Justice protesters to risk arrest at Labour conference

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JUSTICE campaigners will host a mass, silent vigil on the opening day of the Labour Party conference tomorrow in Liverpool in protest at the proscription of Palestine Action.

Defend Our Juries (DoJ) is organising the protest at 1pm near the conference venue to coincide with the opening day of Andy Burnham’s first Labour Party conference since becoming Prime Minister.

Organisers expect hundreds will be at risk of arrest as they hold placards with the words: “I Oppose Genocide. I Support Palestine Action.”

The action has been designed as an integrity test of the new leadership’s commitment to ending Britain’s complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

A DoJ spokesperson said: “We will be peacefully sitting outside the Labour conference because if PM Burnham means what he says, that he plans to end Britain’s complicity in Israel’s horrific crimes, then he would stop the arrests of people peacefully demonstrating against the genocide and the authoritarian attempts to crush its opponents.

“We urge PM Burnham to do the only sensible thing and lift the ban on Palestine Action, the very people in the UK actually trying to prevent British complicity in Israel’s war crimes.”

People attending the action have been asked to wear red, echoing the red jumpsuits typically worn by Palestine Action to show solidarity with those who took direct action with the group.

An increasing number of Palestine Action “actionists” are facing sentencing as “terrorists,” despite their actions taking place before the group’s proscription, with many also being held for months or years on remand in prison whilst they await trial.