How U.S. Governments Are Imprisoning Opponents of Israel’s Gaza Genocide
30 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
U.S. Governments are Governments such as not ONLY the U.S. but also its colonies, such as UK, Germany, Israel, and the EU Governments — it’s similar to: during the Roman Empire, all of its colonies were likewise controlled by the Master-Nation, which then was Rome. Also, before the American Revolution, each one of the American colonies of Britain was ruled, ultimately, from England. The dictatorship comes from the Government of the imperial nation. That’s why America’s great Founders broke away from it, and had their Revolution in 1776. They sought freedom. But now, hundreds of years later, America (no longer England) IS the imperial country — the global dictator.
Back on June 25th, the great Scottish investigative journalist Craig Murray headlined “Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund”, and he tracked back through the corporate stock-ownership records to find whom the private individuals are who are profiting from the UK Government’s sending of weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza. He opened:
If you thought RAF [Royal Air Force] jets were owned by the RAF, think again.
The RAF squadron [was] targeted for a repaint [his euphemism for a defacement] by Palestine Action due to its [the UK Government’s] involvement in supplying [weapons to] Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund.
Through a chain of seven cutout companies, which I will take you through, the direct ownership is with Airtanker Ltd, which gives its address as RAF Brize Norton. It owns, maintains and operates the RAF’s Voyager refuelling aircraft, which have been providing mid-air refuelling to the Israeli Defence Forces as well as carrying, in their cargo role, munitions to the IDF.
At the end of his long succession of shell companies was only one person’s name, as being at least one of the owners: “E. Griffith Reade” also known as “Reade Eugene Griffith,” but Murray said nothing about who he is. I therefore web-searched and found only that he was a subject in a UK legal case in which he was “described as ‘a national of the United Kingdom and St. Kitts and Nevis’” and was a principal in many of the corporations that Murray had listed.
Since that person was a dead end, I looked up “Palestine Action” and came to a 78-minute documentary by that organization, “To Kill a War Machine”, which was promptly removed from the Web by the UK Government, and criminalized by it for being shown or advertised by anyone. Just two days after Murray’s article, a 34-minute documentary about, and with excerpts from, that documentary was posted on June 27th, “This Documentary Could Be Illegal Next Week”. Then, on July 2nd, “Following the vote in the House of Commons on 2nd July 2025 to proscribe Palestine Action [as ‘a terrorist organization’], Rainbow Collective have taken the difficult decision to temporarily take down the online version of our film, 'To Kill a War Machine' and authorise no further screenings of the film until further notice,” according to the Rainbow Collective’s Founders and Directors, on July 3rd. So, the 78-minute documentary was promptly taken down by the U.S. empire.
What the 34-minute documentary about the documentary did manage to show from it and about it is that the July 2nd decision by the House of Commons was to label Palestine Action — a peace and anti-genocide organization with no ties to any sort of extremists, much less “Terrorism” — is “a terrorist organization” and thus criminal and even criminal to endorse or support in any way, subject to up to 14 years in prison plus massive fines for violations.
An incident in it was the imprisonment of a young Palestine Action member who is in prison for “a direct action on a site operated by Israeli arms company [drone-manufacturer] Elbit based in Bristol,” who, like
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Many of the 18 arrested
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over the Filton action [she was] detained under terrorism law, even though they don't face terrorism charges. That of
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course will change for future activists as well as their supporters if the home secretary gets her way [which of course has happened]. In this next
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clip, several contributors discuss what the use of terrorism legislation means. The police response to this action has
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been quite extraordinary. They've used counterterror legislation to detain and remand many of those activists in
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prison. And to the extent that they were moved from one site to another site without anybody who knows them being
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made aware that they had been moved, they're effectively rendered incomunicado from the rest of the world. …
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The government has abused the the use of
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counterterror powers uh to arrest the the Filton uh group uh to interrogate
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them day and night. Um and then because of the the terror connection that
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they're now labeled with, uh the the consequences in prison on remand have
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been um horrific for all of them. It is safe to say that the worst legal
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framework to use in such a case is the terrorism framework. The terrorism uh discourse has been heavily critiqued by
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uh justice theorists, by human rights lawyers uh by being a way to evade uh
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the rule of law and creating an otherwise called exceptionalist space outside of the law into whatever uh
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annoys the uh government.
Even the BBC has reported that “none of the 18 have been charged with terror offences.” British courts are kangaroo courts, and they will do whatever the U.S. Government wants them to do — just think, for example of the over-10-year-imrisonment without trial of Julian Assange, which likewise was done in order to please the U.S. Government.
Even the CIA-edited and written Wikipedia (which blacklists — blocks from linking to — sites that aren’t CIA-approved), says that, “Reporting in The Guardian showed attempted coordination between Elbit and the Embassy of Israel with the Home Office, Attorney General for England and Wales and Crown Prosecution Service regarding the prosecution of Palestine Action activists, dating back to April 2022.[35] In 2024, CPS used powers under the Terrorism Act to detain activists without charges.[36]”
The U.S. empire is a billionaires’ operation against the publics everywhere.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays (“the father of public relations”)
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” - H L Mencken
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L.Mencken
We reached that day with J.Biden, then doubled down With DJ Trump
It's like that in every system, for as far back as we can see. The powerful stay powerful by screwing everyone else. A successful revolution only changes who the powerful bastards are.