Prisoners for Palestine end their hunger strike

Art by @billy_ruffian

Prisoners for Palestine have ended their hunger strike, to a blaze of almost zero media coverage. There’s nothing about it on the BBC website. The Guardian did a story, but quickly removed it from their front page this morning. Despite this attempt to suppress the news, it remains, at the time of writing, the third most read story on the website.

A key demand of the strikers has been met, with the UK government quietly ditching their multi-billion contract for Elbit, the genocidal Israeli weapons company, to train British police (this is a classic colonialist move – tactics and technologies of oppression used in occupied territories abroad brought back to subjugate the population at home).

I am crossing all of my body that the strikers recover to full heath, and that they are soon freed from their ongoing hell of being held as political prisoners by the British state. They’ve reached so many people around the world with this action, despite the attempts of the establishment media to ignore both their brave actions and the wider issues that the strikers have been trying to raise awareness of – namely, our country’s complicity in an ongoing genocide.

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