Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode, we have Max, a representative from Palestine Action, UK, on to talk about the organization.

Palestine Action, as many of you may have known or heard, is a direct action-oriented group that specifically targets weapons manufacturers that are used in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and in the broader movements of imperialism and colonialism around the world.

We talk about Elbit Systems.

We talk about the strategy of direct action. We talk about the international and global nature of imperialism and colonialism and how weapons manufacturers like Raytheon, like Elbit Systems, produce the raw material, the raw weaponry that are used to mass murder innocent people all over the world in the

entrance of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism.

I do have to say up front to give us legal protection that we are not advocating here at

Ref Left, that anybody go out and do any illegal activity whatsoever.

All we are doing are highlighting an organization of people who are willing themselves

to take on that responsibility and to face whatever consequences they have to face and to still

decide that they want to take part in direct action to try to do everything they can to stop this

death machine in a material way. And because they are willing to do that, they also face severe consequences from the state.

And something I say in this episode and that I want to also reiterate up front,

always remember that what Palestine Action and other organizations like them are doing

is trying to stop the mass murder of innocent civilians. It's not a crime in the UK or the United States to commit a fucking genocide. It's not a it's not a crime to bomb hospitals to murder children by the tens of thousands so that a settler colonial entity can get more land or can put down the resistance that the victims of its settler colonialism and occupation have towards it.

Right. That's all legal. That's all fine. Nobody's going to jail for the mass murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including tens of thousands of fucking babies, children, right?

50% of people in Gaza are under the age of 18.

This is a unique genocide in human history and that it is hyper-focused on murdering children.

That's not illegal.

But if you dare to step up and to do property destruction to stop the manufacturing of the weapons that go to

murder babies, that's a crime. That's seen as terrorism by the states engaged in genocide.

So that's the system we're working with. That is the moral background to this discussion.

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