Sunday, 22 February 2026

Let's hear it for Jonathon Porritt - extract

I’ve been in this world of radical campaigning, on and off — from Friends of the Earth and the Green Party back in the 70s and 80s  — for 50 years. I’ve never experienced anything quite like this. It has moved and inspired me in a way I still can’t quite make sense of.

Which is why I’m not unduly worried about the possibility that Friday’s High Court judgement (that the Government acted unlawfully in proscribing Palestine Action) may well be overturned in the Appeal Court, or ultimately in the Supreme Court.

Indeed, a bit of me, after a weekend of cautious celebration, is saying “BRING IT ON”. If Ministers still don’t understand the determination and the power of this community, which their own continuing genocide-denying moral depravity has brought into being, then……

Jonathon Porritt

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