Germany Wanted Palestine Action Trial 2.0; Then Their Lawyer Did This

Right, so Britain has just jailed Palestine Action activists after Judge Jeremy Johnson slapped on terror sentencing to essentially double the jail time, all seen as the British state doing Israel favours since the target of these young people was a weapons factory because said weapons are genociding people across Gaza, invading Southern Lebanon and Syria and more besides. God forbid somebody stop that, God forbid an example doesn’t get made by tacking on a sentence that was never proven or charged in court. This was not just a punishment. This was a label. A warning. A great big legal cattle prod aimed at everyone else watching.But the trouble with getting away with something like that, assuming they do that is, I don’t imagine this is the end of the Filton story yet, is that it inspires others and Germany has taken a look at what the Starmer regime has presided over here in the apparent name of justice and thought, wow, we’d quite like a slice of that in the name of the Israeli state too. Germany has looked across the Channel, apparently learned absolutely nothing decent, and decided its contribution to European justice should be to put its own anti-Elbit defendants in the dock, behind glass, parade them in handcuffs, stick them in a high-security courtroom, really lay on the aren’t these protesters dangerous imagery on thick.A few activists behind glass like the court is hosting a particularly dangerous zoo exhibit, when all it really is, is defendants being deliberately being separated from their lawyers.So what we have now is two countries. Two cases. One pattern of repression.