Read the message from a mom of a 21yo Palestine Action UK political prisoner being targeted with counter-terrorism powers. Notice how the Labour government in the UK & the Democrats in the US are both heightening their fascist repression of anti-zionists:
“I’ve been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison 💔 She’s being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm. Zoe is one of 10 activists in prison on remand for action against an Elbit Systems facility in Filton, Bristol, in August. She spent her 21st birthday in prison 💔
She was horrified by the genocide and went on ALL the marches. But she could see nothing was working. She felt overwhelmed & powerless as the death toll in Gaza rose. Then she decided on direct action with Pal Action UK. Pal Action target Elbit, Israel’s biggest arms supplier – who make the deadly drones that play sounds of kids crying, to lure people outside & kill them. Inside Elbit’s Bristol facility, the activists found drones like those used in Gaza and dismantled some.
The use of counter terror powers against them is unprecedented. The 10 were held without charge in solitary, incommunicado, and interrogated for hours every day for 7 days under the Terrorism Act. Now charged with non-terrorist offences, they are still being treated like terror suspects. Could this have anything to do with meetings between the Home Office and Elbit Systems UK about Pal Action activists?
They have all been refused bail, and with the trial being in November 2025, they will have spent 17 months in prison before it starts.
I miss her so much 💔💔💔 But I’m proud of her. She would rather lose her liberty and her place in uni than hear of another child’s death in Gaza, having done nothing to stop it. She wrote this poem…”
