Palestine Action might have just got a huge boost, as Starmer's terror hypocrisy gets exposed by - of all places - MI6! Right, so you know the government’s lost the plot when the only people treated like terrorists in Britain are the ones trying to stop actual weapons being built. Because while ministers were busy criminalising cardboard signs and dragging Palestine Action supporters off the pavement outside the Ministry of Justice, and with the Judicial Review of this proscription, this news story becomes even more pertinent, their own intelligence service was off quietly forging a relationship with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS — a group who very much were committing acts of terror and had earned their proscription, all of which has now been lifted, because they now run the Syrian state. And they didn’t just talk to them at the time either, they built channels, they cultivated the relationship, and then they quietly took HTS off the terror list while slapping Palestine Action onto it. That’s not national security. That’s political convenience wearing a counterterrorism uniform. And now thus hypocritical mess may well walk into that Judicial Review courtroom with them. Has any government ever managed to undermine their own case like they have with this one before the hearing has even begun? Right, so if you look at the way the British state has handled Palestine Action over the past year – the arrests, the proscription, the dawn raids, the police turning up outside the Ministry of Justice to drag people off for holding cardboard signs and of course elsewhere around the country – and you can see exactly what they thought they were doing. They thought they had found a soft target. They thought the t*rrorism label would stick because it always has before. They thought the public would back away because people usually do when the state throws around words like “extremism” and “national security.” And they thought nobody would ever be able to hold up a mirror to their own conduct, because they never expected anyone to go digging in the one place they never want scrutiny: their own foreign policy networks. But now that mirror is up. And the reflection is catastrophic for them. Because the same government that criminalised people for supporting Palestine Action – a group that has never k*lled anyone, their weapon was not a loaded g*n or missile, but a tin of red paint – had been quietly maintaining channels with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, an organisation that actually is responsible for killings, disappearances, t*rture sites, sectarian purges and v*olent rule in northern Syria.