UK Media Peddled Iran ‘Link’ to Palestine Action
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/16/uk-media-peddled-iran-link-to-palestine-action/
The Home Office briefed The Times that the direct-action group could be funded by Iran, and then U.K. media kicked into action spreading the story, Mark Curtis reports. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK The proscription of Palestine Action [under the…
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UK Media Peddled Iran ‘Link’ to Palestine Action

The Home Office briefed The Times that the direct-action group could be funded by Iran, and then U.K. media kicked into action spreading the story, Mark Curtis reports. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK The proscription of Palestine Action [under the Terrorism Act] took place alongside claims

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Exile is ‘a little bit less than death’ for lawyer forced to flee Guatemala

Haroon Siddique wrote in The Guardian on Virginia Laparra’s struggle for justice and her receiving of the Sir Henry Brooke award. A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor forced into exile after bei…

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"...precedent for the UK and US refusing to arm Israel... (Reagan was) reportedly so shocked by images of dismembered Palestinian children in a bombardment on 12 August that he warned Israeli PM Menachem Begin “our entire future relations are at stake if this continues”. Israel ordered a complete ceasefire before the day was out. So it wouldn’t be the first time a British or US government has drawn a moral line.”
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