Bangladesh, Dec. 29 -- Britain is undergoing a profound political transformation, one that is both alarming and historically consequential. Under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the United Kingdom is accelerating down a path that increasingly resembles a police state—one in which dissent is criminalized, protest is treated as terrorism, and moral opposition to state violence abroad is met with repression at home. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the governments response to protests against Israels ongoing destruction of Gaza and Britains complicity in it.

The most disturbing symbol of this authoritarian turn is the largest prison hunger strike Britain has witnessed since 1981. Since early November, eight activists held in pr...