The F. F. F. M. in the year since October theth, when Hamas attacked Israel, the UK has seen the largest protest movement since the suffragists take to the streets in defense of Palestinian life. This movement has been vilified,

condemned anti-Semitic and treated by the police, government, justice system and media

alike in a way that combines the blunt authoritarianism of the

Conservative government with the curdling paranoia and Islamophobia of the War on

Terror. The key figure in all of this was Suella Bravena, the Home Secretary for much

of the early phase of this movement. But it would be a mistake to end with her. The kind

of authoritarianism we have seen require the whole apparatus of the

state to be mobilised in order to crush the right to protest. A month or so ago, Simon Childs, contributing editor at Navarro Media, came to me with an idea for a podcast.

He said, we should tell this whole story as one unified whole. We'd initially expected this to be just

about the policing of those demonstrations, but as we laid it all out, the scope of

the story we felt we needed to cover kept on expanding and expanding.

Revelations about the Israeli embassies lobbying of the British Attorney General's office

came to light.

We heard about the revolving door between the police and the private

security of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer. We were told about the fundamental

importance of juries

as a democratic backstop against oppression,

and discovered how their 350-year-old right

to acquit, regardless of what the judge says,

is being eroded today.

And we heard about how the movement is adapting

to these new forms of repression.

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