How the State Steals the Legacy of Resistance.
1. The Mandela Quote on a Drone Factory Wall
At Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer — and the company Palestine Action has targeted more than any other in Britain — there’s a quote on the wall from Nelson Mandela:
“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.”
This is the same Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for 27 years, labelled a terrorist by both the UK and US, and only removed from America’s terrorism watchlist in 2008. He was the figurehead of a movement that burned buildings, bombed infrastructure, and launched an armed struggle against apartheid.
And now his words decorate the headquarters of a company exporting apartheid by airstrike.
It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s state gaslighting in historical font.
It’s like the FBI celebrating Martin Luther King Day every year.
2. Martin Luther King: Murdered, Then Marketed
Every year, the FBI posts a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on social media. The same FBI that wiretapped him, blackmailed him, and actively tried to destroy his life.
They labelled him a threat. A radical. A destabiliser. Not for preaching violence, but for naming injustice.
“The most dangerous man in America.” — FBI memo, 1960s
The US government didn’t love MLK. It feared him. Just like it feared Malcolm X. Just like it feared Fred Hampton, before drugging him and filling his bedroom with bullets.
Now? King’s face is on stamps. His quotes are stapled to classroom walls — stripped of context, neutered of urgency, transformed from threat to brand.
3. The Suffragettes Threw Bombs
Let’s stop pretending.
The suffragettes didn’t just hold signs and shout slogans. They:
- Bombed churches
- Burned down postboxes and homes
- Sabotaged train stations and communication lines
- Attacked MPs and disrupted Parliament
This was targeted sabotage, arson, and civil disobedience — exactly the kind of action now labelled “extremism” by the very institutions that claim to honour their legacy.
And yet they were never proscribed. Never officially deemed a terror group.
Now in 2025, we’ve got Labour MPs dressing in suffragette white while criminalising Palestine Action — a group whose greatest sin is painting buildings red and exposing complicity in genocide.
If the suffragettes lived today, they’d be facing 14 years in prison under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
If Yvette Cooper lived back then, she’d be banning them.
4. The Pattern
Here’s how it works:
- Condemn them while they’re alive.
- Silence them if you can.
- Wait until they’re no longer a threat.
- Quote them in the lobby of a weapons company.
History doesn’t repeat. It rebrands.
5. Palestine Action: The Ones Being Erased in Real Time
They’ve been arrested, raided, jailed. Some have gone on hunger strike. One young woman — kind, soft-spoken, wouldn’t hurt a hair on anyone’s head — was sent to prison for what? For trying to stop bombs being dropped on children? For refusing to be silent?
I don’t even know how she’s doing now. But I’ll never forget her.
I’ve met some of them. I’ve stood in the same rooms, watched them speak — and I didn’t care who the famous guests were. Roger Waters could’ve been levitating in the corner. The only person I wanted to shake hands with was the guy from Palestine Action who stood up and told the truth.
He looked me in the eye and said, “This goes against my religion. But I have to do it — for my children.”
These people are not terrorists. They’re ordinary people. Mothers. Fathers. Brothers. Daughters. People who know when injustice is happening — and choose to act.
They come from every walk of life. And they are doing everything they can to oppose the worst crimes of our generation.
For this, they’ve been declared terrorists.
6. Final Word
Mandela is on a drone factory wall.
MLK is on a government holiday calendar.
The suffragettes are on tea towels in Westminster.
And Palestine Action is in the courtroom — charged with terror for resisting genocide.
This isn’t justice. It’s marketing.
And if that makes me an extremist — so be it.
This is a moral stance. This far — no fucking further.
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