On Monday, PBS/CNN International’s Amanpour and Company discovered that free speech rights are under attack in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, correspondent Isobel Yeung didn’t want to talk about arresting comedians for not agreeing with trans ideology. Instead, she pestered John Woodcock, Lord Walney, who helped designate the group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, about whether elderly people protesting such a designation are terrorists and whether he has a conflict of interest because he has taken paid trips to Israel.
Yeung previewed in a voiceover, “The politician John Woodcock, Lord Walney, was the U.K. government's independent adviser on political violence and disruption. The 300-page report he wrote last year was a major factor in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.”
Walney objected to the idea he had done anything wrong, “I take real exception to that idea of this being a peaceful protest. The definition of terrorism absolutely encompasses the kind of economic damage for a political cause, which Palestine Action have systematically carried out.”
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