British Police confiscate Zionism Book at Palestine March in London

The truth if the enemy of the lie. And by extension the truth is the enemy of the state. Initially the police were happy with our stall. Then they had an instruction from the political “referral unit”. Noone has complained but a “race crime” (section 5 public order act, with a racially aggravated element) MAY have been committed and the books will be seized (books are ripped from the hands of other british workers trying to get copies! A woman can be heard cring “what about my freedom of speech?!” Indeed. What about her freedom to access the factual information we distribute and she wants? The book is sensitive “in this climate” says constable duggan. [but it’s 5 years old, has an isbn, has been in libraries for years, and with the police all that time already] So what is the “current climate? 1. Zionism is commiting war crimes amounting to genocide. 2. But distributing information exposing the long history of zionism and the founding genocide of Israel… upon which its current crimes are predicated and based - we are told that this is a crime of “aggregated racial hatred”!? This is an act of political - not of criminal - policing. A political decision-maker used the riot police (TSG) to (attempt to) criminalise dissent from our government’s support of israel and its genocide. It is not a surprise that despite our discreet and orderly stall, without any fuss, we are singled out. The political (not in the video) police feel the danger of the historical truth we provide and want to limit its spread. They want to send a message to intimidate the British working class: this is not acceptable. To let us know and you know, that “There will be consequences!” “That’s interesting”, says Ranjeet. Because you are enforcing political policing. And that in a real sense is the death of free speech in Britain” Indeed. It also makes the British police complicit in the Israeli Genocide. Half an hour after this seizure, the police returned and arrested all the comrades manning this stall. Not a good look. We must accelerate the organisation of the masses. Join us!