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In Common: Palestine Action saga reveals the fiction of the law Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Megan Davidson, policy communications officer at Common Weal.

These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment.

www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...

Minister says government not mistreating Palestine Action activists on hunger strike Commons leader denies allegation and says government ‘not trying to break bodies’ after doctor said prisoners were dying

Adnan Hussain, independent MP for Blackburn, said:

“Remand is not punishment. It is not meant to break bodies or silence dissent.

“Yet we are witnessing conditions so severe that these young people feel driven to risk death simply to be heard.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Can you get an ambulance? I’m scared’: How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do'

Christ, the reported details of neglect & callousness are chilling.

"You don't decide if you go to hospital, I do"

MOJ, NHS, & Sodexo (who run the prison) all refused to comment.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...

So much for free speech in the land of the unfree

Yes, it will be far worse and more far reaching than what Thatcher did to silence the Republican struggle and Sinn Fein.

Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ Rights bodies say new law and proscription of direct action group create risk of censorship of Gaza-related content

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Posts about Palestine could be censored.

We warn about the impact of the ban on Palestine Action combined with duties in the Online Safety Act to remove ‘terrorist’ content.

Read about our open letter signed by human rights groups and experts ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Palestine Action policing guidance suggests protesters wrongly arrested A previously unseen counter-terror police document clarifies how demonstrators should be treated. We are publishing it for the first time.

Palestine Action Policing guidance suggests protesters wrongly arrested:

A previously unseen counter-terror police document clarifies how demonstrators should be treated. We are publishing it for the first time.

www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Prisoners For Palestine – A prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.

Support the hunger strikers

In prison for over a year without trial. They are victims of a system that has used the Terrorism Act to attempt to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide.

They are now at serious life-threatening risk. They must be given fair trials.

www.prisonersforpalestine.org

Please act now!
Day 39 of the hunger strike!
UK toolkit to support the 7 hunger strikers docs.google.com/document/d/e...

UK toolkit to support the 7 hunger strikers docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Green Party's Mothin Ali calls on Lammy to help Palestine Action hunger strikers Ali became the first politician to visit the activists who have been on hunger strike more than 30 days

Green Party's Mothin Ali calls on Lammy to help Palestine Action hunger strikers

Ali became the first politician to visit the activists who have been on hunger strike more than 30 days

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-gree...

Supporters asked to flood BBC with texts to support hunger strikers URGENT - supporters of the political prisoners on hunger strike are urged to ask the BBC to stop their deadly silence on Palestine

Supporters asked to flood BBC with texts to support hunger strikers...

Reform UK's commitment to Wales in one photo.

If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britain’s wildly unpopular former PM. It’s also a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr

Read the piece and subscribe here:
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The Nerve presents an evening with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr Eventbrite - The Nerve presents The Nerve presents an evening with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr - Wednesday, December 10, 2025 in London, England. Find event and ticket information.

TONIGHT! Stewart Lee in conversation with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at 21Soho, London

We’ve just had a handful of held tickets released. £18 plus booking fee.

Booking / details via link. password THENERVE101225
🙏

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Picture of anti-Digital ID protestors and the caption: "If Keir Starmer's Digital ID is the Question, then Tony Blair is the answer" Carole Cadwalladr on Labour's worst idea

A "techno-authoritarian's wet dream": @carolecadwalla.bsky.social for the Nerve on digital ID

www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...

On par

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

New Yorkers kept telling me the same thing: they’re thinking of leaving because they can’t afford to raise their kids here. Universal childcare isn’t just a promise — it’s how we make this a city for everyone.

BREAKING: Protestors are outside the Ministry of Justice, silently holding signs which say they oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

There are also six prisoners for Palestine nearing their fourth week on hunger strike for demands which include bail and to lift the ban.

No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.

No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs

LONDON LOCATIONS

Four mass Lift The Ban actions will take place in London, at:

📍 The Ministry Of Justice (Thurs 20th)
📍 The Peace Garden in Tavistock Square (Sat 22nd)
📍 The Home Office (Mon 24th)
📍 The Royal Courts of Justice (Wed 26th).

Sign up: wedonotcomply.org

Reform UK promised magical cost-savings in Warwickshire: now they’re trying to make vulnerable children pay

PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription

PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says

Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...

Police cancel Tel Aviv derby after fans riot at stadium * * *

Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

BREAKING - Major WIN!

The Court of Appeal handed down its ruling today on the government’s appeal which is seeking to block the legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action.

The Home Office appeal was REFUSED and the Judicial Review will go ahead with two EXTRA GROUNDS!

1/🧵

Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year Despite Nigel Farage’s promises to cut waste and ‘save a lot of money’, senior officials have now admitted they will likely have to resort to tax rises

The Reform UK Councils that are considering raising Council tax (one even by 10%):

Kent
Durham
West Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Leicestershire
Worcestershire
Staffordshire
Lincolnshire

TBC:
Derbyshire
Lancashire

Imagine that

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

“It was the 89th anniversary of the arrest of my father for being one of the organisers of the 1936 Cable Street resistance to the rise of fascism in Britain.

I was arrested on Saturday with hundreds of others at the Defend Our Juries action…”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...