The recent acquittal of seven activists charged with smashing up a Brighton factory they accused of supplying arms to Israel has attracted attention primarily because of the anti-Israel remarks of the judge, George Bathurst-Norman. His summing-up to the jury at the crown court in Hove, now available online, is startlingly tendentious, but the case is part of a wider trend of English juries returning “not guilty” verdicts on people who have damaged the property of companies they disapproved of.
最近,7名被控毀壞布賴頓(Brighton)一家工廠的行動主義分子(activist)被判無罪。這7名被告指責這家工廠向以色列供應武器。此案之所以引人注意,主要因爲喬治•巴瑟斯特-諾曼法官(George Bathurst-Norman)發表了一通反以言論。他在霍夫市(Hove)刑事法庭上向陪審團作的總結髮言(在網上可以找到),帶有讓人喫驚的偏見。但此案是英國一種更廣泛趨勢的一部分:對於因反對某些公司而損壞它們財產的人士,陪審團往往作出「無罪」判決。