Jonathan Cook – jonathan-cook.net Oct 18, 2024
The UK government and police – the British state – made clear today it is waging a war of intimidation against the country’s independent journalists in a desperate attempt to silence them.
Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid on the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his electronic devices under the UK’s draconian Terrorism Act. A letter from the Met indicates that the associate editor of the Electronic Intifada is being investigated by the force for “encouraging terrorism”.
Winstanley is the latest – and most high profile – independent journalist to be targeted by counter-terrorism police in recent weeks. Earlier, Richard Medhurst was arrested at Heathrow airport on returning to the UK from a trip abroad. Then Sarah Wilkinson was arrested and her home ransacked.
This is an utterly shocking account from journalist Sarah Wilkinson of her recent violent arrest by 16 counter-terrorism police, several masked, at 7.30am.
They smashed up, or stole, many of her belongings; emptied an urn of her mother’s remains over the floor; have denied her…
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) September 2, 2024
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Winstanley has repeatedly embarrassed the British establishment by exposing its covert and deep ties to Israel and its collusion with the Israeli lobby.
In his book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn, Winstanley exposed in shocking detail how antisemitism was weaponised against the former Labour leader.
The book would have made uncomfortable reading for his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, now Britain’s prime minister, because it documents his role in the smear campaign. While in opposition, Starmer’s Labour party expelled Winstanley and made legal threats against him.
As the Electronic Intifada website notes: “Now that Labour is the UK’s ruling party, it has the potential to use the apparatus of the state against those it views as its own – or Israel’s – political enemies.”
There is precisely no reason for police to raid Winstanley’s home or seize his electronic devices. The preposterous accusation of “encouraging terrorism” clearly relates to his online work, which is fully in the public domain.
The British state wants to insinuate through the dawn raid and confiscation of his devices that he is somehow harbouring secret or classified information, or in illicit contact with terror groups, and that incriminating evidence will be forthcoming from searches of those devices.
It won’t. If there were any real suspicion that Winstanley had such information, the police would have arrested him rather making a public show of a 6am raid and search they knew beforehand would turn up nothing.
This isn’t about terrorism at all. It is about frightening those opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the West’s collusion in it, into silence. If the British state is going after someone like Winstanley, you are supposed to conclude, they will surely soon come for me too.
Even the name of the “counter-terrorism” raid is performative: “Operation Incessantness”. The message the state wants to send is that it will not rest till it has us all behind bars.
Don’t believe this nonsense. The police have nothing on Winstanley. Exposing information about Israel and its genocide, and the British government’s culpability, is not a crime. At least not yet.
They want you to think it is, of course. They want you scared and mute. Because every time you go out and protest, you remind the world that the British government, and their bully-boys in blue, are the real criminals – for enabling genocide.
BEWARE THE MONEY CHANGERS
Oliver Cromwell allowed the jews back into the UK, they had ben banned for centuries and
by the early 1800s, Rothschild had sent his sons to live in Naples, Vienna, Paris, and London, in addition to keeping a son in Frankfurt. With Mayer Rothschild’s sons spread across Europe, the five linked branches became, in effect, the first bank to transcend borders. Agitating for war between the countries and lending to governments to finance the wars over several centuries provided the Rothschild
with fabulous wealth and power
The UK national debt to the bankers is now 2.7 trillion pounds and gains interest at 5000 per second
This debt is of course unpayable.
The only recorded time in the bible that jesus lost his temper was the money changers in the temple
Muslims are forbidden to use banks as supporting paying interest upon interest at times on yet more interest to them is Haram or sinful
Muslims all keep a home safe.
We are slaves to the jew bankers
We learnt this week that Starmer and co. are going to raid our bank accounts, e. g. go straight in at source to the banks and take what they want to make up for subsiding Ukraine wars etc
I advice everyone to do as the Muslims do and get a home safe.
The situation in the USA was rather similar, the jew bankers wanted to start the Federal Reserve
but some opposed it, so Rothschild through an intermediary, of course always through an intermediary
said we will be sending you first class tickets for a nice cruse on a brand new luxury liner.
Those opposed to the Federal Reserve idea jumped at the chance for a cruise on this brand new luxury
liner, and purely by coincidence all went down in the Titanic disaster of 1912.
Today we face a similar disaster, the banks will steal our money and replace it with a cardboard passport.
wait for its coming soon/
It is odd that the British can maintain this contrast between siding against Moslems near Israel but with them if the Moslems are in Britain, unless you assume they want the ones over there to come over here and destroy the country
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216
How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gr_j0JKcfY
Watched this YT video this morning. Yet to read his article.
I did know UK goons paid him a visit though. No mention of that in the video. Perhaps video was made before.
The sun never sets on the crimes of the British Empire.
Winstanley looks like another typical white bearded Commie wog lover. Assuming this thing is a ‘white man’ & not some Yid, you’ll notice they care more about wogs than their own people.
I’ve wanted to visit England. Not anymore. I don’t like Communist countries. At least we still have free speech in America, until November 5th elections. We have free speech because there are a billion weapons in public hands.
You people have been ruled by Jews ever since 1066, when a certain bastard invaded and murdered the rightful King and brought along Jews from the continent to change the form of law regarding ownership and transfer of land.
https://dokumen.pub/the-shetars-effect-on-english-law-a-law-of-the-jews-becomes-the-law-of-the-land.html
It’s time to put on your big boy pants, face facts, boot out the Jews and the alien invaders and sub-men they have flooded into your Island. You really ought to hang Kier Starmer as well and maybe stick that goofy Charles into a cottage somewhere where he may live out his days at as little public expense as possible. Try it; you’ll like it!
looks like your typical commie bolshie creep…fascists & nazis don’t wear beards…maybe a tootbrush moustache or goatee but thats about it
@Oliver
its true, you can spot these white commie types and wog lovers with their ugly beards. i bet most of the posters on this site are bearded weirdos
NB
they must like these beards because these mongrel jew rabbis wear them
Soy-boy ,man-bun,man-boobs.XXL sweater to cover over its Body Dismorphic Disorder.huge glasses to compensate for its short-sightedness.it must have a sliss-y manner of speaking too. Investigative hournalist?what has it investigated?its local woke/multikulti scene?
its very simple : Jew UK deep state punishes him for
his articles in Electronic Intifada about 7.okt. 23
“Eichmann”, “Wendy” and “Oliver Haddo”, Nico X times three