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On Friday 10 April at 12:00 pm, students and activists will mobilise outside Bush House at King’s College London (KCL) to protest against the London Defence Conference and to condemn the genocidal companies and speakers invited to the on-campus event.
London Defence Conference
First launched in 2023, the London Defence Conference is held annually and often hosts political leaders, military officials, and the defence industry to advance military strategy, spending, and lobbying. Not only were genocide-enablers such as Keir Starmer, David Lammy and many more invited to speak at the London Defence Conference in previous years, but murderous companies such as Palantir, BAE Systems, and more also sponsor or support the conference. These conferences create an atmosphere in which people in power can discuss, justify, and promote an increase in military spending.
Despite criticisms of being discriminatory by the UN, European countries and rights groups, ‘Israel’ has recently legalised the death penalty for Palestinian resistance fighters whilst continuously bombing Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and brutally murdering thousands of innocent people in pursuit of their colonial expansionist plan.
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer’s United Kingdom continues to license over £500 million worth of military exports to ‘Israel’ and provide approximately 15% of the components in the F-35 fighter jets, which are used in airstrikes across the occupied Palestinian territory.
Our government is complicit in genocide.
As students, we refuse to let warmongers conduct their blood business on our campus, making deals where every handshake results in the dropping of bombs on houses, hospitals and schools.
Corporate complicity in genocide
However, it is not just our government that is guilty.
London Defence Conference’s sponsors and partnership companies are the epitome of brutality, violence and war. For example, Palantir has been a supporter and sponsor of the conference, with its executive vice chair and head, Louis Mosley, invited on stage each year. Palantir is one of ICE’s top corporate collaborators. ICE paid Palantir $30 million to build tools which allow them to identify and find people they want to deport.
In 2024, Palantir renewed its contract with the IDF and continued to provide them with AI systems designed to support precise military targeting, which their CEO, Alex Karp, would call “digital kill chains”, boasting of their effectiveness.
Another key supporter of the London Defence Conference is The Pinsker Centre. It was founded using AIPAC money, and originally named The Pinsker Centre for Zionist Education. It was explicitly created to counter pro-Palestinian activism on UK campuses. AIPAC channels money through the Centre to reshape campus debate. After 7 October, they co-authored a letter explicitly acknowledging that “innocent Palestinians will die” yet called on the UK government to support ‘Israel’ regardless.
‘We will not be bystanders’
A spokesperson for students at KCL said:
We are not naive about what this conference represents. The cycle is not complicated: arms companies fund conferences, conferences legitimise arms companies, governments sign contracts, and bombs fall on Gaza, on Lebanon, on Iran. What happens in occupied Palestine does not begin at the border. It begins here, at the centre of the empire, in the lecture halls and conference rooms of our own universities. King’s College London is not neutral ground. Every sponsorship deal struck within Bush House, every handshake between a defence executive and a politician, is a link in a chain that ends in rubble and mass graves.
Students at KCL refuse to be bystanders to this. We refuse to let the London Defence Conference proceed as business as usual while the institutions and companies it platforms continue to arm and enable genocide. The struggle for Palestinian liberation and all peoples suffering under the violence that conferences like this one bankroll, that struggle is our struggle too. It does not stay overseas. It starts right here.
KCL Stands For Justice (S4J) have organised a peaceful student-led protest outside Bush House at 12:00pm on Friday 10t April 2026, the first day of the London Defence Conference. This is in collaboration with over 80 other groups including Palestinian Youth Movement, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Defend Our Juries, and many more.
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Council candidate slams false claims 'she has turned against her husband'
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Josh Simons is Labour’s ex-minister who was forced to resign from government. The scandal which led to his downfall revolved around Simons having private investigators look into journalists for the crime of doing journalism.
And while that sounds bad, have you considered that Simons may have been a tender, wee boy of just 30 when he did it?
sorry what? pic.twitter.com/hz1572zb97
— ollie cole (@ProducerOllie) April 5, 2026
Making of a scandal
We were reporting on Simons dubious activities back in September 2025. The following came from investigative journalist Paul Holden who wrote The Fraud – an exposé on Keir Starmer and Labour Together:
Paul Holden said he had been “pretty damn scared” when he found out that Labour Together had “set the hounds on me”. McSweeney is a chief architect of the antisemitism scam against Jeremy Corbyn and attempts to destroy the Canary.
Holden also claims that former Labour Together director Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office Minister, was at the least aware of the group’s decision to set the investigators onto him, telling the Mail that:
“It was all very worrying. I was told these private detectives were looking into me, my family and my colleagues – all at the request of Labour Together.
“I could only assume they were digging dirt to discredit me or my research. The investigators were trying to find out how I was getting all my information – not challenge its accuracy.”
The Labour Together spying story wouldn’t become a national scandal until it was revealed they also spied on mainstream journalists – namely those at the Times.
Reporting on Simons resignation, Skwawkbox wrote the following for the Canary on 28 February:
From 2022 to 2024, Simons ran the sabotage outfit, Labour Togther. He took over after disgraced Morgan McSweeney moved on to become Keir Starmer’s (now former) chief of staff. However, Simons has not resigned his parliamentary seat.
All too typically, the resignation letter is full of self-exoneration and excuses. Instead of taking responsibility, the letter leans on Simons’s supposed vindication by Sir Laurie Magnus. Magnus is the supposedly ‘independent’ adviser on ministerial standards. This is farcical, when Simons’s own leaked WhatsApp messages revealed that Starmer had told Magnus to conduct only a fast (i.e cursory) investigation.
With a complete failure of self-awareness, Simons frames his departure in terms of the public’s justified low trust in politicians. And, like any good Israel apologist, he had to slip in a spurious reference to so-called ‘Labour antisemitism’ to smear the diligent, professional, independent authors, and journalists who exposed Labour Together.
It was far from the only time Simons blamed his mistakes on alleged antisemitism:
Again, this is not the first time Simons has lied about antisemitism being the reason he's behaved badly. https://t.co/Zwbtb5WXEV pic.twitter.com/0srZhnLAno
— Rivkah Brown (@rivkahbrown) March 30, 2026
Obviously receiving diminishing returns from the antisemitism card, Simons is now blaming his mistakes on his age.
Disgraced Labour minister — A boy of just 30
The post at the top about Simons being a mere 30 years old is from Times Radio producer Ollie Cole. Seemingly, the text hasn’t been published online yet, because a verbatim google search produces no results.
It reads in full:
Former labour minister Josh Simons has told Times Radio that “I was 30 years old, I didn’t read the contract very carefully,” when asked about commissioning a report into the background of two Sunday Times journalists while working for Labour Together.
Ah yes, the famous stereotype about 30-year-olds being unable to read somewhat complicated documents.
A year later – when Simons was 31 – he would be in government and deciding on legislation. Presumably, at some point between 30 and 31, the text-understanding cortex of his brain developed, and he was able to read important documents as needed.
It really is farcical, isn’t it?
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