• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    They’ll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn’t be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.

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      2 days ago

      Why was it designated a terrorist group. Who have they killed and what crimes against civilians have they committed?

      I am being rhetorical of course and besides it has already been determined unlawful.

      It is clear they attempted to illegally suppress human rights in support of Isreal.

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        JTAC based their assessment largely on the Filton incident where a police officer suffered possibly life-changing injuries after a PA member attacked them repeatedly with a sledgehammer.

        The underlying basis was the definition used in the Terrorism Act, of a group that commits serious damage to property in order to influence government policy. The UK is one of the few places to have such a broad definition.

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          8 hours ago

          police officer suffered possibly life-changing injuries after a PA member attacked them repeatedly with a sledgehammer.

          Of course when the video was released to the courts it showed it was the police officer doing the brutalising on the protester. Not surprising the police would lie.

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          Oh gosh one person severely injured, that is horrible. I am truly sorry for their suffering as no one deserves treatment like that.

          On the other hand there have been a verifiable 172,000 Palestinian injuries with over 72,000 estimated deaths.

          The government knew full well what they were doing and anyone defending it should be ashamed to defend this abuse of human rights. There is no doubt in my mind about this because it is a verifiable pattern.

          Just like UKs support of Israel.

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            1 day ago

            A military base involved in support genocide thr ultimate form of terrorism

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              1 day ago

              As they falsely claimed. The planes they damaged had nothing at all to do with israel.

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                8 hours ago

                The planes they damaged had nothing at all to do with israel.

                Flying over Palestine and helping the israelis target missles at children sounds like a lot to do with israel.

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                    8 hours ago

                    Just because you want to offload the blame for the genocide entirely on the israelis, doesn’t change the reality that the UK has been complicit every step of the way for the eradication of 1000s of Palestinians families

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        I’m not arguing about the designation, that’s up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.

        We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.

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          Yeah I am not sure that is accurate to say people were only protesting the act of it being banned. I am sure the majority also supports ending the genocide that the UK refuses to designate as such.

          When you can excuse human rights abuses it is all pretty much moot anyways.

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            I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.

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          Iranians who protested the regime knew what would happen to them with your dumb logic I get it was fine what the Iranisn regime did

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      Designed as a terrorist orgsnization because it support palestine and oppose settler colonialism

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        No, designated as a terrorist group because they broke into an RAF base and damaged aircraft.

        Criticising Israel and opposing genocide is perfectly valid, attacking a country that’s stuck in the middle of it because you don’t like that they’re embroiled in a 100 year old mess they’ve been trying to mediate the whole time, is a different thing entirely.

        If Palestinian action wanted to make a difference they’d target the Israeli embassy but they didn’t, because they’re not protestors they’re saboteurs.

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          Uk leadership should rot in jail for selling arms for a settler colonial power called Israel . The united kingdom is sponsoring Israeli terrorism . Yes those who infiltrated it are saboteurs sabotaging military targets complicit with genocide . Palestine action is just like antifa a decentralized group each member is responsible for it’s own actions. The High Court recently ruled that this proscription was unlawful too but because the uk support genocide they still want to arrest people.