It Never Was
Today, Defend Our Juries held coordinated protests in London, Manchester, Cardiff, and Belfast. The message was simple: “I oppose Genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
For that alone, people are being arrested. Not for breaking windows. Not for occupying factories. Not even for organising actions. Just for saying they support a disbanded group.
So far, 111 people have been arrested under the UK’s new counter-terrorism law. After today, that number will multiply by at least a factor of two. Their crime? Speech. Thought. Solidarity.
But here’s the thing:
So far, not one of them has been charged with a terrorism-related offence.
Because this isn’t about terrorism. It never was.
It’s about fear — not ours, but theirs.
They’re afraid of Palestine Action. Afraid of what it exposed. Afraid of how many ordinary people quietly agreed with it.
So they’re trying to scare you. Intimidate you. Arrest you pre-emptively so you never think of joining in.
But arrests aren’t convictions. And intimidation doesn’t scale.
If next week it’s not a few dozen people in a few cities, but a few thousand up and down the country — what then? How do you arrest a movement when the whole movement shows up at once?
They want silence. They want obedience. They want compliance through confusion and fear.
But people are seeing it now. And some of us will not be quiet.
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