Misappropriation, Misconstruction, Misinformation, Misdoing and Malfeasance ...
How Israel and its interests delivered the worst government the UK has ever known ...
Last weekend the UK witnessed the spectacle … which if it hadn’t been so serious would have been laughable … of the Metropolitan Police Force carting off to its nearest custody unit a man without eyes, in his wheelchair (yes, he suffers from other disability) as he was arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000. He was bundled into the back of a police van. He and 531 others, of whom a majority were of pensionable age, many in their seventies and eighties, were detained in the largest single arrest of people under terrorism legislation this country has ever seen.
That was the first day of the “Defend our Juries” campaign to highlight the indefensibility of this Labour Government’s proscription of Palestine Action. The action will continue and, undoubtedly, so will the arrests … such is the grip on power in this country of a foreign power.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary and a known member of Labour Friends of Israel proscribed Palestine Action a few weeks ago (together with two active, far right terror groups, in a Parliamentary slight of hand which shames the high office of state that she holds) which had the bear support of the (polled individuals who represent the) country at large due to a concerted campaign of disinformation portraying the (potential) criminal damage done by Palestine Action to two military aircraft which were owned by a sub-contractor to the UK State war machine, whilst they were (supposedly) secured at RAF Brize Norton.
False imprisonment
What murky forces compelled 532 individuals with otherwise blemish-free records to risk being charged with terrorism and if convicted, face sentences of up to 14 years imprisonment? Their number included a decorated military veteran (alongside many other former service people) and Moazzam Begg, the human rights campaigner and former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who is frequently called to Parliament to represent the interests of falsely imprisoned political prisoners … the very people that most of us believe our governments have duty to defend … and to free. These people, like those for whom their seven word, cardboard placards supported were demonstrating their horror at the genocide being committed in Gaza and the now proven active role our government is playing in the annihilation or forced displacement of 2.2 million predominantly innocent people in a colonial land grab perpetrated by people of white, European ancestry who are not and never have been indigenous to the area they seek to claim as the land of their ancestors.
(Still!) selling arms to “Europe”
The proscription as unjustified as it was, given the fact that Palestine Action has never posed a threat to people’s safety. The targets of their action, which has typically resulted in potential criminal damage (when the CPS wishes to test an allegation in court and subsequently can convince a jury to convict those whose acts are designed to highlight a) possible war crimes being committed with weapons and ordnance produced and shipped to Israel from the facilities they attack or b) corporations which either invest in what the ICJ has now determined is an illegal occupation or which invest in such illegality at arms length via pension funds and other financial instruments) centre around the execrable, Israeli-owned or associated arms manufacturers - Elbit Systems, IAI, Teledyne, UAV and others. In researching I stumbled across this site describing the depth to which the UK Police and security establishment relies on Israeli producers https://dimse.info/uk/ the vast majority of which equipment has been tested on the indigenous Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank before being sold to our police and security establishment and the MOD. The level of interdependence is striking. The Jewish News reported a year ago … almost a year into the genocide … that the UK was in the top ten markets for Israeli investment as the deals done would suggest. Jewish News went on to suggest that a further that during 2023-24, 19 Israeli businesses had opened for business in the UK or expanded their operations here.
The JN then goes on to make the preposterous claim that Israel is per capita Europe’s 13th largest economy, after Luxembourg, Ireland, and Sweden lead the European per-capita list followed by Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Finland and Austria. The sheer audacity of this claim can’t go unchallenged. I noted some years ago that Israel is south of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Only part of Türkiye is in Europe and Tel Aviv is nowhere close to the Bosphorus (750 miles in fact). Israel is not a European economy. Yes, Zionists interested in achieving Eretz Israel are determined to act as though it is … because they mostly have European ancestry as opposed to arab ancestry … because they are colonisers and have no place in Palestine (let alone Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, Egypt and Yemen - the countries they also need to invade to create their dream of Jabotinski’s Eretz Israel.
It’s a shocking claim … but not quite as shocking as Declassified’s latest investigation into RUK Advanced Systems a business registered in England and Wales which is owned by Government Companies Authority, State Of Israel, Technology Park, Building 23, 8th Floor, Jerusalem 96951, Israel. Before Declassified unearthed this business which apparently has only 5 employees in England, operates out of a building on a secure compound in Farnborough and uses a North Finchley firm of Accountants, Taylor Associates, as a registered business address used to be owned by Israel’s Ministry of Finance (until 25/6/25) which is controlled by Bezallel Smotrich - the minister who is sanctioned by UK government. Declassified identified the fact that Mark Turley, a director along with Yoram Aron who has a consultancy in Ramsgate but is also a director of multiple Rafael-owned businesses, including Pearson Engineering on the Scotswood Road in Newcastle, was given access to ministers via an All Party Parliamentary Group for £1,499 (£1 less than the threshold amount requiring disclosure of interests). Turley’s appointment with RUK was terminated on 19 July, no doubt subject to an NDA and some serious threats should he disclose the matters on which he’d held conversations with our parliamentarians.
RUK apparently manufactures Rafael’s Spike missile system in the UK, widely in use in Gaza since 2007 and sold to the UK Government in that year as a “battle-tested”light weapons system.
The manufacturer boasts that it has: Enhanced lethality against all types of targets with high hit probability; exceptional stand-off range from outside the threatened area for increased force survivability; multispectral high-resolution seeker enabling 24/7 target acquisition; common missile for attack helicopters, ground vehicles and maritime vessels; and simple launcher integration on any platform - a version can now be worn on the operator’s back. The https://dimse.info/ site provides a link to a database of known deals between Israel’s department of trade and its UK counterpart and states that the Spike system was used by British service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan was “probably” second hand. The Declassified report suggests that Rafael may have had secret manufacturing of arms back in the day of the kind managed by RUK Advanced Systems since 2022.
Since December 2023 the UK has flown surveillance out of RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus where it maintains a flight of Beechcraft R1 Shadow reconnaissance aircraft. This reconnaissance mission was recently notated to the Sierra Nevada Corporation, which the US Government has appointed as the lead system integrator for its High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System, HADES, an upcoming aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform. Operating a similar Beechcraft plane SNC overflew the Shifa Hospital early this week just before four Al Jazeera staff and one freelance journalist together with a sixth civilian were targeted with what the Hind Rajab Foundation believes was a Hermes-class drone.
85% of such drones are supplied to Israel by those Elbit and UAV factories in Filton, Shenstone and elsewhere, where Palestine Action had taken direct action. 237 journalists specifically, have been targeted and killed in Gaza since October 8, 2023; 1700 health (doctors, nursing staff and orderlies) and civil defence (mainly ambulance drivers and paramedics) workers, have been murdered ruthlessly by the Israeli military during the same period. Were the targets acquired by the British Beechcraft overflights? How many were victims of British-built drones and Spike weapons systems? How many workers in the factories which build those munitions are aware that not only are they used to kill civilians, but they are used to exterminate the witnesses to Israel’s merciless and ceaseless onslaughts on Gaza … and will thereafter be turned on the people of the West Bank, Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps and similar camps in Syria and Jordan?
The most hated woman in the UK?
JTAC (The Joint Terrorism (Threat) Assessment Committee) gave Cooper its analysis of the level of terrorist threat presented by Palestine Action in March, months ahead of the proscription debate and vote in the House of Commons. The guidance as to what amounted to terrorism had recently been “updated” by Cooper’s Home Office to include property damage with the intention of persuading the government of the day to change course … an amendment so transparently designed to place Palestine Action in the crosshairs of the legal system, that it must be mentioned. The members of JTAC, senior actors representing every arm of the UK’s security community, grudgingly conceded that were these truly the grounds on which a group was to be determined to be involved in planning and acts of terrorism then yes, Palestine Action was captured (but by implication, the committee indicated that the new grounds were, at best, a misdirection). The JTAC did not find that Palestine Action:
Posed a threat to the population or any group within it;
Had not used violence;
Did not, as a group, support Hamas (although a spokesperson had voiced support for individuals and acts which implied that he was supportive);
Did not target businesses with Jewish owners because of their religion;
Were not planning violent attacks on the public;
Were funded by T-shirt sales and private donations, not by Iran;
But did conclude that it conducted direct action designed to interrupt or stop the production of arms that are more than likely (given that Elbit UK factories supply 85% of the drones used in the assaults) going to end up murdering civilians in Gaza.
Malfeasance in a Public Office
When making the case for proscription of the Group and outlawing any form of speech (or writing) which intentionally or recklessly caused the listener or reader to consider Palestine Action, its actions and objectives more favourably, Cooper ignored the advice of JTAC save the part which served her purpose … that by HER definition of what comprises “terrorism” Palestine Action engages in “terrorism”. She also misrepresented to her Parliamentary contemporaries the advice of JTAC, claiming that Palestine Action was planning attacks, targeted the population in general, used violent methods, targeted Jewish businesses due to antisemitic motives and is a dangerous proxy of Iran which supports Hamas and what its actors did during the Al Aqsa Flood incursion to Israeli encampments on Gaza’s border. These were lies, by a Parliamentarian in receipt of donations from Zionist organisations worth £213,000, which were intended to produce a result (which they did) which inappropriately outlawed a protest movement and thousands of entirely innocent civilians who were willing to risk up to 14 years’ imprisonment in order to highlight the dangerous injustice of the proscription and the lies of the Home Secretary whose decision is now a matter of judicial review.
In the UK we have a criminal offence of Malfeasance in Public Office. Yvette Cooper, having received personal campaign funding support from the Zionist lobby, consulted JTAC and ignored its guidance. She otherwise consulted lobbyists on behalf of a State which the ICJ has found illegally occupies the land which it has stolen with the support of successive British governments and is engaged in a plausible genocide: The Israeli Embassy (still given audience by ministers of state); Elbit Systems - the weapons maker; The Jewish National Fund; BICOM and the Board of Deputies of British Jews (which claims to represent 271,000 Jews but which actually self-appoints and represents the Zionist fraction of all Jews, only). Cooper spoke to no voices sympathetic to the cause of preventing further murder, starvation and annihilation in Palestine. She gave no opportunity to anyone speaking on behalf of the International Humanitarian Legal community. Then she knowingly lied to Parliament in order to serve the interests of the Zionist sympathisers she supports and as a Labour Friend of Israel counts amongst her “Friends”.
The Metropolitan Police were prepared for what happened on 9 August. Of 700 plus holding cells, 532 were available. 532 were occupied, come nightfall. This represents the largest ever “haul” of detainees following ANY protests in the UK. This was an entirely peaceful protest. It was clear that Cooper’s Home Office had instructed the Met to arrest everyone under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. In the event there were 800 plus protesters, each of whom carried the same placard, bearing the same seven word message. Those who were not arrested … the able bodied and youthful protestors … disbanded at the end of the afternoon, suffering no more than a sore throat after chanting “Shame on YOU!” in the faces of our law enforcers all afternoon.
This was the greatest single misappropriation of policing effort since the poll tax protests against Thatcher’s government … it probably even outstripped that waste. Criminals all over greater London, if aware, will have grasped the opportunity to commit whatever criminality is their metier, whilst Cooper had the Met engaged on a “Frolic of her own” to paraphrase a legal term. This is as clear and obvious a case of Malfeasance in Public Office as I have witnessed. I hope that someone … some body … comes forward and lays a charge against Cooper. It is long since time that individuals within this dishonest cabinet are made to pay for their criminality and perfidy.