By Seth Mandel
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
A play in three acts:
On August 6, 2024, a group of Palestine Action activists
broke into an Israeli defense contractor’s factory in Bristol, England,
smashing equipment and injuring police with sledgehammers.
During the trial, five of the six defendants, according
to the
Guardian, “[told] jurors they had entered the factory without
permission and damaged Elbit’s equipment including computers and drones.”
Today, the defendants were found not guilty of aggravated
burglary.
Palestine Action is one of the more extreme pro-Hamas
groups in the Western constellation. It has been outlawed in the UK as a
terrorist organization. During the break-in, one of them smashed a police
officer from behind with a sledgehammer, breaking her
spine and leaving her unable to bathe or get into bed by herself for three
months. She is still on restricted duty due to the injuries. Her assailant was
found not guilty.
You might be wondering: What was the defendants’ actual
defense, since they admitted to breaking in and damaging property? Here is a
description of the argument made by the attorney for one of the alleged
perpetrators, Charlotte Head:
“Rajiv Menon KC, representing Head, said any violence by
the defendants was clearly unplanned, that the defendants had not expected
security guards to enter the factory and were ‘completely out of their depth’.
“He
compared Head to the suffragettes, while describing Elbit Systems, of which
Elbit Systems UK is a subsidiary, as a ‘dreadful company [that] has played a
critical role in the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians’.”
The violence was unplanned, you see. They came with
sledgehammers and they used the sledgehammers, but they didn’t expect to have
to use the sledgehammers; they were just surprised by the appearance of the
police.
Not guilty.
Because this was a jury trial, there really is no
disputing the implications: Britain is cooked.
For those seeking at least a hint as to why the court
ruled that smashing in the spines of police officers is officially approved
behavior in the United Kingdom, one clue comes to us from
the Jewish Chronicle:
“While the jury was in retirement, the court heard
posters had been put up on bus stops and lampposts near the building which
said: ‘The jury decide not the judge,’ ‘Jury equity is when a jury acquits
someone on moral grounds,’ and: ‘Jurors can give a not guilty verdict even when
they believe a defendant has broken the law.’
“The prosecution said it was aware of the signs being put
up in public places during the trial, which set out the principle of ‘jury
equity’ — the capacity of a jury to return a verdict according to conscience —
and that police had been taking the posters down.”
Translation: You may find the defendants not guilty if
you sympathize with the psychotic “anti-Zionism” that motivated their violence.
Again: the British legal system is a joke.
To be fair to the UK, it is not the first state in Europe
to enshrine “the Jewish exception” into law. In 2021 in France, Kobili Traoré was
deemed not responsible for his actions by the courts, ostensibly because he
had smoked marijuana. What were his actions? He beat 65-year-old Sarah Halimi
and then threw her out her window to her death. According to his psychiatric
evaluation, he was sent into a violent rage by the sight of Halimi’s mezuzah.
Again, to translate: He realized she was a Jew, so he
killed her. This was deemed a psychiatric episode not murder. In France, if you
hate Jews so much that it makes you act crazy, you are permitted to murder
random Jews. In the UK, if your hatred of Jews compels you to go on a violent
rampage, you can count on “jury equity” to find you not guilty of the crimes
you admitted to in court.
The sick man of Europe is Europe.
No comments:
Post a Comment