Posted on 02/05/2026 2:44:06 AM PST by fruser1
Six British pro-Palestinian activists were acquitted of aggravated burglary over a 2024 raid on Israeli defense firm Elbit’s factory on Wednesday, with a jury returning no guilty verdicts at all in a blow for prosecutors.
The six were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organized a meticulously planned assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in the early hours of August 6, 2024.
The raid, which prosecutors said caused about 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) of damage, took place around 10 months into the Gaza war triggered by the Hamas-led terrorists who invaded Israel in October 2023. Prosecutors had told a jury at London’s Woolwich Crown Court at the start of the trial in November that the six were part of a larger group that used a white former prison van to ram their way into the factory and then smash equipment.
The defendants said they were simply motivated to destroy weapons to stop what they described as Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza and disavowed violence against people, though police bodycam footage broadcast during the trial showed one of them striking an officer with a sledgehammer, resulting in a fractured spine.
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We are right behind, one election away.
Lawlessness just as prophesized.
This is very disturbing, as the jury was presumably made up of average Britishers. I could see a Muslim juror causing a hung jury. But there were unanimous not guilty verdicts here.
And the fact that a police officer was hit with a sledgehammer…
UK has been sold out by its treasonous political rulers. Forget about it. It is a lost cause like France, Belgium, Spain, etcetera.
Anarcho-tyranny — the Establishment will not punish the Bad Guys who cause millions in damages and who assault police officers. But the Establishment will stomp hard on any Good Guys who attempt to stop bad things from happening. Bottomline: Peasants should live in fear.
UK has lost the rule of law and are on bended knee to the Muslim force that has conquered them. Buh! By! UK.
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