That site you linked appears to be AI generated and they can’t guarantee they spot and fix all the hallucinations: https://ukfactcheck.com/editorial-standards
This appears to be the Guardian article mentioned in that post though: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/05/lord-dannatt-urged-ministers-to-crack-down-on-palestine-action-at-request-of-us-firm
Neither article claims that this Lord specifically lobbied to get Palestine Action proscribed. The Guardian article has the letters attached to the article, and terror is never mentioned, he just talks about ‘considerable’ and ‘criminal’ damage, and unjustified violence, not even the ‘significant’ damage required for the Terrorism Act. Additionally, his most recent letter was sent in September 2024, the proscription was July 2025.
This Lord is a shitty person lobbying on behalf of a US defence company to get protestors stricter criminal prosecution. However your claim that he lobbied to get Palestine Action proscribed as terrorists is not backed by evidence or the article you linked.
I don’t think there’s any evidence that ‘crack down’ did refer to terrorism. I believe it most likely meant harsh criminal charges, as there was no reference to terrorism or any of the wording from the terrorism act in the letters he sent or the responses he got. I do not remember there being any public thought/debate of protest action being proscribed as terrorism, so I don’t see how ‘crack down’ have been inferred to mean terrorism given there was no context of terrorism at the time. Unless we know that both both Teledyne and politicians were thinking of terrorism at the time, to say he lobbied to get them proscribed specifically rather than just harsher charges in general is speculation. However if you do have any evidence, I would love to see it. It wouldn’t surprise me too much given that the proscription does not seem to make any sense from reading the definition of terrorism in the Terrorism Act.
And yes, I did make this account just for this. I’ve never had a lemmy account before, I always browse logged out because I’m a weird tin foil hat privacy nutter. I understand a newly created account with no prior activity is very suspicious.