20.03.2026

Hi everyone, I’m Dan Jeronymides-Norie and I’m sitting here in a cell at HMP Elmley, hating it. However, I’m here with conscience and honour in my heart as an activist, an artist, and a foot-soldier in the solidarity for the freedom of Palestine.

You may or may not have heard about our case, the direct action that took place at the UK’s largest RAF base Brize Norton, where two actionists on e-scooters rode up to two big voyager fuelling aircraft and sprayed the propellers with red paint, symbolising the blood of generations of Palestinians that have been tortured, imprisoned and martyred by the Zionist state of Israel.

Those very planes fly in and out to the RAF base Akrotiri in Cyprus with military supplies and to fuel up spy planes that the UK has been sending over Gaza, supporting the IDF to carry out further indiscriminate bombings that kill.

It is my sensitivity and responsibility as an artist that means I could not hear pain and remain silent. I believe we need art and culture to move us with both beauty and uncomfortability. And it was the richness and abundance of Palestinian art that educated me to all the years going back of their struggle that I had missed before 2023.

We should always find ways to stand in solidarity with those facing injustice and oppression, and sometimes that means you need to raise the stakes, to expose the states, and those who justify oppression. So let’s face it: there’s no better art than that blood red paint sprayed over the UK planes that are complicit in genocide. It sums everything up in one expression perfectly.

Now, you can lock up a revolutionary – we are the Brize Norton 5, Umer, Jon, Amu, Lewie and Dan. – but it is true: the revolution will always continue.

So stop the genocide, down with the apartheid system, out with the occupation. Fuck the IDF. Westminster, blood on your hands. RAF Brize Norton, blood on your planes. Fuck your complicity. ACAB, you’re complicit with repression as well. We will win. Free the BN5. Freedom for Palestine.