UK brands journalists as terrorists in blatant abuse of legislation
The British state is abusing anti-terror legislation to suppress criticism of the Zionist entity's genocide in Gaza and pogroms in the West Bank.
This sinister development is even being deployed against journalists, amongst others, including one of our regular guests on this show, Richard Medhurst.
The use, by the British government, of Section 12 of the Terrorism Act has been seen as a new escalation by the state against journalists.
Under Section 12, a person commits an offense if they invite support for a proscribed organization or expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of such an organization.
The arrests, in quick succession, of Richard Medhurst and Sarah Wilkinson, both of whom are journalists, sent shockwaves through the movement.
My name is Richard Thomas Medhurst. I'm an internationally accredited journalist from the United Kingdom.
I criticized the Terrorism Act before getting on the plane, and then got arrested under the Terrorism Act upon landing.
Richard Medhurst, Journalist
Richard Medhurst was met at the door of the plane at Heathrow airport as soon as it landed. He was subsequently removed from the flight by six armed police, held for almost 24 hours in Kafkaesque conditions, insulted and humiliated.
He was not told what he had allegedly said or written an obvious intimidation tactic.
Sarah Wilkinson's case was perhaps the worst, entailing overtight handcuffs, theft of money and passport as well as attempts to intimidate and scare her.
They wanted to know the location of these Palestinian people that we were working with.
And you see, once they have the location, then the Israelis can bomb them directly.
Sarah Wilkinson, Palestine Action
Perhaps the most outrageous acts were the conscious smashing of anything involving Christian symbolism and the racist interrogations questions that she endured.
I'm going to let you know this question, why do you think Palestinians are better than white people? And I broke my no comment at that point, and I said that, that is a racist question. It's an appalling question to ask. I'm not commenting it, but I have to say that what you've just said is one of the most racist statements I've ever known, and so that it had that sort of Shin Bet / Mossad element to it.
So everything they attacked seemed to be/to do with anything, you know, like anything with a cross on it, or the Christmas decorations.
So those are the things that actually took the worst battering.
Sarah Wilkinson, Palestine Action
News of the decision of the state to persecute Richard Bernard was released the same day though he had been arrested in November.
BBC Verify appears to have been involved in lobbying for his arrest. It's a new BBC unit for open source investigations, but the name of its star reporter, Marianna Spring, appeared in leaked emails between journalists and MI6 Agent, Paul Mason, and his network.
Also mentioned there was British intelligence cutout Bellingcat, with which BBC Verify would later partner.
BBC Verify took recordings of speeches made by Bernard to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC.
On the eighth of October, Bernard reportedly said, “When we hear the resistance the Al-Aqsa flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami of the whole world.”
Hall, who performs his job for the government from a room inside the office of a British intelligence agency, said, "If you take what happened in Liberty kibbutz where babies were massacred, that is unambiguously an act of terrorism. But no babies were massacred at the kibbutz, this was simply Zionist propaganda".
He clarified that terrorism laws were not designed to stop people making political speeches, but what they are designed to do is to stop mass murder, massacres, and terrorist tactics.
But of course, no such tactics were being advocated by Bernard. As Bernard stated when asked if he regretted his language, his use of the term flood was just a metaphor.
The fact that the independent reviewer of terrorism, a leading KC, appears to have been retailing false Israeli propaganda ought to be a sacking offense.
Some of those targeted by the British state and how the fraudulent definition of anti-Semitism is being used as a pretext to silence critics of Zionism
The British state clearly wants to find a way to scare British citizens away from supporting the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation, including by armed struggle.
This is their right under international law. It is notable, with the exception of Sarah Wilkinson, there is at least one connection between all the recent journalists detained, from Kit Klarenberg and Vanessa Beeley to Craig Murray, Richard Medhurst and Richard Barnard of Palestine Action, they have all been guests on Palestine Declassified.
So it was no surprise to learn that our Palestinian reporter, Latifa Abu Chakra, had been referred to the UK counter-terror program, Prevent.
Her publicly available speeches caused the police to believe she was, "vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism."
When certain politicians, and the media, use the term muscular liberalism, that's just another word for racism and Islamophobia.
Latifa Abu Chakra, Journalist
I find myself radicalized from constantly having to defend my existence, debating why I am unable to even raise the flag of my country.
Latifa Abu Chakra, Journalist
The attack on Ms Abu Chakra is of course, part of a much wider assault on ordinary protesters.
Three young women were found guilty under the Terrorism Act for displaying a paraglider patch.
A young man was found guilty of wearing a Hamas headband, even though it merely had a Shahada on it, which is a profession of faith and by no means a Hamas headband.
The defendants were young, between 25 to 30, but recent official statistics show that police are increasingly targeting children for terrorism offenses; 31 of the 170 arrests were 17 and under in 2023.
This is blatant evidence of abuse.
A government reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall, admits that for years, the child category was always the smallest. However, these arrests are just the tip of the iceberg.
Statistics produced by the police show anti-Semitic hate crimes in London were up 1,350% from the first of October to the 18th of October.
The police adopted the infamous Zionist working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. So, inevitably, almost all of these offenses will be fraudulently counted.
The figures therefore confirm a massively expanded war by the British state on supporters of Palestine.
Sarah Wilkinson pondered whether her police tormentors in balaclavas betrayed a Mossad modus operandi, whatever that means.
In her case, it is apparent that the British counter-terrorism police are now acting more or less directly in the Zionist interest.
Perhaps it is time the British police were investigated under the new national security legislation for aiding a foreign power.
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