Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir has called for the assassination of Palestinian Authority officials and for PA President Mahmoud Abbas to be placed in solitary confinement if the UN advances the recognition of a Palestinian state.

As the minister of national security, Ben Gvir oversees Israeli prisons, where at least 98 Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, according to new data, due to torture, food deprivation, medical neglect, and other Israeli abuses.

Who is Thomas Crooks? pic.twitter.com/WwjvPGGRwS

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 14, 2025

■ After Tucker Carlson Exposé, FBI Director Patel Says Trump Rally Shooter Thomas Crooks Acted Alone (Zero Hedge)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline coalition partner Itamar Ben-Gvir has claimed that the Levantine Arab ethnonational group was “artificially invented” | The Palestinian people do not exist, Israel’s hardline security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has said ahead of the UN Security Council vote on implementing the next stage of the US-brokered peace plan for Gaza. The Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution drafted by the US and backed by several Arab and Muslim countries, which they said “offers a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”

✅ The Invention of the Jewish People (Shlomo Sand/Yael Lotan) [Projection's a real bitch, isn't it?]
✅ The Invention of the Land of Israel (Shlomo Sand)

Antony Loewenstein | After more than two years of war, Jewish support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza requires accountability, moral clarity and an urgent reckoning across Israel and the Diaspora [...] With an Israeli Jewish population that overwhelmingly views all Palestinians in Gaza as suspect, if not outright hostile, the need for this moment is clear. It's hard to describe what the post-7 October 2023 environment has been like in many Jewish communities. ■ It has ranged from outright hostility towards any publicly expressed criticism of the Netanyahu regime to, perish the thought, any Jew disagreeing with the stated policies of an Israeli government that repeatedly announced its desire to eradicate all Palestinians. ■ And then there are the ethical contortions around the proper way a modern, humane Jew should feel about Israeli soldiers proudly celebrating killing, destruction and rape in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond. ■ What, exactly, is the moral quandary in condemning genocidal behaviour and intent?

Israeli troops have planted and detonated explosives in two homes near a Lebanese army checkpoint in the southern region of Hula. [...] In recent weeks, the Israeli military has intensified near-daily airstrikes across southern Lebanon, despite the truce agreed upon in November 2024. ● Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire with Hezbollah on November 27, 2024, after suffering heavy losses on the battlefield and failing to achieve its goals despite killing over 4,000 people in Lebanon. ● Since then, the Israeli military has kept attacking Lebanon on an almost daily basis and has refused to withdraw its occupation troops from the Arab country.

Nate Bear | After shilling for genocide, losing every argument for the past two years and watching the reputation of their precious little rape colony eat shit, Zionists have turned their attention to another genocide to obscure the stains of their own. | If you haven’t been following, high profile Zionist commentators and propagandists have flooded social media this week with tweets, articles and memes about the genocide in Sudan and the lack of protests compared with the genocide of Gaza. People who denied genocide for two years have suddenly become very animated by genocide.

Rights groups reveal that Palestinians are being detained in a secret Israeli underground prison without charges, sunlight, or contact with families, raising alarm over inhumane conditions. | "Israel" is detaining dozens of Palestinians from Gaza in a secret underground facility where they are denied sunlight, proper food, and any contact with the outside world, a report by The Guardian revealed. ● Human rights lawyers say the detainees include at least two civilians: a nurse abducted while still in his hospital scrubs and a young food vendor, both held for months without charge or trial. The men are represented by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), whose lawyers say their clients endured severe abuse consistent with previously documented torture in Israeli prisons. [...] All parts of the prison, the cells, a small exercise space, and even the meeting room for lawyers, are underground, meaning that detainees live entirely without natural light. Once designed for 15 "high-risk prisoners", the facility now holds around 100 Palestinians, according to official data obtained by PCATI.

Caitlin Johnstone | Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. | It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. [...] Israel cannot be sustained without nonstop violence. The violence cannot be sustained without hatred. The hatred cannot be sustained without systematic indoctrination. ■ That indoctrination teaches Jewish Israelis from birth that the victims of their genocidal state are all inhuman monsters who would rape and murder them all if Israel ceased its apartheid abuses, militarism, and incessant violence. It teaches them that killing off their empathy and compassion is essential for their survival, because only the Jews who are willing to do whatever it takes to survive are going to make it. ■ Just in case their childhood indoctrination isn’t enough to sway them, Israelis are also made to serve in the military where they spend two years killing off any remaining sense of human decency within themselves as they inflict acts of unfathomable cruelty upon Palestinians as part of their duty to the state.

Philip Giraldi | Let’s try to remove the United States from supporting the carnage | A couple of recent stories relating to the utter bestiality of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians have exposed the criminality of successive US governments in supporting the Jewish state no matter what it does. Observers of the lopsided relationship understand very clearly that Israel’s lobby in the United States, backed up by Jewish billionaires who are willing to spend whatever it takes to corrupt the political system and buy up the media, has succeeded in making Washington a totally controlled client state manipulated by extreme war criminals like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is rewarded by the near complete loyalty of Congress and the White House. The one sided relationship dominates both Republicans and Democrats and has been most evident in the Presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who have chosen to ignore the reality of the Israeli slaughter of some hundreds of thousands of Palestinians using US weapons and Washington’s political protection in international fora. For what it is worth, neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump has spoken out effectively on the murder and torture of the Palestinians by Israel. The irony of it all is that Washington’s subjugation by Israel, far from being politically neutral, does terrible damage to the United States, both in terms of actual costs and the fact that the US is now reviled by much of the world.

✅ Palestine Genocide (Richard Hugus)
■ Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (11/04/25)

Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference | The move, which was first reported by the Italian news website Fanpage, came after he asked Paula Pinho, the European Commission’s chief spokesperson, about Gaza’s reconstruction on October 13.

Nunziati said that he received two “tense” phone calls from his superiors at Nova in the two weeks between his question and the notice that his contract would end, but declined to comment further. ● Francesco Civita, a spokesperson for Nova, confirmed that the news agency had ended its relationship with Nunziati over his Gaza question. Civita said that Nunziati had been let go for asking a question that was “technically incorrect” because Russia had invaded a sovereign country unprovoked, whereas Israel was responding to an attack. [sic]

The IDF "servicemen" suspected of "abusing" [torturing & killing] a [large number of] Palestinian detainee[s] have demanded “support and gratitude” | Israeli soldiers accused of torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility have publicly defended their actions, claiming they are being unfairly prosecuted and vowing to “fight for justice.” ● The case relates to a July 2024 incident at the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, where five reservists were initially charged with rape and later indicted for “aggravated abuse” after video footage appeared to show soldiers assaulting a blindfolded Palestinian detainee. The man allegedly sustained multiple injuries, including a ruptured bowel and severe rectal trauma. [...] The scandal escalated further on Monday when a Tel Aviv court ordered the arrest and three-day detention of Tomer-Yerushalmi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the leak “perhaps the most serious public relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding.” Defense Minister Israel Katz accused critics of the accused soldiers of spreading “blood libels.” The incident has drawn international criticism, including from a UN commission, which said last year it exposed only the “tip of the iceberg” regarding detainee abuse in Israeli military facilities.

✅ Israeli Rapists And The Depravity Of The Zionist Mind (Kevin Barrett)
✅ Why raping Palestinians is legitimate Israeli military practice (Joseph Massad)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
■ Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution (10/16/25)

9/11, Torture & Iraq war for israel | Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 who was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said. ● The Republican - a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense - was already a major Washington player when then-Texas governor George W. Bush chose him to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential race that Bush went on to win.

■ Cheney Lied About 9/11 Hijacker (03/21/13)
■ 9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie (03/19/13)
✅ Cheney on CIA torture: “I’d do it again in a minute” (Patrick Martin)(15 December 2014)

Israel Shahak / Oded Yinon, "The Zionist Plan for the Middle East" - 23 - Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization.

Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? How mainstream western politicians are able to call out the RSF and the UAE without having their careers nuked by high-powered lobby groups? How the western media aren’t churning out op-eds concern trolling about the possibility that anyone who opposes the el-Fasher massacres is actually a closet Nazi?

That’s the difference, right there. That’s why many westerners have been paying special attention to Gaza.

Paul Craig Roberts | Trump is not making America great again. Trump is using America to build Greater Israel for Netanyahu who arrives in Washington about every two months to give instructions to his White House puppet. | The Israeli Minister of National Security says he is proud that the members of the Greta Thunberg flotilla that was bringing food and medicines to Palestinians, who are being deliberately starved and denied medical assistance by Israel, are being punished as terrorists and subject to harsh treatment. The minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, demonstrates by his remarks the inherent evil of the Israeli state. Only in Israel is providing dying people with life-sustaining needs regarded as terrorism.

■ US has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since war in Gaza began (The New Arab)

Israel Shamir | The late saint of the communist calendar, Rosa Luxemburg, often called her opponents ‘Shabbos-goyim,’ meaning servants of the Jews. A Shabbos-goy is a non-Jew who toadies to every wish and whim of the Jews, especially in politics, or a non-Jew who is heavily supportive of Israel, says the dictionary. They are a breed apart. | One can argue about how successfully Jews rule the countries they lead. There are more- and less-successful examples. Usually, Jewish rule is good for the king and his coterie, and bad for the ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry. The policies of a foreign cosmopolitan elite might be resisted by the majority population of any country, but once a class of Shabbos goyim has been developed, nobody is able to escape Jewish rule, inevitably ruining the country. That happened with Poland; it was a mighty kingdom that had successfully fought Russia and Turkey. But the Poles allowed the Jews to manage their country, and in no time, Poland collapsed and was partitioned. This happened with Russia; heavy Jewish influence had brought it to the very brink of collapse in 1991, and only with great difficulty was Putin able to stabilise the country. Since the 2014 American coup Ukraine has been ruled by Jews, and now it is being destroyed. ■ The United States is a country ruled by Shabbos goyim, starting with LBJ, that is, after Nixon. Donald Trump, seemingly an imposing man of respectable age, height and weight, also turned out to be a Shabbos goy. He admitted that much himself when speaking in the Knesset. It turns out that he most often met with a couple of American Jews, casino owners, and they had financed his path to the White House. Even young Kushner, his son-in-law, and older Kushner, his father-in-law, a well-known and convicted fraudster (like most Jewish businessmen), and now the US ambassador to Paris, determine Trump’s actions. Their plan is to destroy Gaza and build a country club for Jews on its ruins, and make a fortune from it.

"I'm proud to be racist..."

This is how black people are treated in Israel. pic.twitter.com/UpMwkzRrWO

— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) November 22, 2022

Court documents reveal aerospace firm Moog has obtained an injunction against protesters in Britain and even consulted the police about Declassified. | A US arms firm has launched legal action against pro-Palestine activists in Britain, it can be revealed. Court documents show Moog, which makes military aircraft parts and has links to Israel’s arms trade, applied for an injunction in September to prevent protests at its UK sites. The application, which was granted by the High Court, sought to stop “persons unknown” who “for the purpose of protest enter occupy or remain on” the firm’s facilities across Britain.

The Hague: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday reiterated that Israel is prohibited from using starvation as a means of warfare in Gaza. The statement came as part of ongoing international scrutiny over the humanitarian situation in the region amid the Israel-Gaza conflict. | ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa stated that the court “recalls Israel’s obligation not to use starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare. ● The reminder from the ICJ follows growing global concern about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where aid organisations have repeatedly warned of food shortages and the risk of famine. ● While the ICJ has not issued any new binding orders, its statement reinforces earlier provisional measures directing Israel to take all possible steps. ● The court’s remarks carry significant diplomatic weight, as they serve to underline that deliberate deprivation of food or other essentials for survival constitutes a potential violation of international humanitarian law. ● Under the Geneva Conventions, the use of starvation as a weapon is strictly prohibited, with violators potentially subject to charges of war crimes. The ICJ, as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, often issues such reminders to reaffirm legal obligations of states under international law.

■ Israel Cannot Use Hunger as a Weapon of War: ICJ (Asia One News)

■ UN rapporteur releases latest report on Israeli genocide, recounting intl. complicity in stark detail (Press TV) | The advance version of the report, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, by Francesca Albanese, was released on Wednesday. She argued that continued destruction of Palestinian life in the coastal sliver had been enabled through military, economic, diplomatic, and even so-called humanitarian channels provided by states that had consistently prioritized political and strategic interests over human rights. Diplomatically, Western powers, led by the United States and the European Union, have consistently shielded the Israeli regime from accountability, she noted. The UN Security Council’s resolutions demanding ceasefires have been vetoed or diluted, while the regime’s military barbarity has been framed as “legitimate self-defense,” the official said.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

 ■  US President Donald Trump threatens “to eradicate Hamas if they’re not good” after Israel said two of its soldiers were killed in an attack on Sunday.
 ■  The bodies of 57 Palestinians are brought to hospitals across the war-ravaged enclave over the last 24 hours after a wave of air strikes by Israel’s military threatened the 10-day truce.
 ■  Senior American officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel as the US tries to keep the precarious ceasefire on track.
 ■  Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,216 people and wounded 170,361 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 taken captive.

Testimonies from released Palestinian prisoners, as well as the condition of bodies handed over, highlight alleged Israeli abuse. | Most of the bodies of the more than 100 dead Palestinians Israel released remain unidentified. They were sent back to Gaza with numbers instead of their names, leaving family members of missing Palestinians to pore desperately through pictures of the bodies, hoping to spot their loved ones. ■ One thing is clear from the marks left on these bodies, and the blindfolds and handcuffs still on some of them: They had been tortured before their deaths, possibly executed. The torture was confirmed by Palestinian detainees released alive by Israel as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal that has also seen the release of Israeli captives from Gaza. ■ Reports that Israel tortures Palestinian detainees in its jails have been common for years, and have increased since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, with some Israeli politicians even defending the practice. At least 75 Palestinian detainees have also died in Israeli jails since October 7, 2023, according to the United Nations.

■ LIVE: Israel kills 28 in Gaza since ceasefire, Hamas urges accountability (Al Jazeera)
■ Israel kills 11 Palestinian family members in Gaza’s deadliest truce breach (Al Jazeera)
✅ It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth (Jonathan Cook)

■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)

Some bodies show evidence of strangulation, mutilation and being run over by tanks | Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned. Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.

A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains. Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation. Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.

■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)
⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
⚡ Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)

Israeli military censorship has prevented the release of information on the several sensitive sites struck by Iran during the 12-day war | Iran struck a tower in central Tel Aviv during the 12-day war in June that sat directly above a sensitive, underground Israeli intelligence base. ● The underground bunker is jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries and is referred to as Site 81, according to leaked emails, public documents, and Hebrew reports cited by the Gray Zone on 13 October. ● The outlet has geolocated the site, which sits right under the Da Vinci apartment complex that was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles on 13 June. [...] During the war, heavy Israeli military censorship prevented the release of information on many of the sensitive army and intelligence sites struck by Iran.

Caitlin Johnstone | On the 2024 campaign trail Trump [...] admitted to being controlled by Adelson cash | It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the president of the United States has repeatedly confessed to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, especially given how intensely fixated his political opposition was on the possibility that he was compromised by a foreign government during his first term. ● During a speech before the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Trump once again publicly admitted that he has implemented Israel-friendly policies at the behest of Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson and her late husband Sheldon, this time adding that he believes Adelson favors Israel over the United States.

Caitlin Johnstone | Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get their hostages back. | Defense Minister Israel Katz has posted a tweet in Hebrew which machine translates as follows:

Hamas has not agreed to any demilitarization or destruction of its tunnels. There is no way to demilitarize Gaza and neutralize Hamas of its weapons against their will without continued warfare, something Israel has demonstrated it cannot do without killing shocking numbers of civilians.

Exclusive: Former IDF chief of staff met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza. | The meetings took place with Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Richard Burgess, director of news content at the BBC, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times. ● Further meetings were due to be held with Sky News chairman David Rhodes at the Israeli embassy, and then shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, between 7 and 9 November 2023, according to Kohavi’s itinerary. ● By this time, Israeli forces had killed over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli officials had made several public statements of genocidal intent. Kohavi had only stepped down from running Israel’s military months earlier.

■ More and more information about IDF aircraft being refueled by British air tankers from Qatar (en.topwar.ru)

Reidar Kaarboe | Last year, Netanyahu said that Israel would wage war on seven fronts. Now there are eight of them.

Gaza / Hamas—The most direct and well-known front is Gaza, with the slaughter of a people trying to rise up against superior forces.

Lebanon—Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim military and political group supported by Iran, operates from Lebanon and attacks Israel with rockets / drones, etc.

West Bank—“Terrorists,” i.e., Palestinians in the West Bank, are arrested, murdered, or expelled while Israelis take over their properties.

Syria—Militia groups operating in Syria and defending against possible attacks from Israel.

Iraq—Militia groups in Iraq with ties to Iran that Israel claims are involved in attacks or plans for attacks.

Yemen—The Houthis (the Shiite rebel group in Yemen), who fire drones and rockets, can support other fronts against Israel as long as Israel's genocide continues.

Iran—Direct threat from Iran, partly because the country has become a powerful nation—and Israel cannot tolerate powerful countries in its vicinity—and partly because it supports the other militias with weapons.

USA—Dramatic steps are now being taken to stop criticism of Israel in the USA. Huge sums are being invested in social media, news stations, newspapers, and ChatGPT. [Translation: DeepL (free version) + Grammarly (free version)] [Reidar Kaarboe's articles]

On the ground with Gaza's Trail of Tears

The Grayzone takes a look at the forced exodus of refugees from northern Gaza as Israel's military deliberately destroys their homes to force them south in a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing pic.twitter.com/gNG1VlxZap

— The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) October 2, 2025

The activists, including Greta Thunberg, attempted to breach the blockade of the Palestinian enclave by sea | The Israeli Navy has intercepted a flotilla carrying activists and aid bound for Gaza. ● The Global Sumud Flotilla, which departed from Spain a month ago, carried people from 44 countries seeking to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave. ● Israeli naval forces boarded several boats on Thursday after the activists refused orders to divert course. The passengers said they were targeted with water cannons. ● Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated that the activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, were detained and transferred to an Israeli port. “Greta and her friends are safe and healthy,” the ministry wrote on X.

■ Iran: Israeli aggression against Global Sumud Flotilla ‘terrorism, blatant violation of intl. law’ (PressTV)
■ Israeli forces board Gaza flotilla, detain Greta Thunberg, other activists (Al Jazeera)
■ Israeli Navy Intercepts Several Global Sumud Flotilla Vessels - Foreign Ministry (Sputnik)
■ Colombia expels all Israeli diplomats (RT)

JOHN McEVOY | Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action. | The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed. Despite this, the activist group was banned earlier this month when Home Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed it under terrorism legislation. It is the first time in British history that a direct-action group has been branded a terrorist organisation. ● Only 26 MPs voted against the ban, which provoked a wave of civil disobedience across Britain, with protesters holding placards saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. ● Over 100 people have now been arrested under the Terrorism Act for allegedly showing support for the group, including an 83-year-old priest and a man holding a Private Eye cartoon. ● Declassified has now seen documents which detail why, how, and when the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was made. They form part of the material relied upon in the group’s High Court challenge to the ban.

■ This is the “I am Spartacus” moment. Please stand up (07/18/25)