Declassified UK: Lots of interesting stories!

Posted: 30th June 2026

After more than 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court refused to reach a verdict over whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory.

We reported from outside the court last week where Iain Evans, Hana Yun-Stevens, Frank Sherman, and Hisham Alkhamesi were each accused of criminal damage at a factory owned by Moog, a US aerospace firm in Wolverhampton.

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Revealed: Illegal West Bank settlements advertised at Israeli event in London

Despite denials from organisers, evidence gathered inside the event shows occupied Palestinian land was being marketed

Investigation urged over illegal UK arms shipments to Israel

After Declassified helped uncover a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel, over 60 MPs and Lords have called for answers

Revealed: Israeli arms imports to UK surged during Gaza war

UN trade data shows value of military goods from Israel to UK increased by a factor of more than 100 between 2023 and 2025

Jury refuses to convict Palestine activists over arms firm raid

Hung jury in case of four protesters who raided Wolverhampton arms factory said to produce “military aircraft parts for Israel”

Israeli property event referred to authorities over illegal settlement ads

Campaigners and MPs say ministers’ referral of Great Israeli Real Estate event to Advertising Standards Authority ‘too little, too late’

Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in trial of pro-Palestine activists

Parliament was forced yesterday to debate the influence of pro-Israel lobby groups in British politics, which triggered a backlash from MPs associated with Friends of Israel pressure groups.

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In 1984, the Indian army carried out a massacre at the Sikh faith’s holiest site in Amritsar. Thirty years later, our editor Phil Miller uncovered documents at the UK archives which showed a British SAS officer had given advice to India on how to carry out that raid.

It triggered a scandal in the UK, with then prime minister David Cameron ordering an inquiry. But that probe downplayed the significance of Phil’s findings, and angered many in the Sikh community who saw it as a whitewash.

Critics of Israeli influence are like Nazis, politicians claim

Attacks come as new analysis by Declassified shows pro-Israel lobby groups have taken British MPs to Israel 67 times since the genocide started

Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn

Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left

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