Sacrilege in England. The iconic statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster in central London, has been vandalized again. The Metropolitan Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of criminal damage with racial aggravating circumstances, after he painted pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist graffiti on the bronze monument that stands in the heart of Westminster's political center.

A bittersweet blow and a bitter pill to swallow in the legal setback the British government received this Friday. The High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that the ban on the group Palestine Action as a "terrorist organization" is "illegal." The three judges on the panel reached their decision unanimously. And while they acknowledged that the organization had used "criminal methods," they determined that these had not crossed the "extremely high threshold" that defines terrorism, thus dismantling the Home Office's punitive strategy.

Two British activists linked to the Palestine Action (PA) group, Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, are at "imminent risk of death" after reaching 67 and 60 days, respectively, without food on Thursday, according to medical professionals, family, and friends. In the UK, it is impossible not to compare this case to that of Bobby SandsThe most famous of the ten IRA political prisoners, who died during the Irish republicans' hunger strike in 1981. Sands prolonged the protest for 66 days, to the bitter end.