Palestine Action Ban Criticised at Meeting of Labour’s Highest Ruling Body – Guido Fawkes

Palestine Action Ban Criticised at Meeting of Labour’s Highest Ruling Body

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The Government acted rapidly to proscribe the activities of the nutcases from Palestine Action, after its members broke into an RAF base in June causing £7 million worth of damage to military planes. But Starmer’s own party that takes a rather different view...

At the most recent meeting of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, held last week on 22 July, long term member Ann Black minuted herself as saying:

“I passed on concerns about proscribing Palestine Action. Many members see their actions as comparable to the Greenham Common women who broke into RAF bases, criminal property damage but not on a par with Al-Qaeda. Or Patriotic Alternative who, according to Hope not Hate, support political violence and Holocaust denial, or the mobs attacking asylum-seekers, security guards and police. Keir said that all organisations are held to the same standard, and Palestine Action has a history of break-ins, sabotage and targeting Jewish-owned businesses. (The latter would indeed be disturbing but is not mentioned on the government website.) He assured us that the ban is not intended to stifle debate on Palestine.  Though it is clogging up courts and police stations with pensioners for holding placards and Private Eye cartoons.”

This comes as organisers plot a mass Palestine Action-supporting protest to overwhelm police. With a ruling body like this, Labour has clearly learned little from the Corbyn era. Perhaps some officers from Starmer’s new extremism snooper squad should attend the NEC next time…