The thing I do love about Huff’s posts is doing a deep dive and discovering there is way more than meets the eye.
So outrage over peaceful protesters getting arrested, simple enough.
End of story, right?
Nope.
You discover their whole goal was to get arrested.
News from the day before the event. August 8.
This Saturday, August 9th, Palestine Action campaigners will once again be on the streets trying to provoke the police to arrest them.
Since July 5th, when the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action came into effect, activists around the country have been provoking their own arrests by publicly declaring support for the now illegal organisation.
Under a campaign called
Lift the Ban, organisers publicise their plans in advance to ensure the police are forced to turn up. This Saturday, August 9th, will see their largest ever activity, with the campaign aiming to attract over 500 people to come and break the law. (They claim they now have over 1000 signed up.)
The Metropolitan Police say they are equally determined and will not back down. Indeed they are already preparing to ensure they have sufficient space to meet the demand.
The Myth of the 'Greater Crime'
The implication of coupling support for Palestine Action with opposition to genocide is as sophisticated as it is dangerous. They accuse Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza and then demand not only that this should excuse their own crimes, but that anyone who doesn't agree with them is trying to 'silence' any dissent around the war.
This deceit of the genocide lie is rapidly gaining the status of common sense, yet the proof of this 'greater crime' is sorely lacking. The claims of so-called humanitarian campaign groups and 'leading genocide scholars' are little more than circular repetitions of each other, in turn repeating Hamas casualty figures.
Yet the one thing that no-one repeats is that Israel is at war with an Islamist death cult—one that has woven military infrastructure into civic life, creating hundreds of miles of tunnels underneath hospitals, schools and mosques. It's only possible to claim there is a genocide if Hamas is written from the story—something every genocide-claiming article or report you read seems more than happy to do.
The 'genocide lie' is the most significant myth around Israel's war against Hamas, since it is used to justify everything from anti-Semitic attacks on the street, to murderous chants by Kneecap and Bob Vylan, to Palestine Solidarity Campaign marches, boycotts by the Royal Opera House, cancelation of Edinburgh Fringe comedians, and of course, Palestine Action activists pouring paint into aircraft engines.
The organization that the two girls are with “Youth Demand” is a radical, pro-Palestinian group.
Here a “youth demand” member was on a show.