Lord Walney AKA John Woodcock, the government’s anti-protest tsar, has donned his clown makeup and oversized shoes once again with an un-fact-checked attack on the Palestine movement.

Walney attacked Thursday’s “workplace day of action” for Palestine, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and backed by trade unions. Retweeting a statement by the Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD), Woodcock – an Israel supporter and paid lobbyist whose clients include weapons and fossil fuel companies – claimed that the PSC “has strong links to Palestine Action who terrorise workers in defence factories with intimidation, sabotage and violence,” he said. “How can unions justify supporting this?”/……more