Pro-Palestine Journalist Raided for “Supporting Terrorism”

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

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WATCH the video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/_yu_O-1BM0E?si=uF8z3bq5nhVqs7yB Journalist Asa Winstanley was raided by police counter-terrorism forces on October 17 as part of a wider crackdown by UK authorities on Palestine solidarity activism and reporting. He joins Abby Martin to discuss the raid, and his investigative reporting which proved Israel intentionally killed hundreds of their own people on Oct. 7. Asa is associate editor at The Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net) and author of the book 'Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn' Follow him on Twitter at https://x.com/AsaWinstanley EMPIRE FILES VIDEOS + MERCH + SOCIALS + PATREON + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT :: https://linktr.ee/empirefiles Music by Anahedron

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0:00.0	On October 17th, UK counterterrorism police rated the home of London-based journalist Aza Win Stanley, demanding that he turn over his electronic devices to them, suggesting that his journalism and social media posts encourage terrorism.
0:17.0	Aza is a reporter for the electronic and defada and the author of the book Weaponizing Antisemitism,
0:22.6	How the Israel Lobby brought down Jeremy Corbin.
0:25.6	Aza joins me now on the Empire Files to discuss.
0:29.6	Thank you so much for joining me on the Empire Files, Asa. It's a real pleasure to have you.
0:34.6	It's great to be here, I'm a fan of the show.
0:38.3	So I know things must be very hectic for you right now.
0:42.3	You are trying to advocate your legal rights, your privacy, your sources amid this alarming situation.
0:50.3	Can you quickly walk me through what happened on the day of October 17th?
0:55.0	Yeah, at 5.40 a.m. exactly.
0:58.0	We were woken up in the house by the doorbell and then by a loud banging and repeated ringing on the doorbell.
1:09.0	We asked who it was. They said the police and to open up, they, you know, were very insistent that we open up.
1:16.1	And so I went downstairs in my night clothes and I opened up the door and at the doorstep
1:21.7	in the dark there was around 10 or so police officers, plain-closed police officers, you know, with stab rests and whatnot.
1:32.3	I mean you could tell they were police, it's not like they were undercover, but as I later clarified, this was the counter-terror squad who are a really kind of special...
1:43.3	I mean you could say they're sort of secret police force in Britain.
1:46.2	They have special powers under these draconian British so-called counter-terror laws.
1:51.6	They're not the intelligence services, but they report to the intelligence services to MI5.
1:57.5	And so, yeah, they were in the house for around three hours more than three hours
2:02.7	they present you with a warrant and an explanation at the beginning or did they just force their
2:07.2	way in and just say they they they said that the senior officer was on the doorstep and he said
2:12.1	straight where we've got a warrant to search the premises and then you know after sir after
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