The BBC are Complicit in Government Crimes.
The BBC updated its article on Parliament Square arrests three times. Not once did it mention Gaza. Not once did it mention Israel.
Not once did it explain why people were protesting — only that they were arrested.
The placards said it plainly.
“I Oppose Genocide.”
“I Support Palestine Action.”
But the BBC turned it into a story about vandalism and terror — no context. No cause.
Instead, the state got to define the entire narrative: criminal damage, arrests, terror legislation.
No mention of the war. No mention of the victims.
A Deliberate Stand — and a Legal Test
This wasn’t chaos. It was coordination.
Around 25 people — including 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt and a human rights lawyer — were arrested for holding signs that read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
The protest wasn’t led by Palestine Action.
It was organised by a group called Defend Our Juries — and they made no attempt to hide it.
At exactly 12:01am on the day the government’s ban came into force, they published a letter addressed to the Met Police commissioner:
“We would like to alert you to the fact we may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act tomorrow, Saturday 5 July, in Parliament Square at about 1pm.”
They described the action as nonviolent, with no risk whatsoever of harm, and made clear this was a test case — a deliberate challenge to the law, and a question to the state:
“If we cannot speak freely about the genocide that is occurring, if we cannot condemn those who are complicit in it and express support for those who resist it, then the right to freedom of expression has no meaning — and democracy and human rights in this country are dead.”
Shortly after they began gathering by the Gandhi statue, police moved in.
Reverend Parfitt later told Novara Media:
“I know that we are in the right place doing the right thing.
As my friend Ruth always says, ‘we cannot be bystanders.’”
When an 83-year-old priest holding a cardboard sign is branded a terrorist, the problem isn’t her conscience — it’s the state’s.
This is the first time in UK history that a nonviolent protest group has been designated a terrorist organisation.
And the first people arrested under that law were pensioners and legal professionals holding placards in a public square.
Elbit: Named by the UN. Erased by the BBC.
Just weeks ago, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, released a report naming Elbit Systems — the very company Palestine Action targets — as a key profiteer of the war in Gaza.
Download Francesca Albanese’s United Nations full report
here.
Read my breakdown of the report
here.
The report states that Israel’s assault on Gaza may amount to a plausible genocide, and that countries arming it — including the UK — may be complicit.
Elbit Systems, it says, supplies up to 85% of Israel’s military drone fleet and produces artillery and surveillance tools used to bomb civilians.
And yet, the BBC’s coverage of Palestine Action never mentions that report.
Not once.
In a previous article, the only reference to Elbit was this:
“Elbit Systems denies this.”
No explanation. No UN quote. No Albanese.
Just a denial buried at the bottom — and a whole lot of silence up top.
By omitting the cause, the BBC isn’t just failing its audience — it’s helping ensure most of the public doesn’t even know a ban happened.
Selective Humanity™
On the very same day, the BBC aired a segment celebrating its sensitive coverage of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s emotional breakdown in Parliament.
Talk of dignity. Compassion. “Our duty to report with care.”
Where was that duty when 25 people were arrested for supporting human rights?
Where was that care when journalists omitted Gaza from a story about Gaza?
Where was the humanity when they erased the context of genocide to protect the comfort of a government press release?
Apparently, humanity is only extended to those crying inside Parliament — not those protesting what’s being done in their name.
This Isn’t Journalism. It’s Narrative Management.
When the media omits context, it enables repression.
When it refuses to name genocide, it launders the crimes of the state.
When it repeats police lines without challenge, it becomes part of the architecture of silence.
This isn’t new.
From Corbyn to COVID, from Gaza to Grenfell, the BBC has shown over and over whose side it’s on.
Not truth.
Not justice.
But power.
If Enough of Us Stand, This Law Will Fall
This weekend’s protest wasn’t an accident.
It was a moral stand taken in full daylight, with full intent — by people willing to be arrested to prove how absurd this law has become.
And if enough of us do the same — stand up, speak out, refuse to comply —
This government will lose control of the narrative.
And this law will become unenforceable.
Because history doesn’t remember the cowards who stayed quiet.
It remembers the ones who said: We cannot be bystanders.
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