Britons demand Palestine Action activists be released

The Palestine Action group has been at the forefront of the direct action campaign against the Israeli war machine in the UK.

In August of this year, ten Palestine Action activists stormed the Bristol based plant belonging to Elbit Systems, the largest weapons manufacturer in Israel, causing an estimated £1 million worth of damage and reportedly resulting in major disruption to some of the most sensitive elements of the factory for months to come.

• Britons demand release of Palestine Action activists
  

  Britons demand release of Palestine Action activists

  Protestors gathered outside a prison in West London to demand the release of activists from the Palestine Action group.

All ten activists were arrested and have been since charged under draconian UK anti-terrorism laws, sparking condemnation from human rights groups and observers across the world.

Protesters gathered outside HMP Bronzefield, where six members of the Palestine Action Group are being held, calling on the government to cease the abuse of the Terrorism Act and release the prisoners as they were acting to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Activists say the government is responding to direct action with an iron fist in order to deter others from also mobilizing against the Zionist war machine, which has several facilities In the UK.

• Pro-Palestine activists remanded under UK Terrorism Act
  

  Pro-Palestine activists remanded under UK Terrorism Act

  Several members of the direct action group, Palestine Action, are facing the long arm of British law for raiding a site belonging to the UK-based Israeli arms company, Elbit Systems.

There is certainly an element of it, which is that they're trying to intimidate the whole movement, and trying to make the whole movement behave itself in [Keir] Starmer's view of what that should be.

I also think that they are associating any action that is against [Israel] as something that they're going to condemn.

With the tactics that they're trying to use, of intimidating people, what we're finding from inside the movement is its doing quite the opposite.

When people see sacrifice, they question themselves whether they're sacrificing enough.

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• ‘Hands off Lebanon; Hands off Gaza,' UK protesters shout
  

  ‘Hands off Lebanon; Hands off Gaza,' UK protesters shout

  British protesters are calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing the regime

The catastrophic atrocities in Gaza, and now Lebanon, have been aided by British supplies of arms and funds, as well as intelligence support, for the occupation entity, which protesters are demanding come to an end immediately.

We believe that there should be no arms … leaving England that are destined for the Israeli regime.

But a one-way arms embargo also doesn't work, because Elbit Systems’ business model is that it tests its weapons on Palestinian people, captive populations, and it then goes on to sell them back to the UK, for them to use on the English Channel and for other regimes, for them to be used against the Kashmiri people, for example.

So we don't believe that a one-way arms embargo is enough.

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Britain's culpability in the historic and ongoing crimes of the Zionist regime mean that there will be more people moved to take direct action to try to disrupt the Zionist War Machine's genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine and the wider West Asia region.

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  British pro-Palestinian protesters urge end to complicity in Israel’s genocide

  Thousands of anti-Israeli protesters march to US embassy in London to condemn the British government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

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