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How Could the World Possibly Allow This to Happen?

Robert Del Naja’s arrest during Palestine Action protest at Trafalger Square. Screengrab from video posted to YouTube.

Throughout the Israeli genocide in Gaza most people, myself included, felt like they were gradually going mad. How could the world, including the British government, possibly allow this to happen?

That sense of madness was compounded by the inexplicable policies of many British news outlets (including the BBC) who refused to name the identity committing one atrocity after another, after another. It was Israel, & everybody knew it was Israel. Why wouldn’t they say so?

On the topic of madness, in Britain in 2026 you can be arrested under the Terrorism Act for sitting in silence, holding a........

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