Ex-British Army head urged Palestine Action crackdown at behest of US company: Report

LONDON: The former head of the British Army and a House of Lords peer, Richard Dannatt, urged government ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the behest of a US arms company that employs him as an adviser, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.

He wrote privately to two Home Office ministers, requesting that they confront the “threat” posed by the activist group, the newspaper reported.

It came after Palestine Action in 2022 targeted a factory operated by Teledyne, a US…