Jewish left-winger’s bail extended but judge so far refuses to move trial to more convenient location
Jewish anti-genocide activist Tony Greenstein’s trial for alleged support for a proscribed organisation has been set for almost a year off, starting 5 January 2026. Greenstein has been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 for an X post defending the right of Palestinians to resist illegal occupation, a right that is enshrined in international law.
Greenstein arrived at the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey to cheers and chants for Palestinian freedom from a sizeable crowd of supporters:
Greenstein’s barrister asked the judge to move the January 2026 hearing to the Old Bailey as this allow Greenstein to better fulfil his family obligations, but the judge has so far refused to move it from Kingston Crown Court. His bail conditions, which require him to live at his home address, seek permission from police to travel abroad and not to mention Palestinian militant group Hamas on Twitter/X, have not been changed and a preparatory hearing has been scheduled for 6 June this year.
In a typically uncompromising speech, Greenstein thanked supporters after the hearing and said that the prosecution of himself and of fellow peace activist Natalie Strecker are part of the Starmer regime’s war on journalists and activists exposing the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians:
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I can’t help but believe that UK courts would have prosecuted members of the French Resistance, and in line with the norms of the time, had them executed.
On that note, given the contemporary anti-discrimination ethos, perhaps a donation of some brown trousers towards some computer programmers would be appropriate?
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/01/31/israeli-ai-propaganda-bot-starts-accusing-israel-of-genocide-apartheid-and-being-white-colonisers/
The quisling smarmer, out-vichying the vichy?!
Well we all know who should be in court, and on trial for being complicit in genocide, as such, and it ain’t Tony! Yeah, our wonderful leaders just lurve turning reality on its head, with mountainloads of assistance from our totally corrupt fascist main-stream media.
‘The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power’
Malcolm X
What are the chances the case gets dropped shortly before it is scheduled? The bail conditions will have succeeded in muzzling Tony Greenstein for more than a year and that alone will send a chilling message.
Mmm, incisive, Malcolm. That’s probably the whole point, yeah. Hostile action against pro-Palestine opinion and freedom of thought.
‘Lawfare’ should become Starmer’s middle name… contempt and deep repugnance.