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One year after a flag was thrown on stage, the UK still arms Israel’s genocide, trains IGF soldiers on British soil and wishes to silence an Irish musician for ‘terrorism’.

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MASS PICKET- Trial of Mo Chara- Westminster Magistrates Court Wed 20th August at 9am 181 Marylebone Road, London

Mo Chara returns to court as Britain’s hypocrisy reaches new depths.

Good day, spectators,And when we last discussed Mo Chara‘s farcical terrorism charge and trial, the British state was busy doing two things at once: firstly, it was prosecuting an Irish rapper for holding a flag and secondly, it was arming the Israeli warplanes bombing Rafah.

Tomorrow, Aug 20th, Mo Chara will stand in Westminster Magistrates Court for his second hearing, yet nothing has changed but the scale of the slaughter, the brazenness of Israel’s genocidal rhetoric and the UK’s utter desperation to silence dissent in whichever form.

the ‘terrorism’ trial is ever more more absurd.

The ‘terrorism’ trial is ever more absurd.

Let’s recap. The so-called ‘crime’ is that Mo Chara briefly held a Hezbollah flag thrown on stage at a 2024 gig. Hezbollah is a group the UK banned in 2019…and that was only at the behest of their good friend and ally Israel..

Months later, Kneecap loudly denounced Israel’s genocide at Coachella with a message that swept the world:

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19 Jun 2025 — Supporters of all ages, and even one cat, attended Westminster Magistrates Court to rally behind rapper Mo Chara as he faced trial for alleged terror offences.

Solidarity events planned ahead of Mo Chara court hearing

This sparked a vicious smear campaign by Zionists and pro-Israel voices. Immediately after, charges were filed and all this happened on the exact same day the UK refused, in Parliament, to halt arms sales to Israel. For me, this is definitive proof this was always about punishing Palestinian solidarity.

Now, tomorrow the trial will resume, and the prosecution will still have no evidence of Mo Chara endorsing violence or anything of that description. His only crime from what I can decipher is ‘not immediately discarding a flag’.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it’s patently clear all they want to do is convict him in a show trial to restrict Kneecap’s travel.

If he’s convicted on terrorism, this will prevent him from travelling to most countries, sabotaging their tours, and sending a message that criticising Israel will cost you your freedom.

Israel’s escalation: Smotrich calls to ‘burn Gaza’ whilst Britain’s remains silent

Since May, Israel’s mask has fully slipped, and I mean fully. There is a plethora of obscene war crimes, lies, statements and actions from Israel to choose from in the past few months. Each more evil than the last.

But I want to draw particular attention to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who has called to ‘burn Gaza’ and praised the destruction as some kind of ‘biblical justice.’

More than 60,000 Palestinians are dead, including 15,000 children, many of whom have been starved under a UK-funded blockade. UK arms exports continue flowing, with BAE and Elbit supplying parts used in the Genocide.

Yet the only ‘terrorism’ Westminster sees is a flag at a gig. The cognitive dissonance that we are witnessing here is not funny or silly or anything like that, it’s downright grotesque and concerning to the highest degree because these are the people that are supposed to be leading the UK.

The unwanted crackdown: how Palestine Action exposed Britain’s police state.

Whilst Mo Chara faces trial, the UK has unleashed its terror laws on peaceful dissent with surgical precision.

Last week, at Parliament Square, 466 people were arrested for holding signs reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action‘. This was the largest mass arrest at a protest in the UK in decades..

Among those charged under terrorism laws were an 81-year-old former magistrate, an 83-year-old retired priest, and a 67-year-old retired headteacher. Multiple nurses and a blind chap in a wheelchair…

Their weapon? Cardboard signs.

I would just like to use this opportunity to point out that, on the very same day, anti-immigrant protesters were throwing Nazi salutes next to police officers who did absolutely nothing.