UK Labels Palestine Action 'Terrorists' While Supplying Apartheid State
Al Jazeera reports UK activists released a video embracing the 'terrorist' label, a direct response to arrests for their Palestine Action protests. This convenient demonization allows the UK government to sidestep scrutiny of its own actions, like continuing arms exports to Israel. According to the Campaign Against Arms Trade, the UK approved over £400 million in arms export licenses to Israel
between 2015 and 2022, including components for fighter jets and ammunition (Source: CAAT, 'UK arms trade with Israel: The facts'). So, disrupting a factory component for F-35s that bomb Gaza is 'terrorism,' but facilitating those F-35s via export licenses is 'foreign policy'? One might wonder if the real 'terror' is the intellectual contortion required to maintain such double standards. Perhaps
the British government finds it easier to prosecute citizens than confront its lucrative role in enabling documented atrocities.