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Starmer, Get Your Bloody Hands Off Tony Greenstein & Other Opponents of Zionist Genocide

British Consulate
1 Sansome St./Market St.
San Francisco
Date:
Friday, January 31, 2025
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
UFCLP
Location Details:
British Consulate
1 Sansome St./Market St.
San Francisco

UK Starmer, Get Your Bloody Hands Off Tony Greenstein and Other Opponents of The Zionist Genocide

Stop Prosecuting Anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein & Others Palestine Activists In UK, Germany and France

Jail The Supporters Of Gaza Genocide & War Crimes In Israel, In The US & Around The World

Friday January 31, 2025 12:00 pm noon
British Consulate
1 Sansome St.
San Francisco

On January 31, 2025, the British government led by Labor party leader Keir Starmer and its court will be putting anti-Zionist activist Tony Greenstein on trial under the Terrorism Act for supporting a proscribed organization.

Greenstein is a co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He is also an author of many articles about the role of Zionism including the AFL-CIO supported Israeli Histadrut, the so called union federation which supports the apartheid regime with funding of the IDF for it’s crimes.

https://bdsmovement.net/news/histadrut-israels-racist-trade-union-0

This attack on Greenstein is a major attack on democratic rights and other Palestine activists have been also been charged with crimes for opposing the genocide by Israel backed by the UK and military contractors.

He could face 14 years in jail under a law that is aimed at critics of the apartheid state of Israel.

The racist and Zionist state and their supporters around the world are working to make it a crime to criticize Israel and genocide and equate anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.

While these anti-Zionists in the UK are being prosecuted the targeting of journalists and the murder of over 140 in Gaza has been met with complicity with the UK and US government.

This is not only a threat in the UK, but France and Germany where anti-Zionists and trade unionists have been attacked and arrested by the police for peaceful protests against the US UK supported genocide.

It is an imminent danger in the US as well with the installation of a Trump fascist government.

They have threatened mass arrests and deportations of supporters of Palestine on campuses and in the streets. They are also introducing legislation to make it illegal to criticize Zionist Israel and its genocidal policies which are supported by both the UK and the US governments. These governments, politicians and billionaire class are the real supporters and funders of terrorism and genocide in Gaza and around the world.

We must stand now in defense of Greenstein and others who are facing criminal charges globally & must unite the US working class and unions to defend democratic rights and opponents of Zionism.

JOIN THE ACTION!

Greenstein’s Website https://azvsas.blogspot.com/
Initiated By United Front Committee For A Labor Party
http://www.ufclp.org
info [at] ufclp.org
Contact us to endorse & for more info.
Added to the calendar on Mon, Jan 20, 2025 12:25PM
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The UK Starmer government like the US government has allowed Israel and the Ziionist regime to kill over 140 journalists which is a war crime yet the Starmer government refuses to prosecute Netanyahu and his government for war crimes.. Instead they are prosecuting critics of Zionism
1/31 Rally At UK Consulate To Drop Criminal Charges Against Tony Greenstein
Graphic For 1/31 Rally

Also there are prosecutions in France as well.

French Supporters Of Palestine Prosecuted By French Government Include Anasse Kazib, Rima Hassan & Mathilde Panot
https://www.leftvoice.org/our-comrade-anasse-kazib-is-being-persecuted-by-the-french-state-for-a-tweet-in-support-of-palestine/

Comrade, Anasse Kazib, Is Being Persecuted by the French State for a Tweet in Support of Palestine

Anasse Kazib — a worker and a leader and spokesperson of Révolution Permanente — announced this Thursday that the French state decided to prosecute him for a tweet in support of Palestine. Now we need an international campaign in his defense.

January 10, 2025Révolution Permanente

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On Thursday, January 9, Anasse Kazib, railway worker, union activist, and spokesman for Révolution Permanente (RP), part of the International Network La Izquierda Diario (LID) in France, announced on X that the French state has decided to prosecute him for a tweet in support of the Palestinian people, along with another RP activist.

The trial, to be held on June 18th, follows the summons of our comrade — along with other activists and politicians — by the anti-terrorist judicial police last April. Among those persecuted by the French state for showing solidarity with the Palestinian people are Rima Hassan, the French Palestinian politician and activist born in the Palestinian refugee camp of Neirab, near Aleppo, Syria; and Mathilde Panot, the French progressive politician who has been president of La France Insoumise in the National Assembly since October 2021.

In a press release, Kazib denounced this decision, which is in response to a denunciation submitted by Jeunesse Française Juive, a far right, pro-Israel organization. Regarding the latter, Anasse stated: “I am a unionist with SUD Rail and a political activist, spokesperson for a national organization. By persecuting me, the State is testing the limits of what it can do in the repressive sphere to send us a message. At the same time, it’s a reminder that in 2025, after more than a year of massacres in Gaza, ‘justice’ still threatens to imprison those who dare to denounce this barbarism.”

Last April, more than 700 international personalities such as Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Nancy Fraser, Rony Brauman, Silvia Federici and Joey Starr had already denounced, in a petition, “The attack against Anasse Kazib, carried out by Macron and his government, hand in hand with pro-Israeli extremists.” While hundreds of repressive actions have been carried out in recent months against supporters of Palestine, the decision to prosecute the national spokesman of a political organization such as RP — and former candidate for the 2022 presidential election — is unprecedented.

As our comrades of Révolution Permanente pointed out, “While the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned France for its use of ‘apology for terrorism,’ which undermines freedom of speech, we will not be intimidated. In the face of the continuing deterioration of democratic rights in the country, we will have to build a front to defend our right of showing solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

The following is a translation of Anasse Kazib’s press release:

In 2025, the state decided to prosecute me for a tweet in support of Palestine.Dear comrades, I want to wish you a happy 2025, which I hope will be full of hopes, struggles and revolutions, but also to announce important news. The year 2025 will be marked, for me, by an ordeal: after having been summoned in April by the anti-terrorist police, along with personalities such as Mathilde Panot, Rima Hassan or Sihame Assbague, the state finally decided to prosecute me for “apology for terrorism.”Therefore, I will be judged on June 18, 2025 with another RP comrade.

The penalty can be up to 7 years in prison, thousands of euros in fines, and disqualification for a tweet in support of the Palestinian people dated October 2023. The complaint was filed by a pro-Israeli organization close to the far right, which compares the Palestinian flag to the Nazi flag on social media, and openly expresses its support for Trump and Zemmour.I am a unionist for SUD Rail and a political activist and spokesperson for a national organization. By persecuting me, the state is stretching the limits of what it can do in the repressive realm and sends us a message. At the same time, it reminds us that in 2025, after more than a year of massacres in Gaza, “justice” still threatens to imprison those who dare to denounce this brutality.

After Jean-Paul Delescaut and dozens of others were convicted, the hundreds of proceedings against activists and demonstrators, and the chaos of summonses and searches, this is a new escalation. As we have done with every summons, hearing, and ban on demonstrations in recent months, we will have to unite to defend basic democratic rights, and our right to oppose the regime and show solidarity with the Palestinian people.Of course, the stress of this process will not prevent me from continuing to participate in all the struggles of our class — the working class — in the factories, in the universities, in the demonstrations. In 2025, my wish is to see the workers, the youth, and the oppressed organizing from below, fighting with their own methods. I hope we can fight for demands that seriously respond to the difficulties that we experience every day, and not just for the crumbs that the bosses “allow” us to demand. Only then will we be able to push back Bayrou, Macron, Le Pen, Arnault, and Bolloré in France, and throughout the world. I count on your solidarity in the face of this new attack. I will keep you informed of the outcome.

Anasse Kazib.
January 8, 2025
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