They won't stop us that easily
After the "counter-terror" police raid, a personal thank you.
Most of you will already know by now that on Thursday last week my home was raided by Britain’s “Counter Terror Command,” and most of the digital tools I rely on for my journalism were confiscated — including my phone and computers.
Ali Abunimah reported all the details on that for The Electronic Intifada immediately after it happened, as well as updates in the following days. I returned to the EI livestream on Wednesday to talk about it too. You can watch that segment in the video below:
As Ali explained on the stream, we are not taking this lying down. I am represented by a superb legal team and EI have now also retained lawyers to fight this.
Journalism is not a crime. The police seem to be on a fishing expedition to get to my sources — I won’t allow that to happen without a legal fight.
My sources and contacts can rest assured that I take this extremely seriously and I am currently doing all I can to prevent police from accessing any of my devices in any way.
Stay tuned for all the latest on that.
Meanwhile, I want to thank you: my Substack subscribers and all my supporters.
Being awoken at 5:40 am by a police raid is not a pleasant experience. Your outpouring of support for my work at this time has meant the world to me.
Messages have flowed in from all over the world. I’ve already been gifted a replacement laptop and phone. A raft of new, paid, Substack subscriptions has flowed in — despite the fact I hadn’t even been posting to it, because I was unable to log back into my Substack until today!
Everyone wants to know one main thing: what can we do to help? In due course, there may well be more that we will ask you to do, when we learn more about the legal process.
You’ve been doing a lot already. But the number one thing you can do is this: keep the focus on Gaza and Lebanon. Stop the genocide against the Palestinians. These raids are all about this. The sooner there is a ceasefire, the sooner the political pressure for the raids to continue is likely to ease up.
Finally, you can be sure that as long as I have a pen and paper to hand, I will continue to do everything in my power to tell the truth about what “Israel” is doing to the world.
Thank you.
Truth will out. And it's on your side.
keep on keeping on, brother. you are a lifeline. we need you.