#direct-action — Public Fediverse posts

Nine years ago, tens of thousands of demonstrators faced off with over 31,000 police during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Despite police violence on a massive scale, demonstrators forced them out of parts of Hamburg, creating liberated zones.

@CrimethInc reported from the fray:
https://crimethinc.com/hamburgg20 #hamburg #hamburgg20 #g20 #germany #Europe #directAction #protest #blackBlock #anarchism #anarchist #demo #demostration #temporaryAutonomousZone #taz #policeFreeZone

Nine years ago, tens of thousands of demonstrators faced off with over 31,000 police during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Despite police violence on a massive scale, demonstrators forced them out of parts of Hamburg, creating liberated zones.

@CrimethInc reported from the fray:
https://crimethinc.com/hamburgg20 #hamburg #hamburgg20 #g20 #germany #Europe #directAction #protest #blackBlock #anarchism #anarchist #demo #demostration #temporaryAutonomousZone #taz #policeFreeZone

📰 IGD: 2015 – 2025

https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Anarchism #Antifascism #DirectAction #IGD

Militant Attack on Toll Holdings

On the grassy basalt plains of stolen central Kulin Nations land, another Toll site has been hit!

"Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"

#ThichNhatHanh #mindfulness #DirectAction

"Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"

#ThichNhatHanh #mindfulness #DirectAction

#directaction #Empathy #Love #luddites #memes #Palestine

#directaction #Empathy #Love #luddites #memes #Palestine

Since 2018, TAGCT has intercepted unsold Sacramento food before it's discarded, delivering it to free fridges, pantries, and people camping outside. Survival kits, warming kits, hydration stations, a shared garden. ARG sends them $550 this month, matched up to $250, 100% passthrough.

https://www.radical-guide.com/mutual-aid-general-fund-recipient-june-2026-tag-community-table/

#MutualAid #FoodJustice #Sacramento #DirectAction

Since 2018, TAGCT has intercepted unsold Sacramento food before it's discarded, delivering it to free fridges, pantries, and people camping outside. Survival kits, warming kits, hydration stations, a shared garden. ARG sends them $550 this month, matched up to $250, 100% passthrough.

https://www.radical-guide.com/mutual-aid-general-fund-recipient-june-2026-tag-community-table/

#MutualAid #FoodJustice #Sacramento #DirectAction

How Environmentalists Became America's First Modern "Domestic Terrorists"

The #GreenScare created precedents that today reach far beyond radical environmentalism, and threaten anyone willing to engage in #directaction.

Lauren Fadiman June 2026

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-long-green-scare

#EarthFirst #surveillance

How Environmentalists Became America's First Modern "Domestic Terrorists"

The #GreenScare created precedents that today reach far beyond radical environmentalism, and threaten anyone willing to engage in #directaction.

Lauren Fadiman June 2026

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-long-green-scare

#EarthFirst #surveillance

“The state treats direct action as a threat requiring exceptional measures. Yet the violence that provokes that action is often discussed in the language of procedure, procurement, and national interest. That is why the Filton action continues to resonate.

The question was never simply about property damage to forty Israeli weapon components. It was about the infrastructure behind them: the manufacturers, the supply chains, the software, the military doctrines, the political decisions, and the collective willingness to treat all of it as normal.

For me, that normality has become the most difficult thing to understand. Once you recognise the connections – between a factory in Filton, a prison in Surrey, a drone over Gaza, and a politician in Westminster – it becomes impossible to look away”

- quoting Nina Jafri writing in The Canary

@thecanaryuk

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/29/what-filton-destroyed/

#Press #UK #Filton25 #DirectAction #PalestineAction #Proscription #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Elbit

“The state treats direct action as a threat requiring exceptional measures. Yet the violence that provokes that action is often discussed in the language of procedure, procurement, and national interest. That is why the Filton action continues to resonate.

The question was never simply about property damage to forty Israeli weapon components. It was about the infrastructure behind them: the manufacturers, the supply chains, the software, the military doctrines, the political decisions, and the collective willingness to treat all of it as normal.

For me, that normality has become the most difficult thing to understand. Once you recognise the connections – between a factory in Filton, a prison in Surrey, a drone over Gaza, and a politician in Westminster – it becomes impossible to look away”

- quoting Nina Jafri writing in The Canary

@thecanaryuk

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/29/what-filton-destroyed/

#Press #UK #Filton25 #DirectAction #PalestineAction #Proscription #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Elbit

“What The Filton Six Destroyed”

by Nida Jafri in The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@uk_politics
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“Over the course of two years – following an unusual arrest under counter-terror powers, eighteen months on remand, a first trial, a second trial, and two separate proceedings against Charlotte Head’s barrister – it has become increasingly difficult to believe that the government is prosecuting the Filton 25 for property damage. It is prosecuting the concept of direct action.

But the Filton 25’s alleged action has also exposed something larger: the convergence of drone warfare, artificial intelligence, and industrialised killing that is reshaping warfare in the 21st century”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/29/what-filton-destroyed/

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #PalestineAction #PalestinianGenocide #Filton25 #Elbit #ElbitSystems #DirectAction #JudgeJohnson #MI6 #Labour #Starmer #Prisecution #Proscription #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship

“What The Filton Six Destroyed”

by Nida Jafri in The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@uk_politics
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“Over the course of two years – following an unusual arrest under counter-terror powers, eighteen months on remand, a first trial, a second trial, and two separate proceedings against Charlotte Head’s barrister – it has become increasingly difficult to believe that the government is prosecuting the Filton 25 for property damage. It is prosecuting the concept of direct action.

But the Filton 25’s alleged action has also exposed something larger: the convergence of drone warfare, artificial intelligence, and industrialised killing that is reshaping warfare in the 21st century”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/29/what-filton-destroyed/

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #PalestineAction #PalestinianGenocide #Filton25 #Elbit #ElbitSystems #DirectAction #JudgeJohnson #MI6 #Labour #Starmer #Prisecution #Proscription #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue

Rad Guide
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/community-of-occupied-refugees-prosfygika/

Refuge
https://phmuseum.com/projects/the-refuge-55-square-meters

Sykaprosquat
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/

PDF about #Prosfygika
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/files/2025/08/BROCHURE-OF-THE-COMMUNITY-ENG.pdf

#athens #directaction #housingcrisis #solidarity

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue

Rad Guide
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/community-of-occupied-refugees-prosfygika/

Refuge
https://phmuseum.com/projects/the-refuge-55-square-meters

Sykaprosquat
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/

PDF about #Prosfygika
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/files/2025/08/BROCHURE-OF-THE-COMMUNITY-ENG.pdf

#athens #directaction #housingcrisis #solidarity

@feuerstein

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue

Rad Guide
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/community-of-occupied-refugees-prosfygika/

Refuge
https://phmuseum.com/projects/the-refuge-55-square-meters

Sykaprosquat
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/

PDF about #Prosfygika
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/files/2025/08/BROCHURE-OF-THE-COMMUNITY-ENG.pdf

#Athens #directaction #housingcrisis #solidarity #squatting

@feuerstein

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue

Rad Guide
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/community-of-occupied-refugees-prosfygika/

Refuge
https://phmuseum.com/projects/the-refuge-55-square-meters

Sykaprosquat
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/

PDF about #Prosfygika
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/files/2025/08/BROCHURE-OF-THE-COMMUNITY-ENG.pdf

#Athens #directaction #housingcrisis #solidarity #squatting

📰 Zapatista Assemblies Denounce Threats and Intimidation in Recuperated Territories

https://itsgoingdown.org/zapatista-assemblies-denounce-threats-and-intimidation/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Final Straw: The Implications of the State’s War on Speech and Protest

https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-the-implications-of-the-states-war-on-speech-and-protest/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Ayotzinapa and Palestine bleed on the same map

https://itsgoingdown.org/ayotzinapa-and-palestine-bleed-on-the-same-map/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Zapatista Assemblies Denounce Threats and Intimidation in Recuperated Territories

https://itsgoingdown.org/zapatista-assemblies-denounce-threats-and-intimidation/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Ayotzinapa and Palestine bleed on the same map

https://itsgoingdown.org/ayotzinapa-and-palestine-bleed-on-the-same-map/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Final Straw: The Implications of the State’s War on Speech and Protest

https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-the-implications-of-the-states-war-on-speech-and-protest/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Ayotzinapa and Palestine bleed on the same map

https://itsgoingdown.org/ayotzinapa-and-palestine-bleed-on-the-same-map/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Ayotzinapa and Palestine bleed on the same map

https://itsgoingdown.org/ayotzinapa-and-palestine-bleed-on-the-same-map/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Zapatista Assemblies Denounce Threats and Intimidation in Recuperated Territories

https://itsgoingdown.org/zapatista-assemblies-denounce-threats-and-intimidation/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 IGD: 2015 – 2025

https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Zapatista Assemblies Denounce Threats and Intimidation in Recuperated Territories

https://itsgoingdown.org/zapatista-assemblies-denounce-threats-and-intimidation/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 IGD: 2015 – 2025

https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 IGD: 2015 – 2025

https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR

https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 IGD: 2015 – 2025

https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

Children of a Lesser God? Filton, Menon, Gaza and Lawfare: the Fight for Democratic Dissent in Britain!

Direct action has repeatedly forced democratic reform. The Filton sentencing and Re Rajiv Menon KC expose how far the state is willing to go in criminalising protest, advocacy, and conscience before law itself mutates into repression.

Children of a Lesser God?

Together, these cases test how far the UK state may go in punishing protest before it starts suppressing democracy itself.1 The deeper question asks whether principled dissenters are treated as children of a lesser god: expected to obey, yet denied equal moral standing the moment they resist injustice. Lawfare is the misuse of legal process as a strategic weapon to harass, delay, punish, or silence opponents, turning courts and procedures into instruments of political pressure rather than neutral justice. 2

Domestic routes

In Re Rajiv Menon KC, the core point is procedural. The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge’s direct referral to the High Court for contempt was not authorised; any contempt route should have gone first through the Attorney General in the public interest.3 That makes section 13 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 relevant only once contempt is properly before the court.4

The domestic argument therefore turns on jurisdiction, public-interest control, and whether restrictions on lawful-excuse and jury-equity material crossed into suppression rather than case management.5 Filton raises the same structural concern from another angle: whether severe punishment for expressive direct action was proportionate, or whether it criminalised dissent itself.6

International routes

Strasbourg remains important because Articles 10 and 6 protect expression and fair trial rights.7 Nikula v Finland remains the reminder that contempt powers can chill defence advocacy when used too aggressively.8

Fanon’s warning

Ibrahim Frantz Fanon’s work helps explain the deeper harm: colonial power works on the mind as well as the body, producing fear, inferiority, and compliance.9 With criminal prosecutions looming in the months ahead for peaceful pro-Gaza placard-holders, there is a pressing need to resist any sentencing path designed to clamp down on them. Together with the Filton prisoners, they appear to be subject to pressure intended to break their spirit; the point is not merely punishment, but the manufacture of submission.10

Fanon’s warning helps clarify the deeper pattern. A movement can be crushed not only by prison or sentence length, but by the cumulative message that resistance is futile, conscience is naïve, and public dissent will always be treated as aberrant or dangerous. That is why accountability must remain the golden thread. Without it, undue influence hardens into impunity, and impunity becomes normalised.11

State sovereignty, citizen autonomy and the global South frame

But there is a larger frame that orthodox legal analysis often misses. Truthaholics’ wider frame is that these cases sit inside an intersectional global order shaped by US hegemony, Israeli belligerence, Palestinian disenfranchisement, debt discipline, and resource extraction by externally backed elites.12 In that world, impunity is structural, and democratic accountability is routinely weakened at home and abroad.13

That is why Gaza matters here. The ICJ’s provisional measures and the ICC arrest warrants show that international law cannot remain decorative if it is to mean anything at all.14 Domestic protest law cannot be separated from that wider moral and legal context.15 More broadly, recent events show ordinary working people organising on an unprecedented scale including direct action, insurgency and intifada against war-crime complicity, state-sanctioned militarism, and war profiteering.15

Direct action’s history

Direct action is not a democratic anomaly. It is the engine for societies to gain labour rights, civil rights, anti-colonial independence, suffrage, and environmental justice by shaking free of undue influence and coercive state control.16 The question is not whether protest is comfortable, but whether power can still be challenged without being treated as criminal by default.17

The best of us should not be treated as children of a lesser god when they resist injustice. If they are, the law is no longer upholding or defending democracy; it is undermining and eroding it.18

Footnotes

1. Re Rajiv Menon KC; BBC on Filton sentencing & UK Lawfare, Jury Equity & Silencing the Defence: The High-Stakes Legal Battle in Re Rajiv Menon KC! Pt 2
2. UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action marks ‘dangerous’ move against right to protest, Amnesty UK.
3. Menon ruling & Guardian summary.
4. Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13.
5. HRW protest-rights report.
6. Filton sentencing coverage & Amnesty UK.
7. ECHR.
8. Nikula v Finland.
9. Fanon, Congress of Black African Writers (1959).
10. Fanon’s psycho-politics of decolonisation.
11. Caveat Emptor: What to Do When the UK State Labels Protest As Terrorism!.
12. Global South critique.
13. Global South commentary on Gaza and law.
14. ICJ provisional measures & ICC warrants note.
15. OHCHR on impunity; Counterfire & Cage International
16. Civil rights movement & Children of a Lesser God theme discussion.
17. HRW on protest rights.
18. Counterfire & Cage International.

ALSO SEE:

“Eradicate our roots!
Demolish our homes!
Criminalise our existence!
Falsify our origins!
Separate our loved ones!
And Slaughter our children!
Take our blood for granted!
And demonise our revolutionaries!
Steal our knowledge!
Keep our people oblivious!
And torture our spirits!
And denounce us our rights!
Colonise our countries!
And appoint our rulers!
Appropriate our goods!
And burn down our trees!

But who would you be without us?
But who would you be without us?
But who would you be without us?
But who would you be without us?

Bomb our roofs!
Make us out as liars!
And watch our pain!
And belittle our agony!
Ignore our tears!
And close our eyes!
Mutilate our faces!
And deny our feelings!
Destroy our dreams!
Objectify our bodies!
And darken our skies!
And kill our peace!
We will keep standing!
And our love stands in us!

But who would you be without us?
You would not be without us!
You will not be without us!“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFlJFXPNZU

@RAHU

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/24/book-review-squat-the-city/

#Overdale #Montreal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdale

#NoKings #Portland “tactical friviolity” Frog
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/22/trump-ice-portland-no-kings-protest

Rhythm Activism
https://www.nothingness.org/music/rhythm/en/html/bands/ra.html

#Art #BooksOfMastodon #directaction #housingcrisis #landlords #rent #Squatting

UK Lawfare, Jury Equity & Silencing the Defence: The High-Stakes Legal Battle in Re Rajiv Menon KC! Pt 2

On 22 June 2026, Mr Justice Johnson delivered a judgment that fundamentally redefines the boundaries of legal advocacy in the UK. [1], [2] The case against Rajiv Menon KC, a veteran human rights advocate, stems from his closing speech in the “Filton Six” trial, where activists were charged with damaging an Elbit Systems facility to prevent what they termed “genocide in Gaza.” [3] This ruling is not just a procedural update; it is a blueprint for how the State intends to manage “protest” cases by restricting what can be said within the four walls of a courtroom. [4], [5]

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Critically Evaluating the Judgment

This judgment addresses whether an advocate can be held in criminal contempt for a speech that allegedly invited “jury equity” in defiance of judicial gags. We have identified three core pillars of this ruling that every student of law and civil liberty should understand:

1. The Jurisdictional Journey

A significant procedural lacuna addressed in this case is the authority of the court to initiate contempt proceedings months after a trial concludes. [6] After Menon KC’s speech in January 2026, the trial judge initially referred the matter to the Administrative Court, which attempted to launch proceedings of its own motion. [7], [8] However, the Court of Appeal intervened, ruling that the Administrative Court lacked jurisdiction over Crown Court contempt matters. [9] Consequently, the case returned to Mr Justice Johnson, who ruled that “summary jurisdiction”—the power of a judge to act as both prosecutor and judge—remains valid post-trial if acting earlier would have “derailed” the original criminal proceedings. [10], [6], [11]

2. The Legal Standard for Contempt (Mens Rea)

The defense argued that contempt requires a “specific intent” to impede justice. [12] However, the court rejected this, applying the standard from Solicitor General v Cox: it is sufficient if the acts were deliberate and in breach of an order the advocate was aware of. [13], [14] For an experienced King’s Counsel, the court held it is a “natural inference” that they intended the words spoken and knew they contravened the court’s rulings. [15] This effectively lowers the bar for prosecuting advocates, as “good intentions” or “zealous advocacy” are no longer a valid shield against contempt charges if a judicial order is breached. [16], [17]

3. The Conflict Over Jury Equity

The heart of the alleged contempt lies in Menon KC’s reference to the Old Bailey plaque and the 1670 Bushell’s Case, which established the independence of the jury. [18], [19] The court drew a sharp distinction: while juries have the historical power to acquit according to their conscience, advocates are strictly forbidden from inviting them to do so or even informing them of this power if the judge has ruled otherwise. [20], [21] The judgment characterizes such references not as historical education, but as a “wilful defiance” of the court’s authority. [22], [23]

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Summary for Activists

For the “truthaholic” community and direct-action movements, this judgment establishes a “New Normal” for courtroom activism:

• The “Genocide” Gag is Absolute: 
  The court reaffirmed that damaging property to prevent alleged genocide in Gaza is not a valid defence in English law. [3] Judges have the power to issue orders preventing any mention of the Middle East or the personal motivations of defendants. [4], [24]
  .
• Jury Equity is Off-Limits: 
  You and your lawyers are legally barred from telling the jury they have a right to acquit based on their conscience. [20], [25] Quoting the Old Bailey’s own history to a jury can now be treated as a criminal act. [18], [21]
  .
• The “Corporate Protection” Trap: 
  Suggesting the court is “protecting” corporations like Elbit Systems—or noting that corporate executives are “wined and dined” while activists are locked up—is considered an attack on judicial impartiality and can trigger contempt proceedings. [26], [27], [28]
  .
• Judicial Directions vs. Jury Independence: 
  While a judge cannot technically order a jury to convict, they can withdraw every possible defense, effectively leaving a “Route to Verdict” with only one exit. [29], [30], [31]
  .
• Delayed Jeopardy: 
  Do not assume an advocate is safe if the judge doesn’t act immediately. The court can wait until sentencing is complete to launch contempt proceedings to ensure the trial is not “derailed.” [32], [11]
  .
• Standing of the Crown: 
  The court ruled that the prosecution (the Crown) has the legal standing to demand contempt proceedings against defence lawyers, even though they are a party to the original case. [33], [34]
  .
• Future Trials: 
  The court explicitly stated that these proceedings are necessary to prevent similar “protest” tactics in upcoming trials scheduled through 2027. [35], [36]
  

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Numbered Footnotes:
directly referencing Judgment paragraphs

[1] Approved Judgment, Re Rajiv Menon KC (22 June 2026), Header. 
[2] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [1]. 
[3] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [2]. 
[4] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [3(2)-(4)]. 
[29] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [3(7)]. 
[20] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [3(8)-(10)]. 
[22] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(1)-(2)]. 
[18] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(1)]. 
[25] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(3)]. 
[21] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(1), 10]. 
[37] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(6)]. 
[38] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(6)]. 
[26] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [4(7)]. 
[7] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [29]. 
[8] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [29]. 
[9] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [29]. 
[27] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [27]. 
[39] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [22]. 
[33] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [18]. 
[34] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [25]. 
[10] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [40]. 
[16] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [41]. 
[23] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [7]. 
[12] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [39]. 
[13] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [42]. 
[14] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [42]. 
[17] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [42]. 
[15] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [33]. 
[43] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [44]. 
[6] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [45]. 
[32] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [45]. 
[35] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [46]. 
[5] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [46]. 
[36] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [47]. 
[11] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at [48]. 
[30] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at Appendix 1, lines 180-185. 
[31] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at Appendix 1, lines 212-221. 
[49] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at Appendix 1, lines 246-250. 
[19] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at Appendix 1, lines 271-280. 
[28] Re Rajiv Menon KC (2026) at Appendix 2, Part 7.

ALSO SEE:
relevant background

https://youtu.be/YoW7JAXDRWk

📰 Ayotzinapa and Palestine bleed on the same map

https://itsgoingdown.org/ayotzinapa-and-palestine-bleed-on-the-same-map/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

📰 Final Straw: The Implications of the State’s War on Speech and Protest

https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-the-implications-of-the-states-war-on-speech-and-protest/

#Anarchism #DirectAction #Antifascism

Nanny State: Joshua Rosenberg on the UK Palestine Action ban and the politics of criminalising dissent!

Joshua Rosenberg’s attack on Palestine Action, published yesterday in the Law Society Gazette, gets one thing badly wrong from the start: it treats the state’s label as if it were the law itself. If the UK government calls disruptive protest “terrorism,” that does not make it so. The real legal question is whether the conduct fits the statute, whether the response is proportionate, and whether terrorism law is being stretched to protect political power rather than the public.¹

The label is not the law

Rosenberg’s article relies on a simple but powerful move: call the group dangerous, then present the ban as self-justifying. That is not legal analysis. It is a conclusion dressed up as common sense.

The state already has ordinary criminal offences for damage, trespass, obstruction, and conspiracy. What needs justification is the leap from protest-related wrongdoing to terrorism law.²

Gaza is the moral centre

The Gaza context is not background noise. It is the reason many people feel so strongly about these protests.

The International Court of Justice has indicated provisional measures in the genocide case and later reaffirmed them. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on allegations including starvation as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity.³ UN experts have also warned that arms transfers to Israel that may be used in Gaza are likely to violate international humanitarian law and should stop immediately.⁴

That does not mean UK law currently permits criminal damage as a defence. It does not. But, it does mean the law should be honest about the moral urgency behind the protest instead of flattening it into vandalism.⁵

Direct action has a democratic pedigree

Rosenberg’s article also misses a basic historical truth: direct action has always played a major role in democratic reform. The abolition of slavery did not happen because people politely waited. The suffragettes did not win votes by being “reasonable” in the narrow, state-approved sense. Trade union and civil-rights movements, too, relied on pressure, disruption, and refusal.⁶

The same is true of the campaign to isolate apartheid South Africa, where boycotts, divestment, and sanctions helped force a political reckoning. That history matters because it shows that disruptive action is not automatically anti-democratic. Sometimes it is the route by which democracy forces power to listen.⁷ The idea that protest is only acceptable when it does not disrupt anything is not a principle of freedom; it is a principle of managed dissent.⁸

The double standard

The argument, developed in earlier Truthaholics posts, is that the UK state increasingly punishes anti-war dissent while shielding power-aligned interests.⁹ That concern becomes sharper when compared with the way climate protest and Just Stop Oil are usually charged under ordinary offences like criminal damage or obstruction, while anti-war direct action is pushed toward the language of extremism and terror.¹⁰

That is not consistency. It is selective severity.

HRA 1998 and ECHR rights

The Human Rights Act 1998 brings Convention rights into domestic law, especially Articles 10 and 11 on expression and peaceful assembly.¹¹ Those rights are qualified, so proportionality matters. In protest cases, courts have sometimes had to ask whether conviction is a justified interference with those rights.¹²

But this is where the current doctrine is uneven. After DPP v Ziegler, Article 10 and 11 analysis matters in some protest settings, especially where the offence itself turns on obstruction and the interference is non-violent.¹³ By contrast, the Court of Appeal’s 2024 criminal-damage ruling sharply narrows the room for using beliefs, urgency, or moral importance as a lawful excuse.¹⁴

That creates a real tension. The law recognises that disruptive protest can still fall within Convention protection, but it often refuses to let that protection do any serious work where criminal damage is concerned. A serious legal system should at least admit that this is a narrowing choice, not a neutral inevitability.¹⁵

What should change

A better legal approach would not create a blanket excuse for criminal damage. It would simply stop the state from using terrorism law where ordinary criminal law is enough. It would also force the system to distinguish properly between vandalism, civil disobedience, and genuine terrorism.¹⁶

That is the real issue Rosenberg’s article avoids. It assumes the conclusion it wants to prove: that state suppression equals public safety. But the legal and moral picture is more complicated than that.

Bottom line

If the law is to remain credible, it must be able to distinguish between protest, criminal damage, and terror. Rosenberg’s article blurs those lines. The law should not.

If the law is to retain any credibility, it must stop confusing protest with terror and inconvenience with danger. Palestine Action may be controversial and unlawful, but that is not the same as terrorism. The real scandal is not that people are protesting Gaza too loudly; it is that the state is reaching for the most draconian label available to protect itself from accountability. That is not the rule of law. It is the rule of power.

When a state calls dissent “terrorism” to protect its own complicity, the problem is no longer the protest movement — it is the political system itself.

Footnotes

1. Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023; Terrorism Act 2000, s 1.
2. Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023; Criminal Damage Act 1971, ss 1 and 5.
3. ICJ, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v Israel), Provisional Measures Order (26 January 2024); ICC, Situation in the State of Palestine (21 November 2024).
4. OHCHR, ‘Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts’ (23 February 2024).
5. Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023; Criminal Damage Act 1971, s 5(2)(a).
6. Truthaholics, ‘An Exploration of Arguable Routes of Appeal against the Outrageous Filton Trial Sentences & Criminalisation of Direct Action as Terrorism!’ (13 June 2026).
7. Truthaholics, ‘Drawing the Line: Why the Palestine Action Case Matters for the Future of British Dissent & Direct Action!’ (15 June 2026).
8. Truthaholics, ‘Asymmetry of UK State Impunity: Great Israeli Real Estate Event & the Constitutional Case Against Palestine Action Proscription!’ (16 June 2026).
9. Truthaholics, ‘Asymmetry of UK State Impunity …’; Truthaholics, ‘Criminalising Direct Action? Why the UK Supreme Court Should Reverse the Court of Appeal!’ (15 June 2026).
10. The Guardian, ‘Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence’ (18 March 2024).
11. Human Rights Act 1998, ss 2–3, 6; European Convention on Human Rights, arts 10, 11.
12. DPP v Ziegler UKSC 23.
13. ibid.
14. Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023.
15. Human Rights Act 1998, s 3; DPP v Ziegler; Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023.
16. Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023; Terrorism Act 2000, s 1.
    

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