Injured activist ‘Jerboa’ arrested and women say they were assaulted by police, but police do nothing as Israel supporter walks among anti-racist demonstrators and puts camera in their faces
A 22yo man aggressively arrested by police has posted a video of his arrest and the events around it – and has accused the Met of injuring his already-broken foot and assaulting elderly women, while doing nothing to an Israel supporter accused by protesters of walking among them and pushing a camera up to the faces of demonstrators:
Yael Kahn, a Jewish Israeli anti-genocide campaigner who featured earlier this year in a film titled ‘Not in my name’, said that she was ‘physically attacked’ by police as officers ‘swarmed among us like fascists’:
Kahn also accused them of colluding with an ‘agent-provocateur’, an apparent reference to a man photographed as he walked among the crowd putting a camera very close to the faces of a protester:
In a tweet accompanying his video the arrested activist, who goes by the name ‘Jerboa’, said:
The @metpoliceuk violently arrested me after allowing a Zionist instigator to cross our picket line so that he could cause a disturbance and make false allegations. I was happy to speak to the police and give details, but they opted to throw me to the ground instead…
In a separate statement after his eventual release, he said:
On Friday the 1st of November, at IJAN’s weekly picket in Swiss Cottage, I was arrested and
charged with an alleged assault. The allegation came from a Zionist instigator that police watched on as he barged about amongst us, using foul language at people, filming and intimidating them.This comes at a time when there has been an intense online doxxing campaign, and people have
a heightened sense of anxiety around their safety.Assistance from the police was requested on at least two occasions and yet curiously they
appeared totally disinterested in diffusing an escalating situation. Roughly half a dozen officers watched on from 2 or 3 meters away, all with their cameras switched off.The situation was diffused [sic], and then suddenly police took an interest. When officers approached me I began engaging with them and was willing to talk. Instead they opted to throw me on the ground, forgetting to read me my rights / caution me. During this moment police also assaulted several other members of the public, including multiple elderly women.
Police proceeded to stop and search me. Since I have a fractured foot currently I am wearing a
special boot which is very obvious. The officer searching me shoved his hand down the boot and
when I winced in pain and asked him what he was doing he replied ‘Well I didn’t know it was
broken did I’. My foot has been harder to walk on since my arrest and I am now thinking I need to
get another X-Ray.I was held for 20 hours in custody with no indication of when I would be interviewed. I was told I
had a right to speak to my solicitor at any time but when I tried to exercise this right they had
apparently forgotten to write her number on my record and despite multiple attempts on my
part I was not able to exercise this right.I also asked to speak to the Nurse about my mental health in the early hours of the morning after
a night of insomnia and anxiety/distress, however this did not materialise either.
The arrest came on the same night as Jewish Israeli professor Haim Bresheeth was arrested at the same protest outside the London residence of far-right Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely for a speech against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and forms part of the Starmer government’s escalating campaign of abusing anti-terror legislation to raid and arrest journalists and activists – many of them, like many anti-genocide protesters, Jewish – who expose Israel’s war crimes.
Israel has so far, since October last year, killed around 200,000 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians and mostly women and children. It has now also invaded Lebanon after using terrorist tactics to kill and maim thousands, including children. It continues to bomb civilians and target journalists in both Gaza and Lebanon, and UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, and is using starvation tactics against Gaza’s two million surviving people.
The Starmer government, which has refused to condemn Israel’s actions, has said it considers the use of the word ‘genocide’ unhelpful and Starmer himself said last week that he has never called Israel’s campaign a genocide. The International Court of Justice is investigating Israel for genocide and UN experts have confirmed that Israel is committing exactly that, along with a string of other war crimes.
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The authoritarian, dictatorial and anti-democratic approach the Starmer Junta has adopted in the LP for the past years is now being rolled out to the rest of the population.
Those who claimed or implied this would not be a problem and to hold our noses and vote for this fascist as the “only viable option” belong in the stocks.
You know who you are.
Starmer’s grip over the PLP that can be challenged.
We must target for defeat anybody who sought to replace a candidate dumped by Starmer whenever they come up for re-election as councillors.
If Labour struggles to get replacement candidates then Starmer’s power over the PLP will be diminished.
Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/unknown-to-many-of-their-citizens-five-eye-nations-are-accelerating-their-digital-id-efforts.html
“The Labour leader’s ruthless purge of the left and pro-Palestine voices in his party as well as his role in the British State’s persecution of Julian Assange were all clear warning signs, wrote Oborne and Richard Sanders, two of the journalists behind Al Jazeera‘s “The Labour Files”, in 2023:
In the Labour party, not only is the right in control, it is brutally pummelling the left into the dirt, determined that it will never again wield so much as a shred of meaningful influence within the Labour movement.
At the start of the first programme in The Labour Files, a Merseyside activist, Paul Davies, posed a question:
“If a small group of secretive people manipulate and control one of the two great parties in Great Britain, what will they do when they have control of MI5? When they have control of all the levers of the state? Are they suddenly going to believe in justice and proper investigations and fairness? Or are they going to be the same as they are now? Or even worse?””
Meanwhile, as the article notes, four months on, initiatives continue apace on what is to all intents and purposes a compulsory digital ID; snooping on bank accounts; a Central Bank Digital Currency; NHS Digital Health Passports; and crackdowns on lawful expression:
“Since decoupling from the EU, both Tory and now Labour governments have taken the UK in an increasingly authoritarian direction. This is, of course, a generalised trend among ostensibly “liberal democracies” — as broad economic conditions deteriorate and AI-enabled technologies advance, the temptation among governments to exploit these new surveillance and control systems is irresistible while the potential benefits for Big Tech are huge — but the UK is most definitely at its leading edge. Moreover, it is a trend that shows no sign of slowing, let alone stopping, especially given the size of Kier Starmer’s majority parliamentary majority.”
The Starmer project started with a war on the political left within the LP and is, as predicted, continuing with a war against any dissent or opposition from the citizenry that does not strictly adhere to The Official Narrative and its disasterous policies.
What passes for a Government in the UK is repidly taking us backwards towards the kind of relationships which existed in the feudal era using modern technology. At the present rate and on the current trajectory it is set on course to make these islands the most authoritarian, distatorial, and autocratic on the planet.
Put their lives on the line every day, plod do. 🙄
As for the arl bastard…
Not that I’m suggesting he be physically attacked, of course. But phones being put in people’s faces like that are extremely vulnerable to being knocked out of one’s hand; and with such numbers coalescing in one small area, who knows whose foot/feet might accidentally tread on it?
And who knows whose knee might accidentally hit him squarely in the face as he stoops to retrieve his phone from the floor? All that jostling, with plod watching on from a safe distance…
Then youd have to wonder what the likes of fhat gidiot falter would have to say about plod letting the old fart into the lion’s den with the purpose of causing strife.
Suggest the old get sue them?? It’d certainly make plod think again about their shithousery IF he was successful.
This dropped into my inbox from War on Want earlier today.
https://secure.waronwant.org/s/7562609/RZSpDN6L
It is the usual standard letter format which can be amended and added to.
“Right now, we are witnessing Israel committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Yet the UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, told parliament that the way ‘genocide’ is being used in relation to Israel’s actions “undermines the seriousness of that term”.
Lammy is wrong. He is misleading parliament and the UK public. Make no mistake – Israel is committing genocide.
will you tell David Lammy that he must call Israel’s actions what they are – a genocide – and stop the UK from being complicit?
Lammy knows full well what a genocide is. He attended a Srebrenica memorial event in 2022 where the term Srebrenica Genocide (capital S, capital G) was in common use and uncontested. A “mere” 8,000 perished there, never mind 250,000+!
https://srebrenica.org.uk/news/27th-anniversary-of-srebrenica-genocide-marked-by-uk-national-srebrenica-memorial-parliamentary-reception