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The Jersey based Palestine activist Natalie Strecker has been acquitted over terror support and it's exposed Starmer's lawfare like never before! Right, so you can tell when a government has run out of arguments to defend Israel, because that’s when it starts inventing terror threats out of thin air, and the Starmer crew just tried exactly that with Jersey based activist Natalie Strecker. They scraped four social media posts out of tens of thousands, mangled the digital evidence with a software bug, shipped in outside “help” to steer a prosecution Jersey didn’t need steering, and still couldn’t convince a court that a pacifist was secretly running a pro-Hamas fan club. It’s pathetic, but it’s also the clearest look yet at how desperate this government has become to make pro-Palestine voices disappear. They wanted a scalp. They got an acquittal. And in the process they’ve shown everyone that their big law-and-order posture, their lawfare against protesters and activists and pro Palestine voices is just political cowardice dressed up as national security. Right, so it is hardly news to many of you I’m sure that something has gone very wrong inside a political system when a government tries to turn a human-rights activist into a t*rrorism suspect and ends up being exposed for how flimsy the whole operation is, and that’s the thing about this case that has just ended in acquittal in Jersey, the Natalie Strecker case, because once you strip out the courtroom formality, the titles, the press releases and the drama that comes of state authority, what you’re left with is a prosecution that never had the weight to carry the political purpose built into it, and that’s why it fell apart, because it wasn’t designed for scrutiny, it was designed for fear, and fear only works when nobody looks at it too closely. This is what lawfare looks like when the government overreaches, when the evidence isn’t strong enough to survive daylight, and when a court decides it isn’t going to sign off on a political message disguised as a security concern. And if you want to understand why this matters, you start with the basic truth that this case should never have existed in the first place. Because the charge was t*rrorism, the label was t*rrorism, the framework was t*rrorism, and the punishment would have carried all the weight of that word even though the prosecution knew she hadn’t committed, planned or facilitated anything remotely connected to t*rrorism.
By Damien WilleyThe Jersey based Palestine activist Natalie Strecker has been acquitted over terror support and it's exposed Starmer's lawfare like never before! Right, so you can tell when a government has run out of arguments to defend Israel, because that’s when it starts inventing terror threats out of thin air, and the Starmer crew just tried exactly that with Jersey based activist Natalie Strecker. They scraped four social media posts out of tens of thousands, mangled the digital evidence with a software bug, shipped in outside “help” to steer a prosecution Jersey didn’t need steering, and still couldn’t convince a court that a pacifist was secretly running a pro-Hamas fan club. It’s pathetic, but it’s also the clearest look yet at how desperate this government has become to make pro-Palestine voices disappear. They wanted a scalp. They got an acquittal. And in the process they’ve shown everyone that their big law-and-order posture, their lawfare against protesters and activists and pro Palestine voices is just political cowardice dressed up as national security. Right, so it is hardly news to many of you I’m sure that something has gone very wrong inside a political system when a government tries to turn a human-rights activist into a t*rrorism suspect and ends up being exposed for how flimsy the whole operation is, and that’s the thing about this case that has just ended in acquittal in Jersey, the Natalie Strecker case, because once you strip out the courtroom formality, the titles, the press releases and the drama that comes of state authority, what you’re left with is a prosecution that never had the weight to carry the political purpose built into it, and that’s why it fell apart, because it wasn’t designed for scrutiny, it was designed for fear, and fear only works when nobody looks at it too closely. This is what lawfare looks like when the government overreaches, when the evidence isn’t strong enough to survive daylight, and when a court decides it isn’t going to sign off on a political message disguised as a security concern. And if you want to understand why this matters, you start with the basic truth that this case should never have existed in the first place. Because the charge was t*rrorism, the label was t*rrorism, the framework was t*rrorism, and the punishment would have carried all the weight of that word even though the prosecution knew she hadn’t committed, planned or facilitated anything remotely connected to t*rrorism.