If the judge, even while acquitting, claims that the police were right to bring the case ( i.e regardless of an absence of any evidence, to appease the government), then we are well onto step 2, the elimination of jury trials. I am glad for Natalie Strecker that she slipped through the door before it closed, but her trial highlights what lies ahead. Justice is breathing its last.
This is a campaign of terror to suppress the right to protest in all its forms. I am reminded of the Palestinian doctor, here in the UK, who has been suspended by the GMC for social media comments. They want us all to be so afraid that we dare not stand up, or say anything.
I cannot understand anyone who still supports this Labour party. They have allowed this to happen, actively encouraged it, talk proudly of the horror they are inflicting on their own citizens. They are part of a sticky oozing evil that has taken over our society. It reaches everywhere and no where is safe anymore.
Without commenting on the specific case that you mentioned (as you did not give a name I cannot be sure which what it is), there have been recent disciplinary cases for medical professionals, whose public posts I would judge to be highly antisemitic. The doctor who made these posts may be passionate about Palestine, but it does not excuse some of the things that were said. If you choose a profession like being a doctor in the public service, you should not publicly exhibit such prejudice. It brings you and potentially the profession in the disrepute.
Antisemitism has been weaponised by the Zionists who want you to forget that the Arabs are a Semitic people (its a language classification) and that British Israelism (dating back to the 16th century Puritan reformation) was always a WASP d€£U$ion..
...until they managed to monopo£i$€ 'western' media and herd us into £ocKKK$t€p to their tota£itarian agenda.
This frog, like the Russophobia PR-op-agenda, is on the boil for centuries.
The word anti-semitism has been defined, used and understood for over a century as referencing hatred against Jewish people, irrespective of their language, and not as hatred against speakers of Arabic.
The original linguistic use of Semotic is only relevant in discussions of language groups.
The issue is the appropriation of the term antisemitism by Zionists to include opposition to their colonial Project which they falsely claim to be undertaking on behalf of the whole Jewish people.
Yes typo! Sorry. I can't edit comments on the app, which I'm currently using, but I'll fix it on the computer at some point.
We may have to agreed to differ on the importance of Arabs being Semites in this context.
To take it to an extreme example, you can't reasonably say that the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people were not antisemitism because they did not target Arabs.
It's going down a rabbit hole of discussion about language which doesn't get anywhere, in my experience, and distracts from Palestinian solidarity.
You obviously feel differently. That's ok, we've heard each other's views and neither of us has convinced the other.
In this context the Arabs being Semitic IS central...it makes Zionism an antisemitic project to divide and conquer the Semitic peoples of the region who had seen off the earlier crusader states, which Zionist I$ra€£ recreates by driving this wedge into both Jewish and Arab peoples to serve European imperial ends. The righteous revulsion of the survivors of Hitler's predations were then displaced onto Arabs instead of European serial white-supremacist racists, and now are being redirected on Jews as the culprits for their puppeteers crimes. Many Jews are now realising this and leading the rejection of the Zionist disaster being laid at their door.
I'm not trying to 'convince' you...just expand any readers' understanding of the complexity of these deliberately simplified foundational factors.
Feel free to contradict me...I too am trying to fathom the depths of the tang£e p£anted by Balfour and Roth$chi£d's still unfolding and mutating ends.
The problem is bigger than Palestine, despite its centrality as exemplar of the brutality and viciousness at the heart of 'western' toxic monopo£ari$m.
I am not writing to win...I am involved in the same attempt to transcend the accelerating polycrises resulting from our critically sick cul-de-sac race to repeat the 20th century imperial slaughters with 21st century technological exponential consequences.
It grows late...and the misdirection to false solutions and scapegoat culprits ramify by the day.
Britannia is just taKKKing care of her toxic off$pring...after all. the £eviathan gas field offshore of Gaza is marked out for British Gas piracy for surrvei££ance services rendered from Cyprus to keep the genocide ro££ing along under the Don's c€a$efire-my-ar$€.
Pass the Nobel prize list...I need a projectile vomitorium.
Thank you for reporting Natalie's case, which I have been doing my best to publicize since her arrest in 2024.
Perhaps I may be allowed to correct, and rxoand, a few factual points in your article.
The police did not decide to investigate Natalie because they had seen some of her posts, as the article suggests.
They received a formal complaint from an opponent of the Palestinian cause, presumed to be the same complainant that had made repeated complaints to Natalie's employer.
For more on this context and the background of Natalie's arrest, see my recent article written before her trial:
It is not, at least formally, a UK prosecution. Jersey is not part of the UK but a personal overseas possession of the British crown.
However, from the day of her arrest on, the Jersey police were clear that they had no experience in investigating this sort of complaint. Indeed, nobody had previously been investigated under Jersey's Terrorism Act of 2002, which was copied from our 2000 Act.
The Jersey police and the prosecution therefore sought and received guidance from the counter terrorism authorities in Britain and the UK Attorney General's office.
While the section of the terrorism act under which he was charged does carry a maximum sentence of 10 years, the trial was listed to be heard under the 'Inferior Number', which can impose a maximum sentence of four years.(based on my research).
Natalie was acquitted not because the two jurats (a bit like magistrates) and the judge did not think that has statements could indicate support for the proscribed organizations, but because they could not be sure that she *intended* them to encourage such support.
The defence of not intending the remarks to be seen as encouraging support for a prescribed organization must be specific to Jersey, as the UK law excludes such an excuse.
The UK Terrorism Act 2000 s12 currently states that
"A person commits an offence if the person—
(a)expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, and
(b)in doing so is reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation."
In other words, a throwaway remark, taken out of context and with no intent to encourage support, can nonetheless be deemed to be reckless as to whether it might do so. It is also no defence, as is general in our law, to be unaware of the law or unaware that the organization referenced is proscribed.
That's why the judge in Natalie's case made it very clear that people in support of the Palestinian cause need to be very careful about how they express that support. I'm sure that he was well aware from the character witnesses, the publicity and the people who attended the trial, that the case had widespread interest particularly from the UK.
Even in Jersey, it's entirely possible that a future case under the same section might reach a different conclusion based on the facts presented to them.
I first saw the bit about children in Craig Murray's article. I don't know if he got it from somewhere else, but it's wrong.
Natalie is not a mother and does not have any young children. She has a husband and a cat who she would have missed very much if she had been imprisoned.
I have a writing from my dear friend Dalia in Deir Al Balah
I am the UK f8ndraiser for this young family
The aid is a trickle.
If you want a new iPhone17 its yours.
Although you cant eat it.
Then again it just might blow up in your childrens hands
All the social media platforms have rigged the algorithms including TikTok to prevent them getting any help from the their users
D8n8tions have dropped off massively
Please read Dalia's writing and help or share for them. Thanks
How can anyone hate winter? It's a passing word, but it carries a lot of pain. I'm Dalia, a mother of two. I'm supposed to enjoy a peaceful life with my children, bringing hot chocolate and movies on the cold winter nights here.I will be looking out of my window and watch the beautiful winter while my babies wear the most beautiful warm clothes.I should have gone to university and complete my shattered dream.Life is harsh; I have to wash clothes by hand, and I have two C-section scars that cause me great pain in this cold, because my children don't have good clothes. There's no rug covering the floor to keep us warm. There's no gas stove to make a hot drink.My husband carries water a long distance so I can wash clothes in this cold. The window is open, so the wind is strong. I'm afraid my children will get sick or that we won't be able to pay the monthly rent.My dream of graduating from university has been shattered. My husband has no job here, and my children have no hope except for you. I truly cannot bear to see my family suffer.So, my friends, you can hate the rain...because it will bring back your tragedy. It will increase my pain...you have seen my suffering for two years and I have not felt comfortable...I'm confident that this winter will be warmer and kinder with you all by my family's side, and I know you are our best supporters.
If the judge, even while acquitting, claims that the police were right to bring the case ( i.e regardless of an absence of any evidence, to appease the government), then we are well onto step 2, the elimination of jury trials. I am glad for Natalie Strecker that she slipped through the door before it closed, but her trial highlights what lies ahead. Justice is breathing its last.
This is a campaign of terror to suppress the right to protest in all its forms. I am reminded of the Palestinian doctor, here in the UK, who has been suspended by the GMC for social media comments. They want us all to be so afraid that we dare not stand up, or say anything.
I cannot understand anyone who still supports this Labour party. They have allowed this to happen, actively encouraged it, talk proudly of the horror they are inflicting on their own citizens. They are part of a sticky oozing evil that has taken over our society. It reaches everywhere and no where is safe anymore.
UK Lawyers for Israel needs to be sued for defamation, and prosecuted for vexatious litigation.
Without commenting on the specific case that you mentioned (as you did not give a name I cannot be sure which what it is), there have been recent disciplinary cases for medical professionals, whose public posts I would judge to be highly antisemitic. The doctor who made these posts may be passionate about Palestine, but it does not excuse some of the things that were said. If you choose a profession like being a doctor in the public service, you should not publicly exhibit such prejudice. It brings you and potentially the profession in the disrepute.
I think you need to worknout whose side you are on.
I'm on the side of universal human rights, on the side of the oppressed and not the oppressor.
I'm deeply opposed to all racism and hatred of the other. I reject tribalism.
I've spent 50 years campaigning for the Palestinian cause within that framework.
Antisemitism has been weaponised by the Zionists who want you to forget that the Arabs are a Semitic people (its a language classification) and that British Israelism (dating back to the 16th century Puritan reformation) was always a WASP d€£U$ion..
...until they managed to monopo£i$€ 'western' media and herd us into £ocKKK$t€p to their tota£itarian agenda.
This frog, like the Russophobia PR-op-agenda, is on the boil for centuries.
The word anti-semitism has been defined, used and understood for over a century as referencing hatred against Jewish people, irrespective of their language, and not as hatred against speakers of Arabic.
The original linguistic use of Semotic is only relevant in discussions of language groups.
The issue is the appropriation of the term antisemitism by Zionists to include opposition to their colonial Project which they falsely claim to be undertaking on behalf of the whole Jewish people.
Is 'Semotic' a typo??
'..only relevant in discussions of language groups.'
Propaganda pertains to the issue in hand, so my comment remains not just 'relevant' but central.
Yes typo! Sorry. I can't edit comments on the app, which I'm currently using, but I'll fix it on the computer at some point.
We may have to agreed to differ on the importance of Arabs being Semites in this context.
To take it to an extreme example, you can't reasonably say that the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people were not antisemitism because they did not target Arabs.
It's going down a rabbit hole of discussion about language which doesn't get anywhere, in my experience, and distracts from Palestinian solidarity.
You obviously feel differently. That's ok, we've heard each other's views and neither of us has convinced the other.
In this context the Arabs being Semitic IS central...it makes Zionism an antisemitic project to divide and conquer the Semitic peoples of the region who had seen off the earlier crusader states, which Zionist I$ra€£ recreates by driving this wedge into both Jewish and Arab peoples to serve European imperial ends. The righteous revulsion of the survivors of Hitler's predations were then displaced onto Arabs instead of European serial white-supremacist racists, and now are being redirected on Jews as the culprits for their puppeteers crimes. Many Jews are now realising this and leading the rejection of the Zionist disaster being laid at their door.
I'm not trying to 'convince' you...just expand any readers' understanding of the complexity of these deliberately simplified foundational factors.
Feel free to contradict me...I too am trying to fathom the depths of the tang£e p£anted by Balfour and Roth$chi£d's still unfolding and mutating ends.
The problem is bigger than Palestine, despite its centrality as exemplar of the brutality and viciousness at the heart of 'western' toxic monopo£ari$m.
I am not writing to win...I am involved in the same attempt to transcend the accelerating polycrises resulting from our critically sick cul-de-sac race to repeat the 20th century imperial slaughters with 21st century technological exponential consequences.
It grows late...and the misdirection to false solutions and scapegoat culprits ramify by the day.
I hope that does not add to the confusion.
She should never have been in court.
Britannia is just taKKKing care of her toxic off$pring...after all. the £eviathan gas field offshore of Gaza is marked out for British Gas piracy for surrvei££ance services rendered from Cyprus to keep the genocide ro££ing along under the Don's c€a$efire-my-ar$€.
Pass the Nobel prize list...I need a projectile vomitorium.
Thank you for reporting Natalie's case, which I have been doing my best to publicize since her arrest in 2024.
Perhaps I may be allowed to correct, and rxoand, a few factual points in your article.
The police did not decide to investigate Natalie because they had seen some of her posts, as the article suggests.
They received a formal complaint from an opponent of the Palestinian cause, presumed to be the same complainant that had made repeated complaints to Natalie's employer.
For more on this context and the background of Natalie's arrest, see my recent article written before her trial:
https://paulseligman.substack.com/p/natalie-needs-your-solidarity-messages
It is not, at least formally, a UK prosecution. Jersey is not part of the UK but a personal overseas possession of the British crown.
However, from the day of her arrest on, the Jersey police were clear that they had no experience in investigating this sort of complaint. Indeed, nobody had previously been investigated under Jersey's Terrorism Act of 2002, which was copied from our 2000 Act.
The Jersey police and the prosecution therefore sought and received guidance from the counter terrorism authorities in Britain and the UK Attorney General's office.
While the section of the terrorism act under which he was charged does carry a maximum sentence of 10 years, the trial was listed to be heard under the 'Inferior Number', which can impose a maximum sentence of four years.(based on my research).
Natalie was acquitted not because the two jurats (a bit like magistrates) and the judge did not think that has statements could indicate support for the proscribed organizations, but because they could not be sure that she *intended* them to encourage such support.
The defence of not intending the remarks to be seen as encouraging support for a prescribed organization must be specific to Jersey, as the UK law excludes such an excuse.
The UK Terrorism Act 2000 s12 currently states that
"A person commits an offence if the person—
(a)expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, and
(b)in doing so is reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation."
In other words, a throwaway remark, taken out of context and with no intent to encourage support, can nonetheless be deemed to be reckless as to whether it might do so. It is also no defence, as is general in our law, to be unaware of the law or unaware that the organization referenced is proscribed.
That's why the judge in Natalie's case made it very clear that people in support of the Palestinian cause need to be very careful about how they express that support. I'm sure that he was well aware from the character witnesses, the publicity and the people who attended the trial, that the case had widespread interest particularly from the UK.
Even in Jersey, it's entirely possible that a future case under the same section might reach a different conclusion based on the facts presented to them.
I first saw the bit about children in Craig Murray's article. I don't know if he got it from somewhere else, but it's wrong.
Natalie is not a mother and does not have any young children. She has a husband and a cat who she would have missed very much if she had been imprisoned.
Fortunately, that has not been the outcome.
I have a writing from my dear friend Dalia in Deir Al Balah
I am the UK f8ndraiser for this young family
The aid is a trickle.
If you want a new iPhone17 its yours.
Although you cant eat it.
Then again it just might blow up in your childrens hands
All the social media platforms have rigged the algorithms including TikTok to prevent them getting any help from the their users
D8n8tions have dropped off massively
Please read Dalia's writing and help or share for them. Thanks
How can anyone hate winter? It's a passing word, but it carries a lot of pain. I'm Dalia, a mother of two. I'm supposed to enjoy a peaceful life with my children, bringing hot chocolate and movies on the cold winter nights here.I will be looking out of my window and watch the beautiful winter while my babies wear the most beautiful warm clothes.I should have gone to university and complete my shattered dream.Life is harsh; I have to wash clothes by hand, and I have two C-section scars that cause me great pain in this cold, because my children don't have good clothes. There's no rug covering the floor to keep us warm. There's no gas stove to make a hot drink.My husband carries water a long distance so I can wash clothes in this cold. The window is open, so the wind is strong. I'm afraid my children will get sick or that we won't be able to pay the monthly rent.My dream of graduating from university has been shattered. My husband has no job here, and my children have no hope except for you. I truly cannot bear to see my family suffer.So, my friends, you can hate the rain...because it will bring back your tragedy. It will increase my pain...you have seen my suffering for two years and I have not felt comfortable...I'm confident that this winter will be warmer and kinder with you all by my family's side, and I know you are our best supporters.
Please share for my babies
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