#JonathanCook | Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry

"But I want to add a point of criticism, in particular, about one scene from the first half. An interview with Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, included a truly cringe-inducing request that she condemn Hamas over its October 7 2023 attack.

We should have long moved past the point where Palestinians – more than two years into a genocide of their people – are expected to make such ritual denunciations before they can be heard.

If that isn't obvious, consider another interview during the programme – this one with Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The CAA is a virulently pro-Israel organisation that was recently excoriated by a judge for repeatedly misleading him – lying – in an antisemitism case it brought before the court.

Why did the programme makers not ask Falter, who actually is an apologist for Israeli violence, whether he would condemn Israel for its two-year slaughter of children in Gaza? Presumably they shied away from that confrontation because it would have suggested that they were holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government."

https://archive.ph/JgI8m

#PalestineAction #Media #Gaza #WeaponsIndustry

#CraigMurray | Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action

"The jury were shown the notebook but were specifically not allowed to see the first ten pages. Throughout the trial anything that referred to the crimes of Elbit, their role in the mass killing and mutilation of women and children, and their cosy relationship with the British government, was excluded from the jury. The judge continually stopped the defence lawyers from asking or saying anything about who ELbit are or why their property was being attacked."

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/02/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer-and-cooper-lies-about-palestine-action/

#UK #PalestineAction #Gaza #WeaponsIndustry

#ElectronicIntifada | Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain’s war industry

"While the book contains many important facts, it presents a misleadingly incomplete picture of British policy. A chapter titled “International Responses” puts a positive spin on decisions taken by the current government in London, arguing that “perhaps most notably” it announced during 2024 that 30 out of 350 permits for exporting weapons to Israel had been suspended."

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/palestine-expert-joins-think-tank-funded-britains-war-industry

#Gaza #WeaponsIndustry #Palestine #JulieNorman

Pete Hegseth out of Fort Worth!

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following January 12 statement from the Dallas-Fort Worth Anti-War Committee.

Pete Hegseth is not welcome in Dallas-Fort Worth!

Today, Pete Hegseth, the so-called Secretary of War, came to Fort Worth because DFW produces the weapons of war and genocide. From the Lockheed Martin F-35 factory in Fort Worth that Hegseth visited today to the Repkon bomb factory in Garland, our metroplex’s taxes, resources, and labor are being used for imperialist bloodshed.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/pete-hegseth-out-of-fort-worth

#ChrisHedges | The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

"Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-palestine-laboratory-exporting

#Hebron #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #AI #Gaza #TheIsrael #Surveillance #SocialMedia

#ChrisHedges | The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report

After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporations are — according to multiple reports by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese — either directly or indirectly involved in Israel’s economic proliferation.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-member-states-complicit-in-genocide

#FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #Palestine #WeaponsIndustry #WeaponsTech

Fuck off, Starmer!

#DeclassifiedUK | The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam

"Keir Starmer’s plan to buy American fighter jets armed with nuclear bombs whose use will be entirely under the US president’s control makes no military sense"

https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-billion-thank-you-to-uncle-sam/

#Nuclear #MOD #UK #US #WeaponsIndustry

MN protest at Howmet Aerospace: Weapons makers out of our communities!

New Brighton, MN – On October 16, about 50 Minnesotans gathered outside a Howmet Aerospace facility in New Brighton as a part of the Anti-War Action Network’s nationwide call-to-action targeting weapons manufacturers.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/mn-protest-at-howmet-aerospace-weapons-makers-out-of-our-communities

BDS takes the fight to the factories

Niles, OH – On October 12, members of the Pittsburgh BDS Coalition joined up with activists from various local groups to protest outside a Howmet Aerospace factory, known to be manufacturing parts for the F-35 jet which is being used by the IDF in occupied Palestine. The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement works to isolate Israel for the crimes it is committing in Palestine.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/bds-takes-the-fight-to-the-factories