In retrial over 2024 raid of Israeli defense firm’s Bristol factory, defendant admits cop he targeted after hearing screams from fellow activist wasn’t actually hurting anyone

By Zev Stub

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Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent.

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A member of the British group Palestine Action told a court on Thursday that he believed it was “reasonable” to strike a police officer with a sledgehammer during a 2024 attack on an Israeli defense firm’s UK factory

Six members of the anti-Israel group are being retried after a jury acquitted them of aggravated burglary earlier this year but wasn’t able to reach verdicts on several key charges, including criminal damage and violent disorder.

One of the defendants, Samuel Corner, 23, was…