An urgent campaign has been launched requesting that the Metropolitan Police Service (Met) “initiate an immediate investigation into Israeli President Isaac Herzog for incitement to terrorism pursuant to the Terrorism Act 2000”.
Met email campaign: report Isaac Herzog for the war criminal he is
Those who are in sympathy with Palestine (or anyone who just wants to see the law applied properly) are being encouraged to immediately email the Met and report Herzog’s remarks at an event on September 10. Speaking at the London base of think tank Chatham House, the Zionist war criminal asserted that:
Sometimes people should be ‘removed’ if they won’t make a deal.
This was in reference to the illegal attack conducted by so-called Israel against the Hamas leadership council in Qatar, which failed to kill any of the senior figures targeted, but did result in the deaths of at least six other innocent people.
The email campaign (link creates draft email in your default provider), which appears to have been produced by a group called Campaign Against Anti-Muslim Hate argues that the relevant provisions under the Terrorism Act 2000 include:
• Section 58: Encouragement of terrorism
• Section 59: Publication likely to be understood as encouragement
• Sections 11 and 12: Membership of or support for a proscribed terrorist organisation [presumably this is for Herzog’s support of the Israeli Genocide Forces, described by Miko Peled as: “One of the best trained, best equipped, best fed terrorist organisations in the world”.
• The Act’s extraterritorial application to offenses committed or incited on UK territory
Herzog’s statements explicitly endorsing violence
The email goes on to say that, “Given Herzog’s physical presence on UK soil when making these statements, and their explicit role in endorsing violence”, the Met ought to:
• Conduct a prompt, comprehensive investigation into Herzog’s conduct and speech while on UK soil
• Consider authorizing and issuing an arrest warrant consistent with applicable law
• Provide transparent communication on actions and decisions taken
While the Terrorism Act 2000 is a hugely flawed piece of legislation, as evidenced by its use against anti-genocide group Palestine Action, the remarks by Herzog undeniably meet the UN’s guiding framework for defining terrorism, which states that at minimum, terrorism entails:
intimidation or coercion of populations or governments through the threat or perpetration of violence, causing death, serious injury or the taking of hostages.
Herzog ought to already be facing an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for his genocidal rhetoric in the early stages of the Israeli Holocaust in Gaza, when he said:
It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved — it’s not true. They could’ve risen up, fought against that evil regime.
The obvious suggestion is that all Palestinians are legitimate targets, justifying the Zionist entity’s subsequent campaign of mass murder on a civilian population.
Labour government rolls out the red carpet to war criminal Israeli president
Instead of ending up in the Hague, this modern-day Nazi has instead had the red carpet rolled out for him during his visit to Britain. While the mainstream media dutifully conveyed the likely fiction of a “tough” meeting with Starmer, the likelihood of war crimes enthusiast Starmer holding any Israeli to account is slim. The British genocider-in-chief did describe the Zionist pseudo-state’s attack on Qatar as “completely unacceptable”, but this is safely in line with the US position.
The vassal state Starmer runs doesn’t really tend to have a foreign policy of its own. Instead, on any international issue, Britain will typically “sit by the phone and wait until the Americans tell us what to do”, as Palestine documentary maker Richard Sanders recently put it. Hence war criminals are given the VIP treatment, and it falls to civil society to attempt to ensure they face justice.
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This post was originally published on Canary.