"Protesting genocide? Believe it or not- jail"

"Western values"

If this happened in any of the non-imperial core countries, we would be hearing about it for the next 20 years.

Since it's in a "free, non-authoritarian democratic^TM^ country", it'll be forgotten in the rapid news cycle within a month.

Welcome to fasist country

The majority of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed group under the Terrorism Act, while police said 17 were also arrested for assaults on police officers "after the protest turned violent".

But event organisers said protesters were "peacefully defying the ban" and accused the Met of making "false claims" about violence.

Surely EU cops would never lie to beat up protesters and arrest them

Ah we will sleep safer tonight knowing that you caught the 70+ year old pensioners.

saying or writing "I support Palestine Action" is a crime in the UK. this is because they're a "proscribed terrorist group". the "terrorism" they committed was...spraying two military transport aircraft with red paint.

meanwhile, transphobic piece of shit Graham Linehan is also on trial in the UK for repeatedly harassing trans people.

Ro Khanna, congressman from California and allegedly a Democrat, called what the UK is doing "an offense to anyone who supports free speech". take a wild guess which of those two things he was upset about.

UK now has literal thought crime. Illegal to support things the government doesn't like.