Britain’s Air Base Breach: Activism or Alarm?

Calling protest “terrorism” is not security, it’s suppression. If two civilians breached Britain’s top air base, the threat isn’t activism, it’s government negligence.

In the early hours of Friday morning, a dramatic security breach occurred at the United Kingdom’s largest Royal Air Force base, R.A.F. Brize Norton, when two activists from the group Palestine Action gained unauthorised access and proceeded to damage military aircraft in what they described as an act of direct intervention against Britain’s military support for Israel. According to The New York Times¹, the activists used electric scooters to traverse the expansive base, managing to reach and deface two Airbus Voyager aircraft by spraying red paint into their turbine engines and damaging them with crowbars. Red paint was also splashed across the runway, symbolising, the group said, the blood of Palestinians shed in Gaza. The activists reportedly evaded arrest and exited the base undetected.