the UK government itself has approved over £472 million ($600 million) in military export licenses to Israel since 2015, according to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) (data updated March 2024) . One might
wonder: if disrupting arms factories is 'terrorism,' what do we call directly sanctioning the tools of war? This reclassification of direct action as 'terrorism' feels less about actual terror and more about insulating the profits of weapons manufacturers who supply arms to governments accused of war crimes. The optics are clear: criticize the war machine, get branded a terrorist; supply the war
machine, get government contracts. The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a British-made precision-guided missile.