While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception

by Jonathan Cook at https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/britains-big-brother +Podcast on Jul 17, 2026 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-I6x

When is it possible to declare that a society has moved from liberal democracy, however imperfectly realised, to authoritarian rule? Is there a moment when it is suddenly obvious the change has occurred? Does authoritarianism announce its arrival?

Or is it a process that gradually unfolds, where restraints on executive power are dismantled piece by piece until the tide cannot be reversed?.

Is the turn to authoritarianism something that can only be understood after the event, when all opportunities to halt the slide have been missed?

And how do we admit to ourselves that we have been stripped of our most basic and cherished freedoms – of speech, assembly and protest – when we are no longer free to speak, meet or protest?

The unpalatable truth is that Britain is already far down this path. And if you are unaware of the earthquake that has been taking place, that may be because – just as you might expect when authoritarianism comes calling – the very first to be smothered are the voices sounding the alarm.

A media owned by billionaires and the state – the parties that, in an age of growing popular discontent, have most to gain from the accretion of executive power and the silencing of dissent – have no reason to illuminate the encroaching darkness.

An ostensible Labour government under the outgoing Keir Starmer has done much of the foot work to usher in the new, ominous political climate.

It was precisely Starmer’s credentials as a human rights lawyer that provided the British state with the cover story it needed for an unprecedented assault on the freedoms fought for by earlier generations.

There are few signs that his successors, whether it be a new figurehead in the genocide-supporting Labour Party or Nigel Farage’s immigrant-bashing Reform, will change direction.

The logic driving Britain’s slide towards authoritarianism is being set not just by politicians, but by a British establishment that needs to sell its collusion in genocide and illegal wars abroad and to find easy scapegoats – immigrants – to blame for its failures at home.

The job of the main political parties, reliant on billionaire donors who also own the corporate media, is to shore up these narratives.

Surveillance state

It was Starmer’s home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, who incautiously gave the clearest expression to the British state’s vision of our future.

In a speech in January she laid out her ambition to harness new developments in AI to create an all-powerful, all-seeing “Big Brother” surveillance state of the kind foretold by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984.

Mahmood even compared this future to the “panopticon” – a reference to 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s perfect prison: a central watchtower (the state) surrounded by a circle of windowed cells where the inmates (the public) would be visible at all times.

Bentham understood that this was not just about physical control. As he observed, the sense of being constantly observed would be a “new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind”. The inmates would police their own behaviour to avoid punishment.

Starmer’s successor, Andy Burnham, is reportedly keen to keep Mahmood a key figure in his government. But this isn’t about a single government minister.

Mahmood is the symptom of a deeper malaise, not its cause. The architecture of the new systems of control, as well as the erosion of freedoms and the cultural traditions that supported them, were already well advanced when she was appointed to the Home Office.

Whoever holds the reins of power in the months and years to come will be able to exploit these existing powers to the maximum, and then extend them further.

Once the spirit of authoritarianism takes hold, it becomes ever harder to stuff it back into the box. Only concerted mass protest can remind the state where ultimate power resides. And it is precisely this kind of protest that is being demonised and criminalised one step at a time.

Political trial

If it is possible to identify a single moment when the new authoritarianism moved out of the shadows, it was some 15 years ago. That was the moment the state launched its protracted campaign against Julian Assange to vilify and incarcerate him.

The founder of the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks had incensed the United States and its loyal British sidekick by publishing details of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq both wanted to be kept secret.

It was probably no coincidence that, at the time, Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service and making repeated trips to meet Washington’s most senior law officers. Contrary to protocols, records of these discussions were destroyed by his officials.

We will never know what instructions Starmer was given by the US regarding Assange. But a possible clue survived the further, and highly irregular, destruction by Starmer’s department of related correspondence between UK and Swedish prosecutors from that time.

One of the few surviving emails is revealing. It shows that Sweden was considering dropping an investigation into Assange for lack of evidence, as he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London fearful of what lay in store.

Starmer’s staff, who were supposed to be neutral arbiters between Sweden and Assange’s legal team, angrily told the Swedes: “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!”

In another email, the same CPS official told Swedish counterparts: “Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.

Later, with the active connivance of the UK and its courts, the US showed its true hand. Washington began extradition proceedings on the preposterous grounds that Assange had committed “espionage” by publishing details of its war crimes.

Assange was caged in a high-security prison in London for years, often unableto meet his lawyers, his health failing, on a trumped-up, nakedly political charge.

This was a terrifying, unprecedented assault on the right of journalists to publish evidence of state wrongdoing in the public interest. And yet the billionaire-owned media could barely stifle their yawns.

Reality inverted

There was a two-fold gain from Assange’s decade-long abuse and the trampling of his legal rights.

First, it established a very visible precedent in which the rule of law was turned on its head. The roles of victim and victimiser were reversed.

Assange, who had published incontrovertible evidence of US and British war crimes, was the one behind bars. British officials who approved and hid those crimes not only evaded justice but were free to hound and smear Assange.

This has been the theme ever since, as the British state has intensified its curbs on speech and protest, with Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians often serving as the testing ground for authorising this new crackdown.

In the second half of the 2010s, Jeremy Corbyn – Starmer’s predecessor as Labour leader – found himself and his supporters roundly vilified as “antisemites”.

Why? Because they tried to bring attention to Israel’s criminal actions – a forewarning of what was to come, as Israel unleashed what legal experts, Holocaust scholars, human rights groups and United Nations investigators have all concluded is a genocide in Gaza.

In a properly functioning democracy, those who smeared Corbyn and other critics of Israel would have been permanently discredited.

Instead, UK officials – the same officials colluding in Israel’s current crimes by shipping arms to Israel, by carrying out surveillance flights to guide Israel’s bombing campaigns against Gaza’s civilians, and by offering diplomatic cover – simply stepped up the demonisation campaign.

As millions of Britons took to the streets, the Starmer government – and the British state behind it – not only labelled them as antisemites but radically rewrote the statute books to criminalise opposition to Israel’s genocide.

Direct action group Palestine Action, which had been targeting Israeli arms factories operating on UK soil, was proscribed as a “terrorist” group equivalent to al-Qaeda and Islamic State.

Holding placards protesting the genocide, as thousands of respectable British citizens did, became “support for terrorism”, risking a jail term of up to 14 years.

Reality was once again inverted.

Britain continues to actively support Israeli state terrorism.

But it was those ringing the alarm – those trying to stop these shipments, those opposed to British collusion in Israeli state terrorism, or those simply appalled by the undermining of basic rights to protest – who were arrested and charged as terrorists.

Meanwhile, documents show Elbit Systems continues to enjoy unrestricted access to British government officials.

‘Fake news’

Second, in stigmatising and isolating Assange for publishing details of US and UK war crimes, the British state was able to draw its own fake distinction between “good” and “bad” journalism – a distinction the billionaire-owned media was only too happy to embrace.

Assange, whose independent platform WikiLeaks had held Washington and London’s feet to the fire for committing war crimes, had in the process shamed the establishment media for their unwillingness to do likewise.

He exposed the extent to which corporate journalists, dependent on access to the rich and powerful for stories, conspire in the covert, unaccountable ways power is exercised by the state.

The media are not watchdogs; they are lap dogs, representing the interests of the billionaire class.

The British state – and its security services – made clear they would not tolerate truly independent or critical media that could expose their hypocrisies or bring them to book.

In response, the billionaire-owned media not only hung Assange out to dry. It joined the government in a chorus of claims that independent outlets were either peddling “fake news” or serving as “Kremlin assets” spreading “disinformation“.

It amplified the pressure from politicians on social media platforms, the billionaires’ new plaything, to tighten their algorithms to hide independent journalists, and stymie these dangerous new competitors in the battle for truth.

Similarly, corporate media cheerled the government’s decision to ban Russia Today, the Russian state’s news channel. It quickly became all but impossible for UK audiences to hear Russia’s version of eventsin the mainstream media, as Britain and European states built the case for permanent confrontation with Moscow.

The European Union imposed an even more draconian ban – upheld this month by the EU’s Court of Justice – that makes it a criminal offence to repeat any information reported by RT, and other banned outlets, even if demonstrably true. The law’s purpose is to supposedly “protect public order and safety”.

In recent weeks, two prominent US commentators, Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, have been denied entry to the UK over their criticisms of Israel. Uygur was due to speak at an Oxford University debate.

Enlightenment reversed

In this new authoritarian climate, truth is defined as whatever the state wants their citizens to know. Meanwhile, disinformation – “Russian propaganda” or “antisemitism”– is whatever those same states insist their citizenry must not hear.

This is a brazen reversal of 350 years of the western Enlightenment, with its professed belief both in the primacy of reason and that ideas must be tested through debate and critical scrutiny.

Now it matters not what is being said, but only who is saying it.

And unsurprisingly, the billionaire-owned, western media has endorsed this new regime. After all, its voice – representing the interests of the super-rich – is guaranteed a hearing.

No surprise, then, that this same privileged media corps has continued to meekly accept its exclusion from Gaza by Israel as the biggest crime in modern history unfolds – even now, in the midst of a supposed ceasefire that Israel keeps breaking.

Because what matters is who is allowed to speak: Israel, not Gaza’s Palestinians, whether what Israel says is true or, as invariably turns out to be the case, a lie.

In line with this precept, the billionaire-owned media has barely raised a murmur as Israel has slaughtered Gaza’s journalists in unprecedented numbers – killing more of them than in two world wars, Vietnam, the Yugoslav wars and Afghanistan combined.

The lives of Palestinian journalists – like the reporting they have had to do alone under Israeli bombardment – count for nothing in the western media because of who they are.

Genocide – the what – has been erased as a crime because it is we – the West – who are helping to carry it out.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, reportedly facing a political and donor backlash, scrapped last year its annual Global Impunity Index – which measured where journalists are murdered with impunity – after it became clear Israel would top the rankings.

Now the same committee is being accused of caving in to these pressures by raising doubts about who counts as a journalist in Gaza – doubts that will serve to embolden Israel, which claims that Palestinian journalists, indeed all Palestinians, are terrorists in disguise.

The who has to be rewritten because the what cannot be denied.

The same story is unfolding in the UK, where independent British journalists have been detained at the airport or had their homes raided at dawn by counterterrorism police for “wrong-think” about the Gaza genocide and British complicity in it. They too face up to 14 years in jail.

That has sent a chilling message to other journalists, those that lack the protection of a billionaire patron or the state, about what can be said.

Creeping authoritianism

None of this is, or will be, confined to Gaza. The upending of Enlightenment values, as should be clear by now, is part of a much bigger political project to normalise and entrench this creeping authoritarianism.

The proscription of Palestine Action and placard-holding has paved the way for the British state to designate any opponent – challenging its lawbreaking or contesting its right to dictate truth – as a criminal or a supporter of terrorism. A precedent has been set, and now approved by the UK courts, that will be hard to reverse.

The state has many tools at its disposal, some of which it is already wielding, again to no protest from billionaire-owned media “watchdogs”.

A particularly powerful one is “debanking”: forcing individuals or groups who disrupt the narrative of western state moral and legal authority out of the financial system, driving them into a kind of purdah that makes it near-impossible for them to function in the modern, western world.

Notably again, Assange and WikiLeaks were an early victim of the use of debanking as a political weapon. Washington imposed sanctions in late 2010, shortly after WikiLeaks exposed US and British war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, cutting off almost all of its donor revenue.

Sanctions – what some describe as a “financial death penalty” – have already been imposed on several judges and staff of the International Criminal Court over the issuing of an arrest warrant against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity in Gaza.

UN legal expert Francesca Albanese, at the forefront of highlighting western complicity in Israel’s genocide, has also been debanked.

In Britain, Palestinian and Islamic-run charities have long faced harsh restrictions on their ability to operate financially, usually on the basis of claims that they may be funnelling donations to proscribed groups.

But this has gradually expanded to mainstream Palestine solidarity organisations and to individuals caught up in the ban on Palestine Action.

In an even more disturbing, if predictable, development, Lloyds Bank has now debanked the Canary, a leftwing publication whose criticisms of Labour’s capture by Big Business have long proved a thorn in the party bureacracy’s side. The Canary can no longer pay staff, and its news operation is in jeopardy.

This is the same Canary that the Labour Together project led by Morgan McSweeney – who propelled Starmer to power on behalf of the billionaire-friendly, pro-genocide Labour right – identified early on as a threat. His mantra was reportedly: “Destroy the Canary or the Canary destroys us.”

As investigative journalist Paul Holden sets out in his book The Fraud, which documents Labour Together’s covert, law-breaking operations, McSweeney almost succeeded in destroying the Canary. He created an astroturf group, Stop Funding Fake News, that lobbied advertisers to boycott the publication.

Labour Together under McSweeney’s successor, Josh Simons, would then launch a smear campaign on Holden and refer him to British security services as a supposed Kremlin asset.

Like a bad penny, Simons has turned up again, this time giving up his Makerfield seat for Andy Burnham to return to Westminster. Simons is now one of Burnham’s political advisers.

Political retaliation

This systematic assault on the right to scrutinise the British state’s actions has been extended to the legal profession too.

Last month, Dan Kovalik, a respected US human rights lawyer and professor, was detained at Liverpool airport by counterterrorism police and questioned over his criticisms of western foreign policy in Gaza and Iran.

Fahad Ansari, a British human rights lawyer, was detained by police last year on return to the UK from a family holiday in Ireland under Schedule 7 of the draconian Terrorism Act of 2000.

Both men had their electronic devices seized, despite protests that this was unlawful and violated their privileged lawyer-client communications.

Ansari’s detention appears to be a blatant act of political retaliation and intimidation. He had made legal representations challenging a Home Office decision in 2021 to expand the proscription of Hamas to its political wing. Hamas has never launched a military operation in Britain.

For the submission, Ansari had assembled a group of experts to argue that the expanded proscription – long desired by Israel – was having a profoundly chilling effect on the work of lawyers, scholars, human rights groups and journalists in documenting and discussing Israeli crimes in Gaza.

Five UN legal experts wrote protesting the abuse of Ansari’s rights as a lawyer, warning that “such measures threaten to criminalize, stigmatize and have chilling effects against lawyers and legal associations carrying out lawful work in national security and counter-terrorism matters”.

That seems to be precisely the point. Harassing lawyers is a feature, not a bug, of Britain’s new authoritarianism.

An even more visible victim of this new assault on the legal profession is the highly respected barrister Rajiv Menon.

He has worked on some of the most important human rights cases of modern times, challenging failures and abuses of power by the state in relation to the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the deaths of nearly 100 Liverpool football fans at Hillsborough, and the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

He is currently facing contempt of court proceedings after making a closing speech in January that persuaded a jury not to convict six Palestine Action defendants of any of the charges brought by the British state against them. In 2024, the six had targeted an Elbit factory.

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Show Some Solidarity!

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At the center of it’s black, decrepit heart, fascism is about division. Fascists buy into the idea that they and people who are similar to them in some arbitrary way are somehow uniquely different from other people; that this difference must be protected at all costs; and that people not arbitrarily similar to them are defacto threats to them who must be dominated, exploited, and ultimately exterminated. Even a cursory look at what fascists say and do abundantly demonstrates this.

Meanwhile and on the side of humanity, anti-fascists tend to seek affinities and common ground to establish alliances and comradery, particularly with those who might appear superficially different. Anti-fascism finds similarities in goals, values, and struggle with people around the world, going well past superficial differences. This is a major reason why anti-fascism is a global movement. Our own collective, Antifa International, is one example of this, with a membership spanning ten countries and three continents.

It is in this anti-fascist tradition that we’ve been lately thinking about two concepts often bandied about on the left side of the political spectrum:

Allyship: which we take to mean using your own power, privileges, and resources to fight for the rights and well-being of other people who don’t have access to those same power, privileges, and resources – even when doing so won’t necessarily benefit you personally and may put you at risk of some kind.

Solidarity: which we define as supporting the struggle of others to assert their rights, protect themselves, and improve their lives, even when their success won’t necessarily have a direct impact on yourself.

You’ll note that the two concepts as we’ve defined them share a common characteristic of fighting selflessly, in support of others who need your support, even when, as my grandfather would say, “you don’t have a dog in that fight.” This contrasts distinctly from fascism insofar as fascists only rise up when the believe they are fighting for personal benefit (which they are typically very mistaken about, as the their own lines of solidarity are based on random, meaningless factors like skin color).

So this month we are calling on anti-fascists all over the world to act in allyship and solidarity with people targeted by fascists or resisting fascism. And we have a few examples, starting with the photo above, which is pretty self-explanatory (and yes, we’ve had football on our minds lately for some reason!). Some other examples:

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BY MARGARET KILLJOY https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/thoughts-and-notes-and-barbarian

Prairieland

The Prairieland defendants were sentenced yesterday, and all of their sentences are cartoonishly long. Seriously, it’s impossible to read sentences of 70 years in this case without imagining the judge twirling a mustache while he makes his proclamations.

Prairieland was a noise demonstration outside of an ICE facility that went horribly wrong when an officer showed up and drew a gun on an unarmed, fleeing protestor. One of the defendants, Champagne, was armed and shot and injured the officer, presumably saving the fleeing person’s life. It seems likely to me that if Champagne had not been present and not thinking fast, someone would have died at that protest. Instead, nobody did.

Champagne was just sentenced to a hundred years in prison. Here is their statement from yesterday.

Now everyone who was at the small noise demonstration is being told they will be locked up, most of them for the rest of their natural lives. To quote the support committee:

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Historic Athens squat community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign

By ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Freedom. News, t.me/FreedomNews1886/1221 Jun 27th 2026.  Via the freeonline at t.me/thefreeonline/6158and wp.me/pIJl9-I50 and substack.com/home/post/p-205403271

The Prosfygika squatted community in Athens has declared victory in its struggle against redevelopment, publishing a statement on titled “The Struggle Has Won, The Struggle Continues!“.

In the past months, the community has been under threat by a redevelopment plan pushed by regional governor N. Chardalias.

However, under sustained local and international pressure, the Municipality of Athens on 24 June issued a resolution rebuking the plan, effectively cancelling the government’s push for gentrification.

The resolution not only denied planning permission for the project, but also recognised the autonomy of the community and the right of residents to remain in their homes.

Throughout the last 140 days, mass protests have happened across Greece in support of the community, as well as solidarity demonstrations internacionally

At the forefront of the struggle were the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne.

After the decision to engage in hunger strikes was taken collectively, Chantzis went on hunger strike for 138 days before being admitted to hospital in critical condition.

Une Liégeoise en grève de la faim à Athènes pour défendre le quartier Prosfygika menacé d’expulsion …SHE WON THE HUNGER STRIKE..

Now, both he and Doppagne (who begun her hunger strike on 1 May 2026) have finally called off their “hunger strikes till death”.

The community, which houses over 400 residents and has stood since the 1930s, represents a great success in horizontal organisation in spite of constant state threats.

The community houses 22 self-organised structures for education, health, women’s self organisation, food, self defence, and technical works as well as providing housing for the people getting treatment at the nearby cancer clinic

Though plans for redevelopment have now been cancelled, Prosfygika’s community has called on “the solidarity movement to remain vigilant”, both for any further plans by the government and the critical condition of the hunger strikers.

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Palestine Action took action against COSCO Shipping in Hamburg, accusing the company of participating in the transport of weapons destined for Israel from one of the world’s main logistics hubs.

One of the activists explained:

“I’m tired of meaningless discussions and protests that lead nowhere. I decided not to get used to this cruelty and to face reality with all the anger, pain, and sadness it provokes. I wanted to get to the root of the problem: the war machine that produces death and destruction day after day.”

[08/06/26] Palestine Action actuó contra COSCO Shipping en Hamburgo, acusando a la empresa de participar en el transporte de armamento con destino a Israel desde uno de los principales centros logísticos del mundo.

Una de las activistas explicó:

«Estoy cansada de discusiones sin sentido y de protestas que no llevan a ninguna parte. Decidí no acostumbrarme a esta crueldad y enfrentar la realidad con toda la ira, el dolor y la tristeza que provoca. Quería ir a la raíz del problema: la maquinaria de guerra que produce muerte y destrucción día tras día».

+ How Zionist Israelis plan to Take Over Our Legal Systems! Noahide court system bids to CONTROL Western civil law”.

From The Acorn – 111 | winter oak by Paul Cudenec   on 19, 2026  via thefreeonline at wp.me/pIJl9-I3F

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Friday June 12 2026 was a dark day in English legal history, on which four people were jailed as “terrorists” despite obviously being nothing of the kind.

Worse still, they had only been convicted of minor charges, with the jury not informed that they could go on to be sentenced for “terrorism” by judge Jeremy Johnson.

Three days later (and the timing is probably no coincidence) the Court of Appeal ruled in the government’s favour over its outrageous designation of Palestine Action as an illegal “terrorist” organisation, declaring that the ban is, in fact, lawful.

What is particularly disturbing is that this twisting of the country’s judicial system has quite clearly been carried out on behalf of a power which is essentially foreign but which has permeated and corrupted national institutions to their very core and whose tyrannical grip on society, in Britain and elsewhere, is becoming ever more arrogant and blatant.

The criminal case was that of the Filton Four – young activists who took direct action against an Elbit Systems factory which makes weapons used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza (and beyond), in which extensive damage was caused and one police officer slightly and unintentionally injured while trying to stop them.

Declassified UK reported shortly after the sentencing: “Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 25 years in prison, after a judge ruled that they could be treated as terrorists.

“Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted of criminal damage last month in relation to a raid against an Israeli arms factory in Bristol in 2024.

At their sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court today, Judge Johnson (pictured) agreed to apply a ‘terrorism connection’ to the case under the Sentencing Act.

“Head and Kamio were given six years, Rajwani received five years and eight months, and Corner was sentenced to eight years and eight months. Gasps could be heard from the public gallery as the sentences were delivered, as some family members cried”.

The sentencing was swiftly condemned by many, including at least one representative of prime minister Keir Starmer’s own party. Labour MP for Leeds East Richard Burgon said: “The sentences handed to four young activists for taking direct action at an Israeli arms factory are completely disproportionate and wrong.

Journalist Jonathan Cook said: “This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It’s a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain… this was always a show trial”.

He pointed out that the judge effectively overturned the jury’s conviction of the four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

“As one of their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

They’ve been sentenced for a ‘terrorist connection’ they were never charged with. A clear miscarriage of justice and dangerous precedent”.

“Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes”.

Another journalist, Matt Kennard, remarked: “Remember what the Filton actionists did. They decommissioned the machinery of genocide, the moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz. A British judge is now sentencing them as ‘terrorists’ for it”. He added: “The jury that convicted them had no idea this would be introduced at sentencing. Sick and lawless”.

Amnesty International UK said: “It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them… The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end”.

Journalist Barry Malone described the sentencing as “utterly chilling”, adding that “this is a Britain becoming more authoritarian because its government is so slavishly devoted to supporting another country’s genocidal campaign” and author Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu declared: “We must fight the evil power Israel and Zionists hold in Britain”.

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan commented: “Destroying private ‘israeli’ weapons used in a genocide gets you a longer sentence than child grooming in occupied Britain. For the first time, activists are sentenced as ‘terrorists’ for property damage. This will go down as one of the most unjust cases in British history”.

While the usual Zionist troll accounts were activated on X to pour scorn on such concerns from a supposedly “patriotic” British perspective, the serious implications of the case have also been noticed by some people in nationalist circles, who have realised that the same methods could well be used against them as well.

Here he says that the judge seemed to have circumvented the age-old English legal tradition of jury nullification by holding back information from the jury, ensuring that the jurors did not know how severe the punishment would be if the defendants were convicted.

He adds that Mr Justice Johnson also put in place a number of other pre-trial rulings that prevented the defendants from being able to defend themselves properly.

He barred the defendants’ barristers from inviting the jury to apply the principle of jury equity or from even informing the jury that such a principle exists.

“Justice Johnson even went as far as to restrict the defence from introducing evidence regarding Elbit Systems’ role as a weapons developer or its connection to the Middle East conflict.

When a juror asked if they could acquit because the defendants believed they were preventing genocide, Justice Johnson answered ‘no’…

“This again takes the English legal system a step further away from trials based on evidence, facts and testimony, and closer to Soviet-style show trials where ideology, supposed motivations and political bias play a disproportionate role in the outcome…

“What’s more, a judge has attempted to set a new precedent that intends to ban defendants from speaking openly in court about their own motivations and from bringing up key facts that surround the case and place their actions in a wider context…

“Finally, it is obviously worth noting that this landmark case and its irregular ruling involves punishing those who have acted against the state of Israel and Zionist interests. This is clearly part of the current political and legal shift that aims to intimidate and criminalise those who protest against Israel’s political and military actions…

“This clearly is not simply intended to serve as means of punishment, but is yet another way that the British establishment hopes to scare people into silence and gag those who wish to talk about Zionist power”.

Important light is shed on the wider undermining of the English legal system by Brian Gerrish of UK Column in the first issue of the independent news outlet’s new printed magazine, The Column. ………. …………

contunue reading Filton part HERE…The Acorn – 111 | winter oak

How Israelis plan to Take Over Our Legal Systems!

Noahide court system bids to CONTROL Western civil law”.

Broader context is given to Leveson’s nefarious long-term activities by Jana S Bennun, in an article published online on Friday June 12, the day that the Filton Four were sentenced.

This concerns an event to be held in Jerusalem in November 2026 which, she warns us, is “designed to launch an international Noahide court system and reshape Western civil law”.

She provides a link to the event website and the immediate impact is chilling for anyone aware of the judeo-supremacist Noahide agenda. “You Will Stand Where History Begins Anew”, it states. “The First International Congress of Noahides. Community leaders from six continents. One founding moment”.

Bennun describes the event as “a highly organized assembly designed to build a worldwide Noahide judicial and political structure” and stresses: “The shift from just ‘abstract’ religious ideas to a real, functioning global Noahide legal system is happening right under our noses”.

“They are openly planning to draft a binding universal charter, elect councils across six continents, and officially launch the First International Rabbinic Court, or Beit Din.

“Led by Rabbi Oury Cherki (pictured), this supreme legal body will use regional judges to oversee a strict, three-stage process where non-Jewish people make official legal declarations, locking themselves into a centralized authority based in Jerusalem”.

The conference’s website is quite explicit about this project for imposing global Judaic law from Israel, stating in the FAQ section: “The International Beit Din is the rabbinical court being formally established at the Congress… The Beit Din will receive halachic [Jewish law] questions from Noahide communities worldwide and provide unified rulings from Jerusalem”.

Bennun comments: “What makes this incredibly alarming is how deeply it is plugging into top level Israeli government diplomacy. The grand finale of this event is scheduled to take place at Beit HaNasi, the official residence of the President of Israel.

“Delegates from all over the world will read a formal declaration in their own languages and hand the signed global charter directly to the Israeli president to secure official Israeli state recognition.

“This kind of political backing is exactly what I have been warning about. For decades, American politicians have been quietly slipping recognition of these Noahide concepts into congressional resolutions and education acts, slowly setting the stage to present these codes as the official moral foundation of our civil laws and global governance…

Noahide troll propaganda

“We are watching a well financed, highly organized global Judaic network go live in real time, complete with its own international finance committee, mandatory fees, and a unified curriculum.

“Individuals are being pressured to stand before this newly formed Rabbinic Court to receive an official compliance status, completely subordinating themselves to a Jewish group of judges… A dangerous system of Noahide global control is being built right before our eyes under the fake banner of universal moral unity”.

Free the Filton Four! Free the world from judeo-supremacist control!

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by Anarchist Front (Iran) t.me/AnarchistFront_English/984 via thefreeonline at wp.me/pIJl9-I2w

Regarding comrade Soheil Arabi and comrade Afshin Heyratiyan, many media outlets have remained silent—even those that claim to be radical leftist, such as Blackfish Voice and the Worker-Communist Party, and even many outlets and artists who claim independence and support for all political prisoners.

This silence is not unrelated to the historical censorship of anarchism. Numerous books, including E. H. Carr’s *History of Soviet Russia*, significantly downplay the role of anarchists in the Russian Revolution, along with countless other cases where the role of anarchists has been ignored in the International, the Paris Commune, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Spanish Revolution, and more.

Comrades, this is not a simple coincidence; it is a coordinated collusion against our comrades and our movement. We must, with all our strength, rescue our comrades and our movement from under the blade of censorship and repression.

Written by: Matrud https://t.me/AnarchistFront_English/984

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UPDATE::: SOHEIL ARABI TEMPORARILY RELEASED FROM PRISON!

[04/06/2026 18:43] Anarchist Front | en:Author: Hasse-Nima Golkar

According to reliable information, anarcho-syndicalist political prisoner Soheil Arabi was temporarily released from prison on bail several days ago. He is currently undergoing medical treatment for the severe psychological and physical consequences of the torture and abuse inflicted upon him during his imprisonment.

Following his arrest on 11 March 2026, Soheil Arabi was seized in Tehran by the security apparatus of the Islamic-Shiite fascist regime ruling Iran. During his arrest and detention, he was subjected to psychological and physical violence before being transferred to the notorious Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.
This message from comrade Soheil Arabi was published through some social networks:
DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF PRISONERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE SENTENCED TO DEATH, REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL TENDENCY. THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE VICTIMS COME FROM THE OPPRESSED AND EXPLOITED CLASSES AND HAVE NO VOICE. BE THEIR VOICE!
His words are a reminder that the struggle against imprisonment, torture, and execution is inseparable from the struggle against all forms of domination, exploitation, and state violence.

We express our solidarity with all political prisoners, imprisoned workers, dissidents, and those facing execution.
For workers’ self-organization and self-management, social justice, and human liberation!
Freedom for all political prisoners!
No to prisons, torture, and executions!
Neither Mullahs! Nor Shah! Nor War!
Woman–Life–Freedom