On Friday, June 20, two members of Palestine Action rode into the UK’s largest military base on e-scooters, carrying a Palestinian flag and fire extinguishers filled with red paint. After spray-painting two military airplanes, effectively (if temporarily) grounding them both, the actionists escaped. This bold direct action forced the media to cover what it had long ignored: the participation of the Royal Air Force in the war on Gaza. On Wednesday, July 2, a humiliated and reactionary British parliament voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization, threatening members and supporters with up to 14 years of prison.

The same moribund empire that first authorized the Zionist project in 1917 continues to abet mass death and displacement in Palestine. The UK’s F-35 jet fighter program supplies 15% of the components making up Israel’s warplanes — including ejector seats, rear fuselage, active interceptor systems, targeting lasers, and weapon release cables. Its bases in Cyprus are likely waypoints for the transfer of arms to the genocidal state, and the R.A.F. itself flies planes over Gaza to provide the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) with intelligence.

In the five years since its founding, and particularly over the past 20 months, Palestine Action has put the death-dealers on notice like no other political organization in the U.K. or the U.S. By strategically and systematically targeting Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company, they have already brought about the closure of several Elbit factories; forced dozens of companies and contractors to cut ties with Elbit; and helped bring about a “debanking crisis” for the entire so-called defense industry.

Proscription would endanger the whole of the Palestine solidarity movement, criminalizing word and deed alike. It would punish not only members but supporters of Palestine Action: To publicly praise their brave acts would be to risk a 14-year prison sentence. We call on our British readers to take this risk. The label of “terrorist” has long been wielded by Western powers to brand their sins onto all those who challenge their impunity. In this way, it is an honor.

But the epithet is also a threat. It is through this designation that the West has justified the imprisonment and slaughter of journalists, activists, poets, musicians and cultural workers throughout the history of our movements. We must remind ourselves and the world that terrorism is the true legacy of Western imperialism and colonization, and resistance is the real counter-terrorism.

Palestine Action has offered us a template for resistance in the imperial core, for an insurgency that strikes unflinchingly at the supply chain of death. Proscription may force the organization to formally disband, but it cannot stop the action happening everywhere, every day, in the name of Palestine.

The entire movement must defy the draconian criminalization of resistance, which haunts us with the specter of incarceration. We cannot allow fear to distance us from our conscience or our will. Thousands of political prisoners — many who are Palestinian, others who have been radicalized by Palestine — have already shown us that while the cost of resistance can be high, it can never outweigh the power of a united front. The effectiveness and popularity of anticolonial resistance is why organizations like Samidoun and Palestine Action have been targeted by fascist governments and other counterinsurgent forces attempting to divide the movement with fearmongering and hysterical finger-pointing. As Samidoun wrote in their July 2, 2025 statement of solidarity with Palestine Action, “The British colonial mandate was the first to introduce ‘administrative detention’ — imprisonment without charge or trial — to occupied Palestine, a policy enthusiastically adopted by their Zionist colonial successors.”

Almost two years into this genocide, the Zionist and Western powers have sent clear signals to the world that their final solution is the extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond. Day after day, we see images too horrific to comprehend and hear the unforgettable screams of children. But as Israel’s attacks intensify, so does our conviction. Popular support for the Palestinian cause continues to build, both despite and because of escalating fascist repression. Hundreds of people have joined Palestine Action in the past 10 days. “If we defeat the government’s attempts to destroy our organization, victory in our fight against Elbit is near,” the group’s spokesperson, Max Geller, told us this week. “If they do proscribe us, then let a thousand Palestine Actions bloom.”

There have been significant attempts to isolate Palestine Action by liberal forces within the movement. We maintain that — as with resistance in occupied Palestine — there must be a visible, aboveground movement that serves as a popular cradle for underground militancy. WAWOG will always stand with militants in the imperial core. We call on all people of conscience to do the same.

Death, death to the IOF.

Free Palestine.

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If Hillary had won in 2016, Republicans would probably crush the Dems in 2018 and 2020, giving them enough power to unilaterally change the US Constitution.

Trump didn’t even plan on winning and was instantly one of the least popular presidents ever. He didn’t have a team for his presidency, he just picked random supporters of his, most of them were just bickering among themselves and the only thing that was really accomplished were the tax cuts. Even deportations were below the Obama or Biden average.

Now, things are different. Because Trump actually had a transition and picked a lot more effective ghouls who aren’t so consumed by interpersonal drama. Especially the guy in charge of immigration, who was also Obama’s main deportation guy. These people know how to get things done!

The activists made declarations of solidarity with Palestine and led the crowd in chants for Palestinian liberation. One chant in particular hurt Tarp’s delicate zionist sensibilities, prompting him to tweet his outrage: “From the River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.”

Tarp claims to have left the festival grounds in shock shortly after thousands of ordinary people joined the chant, long understood as a call for equality and freedom in all of Palestine. In subsequent statements to state media he made the claim that it was a call for “the extermination of an entire country”, seemingly unaware of the dark irony in making such statements in defense of the zionist entity that is committing an ongoing extermination of the country of Palestine.

Tarp had taken a rare trip outside the safety of the political bubble and mingled with the general public. Rather than feeling the warm embrace of the people he claims to speak for, he encountered mass dissent against the ongoing genocide — and it filled him with horror and disgust. In his tweets he inadvertently admitted that roughly 80 percent of the crowd joined the chants, describing them, in his own words, as “lemmings” swept up in the “rabid madness” coming from the stage.

In true form, regime-loyal media promptly turned to Tarp for comment, hoping to turn this into a Danish equivalent of the moral panic against British band Bob Vylan who is being attacked by Zionists for chanting “Death to the IDF” at their performance at the Glastonbury Festival. State media presented Tarp as merely “a festival-goer”, and not as a professional regime propagandist, granting him generous space to share his bigoted accusations. Without irony, he claimed to know what the chant means better than the people actually chanting it, spreading zionist disinformation as he insisted the call for equality and freedom in Palestine was actually an exterminationist threat.

Observers familiar with Denmark’s Social Democratic party describe it as fervently Zionist and deeply Islamophobic, a part of the reactionary “anti-woke” wave that has spread from America to the rest of the western world. Tarp’s social media history shows him to be a loyal foot soldier of this ideology. In his Twitter feed he is branding New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as “utterly insane”, he scolds the Nordic hermit kingdom’s main LGBTQ+ organization for refusing to take part in islamophobic scare campaigns, he rails against other parties voting not to derail an anti-racism plan for public schools with Zionism and he makes so-called jokes asking whether pro-Palestine activists should be “cancelled for cultural appropriation” for wearing keffiyehs.

Despite Tarp’s histrionics, reactions to his tweet were mixed. Although many agreed with his hateful comments, one alleging that Roskilde is now “a Muslim festival celebrating Hamas”, others mocked Tarp’s hysteria and called him out for lying about the invented of the Palestinian liberation movement. “The state of Israel and Jewish people were never equated,” countered a concertgoer. “If you were there, you’d know.”

The festival itself, meanwhile, is standing firm. Rejecting Tarp’s demands for censorship, organizers have defended Fontaines D.C., affirming that their stage is a place for artistic freedom and that the performance did not violate any guidelines. Meanwhile, critical reviews of the concert have been overwhelmingly positive, with critics praising the band’s willingness to break the silence and center human lives over spectacle.

The entrenched political elite may continue clutching their pearls and scribbling outraged tweets, but if Roskilde is any indication, a new generation is choosing freedom and solidarity over hate — even if it makes spin doctors shriek into the night.

Sources:

• Irsk band deler vandene med koncert, der forvandlede sig til Palæstina-demo, DR (regime media), July 3rd 2025
• Skaber stor debat: Pro-palæstinensiske kampråb fra scenen i Roskilde , BT (corporate media), July 3rd 2025
• Tweet by Tarp (CW: Racism and celebration of genocide in comments)