⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - Leaked Palestine Action report shatters…
⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - Leaked Palestine Action report shatters case for terror listing.
The leaking of the key JTAC (Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre) assessment of Palestine Action by journalist Craig Murray confirms suspicions that the Government was advised that the group focused its actions on protest and property damage, falling well short of accepted international definitions of terrorism.
According to Murray: “The JTAC report makes absolutely clear that its assessment of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is based only on the definition in the Terrorism Act, of a group that commits serious damage to property in order to influence government policy. I pause here to note that the United Nations has intervened in the case to state that this does not meet international standards for defining terrorism. Damage to property should only be terrorism when the intent is to endanger life, such as damaging an air traffic control centre. The JTAC report in fact notes that Palestine Action stresses its philosophy of non-violent action against people.”
The Starmer Government relied on this previously unreleased assessment as justification for listing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. JTAC is hosted within MI5, and has representation from a dozen government departments and national security and surveillance agencies, including MI6, GCHQ, counter-terrorism police and the Home Office. (Wikileaks)
