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I am a scientist. I teach Science, Mathematics, Statistics and English.

Equally for everyone:

I oppose Genocide, all Violence and Crimes Against Humanity, and all such crimes and breaches of human dignity and rights, and complicity in them – equally for everyone.

I support Loving Kindness, Justice, Fairness, Mercy and Peace: loving others as you love yourself — principles held dear in the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and by loving people of other faiths or none.

Sadaqah, Tzedakah, Fairness, Justice, Charity, Righteousness, צדקה صَدَقَة

Loving Kindness, Mercy, Compassion, Chesed, Rahmah חסד رَحْمَة

— Islam, Judaism and Christianity share these teachings.


Obligation to protect and prevent genocide arise at the instant of a serious risk — International Court of Justice *

Prevention means acting beforehand and continuing to act until there is no longer any serious risk. It will be too late for prevention by the time there are legal judgements that genocide has been occurring and perpetrators can be prosecuted. States have international legal obligations to prevent these crimes and complicity in them.

To Sir Keir Starmer and all government ministers:

Words are not enough. Act to prevent further genocide and the evil of war crimes.
Protect those who still survive.
Use every means possible - sanction all involved – directly or by complicity, arrest those you can, cancel orders and payments that fund genocide and aggression, seize assets, stop every export that in any way facilitates this evil. Have the courage not to spare the powerful – and seek allies to strengthen our resolve against them with enough power and might to hinder their complicity.
Should individuals act as best they can to intervene when anyone is at risk of violence? + Perhaps even more so when states fail in their obligations?
If you could do anything + to prevent or hinder:
— The Holocaust — Should you have?
— Maybe you could have stopped production of Zyklon B? Should you have? +
— The 7/7 and 9/11 terrorist attacks?
— Genocides and atrocities in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Sudan ... ?
— The slaughter, maiming and atrocities against children and adults on 7th October and afterwards? +
— The continuing, slaughter, starvation, displacement, destruction and genocide in Gaza? +
— When?
What could you do now for those still surviving? + — Should you?
Before it's too late for them too?


+ without yourself committing or supporting genocide, war crimes or terrorism or injuring others.++

<large>* "A State's obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to protect, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk genocide will be committed. From that moment onwards, if the State has available means likely to have a deterrent effect on those suspected of preparing genocide, or reasonably suspected of harbouring specific intent (dolus specialis), it is under a duty to make such use of these means as the circumstances permit." — International Court of Justice [1][2] </large>

This ruling by the International Court of Justice is on genocide, but it may be expected that it is a principle to be upheld for states' obligations for all other such serious crimes.


I frequently and legally protest the proscription of PA and I support action for judicial review of proscription to overturn it and legal action to deproscribe it. I provide short accurate summaries of the Terrorist Act 2000, especially for the offences most likely to be unwittingly broken. I disagree with the arrest of peaceful protesters holding cardboard signs at these protests, (and I know that many police officers who carry out the arrests also disagree). I object to the arrests at the protests; as I can't stop them, I encourage the politest, gentlest policing as they follow orders to arrest protesters, but this has varied greatly from place to place and time to time. The arrests draw attention to the protests in a way my legal protests can't, but because my own protests are legal I can protest frequently and have different opportunities at the protests, including monitoring police behaviour and staying after the arrested protesters have left.


++I am not encouraging support, glorification or emulation of terrorism. I strongly oppose all violence against anyone.

Many of us disagree with the proscription of Palestine Action. We don't believe its direct actions meet a normal, everyday understanding of terrorism. We question the morality, legality and chilling effect on free speech, protest and direct action of proscription and want it deproscribed. Even the Home Office admitted in court that MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre found the vast majority of Palestine Action activity was not terrorism.[3]
We deplore that people remain free to support genocide with words or military supplies, while those protesting against genocide and striving for our international legal obligations to prevent and protect from genocide are arrested as terrorists.
Like it or not, there are many serious offences in UK terrorist laws, some of which so widely drawn in law that it is easy to accidentally commit a serious terrorist offence – or be arrested for entirely legal activity. Some police do not understand the law; some cannot distinguish support of Palestine Action from opposition to genocide and support of Palestine and its people. Some of the law is open to different interpretations such that it is hard to know exactly what police and courts will consider illegal. If you want to protest, check the law very carefully, consider the serious consequences, and if you want to avoid arrest or charge for terrorist offences, take great care. Carry a bust-card just in case.
I strongly advise taking great care not to risk accidentally committing these serious terrorist offences. I try to maintain a brief summary of offences on the Palestine Action Wikipedia page (but it is hard to keep it accurate with others editing it without knowledge of the law). Check the Terrorism Act 2000 Sections 11 to 13, especially 12(1a) and the Terrorism Act 2006 Section 7. These are ones it is easy to break by mistake. S13 is strict liability for merely displaying May God bless you for your zeal for justice if you can find ways to oppose genocide and all violence and crimes against humanity.
Legal Note. I was not, am not, nor professed to be a member of PA. I do not and have not advocate(d), nor invite(d), nor glorify/glorified, nor support(ed), nor encourage(d) support or membership or emulation of a terrorist group or terrorist action. I discourage all of these, and questions about doing anything + are clearly marked to show this does not include any terrorism or violence against anyone. Moreover, they are expressed to government ministers who voted for proscription and who ought to have sufficient sense not to do what they have just made serious criminal offences... My rhetoric encourages ministers to action, not just words against genocide, , others would want to try to save lives and prevent these attrocious crimes. I am not expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation or terrorist activity. I am careful to discourage all of these, so I am not being reckless that any person to whom any expression is directed will be encouraged to support (or emulate etc.) a proscribed organisation or any terrorist activity. Challenging the appalling effects on free speech and the disproportionality of proscribing PA is not the same as supporting PA. The Home Office acknowledges that MI5's analysis shows the vast majority of PA's activities were not terrorism, not even as defined in TACT 2000 (which is far more all encompassing than a dictionary definition and our common understanding of terrorism). It should be no surprise that we want speak out against genocide and the failure of the our and other governments to do all they should to prevent and protect in accordance with international law. That law gags our free speechare horrified that a group that tr
  1. ^ Judgment of 26 February 2007, International Court of Justice, Document Number 091-20070226-JUD-01-00-EN
  2. ^ "Judgment of 26 February 2007 | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE". www.icj-cij.org. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  3. ^ "UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told". The Guardian. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.