Lawyer prosecuted for telling jury about the law. Sounds like a repressive dystopia without rule of law, doesn't it?
You're right. It's the UK, where top human rights barrister #RajivMenon KC faces contempt of court proceedings. This has a "chilling effect" across the British bar.
#Menon is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of the #Filton6 #PalestineAction activists who broke into an Israeli-owned #Elbit arms factory near Bristol in 2024.
4 #PalestineAction activists convicted over raid at factory operated #ApartheidIsraeli Defence Firm #Elbit
In Britain, four Palestine Action activists have been convicted of criminal damage over their involvement in a 2024 protest and raid on a factory operated by the Israeli defense firm Elbit. Two other defendants on the same trial were acquitted. The four activists were found guilty Tuesday of smashing up Elbit military equipment. Their legal team said in a statement, “They went into this trial with their heads held high and with the knowledge that no matter the verdict, by destroying Israeli military drones, their action likely saved lives in Palestine.” The British government has banned Palestine Action under its Terrorism Act.
"But this time YOU are the decision makers. Unlike what the prosecution and the government want you to be, you are not a rubber stamp. Don't fall into their trap. Find the six of us not guilty of criminal damage."
5 of the #Filton6 fired their lawyers so they could address the jury about their motivation for causing damage to a #Elbit weapons fsctory. The judge wanted the jury to be unaware of motive, unaware of their right to j#JuryEquity.
Defence legal professionals watched their clients from the public gallery as the Filton trial dramatically concluded with defendants accusing the court of hiding the nature of the weapons they damaged.
@emenel very quick search on ways #Dell supports Israeli #apartheid
1. $150+ million Israeli military contract — Won tender in January 2023 to provide servers and services to Israeli defense ministry, other security bodies
2. AI targeting systems for #Gaza genocide — Supplies servers and HPC infrastructure for AI systems #Lavender and The #Gospel that automate Palestinian targeting, minimizing human oversight and accelerating assaults
3. Unit 8200 cyberwarfare support — Provides Dell Pro-Rugged 13 AI-powered laptops to Israel's notorious cyberwarfare force for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and military operations in West Bank
4. Mass surveillance at checkpoints — Supplies servers enabling AnyVision's facial recognition at checkpoints, plus tech for #CISCO Israel and Cognyte to track Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank
5. R&D supporting settlement expansion — Dell subsidiaries partner in National Cyber Park in Naqab, strengthening illegal settlements and displacing Palestinian Bedouin communities
6. CEO pro-Israel donation — Michael Dell donated $350M in shares to Israel one month into Gaza genocide (October 2023), posted photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog saying "honor to stand with Israel"
7. Elite military unit support — Technology benefits Golani Brigade (implicated in Rafah paramedic murders), Flotilla 13 naval unit, Israeli air force, and #Elbit Systems weapons manufacturer
8. Corporate profiteer designation — #BDS movement lists Dell as priority boycott target in "No Tech for Oppression, Apartheid or Genocide" campaign; called corporate profiteer of occupation, apartheid, and genocide alongside #Google, #Amazon, #Intel, #Microsoft
#CraigMurray | The Morass of Injustice
Part of Charlotte Head’s closing speech in the Filton trial:
"If this was a shop that we’d broken into, which I would never do by the way, then you’d expect the owner to come to court. You’d expect him to list all of the items that were damaged, and describe the impact it’s had on his business. But where is Elbit? You’ve heard a very detailed and very boring inventory of the tools we brought to dismantle the weapons. You even have – behind Tab 10 – pictures with information like the brand and the weight and the material of every single tool. So where is that information about the weapons that we dismantled? If this case is supposedly only about damage, then where is the inventory?"
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/05/the-morass-of-injustice/
A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine. In a quite incredible series of linked and kinked events this week, the senior KC representing one of the Palestine Action activists in the Filton trial was in the Court of Appeal arguing against being found in […]
Charleston demands accountability from off-duty NCPD officers at local Elbit facility
North Charleston, SC – Members of the Elbit Out of South Carolina Coalition met with Major Michael Aiken of the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD)’s Office of Professional Standards on April 29, to discuss the disturbing patterns of behavior by off-duty NCPD officers working as paid security at Elbit Systems America’s facility in Ladson, South Carolina. That location is a subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
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The closing statements in the Fulton 6 trial are well worth your time, moving, passionate and important. This sham of a trial really does bring the justice system to a new low. #elbit #palestine #filton6
Defence legal professionals watched their clients from the public gallery as the Filton trial dramatically concluded with defendants accusing the court of hiding the nature of the weapons they damaged.
"‘Extraordinarily far-reaching’ Palestine Action trial gets underway in Germany
The ‘Ulm 5’ are facing prison time over a break-in at an Israeli weapons firm, in a case experts warn could set a precedent for criminalizing direct action.
In the early hours of Sept. 8, 2025, a group of activists wearing black hoodies that bore the red and white logo of Palestine Action broke into the offices of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in Ulm, southern Germany.
Once inside the compound, according to prosecutors, they damaged and partly destroyed furniture, windows, and technical equipment with axes; sprayed slogans on the walls; lit pyrotechnics; and chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “Germany finances, Israel bombs.” As visible from the activists’ own filming of the break-in, no one was harmed during the action. They remained on site and called the police, who later detained them.
Since their arrest, the five activists — Daniel Tatlow-Devally (an Irish citizen), Leandra Rollo (a Spanish citizen), Crow Tricks and Zo Hailu (British citizens), and Vi Kovarbasic (a German citizen) — have been held in pre-trial detention in separate prisons across southern Germany."
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#UlmFive #palestine #gaza #elbit #israel
https://www.972mag.com/palestine-action-trial-germany-ulm-5-elbit/
The German version of the fascistic UK trials of Palestine Action:
"The Ulm 5 acted against an arms manufacturer supplying a genocide. Germany’s response has been to imprison them for nearly a year" without trial.
"We have seen it in Britain, in Germany, & multiple EU countries:
"terrorism-adjacent laws, punishing pre-trial conditions, a... verdict before the trial begins, & politicians who... ensure it."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/germany-activists-elbit-raid
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