The Starmer regime is turning Britain into a police state

The Starmer regime is turning Britain into a police state

The UK’s crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide is the worst example of the authoritarian trend evident in Western Europe
The UK is witnessing the largest and most significant prison hunger strike since 1981. Since the beginning of November, in pretrial detention for standing up against the , have been against Israel’s continuing mass murder, Britain’s complicity, and their own abusive and petty treatment by, as it happens, the same infamous legal and incarceration system on behalf of the US.
The hunger strikers’ demands also include releasing documents showing how Britain’s extremely powerful Israel Lobby has been the government and an end to the absurd proscription of the activists’ own Palestine Action organization as 'terrorist.'
The charges against the activists refer to : the break-in at a British branch of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and infiltration of a Royal Air Force base to damage two planes with red paint and crowbars. Elbit is one of the many Israeli and multinational companies that are deeply involved in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ceaseless other crimes elsewhere, as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has shown in her recent  From economy of occupation to economy of genocide.
Britain’s Royal Air Force has besmirched itself by flying reconnaissance missions over Gaza, supporting Israel and its genocide there. Official denials, that these operations have exclusively served the rescuing of hostages, are preposterous, as Matt Kennard who has been tracking and analyzing the flights systematically . In addition, since the flights are embedded in Israeli intelligence gathering, which is notorious for routinely relying on torture, the flights also make the UK an accomplice to .
Ages ago, as an undergraduate history student at Oxford, I could see with my own eyes the great, persisting pride still attached to the memory of Britain’s 'finest hour,' when the country faced off against the threat of invasion by a surging Nazi Germany that had just mauled France. Over a thousand brave Spitfire pilots who fought in World War Two must now be turning in their graves. They defended their country against a fascist, genocidal German regime. Now the Royal Air Force is helping a Zionist, genocidal Israeli regime commit mass murder.
What an incredible shame. By now – very, very late – some former officers of high rank, and with a minimum of a conscience and a sense of honor left, are finally to demand that Britain end its self-degrading support for and cooperation with Israel.
The core of terrorism for reasonable people, is the deliberate use of violence against civilians, usually on a large scale, to produce a climate of fear and insecurity in pursuit of political aims. That definition does not cover – by any stretch of the imagination – what Palestine Action has been doing. Treating its activists as the equivalent of Al Qaeda and ISIS operatives is ludicrous. Indeed, the normal definition of terrorism is a much better fit for Israel’s behavior, which uses extreme violence against civilians in pursuit of a strategy of ethnic cleansing.
The hunger strike has faced official stone-walling, with Justice Secretary David Lammy quite literally from the participants’ relatives. As always now in NATO Europe, the mainstream media have followed the government line . Physically exhausted , some of the activists have recently suspended their hunger strike, . Meanwhile, they despite the severe risk of police-state repression by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s regime.
For the Starmer regime is engaged not 'merely' in viciously going after a few to make examples of them, even while risking their death in detention. Rather it is applying a strategy of mass repression. According to Amnesty International, 2,700 peaceful protesters simply for daring to protest the banning of Palestine Action. This is a violat