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The UK Was Right To Sanction Israeli Settlements

September 9, 2026 Rohan Talbot and Medical Aid for Palestinians, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
The UK has crossed a political Rubicon on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Yesterday, the Government recognised that Israel’s continued control over Palestinian territory is unlawful, bringing it into line with the International Court of Justice’s 2024 Advisory Opinion. For decades, British governments have condemned Israel’s settlements as illegal while allowing the settlement project to expand with impunity. Palestinian communities have been displaced and Israeli control over the West Bank has become ever more entrenched.

US Ambassador Threatens Britain With Economic Retaliation

September 8, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said Washington will certainly hit back if Britain proceeds with trade sanctions targeting illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, telling BBC that a response could come from the federal government and from individual US states. Huckabee said acting in this way against “a partner, Israel” risked a “huge economic impact on British businesses,” which he warned could find themselves “banned” from operating “in a number of states.” He told BBC the planned ban on illegal Israeli settlement goods would be “discrimination against the Jewish people,” singling out Florida as a state that could move against British trade.

The Potential Of Commons/Public Partnerships

September 2, 2026 David Bollier. , , ,
As the Commonsverse becomes more robust worldwide, a more urgent question is arising: Can commoners work constructively with the state, and if so, how? State power tends to have its own narrow ideas about how to get things done – and what governance, law, bureaucratic power, and public participation should look like. Commons open up new possibilities for getting things done, however. They can generate types of value that elude markets and bureaucracy, and offer new ways of knowing and being. But there’s a catch. It can be tricky and difficult for the state and commons to work together. Each has such different premises about power and worldview. Can they develop some sort of rapprochement?

Pro-Palestine Activists Occupy Aircraft Parts Factory Linked To Israel

August 24, 2026 Millenium News 24. , , , ,
In a significant demonstration of solidarity with Palestine, pro-Palestine activists from the group ‘People Against Genocide’ have occupied a Martin-Baker aircraft parts factory in the United Kingdom. The occupation is a protest against the factory’s alleged links to Israel, highlighting the activists’ campaign against what they describe as complicity in Israeli actions against Palestinians. The Martin-Baker factory, known for manufacturing ejection seats and aircraft safety systems used globally, has drawn the attention of activists due to claims that its products or supply chain involve direct or indirect support to the Israeli military.

Jury Refuses To Convict Seven Palestine Action Defendants

August 20, 2026 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , , ,
Jurors at a London court were discharged after being unable to reach verdicts for seven Palestine Action defendants accused of coordinating a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory. One person who could not be named for legal reasons was convicted by a majority of 9-1 of criminal damage in relation to the incident. The defendants- Hannah Davidson, 53, Ian Sanders, 47, Aleksandra Herbich, 41, Teuta Hoxha, 30, William Plastow, 35, Julija Brigadirova, 33, Sean Middlebrough, 33, and Madeleine Norman, 31- were accused of criminal damage and violent disorder in connection with a break-in to an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol in August 2024.

Who Killed Jason Arday?

August 19, 2026 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British academic, had been found dead. I have been following this story ever since it broke out in July. We commiserated about his tragic death, and concluded that Arday was killed by many people and institutions. Jason Arday’s death was the result of a convergence of forces that reveal the fragility of the racial settlement in post-imperial and postcolonial Britain and the contradictions of its elite institutions.

Palestine Action Facing New Rigged ‘Terrorism’ Trials

August 16, 2026 The Grayzone. , , , ,
The Grayzone can exclusively reveal that hearings have been underway in the trial of the so-called Teledyne Three. These three defendants damaged the clean room of a UK factory which produces parts for the F-35 aircraft which Israel has used to carry out an array of crimes against civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and beyond. They are members of the direction action protest collective, Palestine Action, which the British state has designated as a “terrorist entity” in the face of international condemnation.  The presiding judge in the Teledyne Three case, Driver, has imposed restrictions on the defense which threatens them with a “terrorism connection” if they attempt to explain the motives behind their actions.

Climate Scientists Issue Urgent Warning To UK Government

August 15, 2026 Abi Perrin, The Canary. , , , ,
A fifth heatwave is hitting us. Wildfires are overwhelming the fire brigade’s capacity to respond. Drought is devastating harvests. The impacts of a fossil-fueled Climate Emergency are more visible than ever, yet signals from the government suggest they’ll support Shell & Equinor’s plans to drill for new oil and gas. Against this backdrop, in their starkest warning yet, the UK’s top climate scientists have written to the new energy secretary, urging her to protect lives and livelihoods above polluters’ profits. I’m writing this early in the morning, curtains drawn, knowing that in a few hours’ time it’ll be too hot here – in a shaded terrace in the North of England – for me to get these words out coherently.

UK Court Rules Anti-Zionism ‘Legally Protected Belief’

August 5, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) declared on 3 August that anti-Zionism qualifies as a “protected philosophical belief” under the Equality Act 2010, Professor David Miller announced via social media, marking a significant win for anti-genocide advocates. "It is coherent to describe as 'racist' an ideology that promotes the establishment of a state for only one race of people in a territory that formerly contained a large number of people of a different race," the court said in its ruling. "Such an ideology, which supports the migration of members of the first group into the territory with the support of an imperial power to dislodge an indigenous population, could also coherently be described as colonial and imperialistic,” the ruling goes on to state.

War Crimes Case Re-Opened

July 31, 2026 John McEvoy, Consortium News. , , , , ,
The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into U.K. nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in August 2025. It alleged that ten U.K. nationals —including dual citizens — had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in Gaza. Allegations against those soldiers included international crimes such as “wilful killing, extermination, attacking civilians, and deportation or forcible transfer of population.”

The Brazilian Theatre Tradition Behind Britain’s Green Surge

July 29, 2026 Hugo Harvey, The Canary. , , ,
The ideas behind Britain’s Green surge began in a Brazilian jail. In the 1970s, Augusto Boal invented a technique he named Theatre of the Oppressed. It sought to awaken audiences by making them active participants, turning spectators into “spect-actors.” Boal had drawn the idea from educator Paulo Freire, whose Pedagogy of the Oppressed argued that conventional education was a tool of domination, a “banking” model where teachers deposited facts into passive students. Jailed by Brazil’s military junta in 1964 and driven into exile, Freire proposed instead that teacher and student examine the world together, aiming at conscientização, or critical consciousness.

How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Scored A Contract With NHS

July 28, 2026 Ana Vracar, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
Health organizations are urging the British government to use an exit clause in its contract with tech firm Palantir and shift from its Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the National Health Service (NHS) in early 2027. Recent reports by Medact, Just Treatment, and other groups argue that Palantir’s system brings limited benefits at the cost of patient trust and data security – not to mention millions of pounds. The organizations called for scaling up existing NHS-led innovations in data management, avoiding vendor lock-in, and ensuring that future projects in this area are based on need and evidence. The reports thus echoed recommendations from the Health and Social Care Committee, which also advised the government to drop the agreement next year.

Campaigners Disrupt Event Demanding Venues Stop Hosting Fossil Fuel Firms

July 16, 2026 The Canary. , , ,
Amidst the third heat storm of this year, campaigners demanded an end to London venues hosting events for fossil fuel companies. Fossil Free London campaigners disrupted inside the QEII Centre in Westminster while the venue hosted its annual Summer Showcase. This is an invitation-only event marketed to the events industry where companies can find suitable locations for their corporate events. In protest over London venues hosting oil and gas events, five campaigners entered the 40th birthday party event at the QEII Centre and disrupted the event. They requested to give a birthday speech within the DJ booth.

Lawmakers Push For Release Of £3 Billion In Seized Venezuelan Gold

July 13, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
The UK-based Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) reported on Saturday that British Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Burgon has introduced an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons demanding the immediate release of 31 tons of Venezuelan gold currently held by the Bank of England (BoE). The initiative specifies that the resources should be returned to the Venezuelan people to fund reconstruction efforts and address the humanitarian emergency caused by the devastating June 24 double earthquake. The motion, filed on June 29, 2026, has garnered the support of 30 members of parliament out of the 650-seat house.

Britain Detains US Human Rights Lawyer, Dan Kovalik

July 2, 2026 Naila Kauser, Consortium News. , , ,
U.S. human rights lawyer, professor and journalist Daniel Kovalik was detained by three counter-terror police officers at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport on Saturday morning under paragraph 4 ofSchedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, which allows border police to detain and question people they believe to be involved in “hostile state activity.” Kovalik — who was visiting England for a wedding — was detained for approximately two and a half hours and interrogated extensively on his political views about “everything under the sun,” including on Israel, Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, the war against Iran and on China and Russia.
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