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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Palestine Action supporters to defy threat of mass arrests
The UK is bracing for a weekend of protest anarchy with both Palestine Action supporters and anti-migrant demonstrators set to take to the streets. More than 500 people are expected gather outside Parliament at 1pm tomorrow in support of Palestine Action, defying warnings they will be charged with terror offences. Membership of, or support for, the proscribed group is now a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Meanwhile, police up and down the country are also preparing for a series of anti-migrant protests outside hotels and council offices. There is particular concern about a protest planned in Nuneaton which comes amid claims Warwickshire Police held back information over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl. Restrictions have also been put in place by police in at least 12 towns and cities, including Norwich, on Friday evening. It comes after anti-racism activists clashed with police and anti-migrant protesters outside a hotel last Saturday where asylum seekers are being housed. Last night, Scotland Yard issued a stark warning to people planning to attend the Palestine Action protest, saying they may never be able to visit the US or work in education if they do. Regardless, the group behind the protest Defend Our Juries, has continued to post on its X account, saying counter-terror police had 'irresponsibly taken down their briefing call'. It claimed last night, however, that 'many hundreds' of people had attended the meeting on another Zoom link. The group has said that those taking part in Saturday's protest will hold 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' signs as part of a campaign to end the group's proscription. Defend Our Juries co-founder Tim Crosland previously praised the people who support Palestine action as the 'moral backbone of this country'. Mr Crosland added in an online press conference he had been 'hearing from thousands of people wanting to take part in this action'. 'It feels like there's huge energy behind it,' he said. Meanwhile on Thursday, three people were charged with terror offences for allegedly 'showing support for Palestine Action at a protest'. Jeremy Shippam, 71, Judit Murray, 71, and Fiona Maclean, 53, were arrested following a protest in Parliament Square last Saturday. They will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on September 16, the Metropolitan Police said. The planned demonstration tomorrow has since fuelled fears of a 'mass arrest' event. And today, commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command, sent a clear warning to anyone thinking of joining the rally. He said according to The Telegraph: 'Anyone who displays public support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, is committing an offence under the Terrorism Act and can expect to be arrested and, as these charges show, will be investigated to the full extent of the law.' 'I would strongly advise anyone planning to come to London this weekend to show support for Palestine Action to think about the potential criminal consequences of their actions.' It comes after Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan last night called on people to consider the consequences of being arrested under the terrorism act. He said such a detention can have 'very real long-term implications – from travel, to employment, to finances'. Last week, Palestine Action won permission to challenge the ban after the High Court ruled it had an arguable case. A judicial review will take place in November. Until then, the ban remains in place. There have already been 200 arrests at protests organised by Defend Our Juries since the ban came into force last month. Days out from the planned protest, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy also sought to head off potentially chaotic scenes in the capital. She urged the public to steer clear of support for a 'proscribed terror organisation that wishes harm on the British people'. Speaking to Times Radio, Ms Nandy was asked if those who attend Saturday's protest will be arrested and charged with terror offences. The Culture Secretary stressed this would be 'an operational matter for the police', adding: 'It wouldn't be right for us to say, to try and dictate to them how they police any march. 'But what I would say is, I think some of the reporting around this is conflating legitimate protests. 'Just last week I was coming out of Parliament, there were lots of pro-Palestinian protesters there, peacefully demonstrating. 'At the heart of power, that's absolutely right and proper and important for them to do... I commend them for that. 'There's a difference between that and supporting a proscribed terror organisation that wishes harm on the British people. 'And I would just urge people to stay away from those sorts of events and to exercise their democratic rights in a peaceful and legitimate way.'
ABC News
04-08-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Europe has fallen
VOICEOVER: It is anarchy in parts of Spain, France and the UK right now as migrant gangs from Northern Africa and the Middle East violently tried to take over and intimidate innocent people … - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Hullo, welcome to Media Watch, I'm Linton Besser. And tonight, we cross to a continent of white people under siege by black people and by brown people tearing at the very fabric of society with all manner of deadly weapons. EUROPE HAS FALLEN Anarchy in Europe as North African and Middle Eastern gangs senselessly terrorise innocent victims - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 That's the headline on a Sky News report published to YouTube last month which sounded the alarm on a migrant crime wave engulfing Europe, including in Spain where: VOICEOVER: … a man with a baby was callously threatened by a knife wielding gang for simply walking down the street. - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 In the Catalonian capital meanwhile, the horrors continued: VOICEOVER: … the cobblestone laneways are no longer filled with people enjoying their vacations, but with hundreds of Muslim men chanting. - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Better cancel your trip to France too, because over there it's even worse: VOICEOVER: France is also in a migration mess with violence running rampant in the streets, like at the Fête de la Musique last month, where hundreds of young people were stabbed with syringes … - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Hundreds stabbed with syringes? And Sky News selected a very authoritative expert to point out all the black people: VOICEOVER: Online commentators were in shock with the footage, with this person saying 'This is France?! This looks like Ghana, not France.' - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 This exquisitely nuanced piece garnered almost 40,000 comments, many of which were just as erudite, linking the video's many crimes not just with our well-known Jewish overlords but also to the 'great replacement' theory which motivated the 2019 Christchurch massacre. Although, scattered through the vitriol, a handful of Sky's audience had a somewhat different analysis: the biggest race baiting video I've seen so far on these YouTube streets lol - Sky News Australia, YouTube comment, @RenzelYoung, 27 July 2025 Which was a bit like stepping back out of the looking glass because this video has to be one of the most appalling and incendiary things I've seen in journalism for a very long time which, it should also be said, was also wildly wrong from the very first frame. This is not police beating back a violent migrant gang, but police beating back a violent mob of far-right vigilantes. And this video of a man threatened by a knife was in fact filmed in 2023, with no evidence the group was a 'migrant gang'. Likewise this video, rather than a migrant 'take over' of Barcelona, it captures Ashura, an annual day of commemoration for the Islamic faith. And on it goes. The mass syringe attack was in fact a mass panic triggered by a social media hoax with not a single confirmed case, and many of the reports of syringe stabbings in several locations quickly attributed not to migrants but mosquitos. Oh, and this vision is not a migrant takeover either, as dramatic as it might look, but the aftermath of the UEFA Champions League final in which fans clashed with each other and with les flics. As for this appalling internet comment, was it taken from a witness at the scene or an expert in migrant crime? Don't be silly, it's just a mean, deliberately racist remark from some far-right American keyboard warrior. And is Spain, to take one of Sky News' case studies, actually grappling with a surge of migrant-driven crime? Not even close. Whatever angst migration might be causing in the country, Spain's Interior Minister explained last month that: "Crime is not on the rise, nor is it linked to migration," … Despite a 54% rise in foreign residents between 2011 and 2024, crime has dropped seven percentage points, with hate crimes down 13.8% last year and Spain among the world's 25 safest nations … (Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska) - Reuters, 17 July 2025 And who is the journalist behind this call to arms? Her name is Carla Efstratiou, who has a very busy social media feed full of charming observations such as when she took a stroll through a pro-Palestinian student protest: CARLA EFSTRATIOU: … I swear it smells here, there is a definite stench … I feel like I'm getting rabies just being here … - Go Woke Go Broke, TikTok, 6 May 2024 And why has she been given license to produce this delightful contribution to human advancement? Read the numbers, baby. 3.6 million views. Kerrr-ching. In fact, Carla's contribution to the Sky News catalogue has attracted oh, just a few eyeballs. 7.6 million to be precise, just for this little selection, uploaded in the past few months. But, late on Friday, after receiving our questions, Sky News deleted Carla's nine-minute 'Anarchy in Europe' magnum opus, posting not a 'correction' of course but a 'clarification'. Carla declined to offer us a comment and Sky News would not answer questions about whether its journalist had been provided any guidance, support or editorial direction in the preparation of her package. A spokesperson told us: Sky News Australia rejects the characterisation of the online video by Media Watch but acknowledges that several elements lacked appropriate editorial context. - Email, Sky News Australia Spokesperson, 1 August 2025 Because that's all that was missing, just the context. And what was the video's headline again? Ah yes, 'Europe Has Fallen'. No it hasn't, Carla and co. What has fallen however, what has plummeted through the floor in this piece of drivel, is any sense of responsibility and the public interest.
New York Times
22-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Quote of the Day: Aid Disarray Rends Gaza
'After 22 months of war, it's anarchy in Gaza. And without addressing the core issue of what should happen next in Gaza, there won't be a solution.' SHIRA EFRON, from the research group Israel Policy Forum, on how recently deadly shootings highlight the risks of distributing aid.
The Guardian
30-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
‘Post-apocalyptic': medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza
For the beleaguered staff of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, one new casualty brought into the emergency department last week posed a particular challenge. He had been wounded moments earlier in the southern Gaza city while fighting in a battle between rival armed gangs over hundreds of valuable sacks of flours stripped from aid convoys and, within an hour of his arrival, men with assault rifles had invaded the hospital. They roughed up medical staff, smashed equipment and set fire to vehicles. Other armed men soon arrived and automatic gunfire reverberated around the sprawling hospital compound, already battered by successive Israeli strikes close by or on its buildings. There was worse to come. Soon, another force joined the shooting, dispatched by the interior ministry in Gaza, long a bastion of Hamas, to restore order. There was now a new gun battle, which ended only when the opposing gunmen from the two duelling gangs fled. Overhead, throughout the fighting, Israeli drones flew by. The incident, described to the Guardian by medical staff and local residents, was a microcosm of the new violence and anarchy in Gaza after almost 21 months of war. 'You have [these] gangs fighting and the Israeli airstrikes or troops shooting people, and Hamas still there, while there are miles and miles of ruins where desperate people are cooking on fires and living in tents and very hungry,' one humanitarian official said. 'It's like some kind of post-apocalyptic sci-fi film.' The war in Gaza was triggered by a surprise attack launched by Hamas militants into southern Israel in October 2023, which led to the killing of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the abducton of 251, 50 of whom remain in the territory. So far, the Israeli offensive has killed more than 56,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, displaced most of the 2.3 million population and reduced much of Gaza to rubble. In recent months, more armed actors have joined the fighting, and a fierce struggle for power and influence has intensified even as the Israeli offensive continues. These now include various other militant factions, a dozen armed militias representing major local families or clans, new coalitions organised by independent community leaders, and criminal gangs empowered by the deepening anarchy. The result is that Gaza is fragmenting into individual fiefdoms. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) holds much of the territory, including a wide 'buffer zone' cleared of buildings along the territory's perimeter and a swath of the south along the border with Egypt, where it works closely with the Popular Forces, a new militia run by a former convict and smuggler called Yasser Abu Shabab. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has confirmed that Israel provides weapons to clans that oppose Hamas. Abu Shabab, who denies getting support from Israel or contacts with the Israeli army, also controls territory along Gaza's eastern perimeter near the main entry point from Israel – though the militia's influence there is contested by several armed local families. The chaos has encouraged other traditionally important families and clans to assert their control over much of the rest of south and central Gaza. In the north, Hamas remains a force in Gaza City and the shattered neighbourhoods of Jabaliya and Shujaiya. Though the Islamist militant organisation's military capabilities are now much reduced and most of its veteran leaders have been killed by Israel, many civilian technocrats remain in their posts in key ministries, and other officials, operating secretly, run neighbourhood administrations. 'They're hiding because they are being instantly hit by [Israeli] planes but they appear here and there, organising queues in front of bakeries, protecting aid trucks, or punishing criminals,' said a 57-year-old construction worker in Gaza City. 'They're not like before the war, but they exist.' Hamas and its paramilitary police forces have clashed with criminal gangs too – as shown by the firefight at Nasser hospital. 'All the people in Khan Younis are blaming [the fighters] for spoiling the hospital and have asked them to apologise,' said a senior medical official at the hospital. The police have also been repeatedly targeted by the IDF. Several members of the Sahm force, set up by Hamas to crack down on looters, profiteers and thieves, were killed last week in an Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah, a central town, which also killed about a dozen civilians. The IDF denied reports from witnesses that the police were distributing aid seized from looters when attacked. Stocks of aid built up during the two-month ceasefire early this year ran out during the subsequent 11 weeks when Israel allowed nothing into Gaza. 'The shortage is completely artificial and it means [aid] is the most valuable commodity now, so basically if you've got guns and you can get aid, you can use it to get money and power, and so that's causing a lot of the violence,' said one aid official, pointing out that a single 25kg sack of flour can sell for up to $500. Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion Community leaders and heads of powerful families in Gaza say their aims are simply to serve the population. 'The clans came … to form a stance to prevent the aggressors and the thieves from stealing the food that belongs to our people,' said Abu Salman Al Moghani, a community leader, after gunmen from the Supreme Tribal Committee in Gaza guarded one aid convoy that entered last week. In recent weeks, the UN and other agencies have been allowed to bring in about 70 trucks a day. Most carry flour for Gaza's community kitchens but they are usually stopped by barricades made of concrete blocks and then stripped of their cargoes, sometimes by armed gangs but most often by desperate civilians who gather in massive numbers at points the convoys are expected to pass. 'The scenes are appalling. You have 50 trucks, spread over two kilometres, and there are 50,000 on the road trying to get the flour,' said another aid official in Gaza. Many civilians have been killed as they tried to reach food distribution hubs opened last month by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed private organisation. The GHF said on Sunday that it had safely delivered more than 51m meals despite 'a highly volatile environment'. Statistics from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirm ministry of health counts of more than 500 deaths from live fire on those seeking aid by Israeli forces in recent weeks, as well as a small number in clashes between looters. A report by Haaretz last week quoted multiple Israeli soldiers describing orders to fire at civilians. The report revealed the IDF had launched an investigation into potential war crimes. An officer quoted in the report told the newspaper about the growing chaos in Gaza. 'I'm stationed there, and even I no longer know who's shooting at whom,' he said. Reuters contributed to this report
The Guardian
29-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
‘Post-apocalyptic': medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza
For the beleaguered staff of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, one new casualty brought into the emergency department last week posed a particular challenge. He had been wounded moments earlier in the southern Gaza city while fighting in a battle between rival armed gangs over hundreds of valuable sacks of flours stripped from aid convoys and, within an hour of his arrival, men with assault rifles had invaded the hospital. They roughed up medical staff, smashed equipment and set fire to vehicles. Other armed men soon arrived and automatic gunfire reverberated around the sprawling hospital compound, already battered bysuccessive Israeli strikes close by or on its buildings. There was worse to come. Soon another force joined the shooting, dispatched by the interior ministry in Gaza, long a bastion of Hamas, to restore order. There was now a new gun battle, which only ended when the opposing gunmen from the two duelling gangs fled. Overhead, throughout the fighting, Israeli drones flew by. The incident, described to the Guardian by medical staff and local residents, was a microcosm of the new violence and anarchy in Gaza after almost 21 months of war. 'You have [these] gangs fighting and the Israeli airstrikes or troops shooting people, and Hamas still there, while there are miles and miles of ruins where desperate people are cooking on fires and living in tents and very hungry,' one humanitarian official said. 'It's like some kind of post-apocalyptic sci-fi film.' The war in Gaza was triggered by a surprise attack launched by Hamas militants into southern Israel in October 2023, which led to the killing of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the abducton of 251, 50 of whom remain in the territory. So far, the Israeli offensive has killed more than 56,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, displaced most of the 2.3 million population and reduced much of Gaza to rubble. In recent months, more armed actors have joined the fighting, and a fierce struggle for power and influence has intensified even as the Israeli offensive continues. These now include various other militant factions, a dozen armed militias representing major local families or clans, new coalitions organised by independent community leaders, and criminal gangs empowered by the deepening anarchy. The result is that Gaza is fragmenting into individual fiefdoms. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) holds much of the territory, including a wide 'buffer zone' cleared of buildings along the territory's perimeter and a swath of the south along the border with Egypt, where it works closely with the Popular Forces, a new militia run by a former convict and smuggler called Yasser Abu Shabab. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has confirmed that Israel provides weapons to clans that oppose Hamas. Abu Shabab, who denies getting support from Israel or contacts with the Israeli army, also controls territory along Gaza's eastern perimeter near the main entry point from Israel – though the militia's influence there is contested by several armed local families. The chaos has encouraged other traditionally important families and clans to assert their control over much of the rest of south and central Gaza. In the north, Hamas remains a force in Gaza City and the shattered neighbourhoods of Jabaliya and Shujaiya. Though the Islamist militant organisation's military capabilities are now much reduced and most of its veteran leaders have been killed by Israel, many civilian technocrats remain in their posts in key ministries, and other officials, operating secretly, run neighbourhood administrations. 'They're hiding because they are being instantly hit by [Israeli] planes but they appear here and there, organising queues in front of bakeries, protecting aid trucks, or punishing criminals,' said a 57-year-old construction worker in Gaza City. 'They're not like before the war, but they exist.' Hamas and its paramilitary police forces have clashed with criminal gangs too – as shown by the firefight at Nasser hospital. 'All the people in Khan Younis are blaming [the fighters] for spoiling the hospital and have asked them to apologise,' said a senior medical official at the hospital. The police have also been repeatedly targeted by the IDF. Several members of the Sahm force, set up by Hamas to crack down on looters, profiteers and thieves, were killed last week in an Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah, a central town, which also killed about a dozen civilians. The IDF denied reports from witnesses that the police were distributing aid seized from looters when attacked. Stocks of aid built up during the two-month ceasefire early this year ran out during the subsequent 11 weeks when Israel allowed nothing into Gaza. 'The shortage is completely artificial and it means [aid] is the most valuable commodity now, so basically if you've got guns and you can get aid, you can use it to get money and power, and so that's causing a lot of the violence,' said one aid official, pointing out that a single 25kg sack of flour can sell for up to $500. Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion Community leaders and heads of powerful families in Gaza say their aims are simply to serve the population. 'The clans came … to form a stance to prevent the aggressors and the thieves from stealing the food that belongs to our people,' Abu Salman Al Moghani, a community leader, said, after gunmen from the Supreme Tribal Committee in Gaza guarded one aid convoy that entered last week. In recent weeks, the UN and other agencies have been allowed to bring in about 70 trucks a day. Most carry flour for Gaza's community kitchens but are usually stopped by barricades made of concrete blocks and then stripped of their cargoes, sometimes by armed gangs but most often by desperate civilians who gather in massive numbers at points the convoys are expected to pass. 'The scenes are appalling. You have 50 trucks, spread over two kilometres, and there are 50,000 on the road trying to get the flour,' said another aid official in Gaza. Many civilians are killed as they try to reach aid distribution hubs, opened last month by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed private organisation. The GHF said on Sunday that it has safely delivered more than 51m meals despite 'a highly volatile environment'. Statistics from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirm ministry of health counts of more than 500 deaths from live fire on those seeking aid by Israeli forces in recent weeks, as well as a small number in clashes between looters. A report by Haaretz last week quoted multiple Israeli soldiers describing orders to fire at civilians. The report revealed the IDF has launched an investigation into potential war crimes. An officer quoted in the report told the newspaper about the growing chaos in Gaza. 'I'm stationed there, and even I no longer know who's shooting at whom,' he said. Reuters contributed to this report
