GB News host Martin Daubney has launched a furious attack on Palestine Action, following Labour’s confirmation of plans to proscribe the group as a terror group.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision follows the group’s “disgraceful” break-in of RAF Brize Norton, damaging two Voyager aircraft and causing around £30million worth of damage.
In a written statement, Cooper said: “I have decided to proscribe Palestine Action under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000. A draft proscription order will be laid in Parliament on Monday, June 30.
“If passed, it will make it illegal to be a member of, or invite support for, Palestine Action. This decision is specific to Palestine Action and does not affect lawful protest groups and other organisations campaigning on issues around Palestine or the Middle East.”
Martin Daubney hit out at Palestine Action after breaking in to RAF Brize Norton and damaging two Voyager aircraft
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Delivering his verdict on Cooper’s decision, Martin expressed his outrage at the group after breaking in to the RAF base, calling them “thugs and vandals”.
Martin told political commentator Samuel Sweek: “Palestine action are thugs, they’re vandals, they caused millions of pounds worth of damage to jets, jets that could have been flying the Royal Family, even the Prime Minister himself.
“A line was crossed, clearly, and why are people taking to the streets to support them?”
Sweek responded: “I think why people are taking to the streets and the birth essentially of Palestine Action is our Government’s failure to deal what is very, very clearly egregious breaches of international law that are taking place in Gaza, perpetuated by the Israeli Government.
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“Who our British Government tacitly supports through surveillance, for intelligence sharing and for diplomatic cover. The planes at RAF Brize Norton are ones that are used for refuelling for surveillance flights from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.”
Highlighting the impact of the damage to the aircraft, Martin hit back: “It doesn’t give you the right to damage them. They may need to be scrapped or completely rebuilt, at the cost of £25million to the taxpayer.
“I put it to you, they should be made to pay or go to jail.”
Sweek then countered: “With the British taxpayers, money is being used to essentially assist Israel’s egregious breaches of human rights and international law in Gaza.
Martin Daubney called the group ‘cretins’ as he expressed his frustration with the campaigners
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“Let’s be honest, Palestine Action have hurt not a single person, and I think it’s an abuse for the Government to proscribe them.”
Martin furiously stated: “That’s a democratic process of the elected Government, not mindless thuggery and violence. £25million is a lot of damage, it’s a lot of abuse, it’s a lot of hurt, and that would be paid for by the British taxpayer. Why should you, me, everyone watching the show have to pay for the damage that these cretins put out?”
A Palestine Action spokesman said in response to the Home Secretary’s statement: “This is an unhinged reaction to an action spraying paint in protest to the UK Government arming Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people.
“The real crime here is not red paint being sprayed on these war planes, but the war crimes that have been enabled with those planes because of the UK Government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.
“It also smacks of rank hypocrisy from Keir Starmer, who rightly defended protesters who broke into an RAF base in 2003 to stop US bombers heading to Iraq, with Starmer asserting that this protest as lawful because their intention was to prevent war crimes.”
