SECOND British journalist arrested for ‘crime’ of criticising Israel!

Right, so a second pro Palestine British journalist has been arrested following the arrest and detention of Richard Medhurst, showing we’re pretty much now living in a police state where if you are against the Israeli genocide being meted out in Gaza and now being rolled out into the West Bank, where there is no Hamas of course, and is tantamount to open warfare against an occupied territory, you face a possible knock on the door from the boys in blue.
Starmer was always going to be a rampant authoritarian, the warning have been there and been voiced by independent journalists and political commentators for years. He’s a Zionist without qualification. If you aren’t one as well, then what? You’re a criminal now? How many of us might be getting a knock on the door in the none too distant future then?
Right, so do you reckon you might be on the security services list of wrong’uns in Keir Starmer’s eyes then? Do counter-terrorism police, because it is terrorist legislation used to make these arrests, have you in a little black book, or computer database equivalent? Do you reckon your posts on social media are being trawled to find dirt on you, to excuse your possible arrest?
I made a similar point in my video on the arrest of Pavel Durov the other day, the biggest issue to my mind about his platform Telegram isn’t so much the deviants that use the platform to plan and share their assorted depravities, because it isn’t them they are going after, the bigger issue there is that security services don’t have backdoor access to it, so the flow of information that Western interests might like to stop, keep on flowing. When we’re seeing arrests of those who would share that important and crucial information, the likes of Richard Medhurst, the likes of, in this case Sarah Wilkinson, then it is a clampdown on that information which vested interests do not want shared, that mainstream obediently ignores, but that independent bloggers, vloggers, writers, scribblers, posters, whatever certainly do post, because we deserve to know what is being done in our name, with public money, and if we relied on just our politicians and mainstream media, we’d all probably be thinking Israel are heroes right now, because that’s the preferred narrative and certainly not the truthful one.
We have an authoritarian running the country though. We’ve seen how Starmer runs his party, accepts no dissent, expects obedience and loyalty and if you won’t put up with that, then you’re out. He told us where the door was when we didn’t like it, now he’s in power, now he’s running the country, there’s no longer a door where we can walk away from that, but if we dare continue to speak out against his beloved Israel, no matter what they do, well, he’s got the security services at his fingertips. How far is he prepared to keep going with this? How many more like Medhurst and Wilkinson will be silenced as the government seek to bury the crime of genocide, with charges of terrorism against those speaking out against said genocide?
So who is Sarah Wilkinson then and what has happened to her? Well, Wilkinson writes for MENA Uncensored, which is exactly what it says on the tin, Uncensored news from the MENA region, MENA being Middle East & North Africa. She’s avowedly pro Palestinian, a human rights activist, very much calling out the Israeli occupation and genocide and her she tweets out content in line with this, video content, articles, not just her own but those of others too through her substantial Twitter account, some 291,000 followers, but fundamentally doesn’t do much that plenty of other people are not doing with pro Palestine anti Israel content either.
What we’re witnessing here is a war against press freedom, a war against freedom of speech and expression, a war against our right to know what the hell is going on in the world, what our government are doing in relation to that and when you boil it all down, is an assault on democracy itself. If you’ve got nothing to hide, why are you prepared to arrest people in order to hide it and in this case, when that comes down to a basic tenet like the truth, we should all be very, very alarmed by it.
A reply put out in response to a tweet by Declassified UK’s Matt Kennard from Jack Wilkinson, presumably a relative of Sarah’s is as much detail as we really have concerning her arrest. It reads:
‘The police came to her house just before 7.30am. 12 of them in total, some of them in plain clothes from the counter terrorism police. They said she was under arrest for "content that she has posted online." Her house is being raided & they have seized all her electronic devices.’
MENA Uncensored posted in the last hour at time of writing that she is in good spirits and has managed to meet with her lawyer. They have also published a statement, dated from April, as proof that Sarah Wilkinson is a news contributor at MENA Uncensored and has been since January 2024.
Arrested for content she posted online though? Like what that prompted an arrest? Social media posts showing video footage of Israeli atrocity. An interview with West Bank politician Mustafa Barghouti on Al Jazeera. Or is it that she dared show a video of Richard Medhurst being interviewed on Press TV, or indeed posts articles from that source too, an Iranian news outlet as it is. Is it the fact that they broadcast from Iran that is the issue, or is it more the fact they broadcast in English that is of bigger concern? God forbid we understand what they’re saying as well as what they are saying, because for as much as you can be sure it is absolutely Iranian state TV, you can be equally sure it’s calling out Israel in no uncertain terms. It’s still only a news channel though! Whether you agree with the content or not, it’s just a TV channel! Is that genuinely the case against her? Honestly if you’re on Twitter go to her account and see if you can find the terrorism she’s been arrested for, allegedly. @swilkinsonbc. Look for yourself.
Now if they decide sharing more Press TV clips or articles than the establishment approves of or photos or videos of maimed individuals from Gaza counts as terrorism, I struggle to see how, unless the common denominator is really the crime here, that exposing Israel’s war crimes is now a crime itself in Starmer’s Britain. If so, then Sarah Wilkinson faces up to 14 years behind bars for daring to inform you of things the powers that be don’t like them doing. It’d be a rotten shame if people went to her account and started sharing loads of her posts in which case wouldn’t it?
What we have here is a social media account of a journalist sharing evidence of war crimes being committed against people in Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank now as that is, people who under international law are permitted to resist occupation, are perfectly entitled to resist their occupation, but if you show them doing that, then that counts as terrorism here in the UK. How many of us have been doing that for the past getting on for 11 months now? How many of us might now be on a watch list. Should I be waving to the screen and saying hi to whoever might be watching this, who might be building a dossier on me for instance for the crime of being pro Palestinian, anti Israeli genocide and choosing to not just opine on that but criticise the UK government and other governments too for casting a blind eye and carrying on with arms sales to the regime and continuing of course to take cash from the pro Israel lobby? Surely that’s the bigger crime? Well in the grand scheme of it, of course it is, but when are they the ones ever held to account for such actions and that’s even less likely now with Starmer being probably the most pro security state Prime Minister we’ve ever had.
Naturally social media has come rallying to Wilkinson’s side.
Journalist and human rights activist Craig Murray wrote:
‘It seems the dynamic activist and journalist Sarah Wilkinson has now been arrested. I predicted Starmer would initiate a new wave of authoritarianism in the UK and particularly aggressive state action against opponents of Starmer's beloved genocidal zionist terrorist state. I am now literally waiting for the knock on the door.’
There will be a few of us wondering about that, but I suppose the more people were to share Sarah’s posts, the bigger the list gets. How many are too many? Will we end up with an I am Spartacus situation in the end here?
The massive War Monitor Twitter Account, a million followers strong posted:
‘Extremely worrying news coming from the UK this morning after a number of journalists who report on the ongoing genocide in Gaza were arrested and charged with “supporting terrorism”. Journalists reporting real world events are not supporting or endorsing “terrorism”, this is a blatant attempt to silence those exposing Israeli war crimes.’
And Palestine Action posted:
‘In one day, counter-terrorism police arrest actionist Sarah Wilkinson for posts online, re-raid one of the #Filton10's address and charge actionist Richard Barnard for supporting a proscribed organisation. This is what you call a police state - one which is trying desperately to protect the interests of a foreign genocidal entity. We will not back down!’
And yes, Palestine Action co-founder Richard Barnard has also been arrested, facing three charges based on two speeches he gave after, it is claimed, a concerted effort by the Israel Lobby.
Fundamentally we’re running the risk of being nicked for daring to share an opinion on something establishment interests disagree with. If that isn’t a dangerous precedent and a descent towards an undemocratic clampdown on our human rights to freedom of expression, by just telling the truth, then I don’t know what is.
And of course there is no escaping the fact that the UK government are themselves widely seen to be complicit in genocide too, an issue they are ending up in a bigger and bigger mess over as this video recommendation will tell you all about and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.