The defence of the realm is the UK government’s first duty. Did Sultana miss the memo?
LAURA DODSWORTH
“We are all Palestine Action,” tweeted MP Zarah Sultana.
No, we’re bloody not.
I’d tell her directly, but she turned off her replies. She had to, of course, because she knows she is not speaking for the people of this country. We are not all Palestine Action — nor should anyone with a shred of decency want to be.
This is not a one-off moment of misplaced solidarity. Sultana also tweeted:
“You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action ”
The right to protest? Is that what she thinks is at stake here? This woman’s priorities are entirely upside down. The criminal damage committed by Palestine Action includes breaking into RAF Brize Norton, daubing blood-like paint across buildings, and smashing windows of both military and civilian infrastructure. This is not principled protest, it is calculated political violence.
Palestine Action is being proscribed under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Why? Because it is a group that uses serious criminal damage, sabotage and intimidation to further its aims. Their campaign is not just unlawful, it is designed to terrorise those they deem enemies. This includes private companies, the media, and our own defence forces.
Their actions go well beyond the bounds of legitimate protest. And yet here we are, with a sitting MP cheering them on from the benches of Westminster.
The defence of the realm is the UK government’s first duty. Did Sultana miss the memo?
Perhaps the better question is: why has it taken so long to proscribe these lawless fanatics?
We know some of their backers. James “Fergie” Chambers one of the main funders — an over-privileged rich kid cosplaying as a communist — has said, “I chant death to America every day,” declared Israel has no right to exist, and believes that “we need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public.” Charming. The delinquent revolutionary is using daddy’s money to bankroll an extremist movement that openly targets our democratic society.
Then there’s co-founder Richard Barnard, who in the immediate aftermath of the 7 October Hamas terror attacks, said: “When we hear the resistance, the Al-Aqsa flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami of the whole world.” That “flood” involved the rape, torture and murder of civilians, the butchering of children, and the kidnapping of innocents including babies and literal Holocaust survivors.
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Is Barnard mad or simply evil? Either way, he’s a dangerous man and he’s helped to spawn a dangerous group, that will finally, thankfully, be proscribed.
And yet, this is the group Zarah Sultana aligned herself with.
What kind of madhouse has Parliament become when an elected MP supports a violent, anti-democratic, anti-Israel group with open contempt for the nation she represents?
It speaks to the sectarianism creeping into British politics. MPs now feel free to align with terror groups as long as the target is Israel. They posture as defenders of human rights while turning a blind eye to brutalities committed by those they consider politically or culturally aligned. They have certainly felt free to excuse and ignore industrial-scale rape and abuse of vulnerable white girls by predominantly Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’.
I haven’t been so shocked by an MP’s alignment with terrorism since Labour MP John McDonnell — later to become Shadow Chancellor! — praised the IRA’s “armed struggle”, declaring that “It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.”
Then the backlash was fierce. What sanctions will Sultana face?
In a better Britain, such statements would be a resignation matter. Today they are worn like a badge of radical chic pinned on a keffiyeh.
Beyond the graffiti-stained streets of Britain’s capital, protesters in London now howl their outrage at the US and Israel for pre-emptively striking at Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran has spent decades developing nuclear weapons and it funds terrorist groups in its ‘Axis of Resistance’, such as Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah. Why? The Supreme Leaders have stated multiple times that they intend to annihilate Israel and have expressed their hatred of Jews. It doesn’t stop there — a fairly frequent Iranian chant is “Death to Israel! Death to America!” What do the fools on the streets of London think that Iran wants to do with nuclear weapons? Why don’t they just admit it, and chant along? (Or go and live there?)
On X, social media sages insist Iran can’t be that bad — look, here’s a video of women with uncovered hair! The regime must be reforming! In Iran women are beaten, imprisoned or killed for daring to remove their hijabs.
You couldn’t find better examples of useful idiots if you tried.
Modern Britain is a madhouse, where a violent extremist group can find open support in Parliament, where journalists and social media personalities act as apologists for the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, and where we seem more comfortable condemning those who defend against terror than those who wield it.
And yet most of us are not all Palestine Action. That we have to spell this out at all is a measure of how far we’ve fallen.
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How Palestine Became the Left’s Omnicause
Palestine Action being proscribed as a terrorist organization will not force the British left to abandon their Gaza obsession
CONNOR TOMLINSON
Socialist vandals Palestine Action have gotten their comeuppance by being proscribed as a terrorist organization, after breaking into RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire and defacing two military planes with spray-paint. The Labour government’s planned ban prompted a predictable march, replete with Palestine flags, Socialist Worker Party placards, and genocidal chants of “From the River, to the Sea”. The group has fundraised over £113,000 via Crowd Justice for legal representation to fight proscription, and instructed Gareth Peirce, a solicitor who defended Guantanamo Bay detainees, to represent them.
Palestine Action was cofounded in 2020 by ex-Extinction Rebellion organizer Richard Barnard and Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist Huda Ammori. The latter, born to Palestinian and Iraqi immigrants in Bolton, joined the Labour party at her mother’s insistence in 2016, and left after the expulsion of former leader Jeremy Corbyn for antisemitism in 2019.
These crooks in keffiyehs have a history of causing criminal damage during “direct action” publicity stunts. In August 2024, five members were imprisoned for setting off pyrotechnics and smoke bombs in Thales defense factory in Glasgow, causing £1,130,783 in damages. They have repeatedly targeted the Bristol branch of the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems: using a prison van to ram the entrance and destroy equipment. Jewish-owned business Instro Precision in Stamford Hill was also attacked, with Palestine Action accusing the owners of being the “London-based landlords of Elbit’s weapons factory”. In June 2024, Palestine Action smashed the windows of Barclays bank in Broadmead; and threw red paint at Aviva’s Bristol headquarters in January 2025. This was based on accusations by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign that Barclays is “bankrolling Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians”.
The last President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel used the analogy of a greengrocer to explain the all-pervasive ideological strongarming in the Soviet Union. The shopkeeper who puts a “Workers of the world, unite!” sign amidst his carrots and onions, despite his disinterest in Marxism and contempt for centrally planned poverty, is actually telling the authorities, “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient”, and signaling his subservience to socialist dogma to protect what little he has from being destroyed. After their branch was defaced, Barclays issued a statement, denying it invests in Elbit, and saying “we recognise the profound human suffering caused by this conflict … and we urge governments and the international community to work together to find a lasting, peaceful solution.”
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Such intimidation tactics mean their punishment is long overdue. But imminent proscription didn’t stop Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South from posting “We are all Palestine Action” on X. Indeed, Sultana does resemble a demented leftist obsessed with shrieking in the streets when Israel vaporizes Jihadists. But she doesn’t speak for the rest of us, who are more concerned with how our cities, high-streets, and public services are in disarray after decades of mass migration and economic mismanagement, than with a foreign war in a land in which we’ll never set foot.
What objection does she have to the proscription? Sultana is not committed to free speech in principle, given she voted to criminalize silent prayer and consensual conversations in “buffer zones” around abortion clinics, in 2022. Nor is she worried about the misapplication of the term “terrorist” by the state, to punish political opponents. She fearmongers about a phantom “far right”, while expressing no concern over Prevent repeatedly letting Islamists evade detection. She goes as far to declare, “the enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy” (a dangerous lie, given people-smugglers advertise British women on social media as ripe for predation, and illegal migrants are joining Pakistani rape gangs after crossing from France in small boats). Sultana just wants her preferred activist causes to receive more cover.
Sultana is practicing classic Marcusean repressive tolerance: an “intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left”. It is invulnerable to charges of hypocrisy, because Islamo-leftists don’t extend to their political opponents an equal and universal moral courtesy. They see them only as an impediment to utopia, an enemy to be crushed. But brazen support for criminal damage and intimidation by a member of Parliament shows just how tensions have escalated to this existential point. Palestine has become the issue to lift the veil on these irreconcilable divisions.
The pro-Palestinian coalition is a ragtag bunch — and I’m not just referring to their clothing. The watermelon emojis they wear represent the colors of the Palestinian flag, but also their constituent factions: black-bloc Antifa communists, expediently allied Islamists, and Malthusian climate cultists. The obsession with Gaza has strangled the Greens like Japanese knotweed. The party has officially condemned Israel’s defensive military action as “a genocide”, and incorporated a boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) strategy into its party platform. In May 2024, new Green councilor Mothin Ali declared his election victory a “win for the people of Gaza”, and vowed to “raise the voice of Gaza… raise the voice of Palestine”. The room then broke out into shouts of “Allahu Akbar” — which presumably means “recycling” in Arabic. Ali is now running to become deputy leader of the party.
Greta Thunberg, too, has joined pro-Palestine demonstrations at University of Stockholm. Since 20 October 2023, she has jumped aboard the Palestinian liberation bandwagon. The Swedish truant was deported from Israel this month, after the IDF intercepted a yacht that she and eleven other members of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tried to sail across the Mediterranean. Before doing so, she refused the government’s offer to watch the footage from the October 7th massacre. It seems her pathological altruism only extends to one side. Thunberg claimed she had been “kidnapped”; but just like when German rail company Deutsche Bahn spoiled her photo-op by revealing she sat in first class, the vacuousness of her activism was exposed by photos showing her smiling while Israeli soldiers handed her water and sandwiches.
This shift in grift could be forecast from miles away. In 2019, Thunberg co-authored a piece explaining the motives for her truancy were to save the planet from “a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.” Thunberg’s copycat, Scarlett Westbrook penned an op-ed in the Independent, explaining Greta sailed to Gaza because “The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza is greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of 100 countries combined.”
Mary Harrington calls these overlapping obsessions the “Omnicause”: a set of seemingly incoherent positions on political topics — climate change, trans rights, Palestine — connected by their advancing the intersecting interests of aggrieved minorities. The full suite of fashionable beliefs is pejoratively labelled “the Current Thing”. They are presented as a coherent worldview to the emotionally incontinent by social-media algorithms and Instagram graphics, reducing complex issues to thought-stopping cliches and a few Canva slides.
But there is ideological connective tissue between these topics. This is why a handful of old-left Boomers still gather outside Parliament every week with banners and flags, demanding aid be allowed into the Gaza strip. “Third-Worldism” emerged as an internationalist doctrine after Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged support for “wars of national liberation” abroad, in 1961. Frantz Fanon provided the ideological gunpowder in his Wretched of the Earth that same year, with Jean Paul-Sartre writing in the foreword that to “shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone … [to] destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remain a dead man, and a free man.” Fanon proposed “Revolutionary socialism all together everywhere” as the sole solution to the supposed theft of largesse from the third-world by the first.
Hence the eyesore of a diagram that declares “Palestine is THE issue”:
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The plight of Palestinians is window-dressing for revolutionary racial communism and the imperial designs that Islam has on the West. Jews code as white, because they are pale and the precursors of Christianity, Israel codes right-wing, because it has high GDP-per-capita, above-replacement birth-rates, a competent military, and ethnic and religious homogeneity. Britain is blamed for giving Israel its land; America is blamed for giving Israel its arms and aid. Its wealth, success, and self-confidence make its people, state, and allies the enemies of anti-white racists who cloak their grievances in post-colonial and critical race theory. Environmentalist misanthropes glue themselves to the coalition because America’s failed regime-change ventures in the Middle East concerned the security of global oil and gas supplies. Devious Islamist groups use both as useful idiots, and, thanks to mass migration, have a standing army of millions of Muslims in Europe for whom solidarity with the Ummah takes precedence over loyalty to their host nation.
Liberals will twist themselves into pretzels condemning the sentiment of this movement, while defending its right to protest. But why? They aren’t shy about their desire to ransack our traditions, deface our monuments, and cast lots for our belongings. Chants of “Intifada” are a promise to repeat the atrocities of October 7th in Britain. We shouldn’t have to put up with this. Hungary and Poland don’t have this problem, because they didn’t import it. Without laws that give it standing, and policies to provide it demographic and thereby democratic demand, we wouldn’t either.
If Palestine is the omnicause, then it can be our starting point for rewinding their whole revolution.
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Palestine Action: We’re spreading ‘intifada’ in prisons
In meeting accessed by The Telegraph, group says ‘resistance lives on the streets, in cities, in towns and in prisons too’
WILL BOLTON
Jailed Palestine Action activists are radicalising other prisoners in pursuit of their cause, the movement has boasted.
The group – which will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation within days – said the “resistance lives on the streets, in cities, in towns and in prisons” in a meeting accessed by The Telegraph.
On a call with potential recruits, the host of the meeting said members of the organisation were “spreading intifada”, an Arabic word for uprising.
This week, The Telegraph revealed that Palestine Action was plotting to target RAF bases across the country in a wave of attacks.
At a direct action “workshop” for people wanting to join the organisation, at which the RAF plans were discussed, a member of the group quoted the words of an anonymous former prisoner.
The former prisoner said: “In locking me up, the British state made a miscalculation. They thought that by imprisoning me, they would halt the British resistance to Israel’s genocide. But while you can imprison a revolutionary, you cannot imprison a revolution.
“The resistance lives on the streets, in our cities and our towns, and in our prisons too. I brought the intifada with me to the prison and I remain steadfast and determined now I am free – just as Palestine, too, will be.”
In total, the group says it currently has around 19 members imprisoned in the UK. The majority of those are the “Filton 18” who are currently remanded in custody awaiting trial in April next year.
Members of the group allegedly drove a modified prison van into the Israeli arms company Elbit’s research, development, and manufacturing hub in Filton, Bristol. Two responding police officers and a security guard were allegedly injured in the incident.
Further arrests were made at a protest in Trafalgar Square this week during a demonstration against the plans by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, to proscribe the organisation.
On Thursday, The Telegraph exposed a list of Palestine Action’s next targets. Tactics discussed included breaking into factories and hitting “everything you can find with a sledgehammer”, as well as setting up autonomous cells able to target military bases without detection.
A slide in the call identified three 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, including a drone factory in Leicester.
There have been growing fears of radicalisation in prisons more generally over the past decade, partly because of the presence of a large number of Islamist gangs.
The Telegraph: continue reading
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