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Is this is an attempt to show the world that Palestine Action really should have been proscribed?

Here’s the BBC:

“A police sergeant was left unable to drive, shower or dress herself after a Palestine Action activist allegedly hit her with a sledgehammer during a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site, a trial has heard.

“Six people are accused of using a prison van to break into Elbit Systems UK factory near Bristol armed with weapons and pyrotechnics in the early hours of August 6 last year.

“Sgt Kate Evans told Woolwich Crown Court the injury left her with “severe pain”. She was off work for three months.

“Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, de

“Mr Corner denies a further charge of causing grievous bodily harm to Sgt Kate Evans.”

There is evidence that Palestine Action has acknowledged violent tactics — including using tools like sledgehammers — but that doesn’t mean activists or the group’s organisers approve of assault and battery.

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