In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The government bundled the law with ban of other groups like a neonazi group to force voting for the law

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Force? Don’t think many MPs are being “forced” here.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The complicit media will talk about how those who voted no for proscribing a neo nazi group as a terrorist group instead of saying they voted no to putting palestine action as a terrorist group

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No-one’s interested in those obscure groups. Palestinian Action is the story.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No one cares now, but they would be made to care after being blasted with "Parliament votes against considering neo Nazi groups terrorists" headlines 24/7. That was the stick here. I'd still have liked them to take a stand, but this was a pretty coercive tactic.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Israel has the world wrapped around it's genocidal finger. Trump likes to talk about how "unfair" it is when other countries get any sort of aid, but Israel has us uprooting everything we've built to AVOID ANOTHER HOLOCAUST while slurping down more aid than Ukraine who is taking on the world's most belligerent superpower

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Seeing how so many Israel apologists have so much power is like seeing a headmaster defend the school bully, but much, much worse. they're always like "NEVER AGAIN" about the Holocaust yet they've made a piss poor effort at preventing a genocide that's happening right now and are actively pouring petrol on a fire

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    So many people are afraid to say it, but it's Jewish money that's bought them off. You used to be called antisemitic if you talked about Jewish people running everything like it was a conspiracy theory, but the past few years have proven they run things or can buy those who do.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Another hearing is scheduled for 21 July when Palestine Action will apply for permission for a judicial review to quash the order. In the meantime, and unless the judicial review is successful, membership of, or inviting support for, the group will carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

    So they have a hearing, and presumably legal representation, but they can't legally have any members at the time of the hearing? What a load of shit.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    And folks say the US is backwards! 🤣 What a joke the UK is.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't know what it is about Israel that has made politicians the world over lose their minds.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Europe ia still controlled by racism and neocolonialism

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Of course, but, Europe also has a long history of being antisemitic. It just seems weird to me to fall over yourself for an ally that doesn't seem especially valuable. Maybe there is some 4d chess that is lost to a peasant like me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which recent Europeen leaders and major parties has antisemitism policies?

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    By your definition of recent, I don't know if I could. Of course, I don't really agree that 25 years or even 30 years constitutes recent, and my ability to name a specific policy in that time frame doesn't erase nearly 2 thousand years of Anti-semitism in the hearts (and sometimes law) of Europeans.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    learn the term PEP

    Progressive Except Palestine.

    they are all nice and progressive but as soon as Palestine comes out, they flip flop or go full right wing and change sides.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Seems a good way to destroy the legitimacy of the government. That's not representing the will of the people.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Finding out part of fucking around.

    Countries don't usually take kindly to people or organizations that break into military bases and vandalize equipment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And? that equipment was being used to further a genocide against the Palestinian people. half of which are children. just because a government considers something unlawful doesn't mean it's morally wrong

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    All that equipment was going to Ukraine, which is also undergoing a genocide by Russia. They just happen to have a proper military, unlike the Palestinians. This was not a good move, and the protesters were probably coopted by Russian agents.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    protesting genocide by any means if more ethically current than following the law.

    We're taking about genocide, the worst crime known to manking.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doing something that gets your org banned by a government that isn't even the one you're protesting seems not only ineffective but counterproductive to me.

    Censorship laws in the UK are quite dystopian, but even in less authoritarian countries, this kind of action would result in serious consequences.

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  • meanwhile, said state is profiting from a genocide by selling weapons to murder starving children.

    still, said state has no moral high ground.

    and said protest made the news.

    if your state isn't trying to ban you, are you even trying to change anything?

    or you should ignore protest where there state says using state approved methods, this way your protests is just a gathering that's trivial to ignore?

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