On 5 July 2025, the UK government officially proscribed Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000, criminalizing any support for the group—even symbolic gestures like holding signs or wearing T-shirts.
Palestine Action’s “crime” was not violence—it was exposing it.
They targeted Britain’s role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially its partnership with Elbit Systems, an arms manufacturer supplying the Israeli military. They spray-painted drones, chained themselves to gates, and dismantled war machine but never harmed a single person.
And for this, they are called terrorists.
Meanwhile, the UK continues to send military technology to Israel, where over 50,700 Palestinians have been killed, thousands of them children. That is not terrorism, apparently that is defense.
Filton: Where Protest Became a Threat
In Filton, Bristol, a group now known as the “Filton 18” broke into Elbit’s facility in 2024. They damaged equipment used to fuel Israel’s genocide and blocked operations.
Their punishment?
Arrested under counter-terrorism laws, Denied bail, held in solitary, treated as national security threats.
This wasn’t about stopping danger. It was about protecting profit, punishing truth, and making an example of anyone who resists the empire’s machinery.
£570 Million for Genocide
Between 2015 and 2025, the UK licensed over £570 million in arms exports to Israel—from drone tech to missile components. These weapons have helped:
Flatten hospitals
Bomb refugee camps
Kill doctors, journalists, and children
Enforce a starvation blockade
Britain does not just stay silent, it enables. It profits. It brands those who object as threats to national security, while signing arms deals soaked in Palestinian blood.
Dawah Under Watch
The UK’s repression doesn’t stop at protest. Muslim scholars and preachers face increasing restrictions. Visa denials, event cancellations, and unlawful surveillance are becoming common. Even peaceful dawah gatherings are now labeled “potentially extremist.”
It’s not the centerpiece—but it’s part of the same strategy: criminalize every form of resistance, from the megaphone to the minbar.
America: Where Speaking Truth Costs You Everything
This is not a UK-only phenomenon. It’s part of a global war on dissent from London to Washington.
In the United States:
Over 3,100 students have been arrested across 60+ campuses—including Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, and Georgetown
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-American student at Columbia, was detained by immigration authorities after weeks of protest at Georgetown, Badar Khan Suri narrowly escaped deportation for her activism.
Encampments from California to Texas have been stormed by police, broken up with batons, tear gas, and horses
The so-called “land of the free” has become a place where you can be jailed or exiled for simply saying “stop killing children.”
Universities that once prided themselves on “free speech” are now tools of state repression. The message is clear: you are free to speak—until you speak for Palestine.
Redefining Terrorism, Silencing Conscience
This is what the new Western doctrine looks like:
Build bombs, you’re a patriot.
Question genocide, you’re a terrorist.
Pray for Palestine, you’re an extremist.
Fight back without violence, you’re a threat to national security.
This is not justice. It’s a war against morality itself.
The Truth Cannot Be Banned
Palestine Action stood on the front lines of moral clarity and the British state responded by dragging them into the shadows of criminality. Not for what they destroyed but for what they exposed.
But this generation sees through the lies.
Because no law, no prison, no media blackout can erase the truth:
Those who resist genocide are not the criminals.
Those who enable it are.
