This whole thing feels like a waste of effort and just a massive distraction. PA were banned because they tried to sabotage military resources, not because they’re supporting Palestine. Just rebrand and move on.
If the government allowed it then suddenly the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc, would all be outfitting protest groups to undermine the UK’s military preparedness.
Palestine action has been protesting for many years, in particular at weapons manufacturers, whose weapons are illegally used by the Israeli occupation. The UK is, again illegally, using Brize Norton to facilitate weapons shipments and intelligence flights for the illegal Israeli occupation, possibly implicating itself directly in war crimes and crimes against humanity, war of aggression and annexation.
Equating non violent direct action and civil disobedience with “terrorism” is an authoritarian move, setting a precedent to increasingly crack down on civil liberties in the UK, making it more similar to Russia, China, Iran, etc. in how it treats freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom of protest.
The UK could just not use their military resources for illegal acts, possibly implicating it in war crimes, crimes against humanity, war of aggression and annexation.
Please explain how spraying paint into a military jet engine is terrorism.
Well you see by showing the sheep the authorities are supporting the monsters our societies once defeated, in bad faith, and are importing that same monsterism home to be wielded against our citizenry in a rebuke of hundreds of years of freedom of expression as is the case in the uk, they fill the polits with a deep fear their fee fees will be hurt as the sheep reject their arguments.
Obviously they cannot not support the monsterism because they are all compromised by israeli intelligence, epstein for some but whole ranges of blackmail, and of getting kicked out of the club.
Sheer terror.
If the word “terrorism” is to ever a rigorous definition (which I doubt), that definition has to include political violence intended to inspire fear (you know, the terror part). What Palestine Action did doesn’t fit that definition, so proscribing them as a terrorist organization was a massive act of authoritarian overreach, even if you disapprove of what they did. First it’ll be Palestine Action, later it’ll be you. Of course if the word “terrorism” doesn’t have a rigorous definition, then it has no business showing up anywhere near government policy. Either way this is not something that should be taken lying down if Brits want to keep their democracy by 2035.
Per today in focus podcast from the guardian the authorities are arresting any palestine protester for supporting terror. P. action opposed Israel, you oppose israel, you are supporting palestine action. That is the authorities game now.
We are past plausibility, the lawyers and judiciary and police believe the old rules do not apply. As evidenced by previous rulings in effect outlawing protests they disfavour and disallowing defenses in court. Disfavoured now includes environmental and global warming protests, and palestine. But will soon be expanded to include anything and everything.
And soon they will have a record of what everyone said or looked at online, texted, etc., with computer programs to sort it, and (palantir to start) to make social scores to be secretly used against everyone in business and government decisions. Ie loan denied, charges filed, respectively.
