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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestine Action Covers BBC Building In Red Paint</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Palestine Action - October 15, 2023<br></div>
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<blockquote><img src="cid:ii_lnsyp1mn0" alt="20231015-2.jpg" width="410" height="226"><br><p><span>NOTE: Protests outside the factory in Leicester by Palestine Action continue, now going on for more than 150 days.</span></p></blockquote>
<h2>To Symbolise Complicity in Genocide.</h2>
<p>Today, Palestine Action sprayed the BBC’s Headquarters with blood red
paint, in response to it’s recent coverage of Palestine, which has been
complicit in manufacturing consent for the occupation’s genocide of
Palestinians. The action occurred before a protest for Palestine was due
to begin at the BBC HQ. Since October 7th, the BBC has given biased and
inaccurate reporting on the Israeli massacre of the Palestinian people.
It has only ever invited Palestinians to comment when Israelis are
killed, with little regard for Palestinians killed by Israel, such as in
the case of Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot who was expected to
condemn Israeli deaths immediately after informing the BBC he had lost 6
family members [<a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-blasted-for-cold-and-callous-row-with-palestinian-ambassador-360512/">1</a>].</p>
<p>It has not reported on the racist lies spouted by international
media, including claims of mass rape and decapitated babies, all of
which have either gone unconfirmed or been retracted once the damage has
been done [<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html">2</a>].</p>
<p>It’s “guides” to the “conflict” do not mention the 75 year long occupation and oppression of Palestine by the Zionist entity [<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396">3</a>].
These guides make Al Nakba (which translates as ‘The Catastrophe’ in
English) sound like an unfortunate tribal conflict which accidentally
resulted in Palestinians fleeing, and not the deliberate and carefully
planned campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by Zionist militias,
who were supported and armed by the British [<a href="https://decolonizepalestine.com/intro/the-mandate-years-and-the-nakba/">4</a>].
Words upon words are dedicated to the settler colony’s declarations of
genocide, the support given by imperialists and the feelings of Zionists
whilst large scale loss of Palestinian life is treated almost like a
footnote.</p>
<p>These actions come at a time when Palestine Action has expanded its
reach, starting what it calls Palestine Action Underground, which
targets any and all partners of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms
suppliers. Providing a guide and a map of over 50 Elbit sites [<a href="https://b6x8a4d7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pal_Manual_2.pdf">5</a>][<a href="http://elbitsites.uk/">6</a>],
Palestine Action asks those who want to do something about the Israeli
arms trade to form autonomous groups able to independently strike at the
facilitators of Israel’s systemic and military violence. This action
follows that principle, holding the media accountable for facilitating
Israeli terror.</p>
<p>A Palestine Action spokesperson:</p>
<p>‘We at Palestine Action cannot stand by and let Western media justify
and manufacture consent for genocide through racist, callous coverage.
The media has long been an insidious weapon of Western imperialism
against Palestine and other Arab countries, with the use of colonial
myths and orientalist tropes laying the ground for millions of people to
be murdered. As the Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd said, “This is
the Iraq war all over again. The media has the bloodiest hands in all of
this.”[<a href="https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1712484643470200903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">7</a>]’</p>
<p><strong>Endnotes:</strong></p>
<p>[1] <a href="http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-blasted-for-cold-and-callous-row-with-palestinian-ambassador-360512/">http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-blasted-for-cold-and-callous-row-with-palestinian-ambassador-360512/</a></p>
<p>[2] <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html">http://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html</a></p>
<p>[3] <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396</a></p>
<p>[4] <a href="http://decolonizepalestine.com/intro/the-mandate-years-and-the-nakba/">http://decolonizepalestine.com/intro/the-mandate-years-and-the-nakba/</a></p>
<p>[5] <a href="http://b6x8a4d7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pal_Manual_2.pdf">http://b6x8a4d7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pal_Manual_2.pdf</a></p>
<p>[6] <a href="http://elbitsites.uk/">http://elbitsites.uk</a></p>
<p>[7] <a href="http://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1712484643470200903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">http://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1712484643470200903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet</a></p>
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