I was arrested as part of the Defend our Juries (DoJ) Lift the Ban campaign on 9 August 2025 and I'm using this blog to report my experiences of the campaign and to explore my both my understanding of what it is all about and how it affects me. I will update this page as I add more posts about it. As things stand, I've entered my Not Guilty plea and my case is scheduled for 1st July 2026 at Stratford Magistrates Court.
As a starting point, my motivation, you can see where I am coming from in a piece that I wrote for Sofia magazine The Notion that the Polite, Western Liberal Ever Stood for Anything At All. In it, I discuss two books: One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad and Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza, Munther Isaac. Basically, I think they have got it right!
Lift the Ban: arrest and bail - an account of my arrest, how I was taken to Kentish Town Police Station and released on bail
Lift the Ban: charged while out on bail I was charged by post.
Lift the Ban: plea hearing my experience of the plea hearing in Westminster Magistrates Court
Lift the Ban: do I support Palestine Action? A fundamental question.
Lift the Ban: reflections from cell number 6 at Kentish Town Police station. Some thoughts, not written while I was in the cell, but later reflections on what I'm been thinking about in the cell
Lift the Ban: Gaslighting! “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.". George Orwell, 1984
Lift the Ban: Judicial Review of the Proscription of Palestine Action. Part 1, timeline and overview. My notes following the judgement of the Judicial Review.
Under constructions
Lift the Ban: reflections on my (religious) beliefs.
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