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Supporters of alleged Palestine Action activists accused of breaking into Israeli-based defense firm Elbit Systems' site in Bristol in August 2024, hold placards and wave Palestinian flags outside Woolwich Crown Court in south east London on November 17, 2025, where the activists are due to stand trial. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
February 8, 2026, 6:28 pm
After uproar, UK prosecutors to seek retrial for Elbit attackers acquitted last week
Original verdict, which vindicated suspects for politically motivated burglary and violence, set a dangerous precedent, British lawmakers and Jewish organizations charge
By Zev Stub
Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows suspects in a break-in at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, in which one intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine (Screen grab from Thames Valley Police footage)
February 5, 2026, 2:58 am
UK jury finds pro-Palestinian activists who stormed Elbit factory not guilty
Palestine Action members acquitted of aggravated burglary, with one also found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm despite being filmed striking policewoman with sledgehammer
By Agencies
British MP Damien Egan appears on GBNews, February 16, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube)
January 13, 2026, 10:43 am
UK school nixed Labour MP’s civics talk, after outcry over his support for Israel
Bristol Brunel Academy says Sept. visit by Damien Egan, a leader of Labour Friends of Israel who is Jewish, was delayed to avoid clash with public protesters, new date already set
By ToI Staff
Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows an officer aiming a taser gun at an intruder at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, after the intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer. (Screen capture: Channel 4)
December 4, 2025, 9:45 pm
UK anti-Israel activist says raid on Elbit factory was about destroying weapons
Activists from now-proscribed Palestine Action group, charged with aggravated burglary, deny charges and say they oppose violence; one allegedly broke cop’s spine with sledgehammer
By Agencies
Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows suspects in a break-in at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, in which one intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine (Screen grab from Thames Valley Police footage)
November 25, 2025, 11:47 am
Footage shows Palestine Action member allegedly fracturing UK cop’s spine with sledgehammer
Court shown bodycam video from 2024 Elbit break-in in Bristol; Sgt. Kate Evans says she was left unable to work, drive or dress herself after member of proscribed anti-Israel group hit her
By ToI Staff
Supporters of alleged Palestine Action activists accused of breaking into Israeli-based defense firm Elbit Systems' site in Bristol in August 2024, hold placards and wave Palestinian flags outside Woolwich Crown Court in south east London on November 17, 2025, where the activists are due to stand trial. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
November 17, 2025, 5:01 pm
6 anti-Israel activists stand trial in UK for breaking into Elbit site
The accused, who allegedly took sledgehammers to Israeli defense firms’ premises in Bristol, are welcomed in court by two-dozen protesters chanting ‘Free Palestine’
By AFP
Screen capture from video of the University of Leeds. (YouTube)
July 29, 2022, 12:51 pm
Graduate sues UK university after failing essay for not criticizing Israel
Leeds University confirms Danielle Greyman’s original essay should have passed; ‘If retroactively I’d known what I know now, I wouldn’t have studied sociology,’ she says
By ToI Staff
Bristol Rovers coach Joey Barton. (Screenshot/YouTube)
October 30, 2021, 4:21 pm
Coach of English soccer club apologizes for likening defeat to Holocaust
Bristol Rovers’ Joey Barton says he didn’t mean to cause offense ‘but some people have rightly pointed out to me the use of the analogy was not correct’
By ToI Staff
University of Bristol sociologist David Miller in a video uploaded February 15, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 3, 2021, 7:03 pm
British professor fired for calling Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel
University of Bristol says David Miller’s comments were not ‘unlawful speech’ but his conduct ‘did not meet the standards of behavior we expect from our staff’; he plans to appeal
By Shira Hanau
University of Bristol lecturer David Miller. (YouTube screenshot)
From the WebOctober 2, 2021, 8:04 am
Bristol University fires Professor David Miller ‘with immediate effect’
Probe concludes Miller, who branded Jewish students ‘pawns of racist regime engaged in ethnic cleansing,’ does not ‘meet standards of behavior expected,’ UK Jewish News reports
University of Bristol sociologist David Miller in a video uploaded February 15, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
March 26, 2021, 11:39 am
UK police: Academic calling Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel may be hate crime
Bristol University sociologist David Miller cites Jewish Society when endorsing ‘end of Zionism as a functioning ideology’; some claim comments fall under academic freedom
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A street in Bristol (CC BY-SA Barry Dogger/Wikimedia Commons)
September 29, 2020, 5:42 pm
Rivlin condemns ‘shocking’ swastika vandalism in UK on Yom Kippur
‘Words of condemnation are not enough,’ says president, sharing photo of neon yellow Nazi symbol daubed on a car in Bristol
Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England, June 7, 2020. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
June 7, 2020, 11:43 pm
UK protesters topple statue of slave trader as Floyd rallies sweep Europe
Thousands take to streets in support of Black Lives Matter movement, condemn racism and police violence
By Pan Pylas, Frank Jordans and Frances D'Emilio
Britain's former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally outside Bristol City Council while on the General Election campaign trail, in Bristol, England, December 9, 2019. (Joe Giddens/ PA via AP)
December 10, 2019, 1:15 am
Candidates hit streets as UK campaign enters final stretch
Jewish protesters reportedly accosted by Labour backers in Bristol as Corbyn visits; polls show Johnson and his Conservative party in lead ahead of December 12 vote
By AFP and ToI Staff
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