Jewish pro-Palestine campaigner and journalist charged with a Terror offence
Who expected to see Tony Greenstein, a Jewish pro-Palestine campaigner and journalist charged with a Terror offence?
The anti-genocide activist was charged under s.12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 – expressing support for a proscribed organisation.
Funny, that – hasn’t Keir Starmer claimed that “journalism is the lifeblood of democracy” and that his government will “fight any threats to those who hold the powerful to account”?
Apparently that doesn’t extend to the Crown Prosecution Service or his own government.
Mr Greenstein joins an illustrious list of great and good writers including Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson, Professor Haim Bresheeth, Asa Winstanley, Craig Murray and others whose harassment by the UK’s authorities has gone widely unreported – as opposed to the widespread reporting of a police call at the door of right-wing hack Allison Pearson.
And if misbehaviour like this goes unreported in the mainstream media, it’s considered not to have happened and the public get the impression that right-wing supporters of genocidal Israel are the only people being targeted. So Israel and its supporters get to look like the underdogs again.
And isn’t Starmer himself a supporter of Israel?
So much for fighting “any threats to those who hold the powerful to account”!
Starmer’s police, press and government are all apparently doing the exact opposite – making every effort they can to fight any threats to the powerful.
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I believe that, in international law, those being occupied have the right to resist the occupation. BUT – if you say that in a more ‘careless’ way it might ‘look like’ you support a proscribed organisation. Well, that’s if someone (Crown Office) chooses to view it that way and most especially in connection with Palestine. I believe that is how those who are being prosecuted have been ‘snared’ Simply referring to the law is almost enough to be an offence and this means an end to freedom of speech and thought. Something that, in itself, breaches the human rights act. Of course such prosecutions may ultimately be dropped or be unsuccessful. But by the time the accused have been dragged, very slowly, through the process they have been thoroughly destroyed in the press and had their credibility in the eyes of the public shattered – so ‘job done’ Wasn’t there something disclosed by Wikileaks about GCHQ having a programme that was set up to do exactly this type of thing? Or would it come under Operation Alchemy? Who knows. All I know is that the ‘slippery slope’ is much slippier than it used to be
when the innocent are the victims and the perpetrators are the aggressor’s. the world is bonkers but more to die has of it