[News] British Police escalate the British state's war on independent journalism
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Police escalate the British state's war on independent journalism
They want you scared and mute. Because every time you go out and
protest, you remind the world that the UK government is the real
criminal – for enabling genocide
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They want you scared and mute. Because every time you go out and
protest, you remind the world that the UK government is the real
criminal – for enabling genocide
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Oct 17, 2024
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The UK government and police – the British state – made clear today it
is waging a war of intimidation against the country’s independent
journalists in a desperate attempt to silence them.
Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid
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the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his
electronic devices under the UK's draconian Terrorism Act. A letter from
the Met indicates that the associate editor of the Electronic Intifada
is being investigated by the force for "encouraging terrorism".
Winstanley is the latest – and most high profile – independent
journalist to be targeted by counter-terrorism police in recent weeks.
Earlier, Richard Medhurst was arrested at Heathrow airport on returning
to the UK from a trip abroad. Then Sarah Wilkinson was arrested and her
home ransacked.
Jonathan Cook 2mo
Keir Starmer is expanding the scope of already draconian UK laws to
arrest critics of his complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza as
'supporters' of terrorism. My latest article can be read here:
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Winstanley has repeatedly embarrassed the British establishment by
exposing its covert and deep ties to Israel and its collusion with the
Israeli lobby.
In his book /Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought
Down Jeremy Corbyn, /Winstanley exposed in shocking detail how
antisemitism was weaponised against the former Labour leader.
The book would have made uncomfortable reading for his successor, Sir
Keir Starmer, now Britain's prime minister, because it documents his
role in the smear campaign. While in opposition, Starmer’s Labour party
expelled Winstanley and made legal threats against him.
As the Electronic Intifada website notes
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"Now that Labour is the UK’s ruling party, it has the potential to use
the apparatus of the state against those it views as its own – or
Israel’s – political enemies."
There is precisely no reason for police to raid Winstanley's home or
seize his electronic devices. The preposterous accusation of
"encouraging terrorism" clearly relates to his online work, which is
fully in the public domain.
The British state wants to insinuate through the dawn raid and
confiscation of his devices that he is somehow harbouring secret or
classified information, or in illicit contact with terror groups, and
that incriminating evidence will be forthcoming from searches of those
devices.
It won’t. If there were any real suspicion that Winstanley had such
information, the police would have arrested him rather making a public
show of a 6am raid and search they knew beforehand would turn up nothing.
This isn't about terrorism at all. It is about frightening those
opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and the West’s collusion in it, into
silence. If the British state is going after someone like Winstanley,
you are supposed to conclude, they will surely soon come for me too.
Even the name of the "counter-terrorism" raid is performative:
"Operation Incessantness". The message the state wants to send is that
it will not rest till it has us all behind bars.
Don't believe this nonsense. The police have nothing on Winstanley.
Exposing information about Israel and its genocide, and the British
government’s culpability, is not a crime. At least not yet.
They want you to think it is, of course. They want you scared and mute.
Because every time you go out and protest, you remind the world that the
British government, and their bully-boys in blue, are the real criminals
– for enabling genocide.
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