Israel lobby tries to shut down Chris Williamson’s Palestine Declassified

The Israel lobby are trying to shut down ‘Palestine Declassified,’ an online analysis programme “about the worldwide struggle to liberate Palestine”. The show was set up, and is presented by, well-known former Labour MP Chris Williamson, alongside anti-Zionist David Miller,

Since Starmer conned his way into Downing Street with the help of fascist Reform’s ‘ghost candidates’, his regime has waged a constant war on pro-Palestine free speech, protest and activism, with direct action group Palestine Action unlawfully banned and a number of activists, writers and journalists prosecuted and/or persecuted by state power.

But, equally typically, Williamson is defiant. Explaining the attack on his show in a post on X, he said:

I’ve been presenting a weekly programme, alongside [David Miller], for the last four years called @PDeclassifed, about the worldwide struggle to liberate Palestine. But the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is now trying to shut us down.

The studio where Palestine Declassified has been recorded since 2022 has now been targeted by Zionists via the Home Office and corporate media. The studio recently received an unsigned and highly unusual letter from the Home Office threatening potential legal action under the National Security Act because of supposed ‘foreign influence’.

Since then, an absurd and defamatory Telegraph article claimed that the studio was owned by Press TV and, laughably, that it acted as a spy recruitment hub! But the studio has no relationship with Press TV or Iran, and our show is independently produced.

This is pure state intimidation. But we will not be cowed by these bureaucratic bullying tactics. Rest assured, the show will continue, and so will its groundbreaking reports.

This drastic step by the British government, operating at the behest of the Zionist regime, only shows how fearful they are about the information we are exposing about the global Zionist war on Palestine.

Given this campaign of harassment, we will be finding a new studio and changing the format of the show. This, unfortunately, will come with associated production issues and costs, so we will be launching an appeal soon to help ensure that Palestine Declassified continues every week.

Watch this space.

The so-called ‘Foreign Influence Registration Scheme’, which Mahmood is using against Palestine Declassified, was specifically created to target opponents of US-Israel aggression against Iran. It was described by the government as part of:

a robust package of measures to tackle threats from the Iranian regime.

Unsurprisingly, however, despite the mass presence of Israel front groups and lobbyists in the UK and of its agents in UK government and state, it is not – fancy that – being used against those who propagate and carry out Israeli influence in the UK. Despite one in four MPs accepting funds from Israel a recent, farcical government report on foreign influence in UK politics does not mention Israel even once.

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