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Netpol@netpol· 13d

Netpol is speaking tomorrow at 7pm at Community Camp for Palestine, outside the US Embassy in London, on our report "One Day in Edgware" and the policing of the 'Great Israel Real Estate Event', where police stood by and did nothing as far-right and Zionist thugs ambushed pro-Palestine protesters

Policing of the 'Great Israel Real Estate Event', in conversation with Kevin Blowe and Bob George. 30th July 2026, 7pm, Community Camp for Palestine, The Pavilion, 30 Nine Elms Lane SW8 5DF. In-person and live-streamed

Netpol@netpol· 13d

We're excited to launch our new report: One Day In Brighton: The policing of the Carnival Against Fascism in Brighton on Saturday 13th June 2026. 3pm Friday August 7th, The Plaque Junction of Frederick Place and Trafalgar Street, right by the Prince Albert pub. See you there.

Netpol@netpol· 18d

🧵1/Open letter in defence of Rajiv Menon: Next week, my friend barrister Rajiv Menon KC faces trial for contempt of court — for mentioning the independence of juries while defending his client.

Rajiv holding the Newham Monitoring Project banner on a march in 1992

Netpol@netpol· 19d

5 days left to Save Our Juries5 days left to Save Our Juries! We’ve made a warning sign for the famous plaque in the Old Bailey celebrating the independence of juries.

Netpol@netpol· 20d

Barristers and solicitors come together tonight to organise an event in solidarity with Rajiv Menon, the defence lawyer who faces contempt of court charges for daring to mention that juries are independent when speaking for a Palestine Action client. 🕠 Starts 5.30 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Descent into Authoritarianism? Undermining the role of defence lawyers: the Rajiv Menon KC case

Netpol@netpol· 20d

6 days left to Save Our Juries! New government ➡️ New ministers. Tell them: ➡️Don’t destroy our juries! ➡️Stop the Prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC! ⬇️⬇️⬇️Sign the petition ⬇️⬇️⬇️ tinyurl.com/SaveOurJuries

6 days left to Save Our Juries!

New government ➡️ New ministers
Secretary of State for Justice Alex Norris (left) & Attorney General Ellie Reeves (right)
Tell them:
➡️Don’t destroy our juries!
➡️Stop the Prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC!
⬇️⬇️⬇️Sign the petition ⬇️⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/SaveOurJuries

Netpol@netpol· 21d

7 days left to save Britain's juries! Join the 12,000 that have signed the petition: tinyurl.com/SaveOurJuries

Netpol@netpol· 27d

No barrister in British legal history has ever faced contempt proceedings over the content of a closing speech. But Rajiv Menon KC is on trial on 28 July for words recited by barristers in court for years. Sign the petition against this outrageous prosecution you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

A blue background has the Netpol and Defend Our juries logos, a picture of Rajiv Menon and the headline, "Stop the Prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC. Save Britain's Juries"

Netpol@netpol· Jul 8

Both our "One Day in Edgware" and "One Day in Manchester" reports are rich in detail and lend themselves to long-form journalism (which we would help with by facilitating contacts with anonymised sources). Message us if you're a journalist and interested. Coming soon: "One Day in Brighton"

The cover of Netpol's "One Day in Manchester" report

The cover of Netpol's "One Day in Edgware" report

Netpol@netpol· Jul 7

Those the police violently attacked were often already contained (kettled) by the police and unable to disperse. Contributors described being trapped within police containment, exposed to violence and prevented from moving away without harm, or from receiving timely medical care when injured

Netpol@netpol· Jul 7

Police repeatedly and indiscriminately attacked individuals who were not posing any imminent threat. Testimonies document the use of PAVA spray, physical assaults, strangulation and choking, kettling, baton strikes, hair pulling, sexualised violence and the denial and obstruction of medical access

Police repeatedly and often indiscriminately attacked individuals who were not posing any imminent threat. Testimonies document the use of PAVA spray, physical assaults, strangulation and choking, kettling, baton strikes, hair pulling, sexualised violence and the denial and obstruction of medical access

Netpol@netpol· Jul 3

Staffordshire’s Reform councillors are latest to set police on local campaigners with surveillance and arrests netpol.org/2026/07/03/s...

Campaigners from Stafford Campaign Against Racism & Fascism (SCARF) holding placards protesting against racist comments made by Reform UK councillors who control Staffordshire County Council

Netpol@netpol· Jul 2

Earlier this week, new provisions in the Crime and Policing Act 2026 came into force making it an offence to conceal your identity at protests. A year ago Netpol asked: if building a campaign of mass compliance isn't the response that everyone can get behind, then what is? netpol.org/2025/04/02/f...

A protester in London with their face covered holds a megaphone and a placard

Netpol@netpol· Jul 1

This is from Northern Police Monitoring Project on Insta www.instagram.com/p/DaKMYPmNUVg/

Join Us! Community Launch. Netpol and NPMP present: Dossier: Britain First demo and counter-protest in Manchester City Centre, Saturday 18th April 2026. This important community record evidence our collective experiences of police violent at the Resist Britain First demonstration and we demand action from Manchester's political leadership. Join us in community, in rage and in solidarity. Tuesday 7th July. 6pm, St Peter's Square

Netpol@netpol· Jun 30

“It is the most unsafe I have ever felt at a demonstration, and I have attended many, and the police enabled the Zionists to do this” What protesters told us about opposing an illegal Israeli property fair in Edgware and how police responded to a violent right wing counter protest 🧵

The cover of "One Day in Edgware", Netpol's report on a protest by anti-Zionists in north London on 14 June

Netpol@netpol· Jun 29

This ambush wasn't spontaneous: it was planned and publicised online. This is the AI-slop that was shared by the inaccurately named rightwing 'Stop the Hate' group comparing mainly Jewish people opposing the sale of illegal settlement properties to the Blackshirts marching on Cable Street in 1936

AI-slop poster in blue and white, with the slogan "They Shall Not Pass" and a lion with a Star of David on its chest. Other slogans are "These Streets Are Our Streets", "Cable Street 1936—Edgware 2026" and "The Battle of Edgware"

Netpol@netpol· Jun 15

The Court of Appeal did indeed say that as a result of its covert efforts to avoid detention, "Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes" at para 161. This is why history matters

The nature of Palestine Action

160. The first factor to be considered in favour of proscription is the nature of Palestine Action. As we have explained above, Palestine Action is not a transparent non-violent direct action protest group as it claims (see [149]-[150] above). It is a covert organisation that has revealed little about itself in these proceedings. The Underground Manual reveals that its activities are carried out by unidentifiable cells, whose objective is to avoid detection.

161. The essential characteristics of Palestine Action are, in fact, the antithesis of the kind of civil disobedience protest group explained in Jones and Cuadrilla at [145]-[146] above. First, Palestine Action’s activities are planned and undertaken secretly with the objective of avoiding detection (see, for example, the Underground Manual at Annex A advocating creating cells to take “actions without detection as part of Palestine Action Underground”, and explaining “how to get to the site and leave undetected”). Secondly,
the members of Palestine Action do not vouch their sincerity by accepting the penalties
imposed by the law. Thirdly, on a fair analysis, Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes or the anti-apartheid or Iran War protest groups (see
[149]-[150] above).

Netpol@netpol· Jun 15

People are now being carried away by the Met for supporting Palestine Action

Protester arrested and carried away by police officers outside the Royal Courts of Justice

Netpol@netpol· Jun 15

Immediate reaction outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London

Netpol@netpol· Jun 15

Lord Walnuts is now demanding "People Against Genocide" are banned. 60% of the population oppose genocide, while over half support ending arms sales to Israel

Telegraph headline"New pro-Palestinian group should be banned, says former anti-extremism tsarr – Lord Walney (sic) accuses People Against Genocide of ‘criminal violence’ tactics similar to proscribed Palestine Action movement

Netpol@netpol· Jun 12

Netpol@netpol· Jun 12

One of our team is at the court today – the judge who refused to allow defendants to explain why they took action against Israeli genocide seems likely to use their motivations to give them harsher sentences as "terrorists". This was a show trial.

A placard outside of Woolwich Crown Court reads "lock up the real terrorists" over images of Keir Starmer and Benjamin Netanyahu

Netpol@netpol· Jun 3

There is currently a live facial recognition operation taking place close to Forest Gate railway station in east London @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social

Netpol@netpol· Jun 2

6/ Protesters are being forced into visibility at the same moment police violence is becoming harder to scrutinise. If accountability is to mean anything, it cannot apply only to those protesting power and never to those exercising it. Full article: netpol.org/2026/05/28/a...

A masked protester speaks into a microphone whilst a police officer watches on.

Netpol@netpol· Jun 2

4/ Greater Manchester Police forcefully removed the face masks and eyewear of antifascist protesters in order to spray them directly in the eyes with PAVA - pepper spray. One person had their face mask removed so violently that their ear cartilage was torn.

A GMP Inspector threatens a protest with PAVA pepper spray.

Netpol@netpol· Jun 2

3/ In what Netpol has dubbed the ‘accountability gap’, we are seeing the expansion of police powers alongside the whittling down of formal judicial and complaint mechanisms. Public documentation and scrutiny have become the only way to pursue police accountability.

3 black lives matter protesters hold placards.

Netpol@netpol· Jun 2

1/ Accountability for protesters, but not police? Protesters are targeted for wearing masks, including a legal observer arrested for wearing a mask while undergoing chemotherapy.

Headline? Accountability for protesters, but not police?

Image shows protester with mask on, and the backs of two police officers in a line of police, facing the demonstration.

Netpol@netpol· Jun 2

#OTD 2 June 2006, Metropolitan Police officers raided a home in Forest Gate looking for a "chemical bomb" and shot one of two brothers they arrested. No bomb was found, nor evidence of "terrorist activity". Mobilised by Newham Monitoring Project, 5000 people later marched on the local police station

Photo taken by Netpol's Campaigns and Media Coordinator Kevin Blowe, whose flat was inside the police cordon, on the day of the police raid on 1 June 2006 at the end of Lansdown Road E7

Front page of the Independent on 14 June 2006, after the Kahar brothers were eventually released

Netpol@netpol· May 16

Later today, the Metropolitan Police says anyone calling for "death" to Israel's genocidal occupation forces is targeting Jewish people and will face arrest. The CPS also says prosecutors will consider the "wider context" of chants including "international tensions" www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps...

Placard reads "the Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied"

Netpol@netpol· May 14

If you are in central London on Saturday to march with the Palestine Coalition, don't forget these five key 'Know Your Rights' messages – and share them with others who may not know them