You wouldn’t know it going by the BBC coverage, but a growing hunger strike of political prisoners is amassing support. Over the weekend, another prisoner joined the hunger strike, bringing the current total up to seven. Now, supporters of the hunger strike are being asked to take a moment today to call out the BBC for their silence on both Israel’s genocide in Palestine, and the hunger strikers themselves.

And, campaigners are also calling out the  Starmer regime’s misuse of anti-terror legislation to hold twenty-four anti-genocide protesters without trial. The move comes after ‘Justice Secretary’ David Lammy claimed to be unaware of their hunger strike against the injustice:

BBC complicit

The government has used the Terrorism Act to deny the ‘Filton 24’ group bail, even though they are not charged with any terror offences and were imprisoned long before Starmer’s ‘proscription’ terror ban of their non-violent protest group Palestine Action to protect Israel’s interests. The government was exposed consulting the Israeli embassy about their prosecution. Eight of the group are on hunger strike, with most now in their second month and at least two hospitalised and in severe danger.

The BBC has stubbornly ignored Starmer’s ‘lawfare‘, just as it has ignored his regime’s use of similar tactics against journalists and activists exposing and opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today, their supporters are asking others to ‘bombard’ the BBC’s systems with demands for an end to the silence and collusion:

Monday Dec. 8th

Bombard the BBC for our hunger strikers

1⃣Step one: save the BBC WhatsApp number +447756165803

2⃣Step two: copy and paste the below message and send to them.

3⃣Step three: share and repeat

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** EMERGENCY **
BBC — your silence is deadly.

Six UK political prisoners are now in the critical stage of a hunger strike.

They — along with 18 others — have been held for over a year with no trial, no bail.
This is not justice — this is punishment for refusing to bow to genocide.

Eight hunger strikers: Amu & Qesser (start date Nov 2) Heba (Nov 3) Jon (Nov 6), T Hoxha (Nov 9), Kamran (Nov 10), Lewie (Nov 25), Umer (Dec 4) are surviving on nothing but their will.

Their bodies are shutting down, permanent organ damage — even death — is no longer hypothetical, but imminent.

As a state-funded broadcaster, it is your responsibility to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis. We demand you fulfil that duty.

We will keep calling, writing & standing at your doors until you break your silence.

They are not numbers.
They are people with names, families, futures.
They have stories — and they are fighting to keep them alive.
Report this.
NOW.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is also asking supporters to write to their MP about the hunger strikers:

Write to your MP about prisoners on hunger strike https://share.google/LI3P87lMUPiB7qiCs

You can check to see if your MP has signed here: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/64800/palestine-action-hunger-strike

Solidarity with the Filton 24 and the hunger strikers against the Starmer police state and its war on the rights of UK people to protect war criminals.

Featured image via the Canary

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.