
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to silence support for Palestine using police “terror tactics” are backfiring, the producer of a new documentary exposing state censorship has said.
Censoring Palestine producer Norman Thomas said protesters are successfully pushing back against police aggression.
“Our camera has recorded the police attacking peaceful protests and the protesters pushing back against them,” he said. “More than once, demonstrators have ‘kettled’ police vans after they’ve seized protesters and refused to let them take them drive away.
“We have also filmed the police backing off and looking demoralised in the face of concerted resistance by the protesters. It’s really extraordinary.”
Mr Thomas warned that police attempts to silence dissent over Gaza by mounting raids on protesters have been “fantastically counterproductive.”
The police practice of mounting dawn raids on anyone who protests against the genocide in Gaza is also backfiring, he said, adding: “Starmer has failed to crush the protests against his support of Israel’s genocide in Palestine using these draconian tactics.
“What he might try next is anyone’s guess. But whatever he does, I believe the resistance will go on.”
Tickets for Censoring Palestine’s online premiere on May 4 are available via https://buytickets.at/thecrispinflintoffshow/1677641.