It’s delightful to come back from my weekly break from politics to see some good news for a change. Twenty seven or as some sources say twenty nine supporters of the now banned ‘Palestine Action’ group were arrested in London yesterday. They were arrested for breaching the provisions of the Anti Terrorism Act 2000 by showing support for the Palestine Action group at a demonstration.
Among those arrested Leigh Evans the infamous ‘crying Welsh nurse of Cairo’ who embarrassed himself to the entire planet by whining to Egyptian police about the ‘smell of starving babies’ in Gaza after the Egyptian authorities (who appear to hate the Gazans as much as anyone else in the region does) blocked him and his ‘Gaza Convoy’ crew from getting into Gaza. He’s also been caught out shouting ‘death to the IDF’ at another pro-’Palestine’ demonstration in the UK.
Also arrested for supporting the Palestine Action terrorists was the professional omnicause supporter and climate change obsessive the Reverend Sue Parfitt who a while back was nicked for smashing the case protecting a copy of the Magna Carta at London’s British Library to protest ‘climate change’. Interestingly one person who has expressed vocal support for Palestine Action but who hasn’t been arrested is the now independent MP Zarah Sultana as she wasn’t there with her Palestine Action supporting compatriots. You might think wouldn’t you that having such a strong opinion on the issue of the legality of Palestine Action Ms Sultana would be there on the frontlines with her comrades? No, she stayed away and let the idiot minions of the group that supports Palestine Action get nicked instead.
Arresting and putting forward for prosecution the violent extremists of ‘Palestine Action’ should have been the big move that the Metropolitan Police made after it was clear that the pro-’Palestine’ marches in London were made up of violent extremists. It was obvious from January 2024 onwards (and that’s being liberal and generous) that what we had on London’s streets were not just misguided but peaceful nutcases brainwashed into supporting ‘Palestine’ but something much much worse. If the police were not aware of the exterminatory, violent jihadist and leftist nutbaggery nature of these ‘Palestine’ demonstrators in October 2023, they must have certainly been fully informed of their complexion by February 2024 at the latest. However the politically bent, identity politics and Islam obsessed senior management of the Met let these pro-’Palestine’ hate marches go on for months and months. I’m pleased to see the arrests but there should have been earlier arrests of these ‘Palestine’ extremists and also many more of them.
But arresting these ‘Palestine Action’ extremists is only the first stage in dealing with them. They and their cases still have to go through the offices of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts. It is at these stages that what looks like a long needed robust action against the ‘Palestine Action’ clowns might fall apart.
The case could be lost by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) either by them refusing to continue it because they don’t believe that the charges will stick with a jury or from internal pressure from various identity politics groups within the CPS to downgrade the charges to something other than support for a banned group. Even if the case makes it to court there’s no guarantee that the ‘Palestine Action’ lunatics will get anything like an appropriate sentence. Don’t forget that shortly after the 7/10 Pogrom in Israel that was carried out by Hamas and Gazan civilians two women who were arrested for displaying images of paragliders of the sort used by Hamas in their attack on Israel, walked from court with a 12 month conditional discharge. Even though these women were knowingly using images that were clearly connected to an attack carried out by Hamas, an organisation that is banned in the UK and which could be construed by a reasonable person to represent at least tacit support for Hamas, they still didn’t get gaol time.
The arrests of the ‘Palestine Action’ lunatics are welcome and should be welcomed by most reasonable people who can tell the difference between legitimate protest and terrorism or support for terrorism, but we should not celebrate too early. The shows not over until the politically bent and identity politics infested fat ladies of the CPS and the judiciary sing. The arrests of these ‘Palestine Action’ fraggles grabs the headlines but there’s a danger that as soon as the media turns its eyes away from this case that it will be disposed of by the state in a very unsatisfactory way. I certainly do not believe that these ‘Palestine Action’ low lifes will be treated with a similar degree of harshness as would someone from the nationalist political right be treated by the state. I hope that I’m wrong and these clowns get some gaol time but I’ve seen so much two tier justice in the UK and seen the difference in how left wing, Islamic and climate nuttery protesters are treated by the state when compared to their opponents that I’m not confident at all that any exemplary punishments will be handed down to these loons.
Links:
Jewish Chronicle story on the ‘crying nurse of Cairo’.
Reverend Sue Parfitt arrested for smashing Magna Carta case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/magna-carta-british-library-environmental-activists-smash-arrest/
‘Crying nurse of Cairo’ shouting death to the IDF at a demo in the UK
https://www.tiktok.com/@jewishchronicle/video/7522426594216955168
‘Paraglider girls’ walk free from court