Alhumdulillah, happy publication day to my brilliant co-author Walaa Quisay, me and the wonderful team at @PlutoPress 🎉 Many thanks for the kind endorsements by @Moazzam_Begg, @LalehKhalili, @omarsuleiman504 and @suchitrav. Order now: plutobooks.com/9780745348964…

My interview in today's Observer explaining why we will never back down. Direct action against Elbit is about saving lives, and the 4,000 people arrested for holding signs are not just showing their support for Palestine but are also defying the complete erosion of free speech.

Did Palestine Action go too far? Ammori doesn’t accept the idea. She recalls the horror of following the war on Gaza, in which at least 70,000 Palestinians were killed, among them 21 members of the family of a friend of hers. observer.co.uk/news/observer…

It’s Friday so it’s time for another new episode of Radio ReOrient (from @CmsReorient). Find it via @NewBooksNetwork or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙️🌙 Huge thanks to @AsimCP of @CAGEintl for this conversation! 🎧: newbooksnetwork.com/radio-re…

🚨BREAKING: Huda Ammori’s appeal to the Supreme Court over the ban on Palestine Action has concluded. Here’s our summary: Ammori was given permission to appeal the ban on one ground, focussing on whether it is compatible with freedom of expression and assembly. This represents the last legal opportunity to challenge the proscription in Britain, with the fate of thousands arrested for allegedly supporting Palestine Action hanging in the balance. Day one saw Ammori’s lawyers argue that the ban represents a “colossal invasion” of the rights to freedom of expression and assembly enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. Raza Husain KC told the court that less than one percent of the group’s actions (3 in 385) over a period of five years had been classed as terrorism – even using the government’s overly broad definition. Husain said Palestine Action, unlike other proscribed groups, had sought to prevent genocide and uphold international humanitarian law. The group’s objectives were thus “aligned with rather than abhorrent to liberal democratic values”. The court also heard that Palestine Action fell “within the British tradition of direct action protest groups motivated by conscience” such as the Suffragettes, who used more extreme methods. They resorted to “fire-bombing, arson, serious property damage”, Husain said, refuting the lower court’s claim that they were pacific, and were ultimately “proven right by history”. “The uncontroverted evidence shows that [the] suffragettes, anti-war groups, environmental groups, animal rights protesters all used tactics similar to or more extreme than Palestine Action yet they were not regarded as terrorists or proscribed”, the court was told. Civil society organisations and UN experts had also “expressed deep concern at the proscription”, the court heard. A former MI6 director, Richard Barrett, had been amongst those saying in terms that “proscription goes too far”. A new argument was also introduced, with Husain raising the prospect that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg could conclude that arrests for “supporting” Palestine Action were in “breach of convention rights”. If that happens, a broad swath of terrorism convictions could be quashed, contributing to a broader “crisis in confidence” in the UK’s terrorism laws arising from the arrests of thousands of people for holding placards. The five-judge panel in the Supreme Court, all men, expressed a general aversion to these submissions. Former British diplomat Craig Murray estimated that Ammori’s lawyers were disrupted over 100 times, making it difficult for them to develop their arguments. Outside the court, protesters held placards inspired by a tweet from Sarah Helm, wife of the UK government’s National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell. She had written “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action“ and was not arrested, but several outside the Supreme Court brandishing similar messages were. Sir James Eadie KC, acting for the home secretary, closed day one and opened day two. Eadie told the court that attempts to characterise Palestine Action “as part of a long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience on conscientious grounds” were “completely at odds” with the lower courts’ rulings. He said that such arguments have “no substance whatsoever”, later declaring Palestine Action the “antithesis of civil disobedience groups”. He went on to argue that Palestine Action incidents had involved violence (Filton) and “throwing pyrotechnics where people were being evacuated” (Thales). Eadie continued that Palestine Action’s “cell structure”, a “lack of candour” from Ammori, the group’s “escalating trajectory”, and the institutional competence vested in the home secretary, weighed in favour of upholding the proscription. Minutes ago, Husain delivered his closing statement for Ammori. He declared: “There are probably hundreds of thousands of people whose profoundly important rights of political speech, association and assembly on the most acute moral and political issue of our times - that is to say Israel’s annihilation of an already besieged and occupied people, and the role of UK-based corporate actors in that atrocity - those rights have been extinguished or interfered with”. A “closed” session will take place this afternoon, meaning evidence is being submitted by Britain’s security agencies that neither Ammori nor her lawyers can see or contest. In a statement, Ammori said: “The overwhelming evidence presented to the Supreme Court by UN experts, Amnesty International, Liberty and even the former Director of MI6 is that this dangerous and disproportionate proscription has criminalised legitimate protest as terrorism for the first time in British history, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech in this country”. The court is expected to reserve judgement until a later date.

Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1

TODAY ONLINE EVENT: THE SPIRALLING WAR OF TERROR How Trump inherited the national security machine he now wields. Join us for an online event chaired by @AsimCP Qureshi, our Research Director, featuring three speakers: 🔹 Cyrus McGoldrick is a Muslim activist, educator, writer and artist. 🔹 Raja Abdulhaq is a Palestinian political analyst and co-founder of Quds News Network. 🔹 David Chmielewski is a US-based researcher. 📅 Event time: 🇺🇸 6 PM New York | 5 PM Chicago | 3 PM West Coast 🇬🇧 10 PM UK 🔗 Last chance to register here: cage.ngo/events/report-launc…

ONLINE EVENT: THE SPIRALLING WAR OF TERROR How Trump inherited the national security machine he now wields. Join us for an online event chaired by @AsimCP Qureshi, our Research Director at CAGE, featuring three speakers: Cyrus McGoldrick is a Muslim activist, educator, writer and artist. Raja Abdulhaq is a Palestinian political analyst and co-founder of Quds News Network. David Chmielewski is a US-based researcher. 📅 Event time: 🇺🇸 6 PM New York | 5 PM Chicago | 3 PM West Coast 🇬🇧 10 PM UK 🔗 Register here: cage.ngo/events/report-launc…

My open letter to Conservative Party MP David Davis regarding his dangerous & disgraceful IRA lawyer comments.

I *think* the key might be in 'Baroness.' People, she was always a liberal, why the shock and pain?

Conceding to labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization isn't a flex of an answer to a racist, imperialist, and Islamophobic question. Abdul has used the same framework when discussing Palestine through labeling Hamas as terrorists too.

On Israel’s “right to exist”, Prof Avi Shlaim (Oxford University) and Prof John Dugard (former ad hoc judge at the ICJ) provided expert evidence on this topic as part of Hamas’ application for deproscription last year. You can read the reports in full here hamascase.com/volume-ii/

Sally Rooney's books can no longer be sold in Britain due to her support for Palestine Action. She refused to withdraw her support for the direct action group which targeted the Israeli arms industry, costing her the royalties from all of her UK sales. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Exclusive: The UK’s largest “sharia-compliant” fund, HSBC’s Islamic Global Equity Index Fund, has purchased more than $100m worth of shares in 5 companies linked to the Israeli military in the first half of this year, a @MiddleEastEye analysis can reveal middleeasteye.net/news/hsbc-…

As a Muslim journalist who spent her early career writing, observing and talking about Muslim Americans, pursuit of power & specifically Palestine (I created the concept/term of Faithwashing) - this perspective below is rooted in two myths: first, that the struggle for Palestinian liberation will come from American electoralism and second, that Muslim Americans of particular class backgrounds and on trajectories of pursuit of power have a primary vested interest in and plan for Palestinian liberation (or starting with at least ending the genocide). This is historically not the case and we know, also historically, that the pacification of radical movements and moments happens the moment they are brought into the mainstream fold and choose to moderate themselves because no one is holding their feet to the fire. If all you’re satisfied with are crumbs, because the plate was empty before, then all you’ll get is crumbs. Additionally, it’s been said so many times already, if you’re not pushing them left, they’re being pushed to the right.

It was never 'strategic' to support Palestine as you'd be smeared by the Israel lobby. When the genocide escalated, suddenly it was 'strategic' to support Palestine - left channels and political parties sky rocketed. Now they say it isn't strategic to call out the root cause?

Did Zionists have the right to ethnically cleanse more than half of the Palestinian population, destroy over 500 towns and villages and massacre thousands of Palestinians, to create the state of Israel? If you're not against Zionism, you support the Nakba.

“As a Palestinian, I am the direct subject of Zionism. I’m an expert on it, in fact, because it is practised on my body” Mohammed El-Kurd defines Zionism in under 5 minutes. He says everything that needs to be said👇

Your definition of Zionism does not matter. Nor does mine. Zionism is defined by its material manifestations. The purpose of a system is what it does. And the Zionist system does racism and genocide. Simple. Please spare me the arrogant insufferable graaating Oxbridge debates. Your opinions are irrelevant. People are dying.

Excellent by @comrade_kumar_ turning the tables on Israel’s supporters by asking the question nobody ever asks: what does this mean for Palestinians?

Free Fergie Chambers. “This is a case of political persecution directed solely against a committed humanitarian. Fergie’s rightful place is not in prison, but with his family, continuing his work on behalf of those who need it most.” @spainmfa