Exposed: Palestine Action’s Plans for Wave of Attacks on RAF Bases Across UK
Palestine Action is preparing to launch a wave of attacks on RAF bases across the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reveals after its journalists infiltrated the group and attended an online meeting. Here’s an excerpt from the newspaper’s report.
In a meeting recorded by Telegraph reporters, the group outlined a list of new targets after its members damaged planes during a break-in at RAF Brize Norton last week.
Palestine Action has launched a major recruitment drive just days before it is officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation, putting it on par with Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
This publication was able to access one of its online meetings and can, for the first time, disclose details about the group’s secretive structure, its new focus on covert action, and advice given to members on exploiting the legal aid system following any arrest.
The meeting’s organiser boasted that its activists ranged from “nursery teachers to surgeons”, aged from 18 to 80.
Tactics discussed included breaking into factories and hitting “everything you can find with a sledgehammer”, as well as how to set up autonomous cells able to target military bases without detection.
A slide in the call identified three specific RAF bases most suitable for attack: RAF Cranwell and RAF Barkston Heath, both in Lincolnshire, and RAF Valley, in Anglesey, North Wales. It also recommended action against defence companies believed to be supplying arms to Israel.
The Telegraph has shared details of the plans with police and the Ministry of Defence.
Palestine Action triggered a major security review of military bases after breaking into Brize Norton, where it sprayed red paint on two military planes and potentially caused millions of pounds of damage.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, called the attack “disgraceful” and vowed to proscribe the group, a decision which Palestine Action said it would mount a legal challenge against.
In the wake of the announcement, Palestine Action has been carrying out an intensive series of recruitment workshops in an attempt to build a network of autonomous cells across the country that will target military bases.
RAF Cranwell was the world’s first Air Academy and it continues to select and train the next generation of RAF officers. RAF Barkston Heath is a relief landing ground for RAF Cranwell and is the home of 57 Sqn’s B Flight of No 3 Flying Training School. RAF Valley on Anglesey is home to No 4 Flying Training School, responsible for training the UK’s next generation of fighter pilots.
All three bases are said by Palestine Action to have links to Elbit Systems UK, a military manufacturer which has been repeatedly targeted by the group.
At the start of the online “direct action workshop”, an unidentified female activist told the group of around 50 potential recruits that they would be required to make “sacrifices” for the cause.
The participants were told they would be part of a new, sustained wave of attacks targeting military bases.
The organiser, standing in front of a flag associated with one of the factions in the Syrian civil war, said that the proposed proscription was “draconian and dangerous” and Palestine Action would “continue to operate” even if designated as a terror group.
Well done, Telegraph – though one would hope the intelligence services have also managed to do this for themselves…
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Another bunch of people looking for meaning in their lives.
Friggin’ barmpots, the lot of them. I’ll bet most wouldn’t even be able to point ‘Palestine’ out on a map. ”All Zionists should die!” Right, well, I fully expect this Kool-Aid junkie to get sent down the same as Lucy Connolly and the other keyboard warriors, then. Fat chance. You can totally see how the Jonestown massacre happened when you look at these fanatical, massively ignorant people, because it is like a cult;
”They are taught in school that the West is wicked, that it deserves retribution – and that all third world cultures, by contrast, are noble and pure.
At university they learn that Israel is the ultimate expression of pure evil. Add to that an atmosphere conducive to mental breakdown and you get our self-loathing young harridan here.
There are hundreds of thousands of them.”
https://x.com/KiszelyPhilip/status/1937450632211751372
And they all validate each other constantly, it’s true;
”The amount of dopamine she’s currently on from the activists camaraderie is so addictive she’s at their mercy and will do anything they desire to keep the high going. Like a crackhead appeasing their dealer by burgling their parent’s house.”
Extinction Rebellion, Net Zero, feminists, Palestine Action, Greta (Tintin) Thunberg – barmpots in search of meaning in their lives. Trying to fill the post-modernist nihilism.
Leftist pseudo-religious cults.
I don’t know how much time you put into finding these things and posting other useful information, but please keep going. There isn’t a single post of yours I don’t look forward to reading.
Roger that.😁 And thanks for your kind words.
Actually no time at all due to Twitter being a goldmine. Once you know who to follow and your algorithms get sorted as a result, 99% of the stuff I post just crosses my path on my feed, with zero research time on my part.
Perhaps if your gov’t took these threats seriously, provided every military base with high security, and prosecuted those breaking the law effectively, you might just not have this problem. But when people can get away with murder, guess what.
I think lethal force is appropriate for someone attacking a military installation. Legal aid won’t work then.
Who’s funding these full-time activists?
Now THAT is the crucial question…
“Who’s funding these full-time MUSLIM TERRORISTS planning attacks on Great Britain’s Armed Forces?”
A comment seen a few days ago suggested the yanks would indeed deal with these incursions by exercising “lethal force.”
And they would also track down who funds this scum and deal with them in the same way they are targeting those behind the LA riots. But then the US has a leader where we have a legal penpusher.
It would not surprise me to find that the government are funding these people in a roundabout way. The Labour Party of which Cooper was a cabinet member under Blair started this mess. I find it surprising that she would want to do anything to harm her core voters.
Refer to the excellent Charlotte Gill, who spends a lot of time unpicking the threads behind a lot of this stuff. Many such things (not sure if this particular example is included) have been funded by the Rowntree Trust, Cadbury Foundation, Quakers, George Soros’ Open Source Foundation, et al.
Before donating to any “charity” do your due diligence.
Too true. And if you hate the country you’re in that much then please do us all a favour and bugger off to any Muslim nation forthwith, FGS; ”It is bad enough that Europe’s spineless leaders have done all they can to avoid taking sides with democratic Israel against Islamist Iran. But it will be even worse if they refuse to fight the intensifying political war on the home front, against the anti-Western alliance that has come out in support of Iran and its terrorist satellites. Even when the likes of German chancellor Friedrich Merz confessed that little Israel is “doing the dirty work” for Western democracy by fighting the Islamic Republic, and some other EU leaders begrudgingly conceded it was in Europe’s interests to stop Iran acquiring an Islamist Bomb, they were still all squealing about “de-escalation” and pleading with the Ayatollahs to play nice. Europe’s equivocation was exemplified by the UK’s useless Labour foreign secretary, David Lammy, who told parliament that the issue of whether Britain supported the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities was not a “binary question.” Just as these people don’t know if a woman can have a penis, they don’t know which side to… Read more »
What do you care about Iran? Iran is a country 4,000 miles away. Iran has never waged war on UK, nor on Israel but Israel is waging war against Iran. Iran has a completely legal nuclear programme developed for peaceful purposes. Iran always abided by international limitations, signing the JCPOA agreement and allowing full IAEA access to all its facilities. Until recently. Actually, Trump pulled out of the JCPOA during his first term in office, presumably to please his Israeli overseers and permit a future aggression by Israel against the country, which we are experiencing today (barring a short, supposed cease-fire). And this week, the Iranian government apparently agreed to cancel relations with IAEA, since the latter is accused of presenting Israel with precise details of Iran’s nuclear facilities, thereby enabling the recent attacks. Even so, Iran’s Supreme Leader has hitherto forbidden development of an atomic bomb since he considers weapons of mass destruction to be against the tenets of the Islam religion. Sadly, our Christian leaders do not share this ideal. The idiocy of tiny Israel, with its population of 9 million, challenging a country to war 75 times its size with a population of 90 million, is difficult… Read more »
Even if all you said was correct – which if I believed it was would, in my opinion, make me a fool – do you believe that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, they would not use it first? All of the problems in the Middle East, no matter what opinions you hold or which side you take, when you take the *whole* situation down to it’s lowest common denominator, you are left with one cause – Islam. Islam teaches its followers to do evil things. There are many millions of followers of Islam who are prepared to follow those teachings to the letter, including believing they will be rewarded in Heaven for those actions. They want to die, because they want their reward. They believe it with every fibre of their being. They want the destruction of Israel. They want the apocalypse to happen, because they think God wants it. Peaceful followers of Islam, who I am sure are the majority, are unable or unwilling to stop them. This is impossible to fight against by conventional means. We now have countless people living in our own country with this belief. We also have countless indigenous Brits who support those… Read more »
I am sure you are not a fool since you had the decency to challenge my answer in a polite manner. We are all indoctrinated on a daily basis that we (British, Europeans, US Americans) are good, that the rest of the world is, at best, stupid/inferior or, at worst, downright dangerous. Every news broadcast, all day and every day, subtly emphasizes this. Russia is bad, China is bad, but UK is good. Christianity is good, Islam is bad. We have a long history, we once ruled the world, Arabs are, well, Arabs. If you move to a foreign country, especially a distant country, you will soon realize we have a very superior attitude that is seldom actually justified. But, essentially, it is very simple: everybody all around the world wants to live in peace and enjoy their lives as much as possible. Christianity is also a violent religion – crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, and so on – but modern-day Christians gloss over the past and ignore the violent texts in the Bible. Islam is probably equally violent (I have never read the Koran) and the vast majority of the 2 billion Muslims in the world also ignore the violent… Read more »
I would challenge your assertion that any of us believe the “West” is “good”. This is about naive young leftists taking the side of a barbaric Islamist regime – and yes, no-one is blameless, but taking the side of Iran as opposed to just adopting the view that both sides have blood on their hands is just cuckoo.
It’s performative controvertialism and a desire to appear “radical” and edgy. Pretty pathetic, as I’d wager heavily that most of the keffiyeh-clad drones haven’t even the most rudimentary awareness of the intricacies or history of their latest cause celebrè.
My assertion was that we all believe the West is good – including myself, until I watched this video of Noam Chomsky and researched what was actually going on between Palestinians and Israel. And you also seem to approve of Israel (as ‘West’ as they get) since you say the PA people are supporting a “barbaric Islamist regime”. I would argue they are attacking an incredibly barbaric Jewish regime. Sorry, but I have just been watching yet another video of the atrocities happening every day in Gaza, as directed by Netanyahu and his cronies. And the world dares not say a word against these monsters. And please do not quote 7th October as any sort of justification for the past 600+ days of barbaric murder carried out by the IDF. The UK government is clearly complicit in the genocide and so is every shameful publication that does not scream out against it.
When you say “attacks,” I assume you mean spraying paint—because that’s what Palestine Action did. But Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, even the Countryside Alliance have disrupted, trespassed, defaced—none of them outlawed. So why this group? Why now?
Is it really about the action? Or is it about the target—and the message? Because perhaps, the truth is, one may suspect that British-made bombs are being dropped on children thousands of miles away. That’s not metaphor. That’s not paint. That’s metal tearing through flesh, buildings, families.
So when people protest—angrily, visibly, unapologetically—they’re told that’s too far. But what’s “too far”? The protest? Or the reason it exists?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-continuing-send-arms-israel-despite-ban-report
Have Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil or the Countryside Alliance ever done anything to directly restrict the country’s ability to act militarily?
I am genuinely not taking any side here, just wondering if that is the answer to your questions, “So why this group? Why now?”
Good point. And have those other groups actually incapacitated the planes which are often used to rescue and evacuate Britons stranded in emergencies abroad, and bring them safely home?
We’ve hardly got any aircraft left in the whole of the UK Armed Forces as it is!
One of those groups blocked the M25 for several hours – I cannot remember which one. That spoiled many people’s day.
If our military is so unconcerned about its equipment that it cannot be bothered to protect it from a couple of people carrying pots of paint then what are we supposed to think about our military?
And why are you worried about the country’s ability to act militarily? Is there a war on? I personally would prefer we kept out of the world’s conflicts.
Apparently, our RAF flies reconnaissance missions over Gaza for the Israelis. Why do they do that? What do our pilots think when they see the destruction below them? Are they not ashamed to be involved in an ongoing genocide?
All the fuss about some people with pots of paint who should never have been able to get near any military aircraft is clearly just another example of how UK always bows so low to please our Israeli audience.
Costs of damage from Palestine Action attacks at RAF Brize Norton will total ‘at least… – LBC
£30 MILLION POUNDS.
“It is thought that red paint sprayed INTO THE TURBINE OF THE ENGINE has caused IRREPARABLE DAMAGE.”
Replace the turbine? Mount a guard? Save 30 million.
Yeah, I think they sell them on Temu…
I am sure those RAF crews are proud to be serving their country, by helping to get rid of Hamas.
Read my comment again, CGW.
Now let’s see you loudmouthed clowns supporting Muslim Terrorist Attacks Against the British Armed Forces go to Poland or India or Saudi Arabia, for example, break into their Air Force Bases and cause £millions of pounds worth of damage to their military aircraft, and SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU.
Yes, one would hope that some military force somewhere will guard their aircraft better than we do.
On this I agree with you. We have become so weak and pathetic, every institution, that when someone wants to cause pain and disruption to others, we let them get on with it rather than deal forcefully with them.
I’d fully support shooting them as they tried to break through the fence.
I support protest that doesn’t harm others. I would stop protest that causes harm and significant interference to others.
Good that we agree but shooting is not necessary, a simple arrest will do. It would not be nice if somebody’s dog chased a rabbit into a military establishment and the dog owner was shot trying to get it back!
Wow! This shows the tremendous power of good old-fashioned, Courageous Investigative Journalism at its finest! Hats off to The Telegraph for this— Even a map showing the targets!
It also shows the very real Muslim Terrorist Threat posed by Palestine Action and its affiliated Muslim Terrorist organizations, using the British Isles as a safe haven from which to conduct their Alien Wars.
But somehow the same Jewish Starmer & Muslim Mahmood who set up 24-hour Stalinist Kangaroo Courts to throw British Patriots into prison for mere opinions, are dragging their feet about banning Real Muslim Terrorists like these. Oh, it has to go through both Houses of Parliament, and we can’t even submit it until the end of June, etc., giving Palestine Action Terrorists plenty of time to re-organize.
Courageous, investigative journalism? The Telegraph? You are joking.
Yes, as courageous as The Independent journalist JEROME TAYLOR, who was BEATEN UP BY A PAKISTANI MUSLIM GANG when he went to his own capital city’s borough of Tower Hamlets to investigate postal voting fraud in 2010, to ask why 18 adult men from Pakistan were registered to vote at a SINGLE ONE-BEDROOM FLAT.
‘The first punch came, landing on my nose, sending blood down my face’ | The Independent | The Independent
Independent reporter attacked as he investigated voting fraud – Press Gazette
Kevin Moore: Voting Fraud Investigative Reporter Beaten Up by Muslim Thugs
The Independent severely edited the report, but the Kevin Moore link gives Jerome Taylor’s full description of the attack.
I’m sure that legal challenge will be an absolute success now.
Anyway, I can’t stop wondering whether the Home Office would have proscribed the group if they would have been caught trying to enter the military base, like they should have been.
The vacuous Cooper finds this disgraceful, in the meantime she and her fellows in the government are importing even more people who will no doubt add to the problem.
in any other country these terrorists
would be shot on site if they broke into a military establishment, why aren’t our sites doing this ? or must we wait util they commit an atrocity
Government, soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime…. I note the attacks were mounted on the softest possible military targets, RAF police (MP) are known to be a bunch of …. Something about lifting one’s shirt, bending over and a small annual flower….
Have the UK still got an RAF?…wow; who knew
Another step towards the Civil War which Prof Betz has warned is now unstoppable.
The Establishment is reaping what it has sowed.
Surely your military are one of the most respected organisations, perhaps instead of kier starmer throwing a young woman in prison for months because she made a comment on social media, he might consider more severe punishment for anyone who threatens a military person or military property. I often wonder WHAT is wrong with this country. Everything seems upside down,
She describes their upcoming proscription as a terrorist organisation absurd, whilst trying to build a terrorist cell network to launch attacks on military targets. Go figure.
What would be interesting would be to see what other Venn diagrams the participants fall into. I wonder if one of them contains Dale Vince…
They should be, need to be, tried for treason.