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The decision to uphold the proscription of Palestine Action is completely undemocratic

Council Estate Media — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:21:59 GMT

When the High Court ruled in February 2026 that the proscription of Palestine Action was disproportionate and therefore unlawful, it was somewhat of an anomaly. It was a rare example of a judge applying the law like we live in a democracy or something. Clearly, this could not stand.

The High Court highlighted the inconsistency with the Home Office’s own proscription policy and the interference with rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Basically, the proscription made no sense, even by the government’s own standards, and it deprived the public of democratic rights.

Now before we go any further, I must, for legal reasons, clarify my position: I think proscribing a direct action group is an outrageous abuse of power. I’m hugely concerned about the authoritarian direction this country is heading in. Just because I’m pointing out an injustice, does not mean I support, or invite support, for Palestine Action. That is not the point of this article, so keep your hair on, fascists.

The Court of Appeal has just ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action was lawful, and its rationale was ludicrous. The five judges argued that the group’s activities counted as terrorism because they involved serious damage to property that was intended to influence government/international policy for a political cause. If you agree with this definition of terrorism, just know that it effectively defines Emmeline Pankhurst as a terrorist.

Supporters of the proscription of Palestine Action insist the move was necessary to protect national security, only they don’t mean our national security. They mean Israel’s. Direct action groups in this country are being banned to protect another country. A rogue one. That’s practically treason.

It’s worth bearing in mind the activities of Palestine Action were already illegal. But it wasn’t enough to jail them for the things they actually did, such as burglary and criminal damage. They also had to jail them for things they didn’t do.

Things they didn’t do.

Even worse, they arrested sweet old ladies and blind people in wheel chairs for supporting them. People whose only motivation was to stop a genocide.

It had seemed like common sense was finally prevailing when the proscription was overturned, pending appeal. I can only assume emergency action was taken behind the scenes to ensure the correct outcome at that appeal. The fact Palestine Action had never committed a violent act of terrorism nor planned to commit one was irrelevant. What mattered was that Israel’s murder machine was being disrupted. That could not be allowed to stand.

Our politicians had to keep sending bombs to Israel during a genocide, despite the fact this was a massive breach of domestic and international law. Jailing activists on terrorism charges was the best way to achieve a chilling effect, so that’s what they did. The alternative would be that we talk about how they’re committing war crimes, until they end up being the ones on trial.

The proscription means that you can’t support, or invite support for, Palestine Action so don’t do that, otherwise you could face up to 14 years in jail. Just know that the proscription doesn’t ban you from pointing out that our government is protecting Israel because it’s compromised. Keep talking about that.

Every politician who is going along with this farce, abandoning law and morality, is one one of these things: bribed, blackmailed, utterly cowardly, or outright evil. There is no other option. There is no moral way of defending Israel’s murder machine. There is no rational way you can treat people as terrorists for non-violent offences. It’s only when you inconvenience Israel that you are treated this harshly.

Palestine Action commits acts of burglary and vandalism against companies that manufacture the drones that play recordings of babies crying to lure Palestinians into the open and gun them down. You want to jail them on burglary and vandalism, fine, they knew the risks when they took those actions. Just don’t pretend those actions were more than they were.

I’m old enough to remember when terrorism meant mass murder, not making war criminals mad.

Now things are so preposterous that activists are being jailed on terrorism charges for crimes carried out before the proscription of Palestine Action. That’s retro-active punishment and it’s so very far from justice. The jury in the Filton 6 retrial weren’t even told the defendants would be sentenced as terrorists. The jury weren’t allowed to know the justifications for their crimes or the fact they’re allowed to acquit based on their conscience.

Don’t forget those Filton 6 defendants had been acquitted on the most serious charge of aggravated burglary, but they were punished like they were found guilty of it, receiving prison sentences ranging from 5 years and 8 months to 7 years and 8 months.

The judge ruled there was a “terrorist connection” under Section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020, even though they were only convicted of criminal damage (and in one case GBH without intent). In other words, the judge found a way to circumvent the jury’s decision. Part of his rationale was that they had a political/ideological cause. The thing that the defendants weren’t allowed to put to the jury as a mitigating factor was instead used as an aggravating factor.

Whether you agree or disagree with Palestine Action, you must surely agree this is not how a justice system should function. It now feels like outcomes are predetermined — and they’re predetermined to keep a genocide going indefinitely.

Again, I’m not inviting support for Palestine Action here. I’m simply asking that its members get a fair trial, and if convicted, only get punished for crimes they actually committed, not ones the government is pretending they committed. That’s not an unreasonable position, is it?

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Someone might finally be putting a stop to Israeli aggression

Council Estate Media — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:30:12 GMT

You know what’s beautiful? Taking a mental health break for two weeks and not watching any news at all, only to return and find Israel is going boom again. Okay, it’s not exactly beautiful. It’s horrible really, but it’s the kind of horrible where anyone on the receiving end of genocide can be forgiven for letting out a little cheer. Or a big one.

Finally someone is standing up for them…

Iran launched a barrage of missiles at targets in northern Israel and sites like Ramat David airbase near Nazareth. It was called Operation Nasr or True Promise or something. Depends on who you ask…

Poor Israelis had to spend the night fighting with each other in air raid shelters, and presumably locking out Chinese workers again. The Zionists are so tired…

Crucially Iran’s attack came in response to Israeli attacks on Beirut. High rises in “Hezbollah strongholds” (they mean densely-packed civilian areas) have been falling to the ground for weeks. In the latest attack, at least two residential buildings were destroyed, with two civilians killed and around 22 wounded. Four of the terrorist leaders they took out were women and another four were children. Real heroes we’ve got here…

UNICEF says hundreds of children have been killed by Israel in Lebanon since March, but that doesn’t count as terrorism because Lebanese children don’t count as people. See how it works?

Here was Israel, just minding its own business, casually breaking the ceasefire, every fucking day, when Iran decided to strike back for no reason. I can only assume this was antisemitism.

Not to be outdone, the Houthis got in on the action. It turns out they’re not just a bunch of desert-dwelling savages after all. They can actually stand up against super powers.

The Houthis claimed a recent missile strike on the Jaffa/Tel Aviv area that was reportedly intercepted. No idea whether that last part was true because when does Israel ever tell the truth?

The Houthis announced they would target Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea, effectively threatening renewed disruption to shipping. Wouldn’t it be easier for Israel to just stop bombing everyone? Couldn’t we just take those bombs away for their own good?

You wouldn’t give a kid matches if they couldn’t stop lighting fires. Israel wants to burn down the whole region and rule over the ashes.

The very least we could say is no more bombs for Israel until it learns to behave in public and says “sorry” and maybe hangs one or two of its biggest war criminals. That’s reasonable, right? I mean it’s the barest of bare minimums really. Just not when your leaders are compromised.

Anyway, Israel retaliated against Iran by targeting air defences, missile sites, and a petrochemical complex in Mahshahr linked to ballistic missile production. Surprisingly, Israel didn’t strike any schools or hospitals on this occasion. Perhaps their targeting AI is malfunctioning or something.

Israel says most of Iran’s rockets were intercepted by those air defences that broke Americans keep paying for. Problem is even if it’s true, an asymmetric attack costs Israel far more than Iran.

Those interceptor missiles are ludicrously expensive, and while Israel isn’t footing the bill, its sugar daddy in the US can only produce these things in limited numbers. Every saturation strike means that Israel can’t replenish its stocks quickly enough. All Iran has to do is launch a series of attacks like this once every few months and Israel is basically naked.

Iran is now saying it plans to launch a full week of continuous strikes on Israel. It’s outrageous when another country just decides to bomb you like that, isn’t it? Israel would never…

I’m glad to say no major casualties have been reported on either side. As much as I’m sick of the Israelis, I still want a solution where no one dies. And the thing is, I think we actually might get it. Don’t laugh at me.

The fact Trump is demanding “both sides” agree to a ceasefire is telling. Looks like the US is not in a position to join the fight, even if it wants to. Iran is now indicating it might stop further attacks if Israel stops striking Beirut. If Israel agrees, we have a whole new power dynamic in the region. It means Iran effectively has a veto on Israeli military action.

Just stop and think about that for a moment…

It’s fair to say the Greater Israel Project has hit a bit of a snag. Here they were, just bombing the shit out of everyone with impunity, blackmailing the US into merging with their army, when they realised that deterrence had not actually been established. Someone in the region can still fight back.

And that someone is Iran.

And also Yemen.

It doesn’t exactly help Israel that Iran might have nukes now, if rumours are to be believed. And who could blame ‘em? Best decision North Korea ever made. If you think that’s bad enough, I’m hearing Iran is just two weeks away from developing its own Epstein Island.

If Israel keeps fucking around, it might really find out. Looks like the Epstein islanders are gonna have to find a path to peace after all. Certainly if they want their paedophile colony to see out the decade.

To be clear, I don’t actually want Israel to be blown up... What? I don’t! I just want ‘em to learn to live with their neighbours or fucking go home. That’s not too much to ask now, is it?

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The establishment just used antisemitism smears against Chris Kennedy and the Greens fell for it

Council Estate Media — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:39:12 GMT

Chris Kennedy, the Green Party’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election, has stood down for “family reasons”. However, it appears the real reason is that he shared social media posts suggesting the Golder’s Green arson attack against four Jewish ambulances might have been an Israeli false flag.

Neoliberals were excited by the news, saying this is the o…

The rigged Republican primary in Kentucky shows that you can't vote your way out of fascism

Council Estate Media — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:18:31 GMT

When the results of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District Republican Primary rolled in, we all made the same assumption: a seven-term incumbent had been defeated by record-breaking spending from Trump-aligned billionaires and the Israel lobby. That assumption was reasonable given the $32-35 million ad spending that utterly dwarfed the typical $1 million.

It only took six months for the US puppet regime in Bolivia to fall apart

Council Estate Media — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:24:52 GMT

We were told for years that Bolivia was under socialist dictatorship because Evo Morales would not allow the US to plunder his country's resources. When his MAS party came to power in 2006, Morales chose to nationalise Bolivia’s natural gas (Latin America's 2nd largest reserves) and lithium (the world's largest reserves) so the proceeds could benefit hi…

"The Greens should step aside so Burnham can win" is not exactly an inspiring message

Council Estate Media — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:53:54 GMT

Andy Burnham is officially standing for Labour in the Makerfield by-election and the stakes could not be higher. If he wins this once-safe seat, he will step down as Mayor of Greater Manchester, return to Parliament, and almost certainly become the next Labour leader — and therefore our next Prime Minister. If he loses, it could be the final nail in the…

It is a national disgrace that the BBC pulled a BAFTA-winning documentary to appease Israel

Council Estate Media — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:04:46 GMT

A powerful documentary called Gaza: Doctors Under Attack has just won the Current Affairs prize at the BAFTAs. It lays bare how Israel has systematically destroyed the healthcare system in Gaza in clear violation of international law. The film features harrowing firsthand accounts from Palestinian doctors and medics, describing attacks on hospitals, and…

Sir Keir Starmer killed the Labour Party for Israel

Council Estate Media — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:01:52 GMT

The 2026 local elections have delivered exactly the nightmare scenario so many of us predicted for Starmer’s Labour. Yet, bizarrely, some of his closest allies are acting like they don’t understand why voters have deserted them. This isn’t just a bad night at the polls, it’s proof of how hopelessly out of touch the corrupt neoliberals running the countr…

It's official: the police won't arrest IDF Brits for genocide, but they will arrest you for protesting against it

Council Estate Media — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:45:11 GMT

When a mentally ill man with a history of violence stabbed two Jews and a Muslim in one day, Keir Starmer’s first instinct wasn’t to address the systemic failures in mental health care. It was to pretend the Muslim victim doesn’t exist, declare it a terrorist attack against Jewish people and British values, and crack down on pro-Palestine protests. If t…

We are being told that fabricated terror group HAYI is responsible for the stabbing of two Jews in London

Council Estate Media — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:12:58 GMT

Yesterday, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golder’s Green, north London, but fortunately survived and are in a stable condition. Everyone agrees the attack was appalling, but the political opportunism and manipulation we’ve seen is off the charts.

A British man of Somali descent with a known history of violence and mental health issues is now in custody. …

What on earth is going on with the missing and dead US scientists?

Council Estate Media — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:48:27 GMT

A bunch of top US scientists, engineers, military personnel, and even, dare I say it, UFO researchers, have gone missing or died recently. I think we’re up to 13 now, but the number keeps rising, and it’s entirely possible that one or two might have slipped under the radar.

The names are Michael David Hicks, Frank Maiwald, Amy Eskridge, David Wilcock, Ca…

Live Facial Recognition is about to put everyone in the UK in a digital police line up without their consent

Council Estate Media — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:47:11 GMT

The UK government has announced plans to extend Live Facial Recognition (LFR) across the country, following a High Court ruling that upheld the Metropolitan Police’s use of the system.

Chillingly, Policing Minister Sarah Jones welcomed the judgment, saying: “Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear.” Worse, she called anyone who opposes the technology …

Will Olly Robbins' testimony over the Mandelson appointment finally finish Starmer?

Council Estate Media — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:29:45 GMT

After Keir Starmer’s woeful performance in parliament yesterday, it seemed that the prime minister was just one explosive revelation away from the exit door. Perhaps the evidence presented by former head of the FCDO, Olly Robbins, might be enough to push him out. We can but hope…

It will come as no shock that Starmer has not been forthcoming with the tru…

Mandelson was not made ambassador despite his ties to Epstein but because of them

Council Estate Media — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:52:54 GMT

Who could have known that when Starmer put the Prince of Darkness in the UK’s most senior diplomatic role, it would end up causing so many problems? The answer is absolutely everyone, including Starmer himself.

Starmer has the look of a man who is not in control, who is tormented by every excruciating decision he makes, who knows he looks like a fool. It…

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting

Council Estate Media — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:47:02 GMT

The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows. On Saturday, 523 protesters were arrested in Trafalgar Square, simply for calling to “Lift the Ban” on the group. This is the same ban the High Court ruled unlawful back in February, calling it a disproportionate attack on free speech and assembly.

T…

"Power Plant and Bridge Day" became the most humiliating military climb down in US history

Council Estate Media — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:51 GMT

Yesterday brought a new meaning to the term “doom scrolling” as we anxiously waited for Trump to fulfil his threat to end a 6,000 year old civilisation (and possibly the world). Thankfully, the ceasefire we thought would never come was announced just before the deadline and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief.

We had witnessed a terrifying esc…

Looks like the rescue mission in Iran was cover for an operation to seize uranium that ultimately failed

Council Estate Media — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:10:39 GMT

The Trump administration is hailing its latest Iran disaster as a roaring success, but the official story has more holes than a low-budget Hollywood movie, suggesting there is more going on than meets the eye.

We are told that a few days ago, an F-15 was shot down over southwest Iran. The F-15E was hit by Iranian air defences (that we were told had been …

Iran pulling off regime change in the US as fighter jets fall from sky and generals revolt

Council Estate Media — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:10:53 GMT

It has been a rough week for American airpower with the loss of F-15 and A-10 aircrafts, as well as damage to an F-16 and two Black Hawk helicopters (let me know if I missed anything).

On Friday, the Iranians shot down another F-15E Strike Eagle with air defences that Pete Hegseth had insisted were completely destroyed. The gleeful Iranians broadcast ima…

Trump intends to "liberate" Iran by bombing it "back to the stone age"?

Council Estate Media — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:56:00 GMT

For the past week or so, it’s felt like we’re stuck in an airport lounge while the Trump-ocalypse unfolds, or more accurately, in a spaceport, hoping to escape the madness of the world. Planet Earth, it seems, is a write-off.

The US troop buildup in the Middle East meant a ground invasion of Iran seemed imminent and anything I started writing would becom…

It appears Mossad has activated "Iranian sleeper cells" to pull Europe into war

Council Estate Media — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:03:45 GMT

Just as things start getting desperate for Israel, we are led to believe that Iran has done the one thing that might give Israel a chance of winning this war: launch attacks on Europe.

Overnight, a new terrorist organisation has cropped up called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya (HAYI), which roughly translates to the “Islamic Movement of the People o…