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Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the UK, has
embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the
arms pipeline to Israel.</div>
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from Palestine Action sprayed blood-red
paint on the exterior walls of the
Shenstone, UK, factory owned by UAV Engines,
a subsidiary of Israeli Defense company
Elbit Systems, on September 18, 2022 (Photo
by Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via
Getty Images).</div>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>On
a warm September night in 2020, in what
would become the first of hundreds of acts
of sabotage and vandalism, members of the
UK-based protest group Palestine Action
(PA) occupied the roof of a factory in the
town of Shenstone, in Staffordshire, and
started hacking at it with sledgehammers.
The goal was to destroy the roof, make the
site unviable, and stop production for as
long as possible. Operated by Elbit
Systems, Israel\u2019s largest weapons
manufacturer, the Shenstone facility
specialized in the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/941c5597-c9a5-4caf-a1b2-e0744ab21233?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">fabrication
of drones</a><span> that included
so-called \u201cloitering munitions,\u201d otherwise
known as suicide units. The </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ba04136a-4ceb-4d47-a4b2-3b0165fef643?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">purpose</a><span>
of loitering munitions, a hybrid
drone-and-cruise missile, is to float for
as long as possible behind enemy lines,
await target acquisition, then
self-destruct when dropped on the target.
Loitering munitions have been used to
horrific </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/78eabf0c-f820-4851-b6ad-2252905890a8?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">effect</a><span>
in the Gaza genocide.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">The
actionists had spent weeks scoping out the
weaknesses at the Shenstone site. The
factory had no guards posted at night, and
the rooftop of the two-story building could
be accessed simply by slapping a twenty-foot
ladder against its side. In the darkness of
the early hours of September 13, 2020, with
the ladder positioned, they hauled their
equipment onto the roof for an occupation
planned to last five days. They carried
tents, sleeping pads, a supply of food, many
gallons of water, banners, spray-paint, and
sledgehammers.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Once
installed on the roof, the actionists went
to work with the hammers. They bashed holes
in the tarmac, broke windows, and smashed
air conditioning units. They draped
Palestinian flags on the façade of the
building alongside a banner that said \u201cSHUT
ELBIT DOWN.\u201d As day broke and the sun
started to beat down, the exposed roof
became a furnace and baked them. They held
on for three days, negotiating with police
who surrounded the facility.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Huda
Ammori, the 31-year-old co-founder of
Palestine Action and daughter of a
Palestinian émigré to the UK, was one of the
occupiers at Shenstone. \u201cWe barely got any
sleep,\u201d she told me. \u201cIt\u2019s very surreal when
you\u2019re like, \u2018We managed to shut down an
Israeli weapons factory!\u2019 It\u2019s the best
place to be, really\u2014the most liberating as a
human being.\u201d Ammori grew up in a small town
north of Manchester, hearing stories of her
father\u2019s flight into exile in England after
the 1967 war that ended in Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. She
organized peaceful protests for Palestine
starting in her teens. She lobbied
parliament, drew up petitions, and
participated in boycotts and divestment
campaigns at the University of Manchester,
where she studied business and finance. But
her efforts led to no substantive change.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">When
she joined with Richard Barnard, a longtime
left-wing activist in the UK, to start
Palestine Action in 2020, she decided to
turn toward property destruction. \u201cOur goal
was to end British complicity in
colonization and apartheid,\u201d said Ammori. At
the same time that the group aimed at
ambitious change, however, it was also
\u201cfocused in order to achieve solid, tangible
victories.\u201d Ammori and Barnard settled on
Elbit Systems as the solid target whose
destruction would entail a tangible victory.
\u201cSociety has conditioned us that even when
we see things happening that are wrong, we
are powerless to change that,\u201d Ammori told
me. \u201cBut it\u2019s not true. We have the power to
shut Elbit down and that is what we\u2019re going
to do.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">The
company had at least nine subsidiaries in
the UK and close ties with UK defense
contractors and the UK military. The
self-described \u201cbackbone\u201d of the Israel
Defense Forces\u2019 drone fleet, Elbit supplied
85 percent of the IDF\u2019s land-based
equipment, supplying everything from
precision-guided rockets and bombs to
air-to-surface missiles, state-of-the-art
artillery ammunition and remote-controlled
weapon stations to guidance systems for
fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, and
armored ground units. (After the outbreak of
Israel\u2019s war on Gaza in 2023, Elbit boasted
to customers that its products were being
\u201cbattle-proven\u201d in real time\u2014the genocide
part of its sales pitch.)</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">There\u2019s
no exact count of the incidents of sabotage,
vandalism, street protest, and blockade
attributable to Palestine Action. According
to Ammori, thousands of people over the last
five years have engaged in hundreds of acts
of disobedience and disruption under the PA
banner in the UK. They have repeatedly hit
Elbit\u2019s drone factory in Shenstone, with
actionists in December 2024, for example,
attempting to break through the factory
walls using demolition tools. They
vandalized and blockaded another Elbit
weapons factory in the city of Tamworth a
half-dozen times. The group has conducted
numerous rooftop raids, including at an
Elbit-owned drone plant in Leicester in
2021, when four PA actionists held out for
six days as they smashed up the roof.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>The
group hit other weapons firms, too, along
with institutional investors that back
Elbit, UK military sites, and at least one
property in the Trump portfolio. In
Southhampton in 2023, they \u201cscaled the
Leonardo UK weapons factory [and] occupied
the rooftop, shutting down production at
the site [as they began] dismantling the
building,\u201d according to a Palestine Action
communiqué. In Shipley last January, they
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d6ce965f-eef9-44d9-a5c5-8735aacb9f89?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">crashed
a van</a><span> weighted with concrete
into the gates of a factory run by
Teledyne Defence and Space, which provides
missile parts to Israel. That same month,
in a coordinated series of attacks across
Europe, they vandalized 15 properties of
the German financial services giant
Allianz SE, which has invested in Elbit
and provided insurance for its facilities.
In February, actionists struck the BBC in
London, spraying blood-red paint and
breaking windows in its headquarters in
\u201cprotest against the BBC\u2019s...entrenched
pro-Israel bias.\u201d In March, they descended
on the Trump Turnberry golf course,
painting \u201cGAZA IS NOT FOR SALE\u201d on the
lawn, vandalizing the club house and
tearing up the golf green, \u201cincluding the
course\u2019s most prestigious holes.\u201d In what
the UK Daily Mail described as a \u201chuge
security breach,\u201d two actionists last June
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/119d1ab3-1f15-4ffd-84ad-8b76f356947c?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">broke
into Britain\u2019s largest Royal Air Force
base</a><span>, riding electric scooters
to swiftly maneuver toward parked military
planes, which they spray-painted and
smashed with crowbars. Both perpetrators
escaped, evading arrest.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">One
of the more dramatic actions took place on
the night of August 6, 2024, in the
industrial suburbs of Bristol, when seven
individuals in a repurposed prison van drove
fast through the security gates of an Elbit
drone factory. After ramming open the gates,
they turned the vehicle toward the garage
door of the facility and crashed through it
to the production floor. The seven
actionists leapt from the vehicle with
sledgehammers and axes and started swinging.
According to various reports, they destroyed
drone parts on the assembly line, along with
an array of manufacturing equipment, causing
over a million dollars in damage and forcing
the facility to shut down for several
months. They also allegedly injured two
police officers and a security guard. The
perpetrators, aged between 20 and 51, were
arrested at the scene and charged with
criminal damage, violent disorder, and
aggravated burglary, and, if convicted,
could serve ten years in prison.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>The
relentless raiding has been effective. In
September, Elbit suddenly </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8bc6c239-d5e4-4b85-80da-f7eb5a51a25c?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">shut
down</a><span> another facility in Bristol
that the group had targeted dozens of
times. In 2022, after 18 straight months
of PA actions\u2014 including break-ins,
blockades, vandalism, and rooftop
occupations\u2014Elbit sold its drone-parts
subsidiary Ferranti Technologies\u2019 Power
and Control in Waterhead. Hit so many
times by PA, the Elbit factory in Tamworth
permanently closed in March 2024 due to
\u201cfalling profits and increased security
costs,\u201d according to a statement from the
company. \u201cThe new owners,\u201d </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8bc6c239-d5e4-4b85-80da-f7eb5a51a25c?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">reported</a><span>
the Guardian, \u201csaid they would not have
any association with Elbit and cancel its
defence contracts.\u201d In 2022, Elbit lost
out on a series of contracts with the UK
government </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ae4f8c4d-f9f9-485e-b51a-8d6bec922fff?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">worth
some $340 million</a><span>, a loss which
PA claimed credit for. Due to their
constant disruptions, the group said,
Elbit was now an \u201cunreliable supplier.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>In
some instances, the British public sided
with actionists when they were brought to
trial. In 2024, jurors </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4f257421-e14a-48f4-9930-949ad1bcc582?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">refused</a><span>
to convict four PA members who caused
$920,000 of damage to Teledyne, while two
others were </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/37b0b364-7370-4e90-9c58-6bad1a46d5fe?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">acquitted</a><span>
of criminal damage of Elbit\u2019s Leicester
factory. The public had figured out, Huda
Ammori told me, that Palestine Action was
\u201cabout valuing the lives of Palestinians
more than the property and tools used to
massacre them.\u201d Sabotage and property
destruction was okay if these were
construed as acts against the machinery of
genocide.</span></p>
<h2
style="font-family:'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:bold;margin:1em 0 0.625em 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:1.16em;font-size:1.625em"><strong>Elbit
vs. the People</strong></h2>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">By
2022, these assaults had caused such
consternation in the ranks of Elbit\u2019s
executives that they initiated high-level
meetings with the administration of Prime
Minister Keir Starmer. According to FOIA\u2019d
records, Conservative Party Home Secretary
Priti Patel met with Elbit CEO Martin
Fausset in 2022 to \u201creassure [Fausset] that
the criminal protest acts against Elbit
Systems UK are taken seriously by
Government\u201d and to \u201cthank Martin for the
work Elbit does in support of the British
Armed Forces.\u201d (The thanks was because Elbit
supplied the Watchkeeper unmanned aerial
vehicle and the MORPHEUS battle management
system for the British Army, along with
technical support for a fleet of 38
aircraft.) A heavily redacted record of a
meeting with Fausset and a representative of
the Home Office in 2023 reiterated the need
to \u201c[r]eassure Elbit Systems UK and the
wider sector affected by Palestine Action
that the Government cares about the harm the
group are causing the private sector.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">UK
government officials also noted their
concern that juries across the country were
expressing too much sympathy for Palestine
Action. \u201cAlthough there have been successful
prosecutions of Palestine Action members,\u201d
said one memo, \u201cthere have been multiple
instances of charges being dropped and
defendants acquitted by juries.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>\u201cThe
juries hear the evidence and go, \u2018We like
it,\u2019\u201d said Tim Crosland, a human rights
lawyer in London who directs the
non-profit prosecutorial watchdog Defend
Our Juries. \u201cThat\u2019s really disconcerting
if you\u2019re Elbit Systems. They\u2019re saying to
themselves, </span><em>Shit, the public
are against us on this.</em><span> The
public are happy to see our factories
smashed in, our windows broken. This is
getting serious.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Crosland
advocates for the right of Palestine Action
to engage in property-targeting direct
action as a form of un-civil disobedience.
The internal documents that Defend Our
Juries and other civil liberties groups
unearthed show that legal briefings to Home
Office ministers, ahead of meetings with
Elbit CEO Martin Fausset, came about
specifically in response to jury acquittals
of Palestine Action. \u201cYou have meetings
between Elbit, the home secretary, the
Israeli government, and the British attorney
general expressing grave concern about the
acquittals,\u201d Crosland told me.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>Starmer
sought guidance from a fossil fuel and
arms industry lobbyist named John Z.
Woodcock, called Lord Walney, who made a
name for himself following his appointment
in 2019 as the government\u2019s \u201cindependent
advisor on political violence and
disruption.\u201d Walney\u2019s </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/372f6318-6493-4f9c-8380-60ebd0bd2b83?j=eyJ1IjoiMmNkY3lwIn0.yAUTwZriaMQh8XS1iyVxLemhqormHO_-d1spyuZt3dY"
rel=""
style="color:#00058c;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">special
report</a><span>, issued in May of 2024,
focused on two protest groups: Palestine
Action and Just Stop Oil (JSO). Like
Palestine Action, Just Stop Oil had
organized disruptive acts of civil
disobedience. Its stated goal was to end
all new fossil fuel projects operated
under the aegis of the UK government and
UK corporations.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Both
Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil were
hostile to the industries that had paid Lord
Walney millions of dollars in lobbying fees
over the years. It was no surprise, then,
when Walney advised the UK to designate both
groups as terrorists and issue orders of
proscription against them\u2014a ban on their
existence and the declaration of their
members, supporters, and advocates as
terrorist criminals.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>Bowing
to Walney\u2019s counsel, Starmer ordered the
proscription into effect on July 5 and
Palestine Action was designated under
English law a terrorist group, joining
Al-Qaeda and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen
Division. The group\u2019s website was </span><a
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down</a><span>, its Instagram and other
social media accounts suspended. All UK
citizens who expressed public support of
Palestine Action in any way would also be
considered terrorists.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Supporters
of PA, including Crosland, sprang into
action to organize a response. On the
morning of July 5, as the hour of the
proscription struck, 29 volunteers with
Defend Our Juries gathered under the statue
of Gandhi in Parliament Square to hold signs
that said, \u201cI OPPOSE GENOCIDE, I SUPPORT
PALESTINE ACTION.\u201d Their implicit demand was
that the ban be lifted. All 29 were arrested
and charged under the UK\u2019s Terrorism Act of
2000. A week later, 86 people who held the
same signs in London, Manchester, Leeds, and
Kendal\u2014including four vicars, numerous civil
servants, and the daughter of a Polish
resistance fighter in World War II\u2014were
arrested on the same charges.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">On
July 5, Crosland, who is 55 years old, was
among the holders of the placards. He was
filmed as he went limp upon arrest, hauled
by the Metropolitan Police from his seat
under the statue of Gandhi.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">\u201cAnything
to say?\u201d the anonymous shooter of the
footage asked him.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Crosland
smiled as four cops carried him to the
waiting paddy wagon. \u201cWell, this is what
happens in modern-day Britain for opposing
genocide,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite something,
isn\u2019t it? I mean, this is why the laws came
in after 1945. The European Convention on
Human Rights was to stop a genocide
happening, and now it\u2019s happening again.
People have got short memories. The mother
of all democracies, people.\u201d Then he was
stuffed into the van, surrounded by
officers, and the video cut off.</p>
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and Backfire</strong></h2>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Scholars
of civil disobedience have remarked on the
\u201cparadox of repression,\u201d when governments
attempt to crush peaceful revolt but
overreach their authority and get slammed
with the backfire of public revulsion and
widening support for the movement. This, in
turn, emboldens more people to risk the ire
of the state and join the revolt. The 1930
Salt March in India, the Sharpville Massacre
of 1960 in South Africa, Bull Connor in 1963
unleashing dogs and firehoses on marchers in
Birmingham: these are classic historical
examples of the backfire effect. The banning
of Palestine Action has proven also to be a
textbook illustration of this dynamic.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">After
July 5, the movement to de-proscribe
Palestine Action acquired a name\u2014Lift the
Ban\u2014and drew ever-increasing numbers of
people into the streets of cities across the
UK.. They gathered every weekend over the
course of the summer, holding the same
placards, expecting to be rounded up and
piled into paddy wagons and whisked to jail.
On Saturday, August 9, London\u2019s Met Police
set a record for the most arrests ever
during a single political protest in the
municipality, taking into custody at least
522 people holding signs that said \u201cI OPPOSE
GENOCIDE, I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.\u201d The
number eclipsed the previous record in 1990,
during the poll tax demonstrations, when Met
constables rounded up 339 people in
Trafalgar Square for opposing Margaret
Thatcher\u2019s attempt at disenfranchisement of
the poor.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">On
almost every Saturday between July 5 and
today, thousands of people have held those
signs as part of the Lift the Ban movement,
and during that time more than 2,000
protesters have been charged under various
sections of the Terrorism Act. Two sections
of the law are most pertinent. Section 12
targets those who are alleged to have
directly supported a terrorist organization
through \u201cmaterial\u201d efforts. Section 13 is
less egregious, intended for those who wear
or display items or share literature\u2014a
t-shirt, a hat, a cardboard sign, a
pamphlet, an online post\u2014that may be
construed as supportive of a terrorist
organization.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>The
enforcement of Section 13 has descended
into absurdities, the circle of targets
widening to include those whose only
apparent crime was that they supported the
right to assemble and be heard. A lay
minister named Martin Clay in
Southborough, a London neighborhood, was
charged under Section 13 simply for
holding up a placard</span><a
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that said</a><span>: \u201cI don\u2019t support
Palestine Action, but I support the right
to support them.\u201d A man in Glasgow was
arrested because he held a sign that said
\u201cGenocide in Palestine, time to take
action.\u201d His crime was that \u201cPalestine\u201d
and \u201caction\u201d had been printed in larger
font than the other words on the sign.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Ginny
Kingsmill, a genial 52-year-old dentist from
the South Downs, has been arrested and
charged four times under Section 13. Under
the law, she is now a terrorist sympathizer
for holding her hand-written placard
expressing opposition to genocide and
support for Palestine Action. I got to know
Kingsmill when she let me crash at her home
during a visit to the UK this year. \u201cI like
to think most people are peaceful, most
people don\u2019t want wars,\u201d Kingsmill told me.
\u201cBut if you see wars happening, get fucking
angry and hold on to that emotion.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Hers
was among the names registered in the record
number of arrests from August 9. It was
oppressively hot and humid in London that
day. \u201cPeople were giving out bottled water,
fruit, sun cream. There was a woman giving
out roses to those sitting with signs,\u201d
Kingsmill told me. \u201cMany people were there
just to say thank you. I saw a blind man in
a wheelchair being bundled into a police
van. A beautiful old smiling woman who said
she would be eighty soon spoke to me as she
was being arrested. She travelled from a
remote part of Wales to be there and had
been standing silently with her eyes shut in
the heat, the picture of serenity and
gentleness.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Another
rebel who Kingsmill spoke with that day was
83-year-old Rev. Sue Parfitt, an ordained
Anglican priest who also was charged as a
terrorist sympathizer under Section 13.
Parfitt was among the first generation of
women to be sanctified in 1994, when the
Church of England allowed the institution of
priesthood to be extended to females.
Parfitt got her start in civil disobedience
with the climate protest movement in the
late 2010s. She had been arrested a total of
thirty times over the past decade,
twenty-seven times for climate protest,
three times as a supporter of Palestine
Action. In her capacity as a terrorist, she
had been twice at Parliament Square under
the statue of Gandhi and once at Trafalgar
Square. In 2024, she and a fellow protester
bashed with a hammer and pick at the glass
case in London\u2019s British Library that holds
one of the original copies of the Magna
Carta, the founding document of civil
liberties in the Anglo-American tradition.
\u201cWe dented the outer casing, and of course
the Magna Carta itself was never in any kind
of danger,\u201d Parfitt told me. \u201cA few weeks
earlier our government had been taken to the
high court and was found guilty of breaking
its own climate laws that required emissions
reductions. And this got no publicity at
all.\u201d The symbolism of attacking the Magna
Carta, said Parfitt, was to \u201cunearth it,\u201d
bring it into the light of public view.</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">On
November 12, the day I interviewed Parfitt,
it was revealed that four UN special
rapporteurs on human rights had sent a
letter to the UK government exactly two
months earlier, on September 12, warning
that the proscription of Palestine Action
violated human rights. \u201c[M]ere property
damage is not sufficient to constitute
terrorism according to international
standards,\u201d said the letter. The UN
officials condemned the proscription as
\u201cunnecessary\u201d and said it gave rise to
\u201cdisproportionate restrictions\u201d on the
rights of freedom of expression, peaceful
assembly and association.. They observed
that \u201cabuse of laws to proscribe
organizations as terrorist that are not
genuinely so has more commonly occurred in
States that are authoritarian.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">I
asked Parfitt what she thought of her
government\u2019s actions. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine why
one wouldn\u2019t see it as legitimate to try to
stop the weapons being made or the airplanes
that are being used to drop the weapons,\u201d
she replied. \u201cThat\u2019s why I oppose the very
idea that Palestine Action should be deemed
to be a terrorist organization. And the fact
that I\u2019m now called a terrorist is
ridiculous.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">The
rebels are undeterred. Lift the Ban this
week announced a series of terroristic
sign-waving protests planned for later this
month that the group said would constitute
the \u201cmost widespread civil disobedience in
UK history.\u201d</p>
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