- Lockjaw
- Aug 11
This summer's hit new toy, Palestine Action Man, is being removed from sale across the UK following a Home Office ban.
The plastic figure was modelled on an Oxbridge arts graduate with a trust fund, called Tristan, and came with accessories such as:
- ornamental keffiyeh and pretentious nom de guerre (Abu Saladin)
- wire cutters, for breaking into air force bases to spray paint on planes (Black September would have blown them up)
- opposable thumbs, for posting anti-Israel tweets with rat emojis
- eagle-eyes, for reading articles by leading left wing journalist Owen Jones
Also banned is Palestine Action Woman, a stockbroker's daughter figure from Chalfont St Giles called Poppy, who the toymakers designed to stand outside the BBC in London every day dressed in combat fatigues and banging a drum.
"There'll be no Palestine Action Man and Palestine Action Woman dolls on our shelves," said the owner of a toyshop in Hampstead.
"That's because the ones we had in stock were snapped up immediately by all the terribly earnest Guardian-reading parents who live around here."
Image: ErikaWittlieb - Pixabay