David Miller detained at airport under Terrorism Act

It was David Miller's journalism that took him to Beirut to report on the funeral of assassinated Hezbollah leaders and to see the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon.

However, the former sociology professor was detained by a mob of British counter intelligence police at the airport upon his return and taken in for questioning under provisions of the UK's Terrorism Act.

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They asked for my passport, and they asked if I'd just come from Istanbul, and I said, No, I've come from Beirut where I have been covering the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, because I knew that they knew.

So off we went to detention, and I realized as we went along the walkway that there were other people coming with us and I looked around, and I loudly counted out the number, and I said, I'm a big lad, but does it really take eight officers to arrest me? And to their credit, they laughed, I suppose.

Off we went to detention, and I was held for three and a half hours.

I spoke to my lawyer, they asked me lots of questions about what I was doing in Beirut, how I got there, and they tried to find out if I was a supporter of terrorism, as they would call it, whether I had intentionally met with members of illegal organizations, etc, and after three and a half hours, they let me go.

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Hezbollah is a proscribed organization in the UK, but to Professor Miller, it was clear as day who was behind it all.

I had tweeted from Beirut saying that I was there covering the funeral, and there'd been a mass reporting campaign by the Zionists targeting the Met Police, saying this man is supporting terrorism.

And indeed, the Daily Telegraph on Monday even reported that I was apparently being openly anti-Semitic. And Robert Jenrick, the former Tory minister, said that this is outrageous, and he must be arrested, and of course, straight away, some hours later, I'm arrested.

So it was a sign, really, of the way in which policing operates. It operates under immense pressure from the Zionists, and they are forced into doing all sorts of things like we've seen over the last 18 months.

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This is not the first use of anti-terror laws to try to silence pro-Palestinian voices in Britain.

Since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a growing list of British journalists have come under attack, such as freelance journalist Richard Medhurst, activist Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, and Kit Klarenberg of the Gray Zone.

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David Miller, who is also the co-producer of Palestine Declassified on Press TV, is a well-known critic of Zionism as a racist ideology, and the UK government's dogged support for the Israeli regime despite its many crimes, his fearless pro-Palestine activism has come at a huge cost.

He lost his professorial position at Bristol University in 2021 on spurious judaeophobia allegations.

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  British counter-terrorism police have raided the North London home of investigative journalist and researcher, Asa Winstanley, who is being investigated for possible encouragement of terrorism.

This latest move by the British police is an egregious act of intimidation and attempt at censorship.

Rights groups say the attacks are part of a wider pattern of harassment of pro-Palestinian activists, a sinister development with serious implications for civil liberties and freedom of speech.

Despite that threat, not a single national media outlet in the UK has reported on the policing of pro-Palestine journalists: a media blackout that reeks of collusion or cowardice.

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