An anti-Israel group called Palestine Action broke into the offices of an Israeli company in Bristol, England and smashed equipment. The seven people, aged between 20 and 51, are being charged with terrorism under the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000, which aggravates Amnesty International and The New York Times.
The Times ran a headline that the terrorists were simply “pro-Palestinian activists,” making them sound like peaceful protestors sitting on a field with placards revealing their sadness about people dying in Gaza, not members of a group which have repeatedly targeted Elbit Systems UK. One of the terrorists allegedly hit a police officer with a sledgehammer during the arrest, which I guess makes him really, really “active.”

Amnesty International also attempted to shield the anti-Israel terrorists, arguing that the arrested members of Palestine Action should simply be charged with “ordinary criminal offenses” without any “terrorist connection.”

Yet Palestine Action itself made very clear that the action directed at Elbit was “to prevent its manufacture of weapons for genocide.” The Terrorism Act of 2000 is very clear that damaging property for the purpose of advancing a political cause is terrorism, making the charge appropriate.

The NY Times and Amnesty International are attempting to whitewash anti-Israel terrorism as mere pro-Palestine activism, a mild inconvenience which should not alarm anyone. This too is unholy.
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