{"id":30634,"date":"2026-05-07T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/30634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:02:41","slug":"the-ugly-truth-about-the-cult-of-palestinianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/30634\/","title":{"rendered":"The ugly truth about the cult of Palestinianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is the movement that the queen of smug, Sally Rooney<\/a>, promised to share her fat royalty cheques with. This is the movement that plummy vicars fawned over in Westminster Square with their placards saying \u2018I Support Palestine Action\u2019<\/a>. A movement that counts within its ranks men content to use a 7lb sledgehammer to fracture the back of a woman<\/a>. A movement so far up the fundament of its own self-righteousness that its members think nothing of raining steel blows on a woman\u2019s spine. I would engage in some serious self-reflection if an organisation I gushed over was found to contain blokes who use weapons to crack women\u2019s bones.<\/p>\n

This is the news that four members of Palestine Action were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday<\/a> of causing criminal damage at a UK site of the Israel-based defence firm, Elbit Systems. One of them was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm. He twice whacked a female police officer, Sgt Kate Evans, with a sledgehammer as she tried to arrest one of the keffiyeh-wearing intruders. He fractured her spine. She was off work for three months. To this day she experiences back pain. As Tom Gent of Avon & Somerset Police said yesterday, battering the spinal column of a female officer is not \u2018protest\u2019 \u2013 it is \u2018thuggery\u2019 and it had \u2018devastating consequences\u2019 for Sgt Evans.<\/p>\n

It was in August 2024 that the Palestine Action gimps in their dumb red boiler suits crashed a van into the security gates of the Elbit factory near Bristol. They stormed inside, tooled up with weapons to destroy the evil wares of those demonic Israelis. They used crowbars and hammers to smash computers, drones and other equipment. They caused a million quids\u2019<\/a> worth of damage. When security guards and cops tried to stop their carnival of hubristic vandalism, they turned on them. Alongside the whack of Sgt Evans\u2019 back, the court also heard that one security guard was whipped by one of the Israelophobic mugs<\/a>, and another allegedly had a firework thrown at him, causing him to suffer a 4cm cut to his face<\/a> that had to be stapled at hospital.<\/p>\n

Is this what Ms Rooney had in mind when she said she would \u2018go on supporting Palestine Action\u2019 even after it was proscribed as a terrorist group<\/a> by Keir Starmer\u2019s government last year? A group that fucked up a woman\u2019s back and humiliated security guards? One of the intruders, with a keffiyeh around his waist, was heard taunting a security guard with the words<\/a>, \u2018You\u2019re not going to have a job tomorrow\u2019. You will search in vain for a better snapshot of the bilious snobbery of the bourgeois left than this image of four arseholes from the leafy part of town wielding whips and hammers as they mocked basic-wage security guards.<\/p>\n

The digital left has been strangely schtum about Palestine Action these past 24 hours. The six bozos were found not guilty of aggravated burglary<\/a> in February \u2013 Rooney and all the other Gazaholics lapped that up. But now four of them have been found guilty of criminal damage, and one of GBH, while the remaining two were acquitted. Perhaps even through the mental fog of their malarial loathing for Israel, the keffiyeh set can see it is not a good look to cheer twats who smash property, smash backs and clash with working-class men, all in order to make a spectacle of their own deluded sense of ethical rectitude.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what this case has really revealed \u2013 the lethal narcissism of the keffiyeh classes. This is a class of people so drunk on moral vanity, so convinced of their own saintedness, that they seem to think anything is justified in the name of \u2018the cause\u2019. That cause being to advertise to the world their bloated vision of themselves as holy crusaders against the wickedest state in existence. Indeed, one of the activists told the jury<\/a>, \u2018with absolute certainty\u2019, that breaking into the Elbit base \u2018is the best thing I have ever done\u2019. You sad bastard. \u2018There is a good chance\u2019, they said, that \u2018innocent lives were saved\u2019 as a result of \u2018our actions that night\u2019. This is a level of self-delusion that borders on the pathological. Lost in a cocoon of sanctimonious fantasy, they really believe that breaking a computer in Bristol will save a life in Gaza.<\/p>\n

This is the modus operandi of Palestine Action \u2013 it executes dumb stunts<\/a> not to impact world affairs but to assert the cultural supremacy of the credentialled haters of Israel here at home. It is moral hubris and class arrogance masquerading as \u2018anti-war\u2019. Sometimes it crosses the line into something darker, like when Palestine Action smashed up a Jewish-owned business in Stamford Hill<\/a> in London. This feels \u2018very, very scary now\u2019<\/a>, said local Jews amid the shattered glass of that woke mini-Kristallnacht. Who could have guessed that the bourgeois left\u2019s division of the world into \u2018the anointed\u2019 who righteously hate the Jewish State, and \u2018the demonic\u2019 who support it, would prove so catastrophic for the liberty and dignity of Britain\u2019s Jews? All of us. That\u2019s who.<\/p>\n

It feels like this has been a mask-slipping week for the cult of Palestinianism. More people can surely see the sectarian malice that lurks behind that veil of pacifism. A keffiyeh mob smashing a woman\u2019s back. Rancid anti-Semites who call Jews \u2018cockroaches\u2019<\/a> stinking up the Green Party of England and Wales. Another gaggle of sanctimonious sea-farers<\/a> setting off for Gaza, even though there\u2019s no famine there, while in South Sudan nearly eight million face \u2018acute hunger\u2019<\/a>. The stabbing of two Jews<\/a> in Golders Green glossed over by supposed \u2018anti-fascists\u2019, who seem more interested in their own right to chant \u2018Globalise the intifada\u2019 than in Jews\u2019 right to live in peace. Just think about that: mere days after violence against Jews, they were demanding the right to agitate for more violence against Jews.<\/p>\n

Some of us have known for some time that Palestinianism is bigotry in a keffiyeh, the mask Jew hatred wears in the 21st century. We\u2019ve seen this bourgeois army and its Islamist chums engage in the most vile demonisation of the world\u2019s only Jewish nation, and of all who support it, which includes most of the world\u2019s Jews. Are others now clocking this truth? No, anti-Zionism and the winds of hate it has unleashed are not going away. They are far too entrenched in the cultural establishment. But a reckoning might be brewing. Let us hope so.<\/p>\n

Brendan O\u2019Neill is spiked\u2019s chief political writer and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O\u2019Neill Show<\/a>. Subscribe to the podcast here<\/a>. His latest book \u2013 After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation \u2013 is available to order on Amazon UK<\/a> and Amazon US<\/a> now. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy<\/a>.<\/p>\n