Video: ‘new direct action group’ calling itself ‘Yvette Cooper’ takes up struggle against genocide

Group set up as Starmer regime moves to ban anti-genocide group asks “Yvette Cooper may try to ban Palestine Action, but will she ban herself?”

The anti-genocide direct action movement has responded to the Starmer government’s ludicrous, Israel-driven move to ban, or proscribe, Palestine Action as a terrorist group, listing it alongside the likes of ISIS and al-Qaeda for trying to stop the slaughter of innocents, by reconfiguring itself – into a new group, calling itself ‘Yvette Cooper’, the name of Starmer’s right-wing Home Secretary.

Palestine Action (PA) damaged, occupied or blocked access to factories and facilities aiding Israel’s genocide of around 400,000 civilians so far, and Starmer and Cooper used lobbying from ‘friends of genocide’ Israel lobby groups like We Believe in Israel and the so-called ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’ (CAA) as an excuse for moving to proscribe PA this coming week, making membership of, or support for, PA a criminal offence carrying a prison sentence of up to 14 years, as part of the Starmer police state’s war on anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian journalism and protest.

The move, seen as a petulant and malignant attempt to punish Palestine Action because its members are frequently acquitted at trial, has caused stress and concern even among Home Office officials about its unworkable and anti-democratic nature and has been condemned by legal experts as a ‘gravely concerning’ abuse of government power.

The new group, which has no known connection to PA, said in a statement accompanying a short launch video that it had been ‘inspired’ by PA but named itself after Cooper to see whether she will “ban herself”:

Inspired by Palestine Action, new direct action ‘Yvette Cooper’ takes action against BNY Mellon’s investment firm, shareholders in Israel’s biggest weapons producer. Yvette Cooper may try to ban Palestine Action, but will she ban herself?

Yvette Cooper (the new one).

Skwawkbox did not contact Yvette Cooper to find out what she thinks about Yvette Cooper.

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