https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-big-lie-at-heart-of-israels.html
Compared to the IDF Hamas are the equivalent of Orwell’s ‘Old Maids Biking to Holy Communion Through The Mists of the Autumn Mornings’

The commonly accepted definition of ‘terrorism’ is is:

the use of violence or threats of violence to create fear and achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. It often involves targeting civilians or innocent people to influence public opinion, government actions, or policy decisions.

Most people have a good understanding of what terrorism means in practice. It is the planting of a bomb at a concert, such as the Manchester Arena bombing where 21 people died or the attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris where 89 concert goers died. Or Israel's bombing of a school or hospital because they believe a member of Hamas has entered the premises.

The Terrorism Act 2000 though has a much wider definition. Terrorism is defined as the use or threat of action which is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation] or to intimidate the public and it is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause which involves:

1. Serious violence against a person

2. Serious damage to property

3. endangers a person’s life,

4. creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or

5. is designed seriously to interfere with or disrupt an electronic system

This definition is so wide that the state can label virtually any group it dislikes as terrorists including non-violent protest groups such as Palestine Action.

This definition is absurd. Terrorism is not damage to property, unless it is combined with attacks on people, especially civilians.

It has nothing to with health and safety. Were the Chief Executives of the cladding companies who caused the Grenfell fire deaths prosecuted?

It has nothing to do with electronic systems either.

There is separate legislation to deal with all of the above. Terrorism is about creating terror in a civilian population by e.g. planting bombs in market places, schools and hospitals. If anyone is the terrorist it is the Israeli state in Gaza and the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What is happening is a nakedly transparent attempt to use the spectre of terrorism in order to attack fundamental democratic rights such as freedom of speech and association by labelling protest groups like Palestine Action or resistance groups like Hamas and the PKK as ‘terrorists’.

It results in the arrest of blind people and octogenarians for holding up a sign in Parliament Square supporting Palestine Action. It results in a Police raid on five members of Defend Our Juries to prevent them addressing a press conference. This is terrorism. Indeed one prime candidate for proscription as a terrorist group is the genocide supporting Metropolitan Police!

It’s strange that the Met are so concerned about the proscription of Palestine Action but are remarkably unconcerned about the dozens of British people who have served in the IDF in Gaza committing war crimes, contrary to the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870. The International Criminal Court Act 2001 makes aiding a genocide a criminal act but the Met don’t seem very interested in that law. They pick and choose which laws to implement according to the whims and dictates of their political masters.

If this happened in Hong Kong it would be all over the BBC but because it’s in Britain the fuckwits say next to nothing.

The Terrorism Act allows the State to proscribe and thus render illegal national liberation movements and resistance organisations such as the African National Congress in South Africa, which Thatcher and Reagan termed a terrorist group.

It would have been equally possible, if the Terrorism Act had been in force a century ago, to proscribe the French or Polish resistance to the Nazis. That is what the Nazis called them. In other words it entirely depends on which side you are on.

As Lord Carrington, Thatcher’s first Foreign Secretary declared, ‘one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorists’. In other words it is entirely subjective and is open to abuse by the government.

Most people would support the right of the Kurds to self-determination but the government has proscribed the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) because the government, is in alliance with Recip Erdogan’s semi-fascist government. Ctd....