WILL JONES
Palestine Action is preparing to launch a wave of attacks on RAF bases across the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reveals after its journalists infiltrated the group and attended an online meeting. Here’s an excerpt from the newspaper’s report.
In a meeting recorded by Telegraph reporters, the group outlined a list of new targets after its members damaged planes during a break-in at RAF Brize Norton last week.
Palestine Action has launched a major recruitment drive just days before it is officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation, putting it on par with Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
This publication was able to access one of its online meetings and can, for the first time, disclose details about the group’s secretive structure, its new focus on covert action, and advice given to members on exploiting the legal aid system following any arrest.
The meeting’s organiser boasted that its activists ranged from “nursery teachers to surgeons”, aged from 18 to 80.
Tactics discussed included breaking into factories and hitting “everything you can find with a sledgehammer”, as well as how to set up autonomous cells able to target military bases without detection.
A slide in the call identified three specific RAF bases most suitable for attack: RAF Cranwell and RAF Barkston Heath, both in Lincolnshire, and RAF Valley, in Anglesey, North Wales. It also recommended action against defence companies believed to be supplying arms to Israel.
The Telegraph has shared details of the plans with police and the Ministry of Defence.
Palestine Action triggered a major security review of military bases after breaking into Brize Norton, where it sprayed red paint on two military planes and potentially caused millions of pounds of damage.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, called the attack “disgraceful” and vowed to proscribe the group, a decision which Palestine Action said it would mount a legal challenge against.
In the wake of the announcement, Palestine Action has been carrying out an intensive series of recruitment workshops in an attempt to build a network of autonomous cells across the country that will target military bases.
RAF Cranwell was the world’s first Air Academy and it continues to select and train the next generation of RAF officers. RAF Barkston Heath is a relief landing ground for RAF Cranwell and is the home of 57 Sqn’s B Flight of No 3 Flying Training School. RAF Valley on Anglesey is home to No 4 Flying Training School, responsible for training the UK’s next generation of fighter pilots.
All three bases are said by Palestine Action to have links to Elbit Systems UK, a military manufacturer which has been repeatedly targeted by the group.
At the start of the online “direct action workshop”, an unidentified female activist told the group of around 50 potential recruits that they would be required to make “sacrifices” for the cause.
The participants were told they would be part of a new, sustained wave of attacks targeting military bases.
The organiser, standing in front of a flag associated with one of the factions in the Syrian civil war, said that the proposed proscription was “draconian and dangerous” and Palestine Action would “continue to operate” even if designated as a terror group.
Well done, Telegraph – though one would hope the intelligence services have also managed to do this for themselves…
Worth reading in full.
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Britain must wake up to the enemy within – or this country is finished
Weekly hate marches and open terror-sympathising have become the norm – and many of the worst culprits are British born and bred
It’s not often you see communists taking a stand for free speech and civil liberties. But in the eyes of the Morning Star, it seems, drastic times call for drastic measures. In a scandalised editorial this week, it thundered that the Home Secretary’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “a dangerous assault on our freedoms”.
Ah, yes. The ancient and inviolable freedom of every patriotic Englishman to break into his own country’s military bases and cause tens of millions of pounds’ worth of damage to our aircraft. Thanks for the reminder, Comrades. I bet the Soviet Union was always cheerfully tolerant of any gangs of intruders caught ramming crowbars into the engine of a Lavochkin La-7. “Come on, give the traitorous saboteurs a break,” Stalin would chuckle indulgently. “They’re just exercising their democratic right to peaceful protest!”
I’m sorry to confess, however, that I don’t share the Great Leader’s easygoing equanimity. Because I agree with our Government that what Palestine Action did at RAF Brize Norton last Friday was a terrorist act. And frankly, instead of wailing about how mean and horrid Yvette Cooper is, these Israel-hating headbangers should be grateful they’re alive. Break into most countries’ airbases, and within two seconds you’ll be riddled with more holes than a porcupine’s underpants.
Palestine Action, though, shouldn’t be the only object of our contempt. If anything, we should be even more disgusted by the people who condone them. Not just the ones screeching and raving outside Parliament – but the ones screeching and raving inside it, too. Because, incredible as it may seem, Palestine Action has been defended by numerous sitting MPs.
Jeremy Corbyn claims that banning the group represents “a draconian assault on democratic right to protest”. Kim Johnson, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, calls it “a dangerous attack on civil liberties”. Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East, seems to think these crowbar-wielding thugs are “non-violent”.
Most mind-boggling of all, however, is the attitude of Zarah Sultana, the suspended Labour MP for Coventry South – who, on Tuesday, proudly proclaimed: “We are all Palestine Action.”
“We”? Who’s “we”? I don’t know about you, but I for one have never been accused in court of assaulting police officers with a sledgehammer. Nor have I smashed up a Jewish-owned business in north London. Or posted a photo of a handgun on Instagram, with the caption: “Resist! By any means necessary”. And, to the best of my recollection, I’ve never sabotaged any RAF planes, either.
Still, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the past week’s events. Because for some time now it’s been clear that the anti-Israel Left is growing ever more extreme. What started with the weekly hate marches has mutated into something truly unhinged […]
We often talk about this fanaticism as a problem we’ve “imported”. But the truth is, all too many of today’s militant monomaniacs were born in Britain. Numberless hordes of them are white, middle-class – and so deranged with loathing for what they call “Zionists”, they’ll even cheer an attack on an RAF base.
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