• Majid Freeman arrested and charged over supposed past offences, following a warrant executed on his home by Leicestershire Police.
• Zionist media groups and former Labour MP Jon Ashworth move to denigrate the Pro-Palestine activist following his bail.
Prominent anti-genocide activist Majid Freeman has become the latest target of Zionist propaganda following his unexpected arrest, after Leicestershire police confirmed that a man had been charged with encouragement of terrorism and supporting a proscribed organisation.
A small protest was held outside the police station where Mr Freeman was being held and well-wishers waited to greet him once he was bailed. For now, he is prohibited from any social media activity. Freeman is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on July 24.
News of Freeman’s arrest spread on Zionist and right-wing media channels from the UK to India, the latter owing to Freeman being at the forefront of exposing Hindutva extremism and violence in Leicester a few years ago.
He was also responsible for a viral video challenging former Labour MP Jon Ashworth and exposing his failure to condemn Netanyahu for the genocide being committed in Gaza. Freeman being an ardent supporter of the Palestinians, at the time rightly questioned Ashworth on why he did not back the parliamentary vote for a ceasefire.
The interaction between the two is widely believed to have impacted Ashworth’s role as an MP which he subsequently lost.
Ashworth has since found new employment with the help of Kier Starmer as Chief Executive for the Labour-affiliated think tank Labour Together, which while supporting Starmer now models itself on the Centre-right think tank Onward, who guided Rishi Sunak.
Think tanks are known for their research and policy-making capabilities and media manipulation. With the experience Ashworth has accrued as an MP over the past 14 years, Starmer appeared unwilling to lose him over an election result and may still have him stand for elections in the future.
The Zionist news channel’s confirmation of Ashworth’s appointment would seem to prove this theory, which incidentally was the day before Majid Freeman’s arrest.
Following Majid’s arrest, Ashworth started to appear again in right-wing media circles trying to garner support while giving interviews about his supposed emotional ordeal when campaigning. Ashworth claimed he was chased down the street, shouted and screamed at for 45 minutes and then sought refuge in a vicarage, to spin the narrative of what most people had seen of his conduct while campaigning.
He also went on to social media to accuse and immediately link his successor to the seat for Leicester South, Shokat Adam Patel MP of having connections with Majid Freeman calling on him to condemn his activities whilst an investigation was ongoing and when no formal charges had been drawn up. It would have been deemed highly prejudicial for anyone to make such controversial comments leaving them open to legal action.
This is not the first time Ashworth has done something underhanded to vilify Palestinian supporters. In December 2019, two days before the 2019 general election, he had told a friend that Labour would not win as he did not believe that Jeremy Corbyn was a popular choice for Labour leadership or voters. Ashworth’s friend was a Conservative activist, who recorded and leaked the conversation to a right-wing website.
For Ashworth to have made such comments at an inappropriate time could still land him in trouble, as he immediately linked someone arrested for terrorism to a Muslim MP and demanded condemnation, a somewhat familiar scenario most Pro-Palestinian supporters seem to be finding themselves in since October 7th. This is not only prejudicial, but it’s Islamophobic.
Unfortunately, as he has now been placed in an untouchable position of Chief Executive, Ashworth can get away with saying what he wants as he has done so over the past few days. Should he spout something deemed too offensive then he will have Starmer’s Human Rights background to fall back on to protect his Zionist view of free speech.
