The Lord Trying To Ban Palestine Protests Linked To Arms Lobby - w/. Palestine Action's Huda Ammori
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
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Summary
Lord Walney - or John Woodcock to you and me - is the unelected Lord who was appointed by the Tories as a life peer after he endorsed Boris Johnson, and then an 'independent advisor' on political violence.
He's now trying to ban Palestine Action, and wants clampdowns on the right to protest, from the Palestinian movement to climate justice. But who is he? His links have been exposed - and it raises damning questions about our democracy.
I'm joined by Palestine Action's Huda Ammori. Make sure you check out their website: https://www.palestineaction.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Now since Israel's its all's genocidal campaign against Gaza began many months ago there has been an attempt to turn, I suppose scrutiny on to those who oppose the genocide rather than those who support and cheerlead this genocidal on sort, the real dangerous hateful |
| 0:15.4 | extremist, other people who oppose mass murder. |
| 0:19.4 | That's essentially what the British establishment has tried to do. |
| 0:22.4 | And there's no better example than what we're going to talk about today, |
| 0:26.4 | which is a proposal by, we'll talk about it, |
| 0:31.2 | from on high, I would say and to ban Palestine action. |
| 0:36.0 | Palestine action is a brilliant group who have done direct action in this great |
| 0:42.2 | tradition of peaceful civil disobedience, |
| 0:44.6 | which were many of the rights and freedoms people take for granted today. |
| 0:47.7 | Exposing, for example, firms linked to Israel's not just current genocidal onslaught but the ongoing |
| 0:56.9 | oppression of the Palestinian people and the deprivation of the right to |
| 1:01.7 | national self-determination apartheid colonization we could go on. |
| 1:05.2 | So firstly, it's great to speak to you, Houdoumouille from Palestine Action. |
| 1:09.4 | Lovely to see you how you did. |
| 1:10.4 | Good, all right, good to be here. It's a big honour. Right, I right. Good, glad to be here. |
| 1:13.0 | It's a big honor. |
| 1:14.0 | Right, I'm just going to do a little preamble now to get everyone up today on what's going |
| 1:18.0 | on because everyone can talk about this properly with you. |
| 1:20.8 | So basically what we're talking about is there's a guy a |
| 1:23.8 | a bloke called John Woodcock who is now called Lord Walden. |
| 1:27.6 | Now he is the government's so-called independent advisor on political violence and he has a |
| 1:32.1 | report coming out next week and |
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