Palestine Action Hunger strike in the UK

[AnFearRéabhlóideach]

A topic that is sadly getting little or no attention among the mainstream UK media has been the hunger strike by several of the Palestine Action members who have been arrested under the draconian terror legislation by Keir Stamer and his cronies of the Labour government.

The action began when a group of people associated with the Palestine action movement people broke into the Elbit System's UK Filton site near Bristol in August 2024. Elbit is an Israeli defense industry company that produces the vast majority of the IDF land based equipment and also produces huge numbers of drones and autonomous equipment that has been used in Gaza and elsewhere. Since the break in 24 individuals have been arrested and charged between August 2024 and June 2025, becoming colloquially referred to recently as the Filton 24.

Many of these individuals have been held on remand for well beyond the 6 month maximum statutory limit that is supposed to apply to all UK custodial cases. Many may not face an actual trial for up to 2 years, a severe breach of their legal rights. A further 5 individuals have faced similar breaches and have been charged with involvement and vandalism at RAF Brise Norton airbase that occurred in June 2025 with the 5 individuals being remanded in July and August last year.

Of these 8 have decided to go on hunger strike, with 2 individuals, beginning their hunger strike on 2nd November, the 108th anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour declaration, which may be regarded by some as the key British policy decision that led to the current morass in the Middle East. The hunger strikers names are Umer Khalid, Lewie Chiaramello, Kamran Ahmed, Teuta Hoxha, Jon Cink, Heba Muraisi, Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib. They have made 5 demands:

1.An end to the censorship of letters and books, and freedom of expression.

2.Immediate bail.

3.The right to a fair trial.

4.The deproscription of Palestine Action.

5.The closure of all Elbit weapons factories in Britain.

Heba Muraisi has now reached 64 days without food and has had little contact with family and friends after she was transferred hundreds of miles from HMP Bronzefield in Surrey to HMP New Hall in Wakefield just prior to beginning her hunger strike. Another hunger strikes Teuta Hoxha has paused her hunger strike after 60 days when some concessions were made to her, but the prison has flatly refused to send her to a hospital despite the high degree of danger and complications that arise in begining physically feeding someone after extreme wasting. Another striker Kamran Ahmed has reached 58 days on strike and has been already hospitalised 5 times due to medical complications arising whilst on his strike.

Personally, I would hope that the prisoners demands are met before someone dies as a result of this. I admire the strikers extreme dedication to their cause, but naturally I expect the tosspotts in Westminster who are bought and paid for stooges of the Israeli lobby to not give a toss about these Palestine action activists and the hundreds more arrested under the Palestine action proscription. If mass murder and genocide in Gaza didn't move them, I don't think the death of one of the great unwashed will move them unless it moves the general population against them.

History has a funny way of repeating itself. 44 years on from the last mass Republican hunger strike in the Maze, we find the British government handwringing and fudging the law and pretending to be democrats when the Brits political class have always been a bunch of filchers and fudgers. To borrow the Aussie parlance, a bunch of complete Figjams. Alas, it looks like history may have to repeat itself for anything to change.

https://filtonactionists.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Systems

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023 ... t-test-lab

https://prisonersforpalestine.org/read- ... secretary/

https://prisonersforpalestine.org/prisoners/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Filt ... s_break-in

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-p ... plications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pris ... ger_strike

[RoaldDahl]

It’s a rolling hunger strike. Performative nonsense.