London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.
Palestine Action was banned after breaching into a military base
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn81g4e0nlyo
LOL, they are violating their Freedom of Speech instead of violating their Freedom of Speech?
I don’t like you.
Spraying military aircraft with red paint isn’t terrorism by any stretch of the imagination. Who does it terrorize? And supporting an organisation whose members sprayed fighter jets with paint isn’t terrorism either. There’s no justification for the UK government’s use of anti-terrorist legislation against these protesters.
By contrast, supporting a regime that has been openly committing genocide for years and uses torture and murder to intimidate its opponents could well qualify as terrorism.
People that were against terrorism legislation argued this until they were blue In the face and people people told them don’t worry, the government is totally not going to abuse these powers.
And runs political interference campaigns at the highest levels of its allies to gain unlimited support. We label other countries foreign actors waging hybrid warfare for a lot less. It’s crazy.
So? I support Palestine Action and all actions they’ve taken to stop the UK’s complicity in genocide. It’s illegal to say this in the UK.
When Keir Starmer was a solicitor he defended people, successfully, for the same kind of thing. This isn’t terrorism, this is my government taking away our rights to protest.
People are ignoring their proscription to bring attention to the insanity of it and hope to force the government to back down. It’s mainly old people being arrested; including priests. I would do it myself but it’s hard when you’ve got work and being in jail would hinder that.
For what it’s worth I support Palestine Action.
I mean. It’s obviously working. Coward.
And arresting people for saying that is acceptable because…?
hand on hip and wagging scolding finger “Oi mate, yous can’t soiy that, it’s prohibited language! You’re noit allowed to suppoht a group declared terrohrist feh sproiy paintin’ a jumbo jet!”
Are you Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins?
Maybe a little?
Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-banning-palestine-action-disturbing-legal-overreach-uk-government-amnesty
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/governments-use-of-terrorism-powers-against-protest-groups-sets-concerning-precedent/
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest
How is this fascist nonsense not banned from .world is beyond me
Who gets to declare that the distinction matters? Why do they get to do that?
They should just start doing protests under the banner of Palestine Action 2 instead.
Palestinian electric boogaloo.
“Palestine Mechanism”
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