Elbit Drones Get Damaged; Starmer Makes Obscene Target Switch

Right, so Starmer's courts are about to hang the terrorist label on four people no jury ever convicted of terrorism, and the jury that did convict them was reportedly never told it was coming. That is the move being made right now. No terrorism conviction. No jury finding that these people were terrorists. They were found guilty of criminal damage for an action at an Elbit Systems factory near Bristol, where Israeli quadcopter drones were damaged, and Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is now expected to attach a terrorist connection at sentencing anyway. So when Starmer and his lot want to posture about law and order, they can start with the part where an Israeli arms firm becomes the protected object, while Palestine activists convicted of criminal damage are pushed towards terror-law treatment. That is not neutral justice wearing a wig. That is the British state looking at Elbit drone kit, looking at Palestine protesters, and somehow deciding the protesters are the terror problem.The activists were not accused of damaging a random garden shed, or some poor bloke's lawnmower, or a council grit bin in a fit of revolutionary zeal. The case concerns an arms manufacturer linked to Israel, with Israeli quadcopter drones damaged during an August 2024 action. The four convicted activists are Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani. Two others, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, were acquitted of criminal damage. The whole Filton case sits in that dirty gap between what Britain says it is doing and what Britain actually protects, because the state is not treating an Israeli arms firm's role in Israel's war machine as the central political scandal here. It is treating the people who interfered with that machinery as the danger requiring terrorism language.