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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

If you can stop protests, why didn't they stop the right-wing protesters smashing up our city centre and burning out local businesses?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't this doofus originally make a name for himself as a civil rights lawyer?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    "This would be the worst response to the attacks in Golders Green and would just produce more division when it's the job of responsible leaders to bring people together", he added. [leader of our green party]

    Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party also warned the response to the "abhorrent" attacks should not restrict civil liberties.

    However, the Conservatives and Reform UK have called for the government to take a tougher approach to the demonstrations."

    This part reads a bit like the old cartoon consciences fighting it out. I reckon the red guy with a pitchfork is winning.

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    [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    The genocide must continue

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

    The PM said he would always defend the right to protest

    Clearly a bald-faced lie.

    but he was concerned about the "cumulative" effect of repeated marches on the Jewish community.

    Yeah, the Zionists amongst them might start thinking for themselves and realize that the ones endangering them by causing a rise in antisemitism more than anyone else is the Israeli government.

    That would be ruinous for Zionists and their bought and paid for politicians.

    He said it was "clearly impossible at the moment" for the protests not to incubate within them some sort of antisemitic or demonising language spread awareness both of the atrocities of Israel and the myriad related offenses of the complicit British government.

    Fixed it for him.

    "We need to look at what further powers we can take."

    Translation: we need to figure out how much more suppression of free expression we can get away with and then figure out how to increase that.

    "I will defend the right of peaceful protest very strongly and freedom of speech."

    Again as untruthful as any lie.

    [The Stop The War Coalition] said it condemned "all forms of antisemitism and racism", but it was "wrong" to connect the marches to any attacks on Jews.

    100%

    Green Party leader Zack Polanski said the prime minister was "using the pain and fear of Jewish people to threaten further authoritarian restrictions on peaceful protest".

    "This would be the worst response (..) and would just produce more division"

    Spot on.

    The Liberal Democrats said protests "should only be going ahead when they are safe to happen and police must scrutinise every case".

    Translation: you're allowed a little free expression as a treat, but only if the cops like what you express

    Meanwhile, Sir Keir said chants like "globalise the intifada" - based on an Arabic word for uprising - were "very dangerous" to the Jewish community

    Fun fact: intifada means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising is the Warzaw Intifada in Arabic.

    Just like "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", the intifada is about freedom from oppression, something only pro-opression propagandists and those they have hoodwinked would ever object to.

    and should be prosecuted.

    Yeah, let's prosecute people for advocating for freedom! That doesn't put us on the wrong side of history at all, nuh-uh!

    "If you are on a march or a protest where people are chanting, 'globalise the intifada', you do have to stop and ask yourself, why am I not calling this out?" he said.

    "Why am I on a march where this is the chant?"

    Because I'm against oppression and for liberation.

    Unlike Sir Keir Starmer, oppressor of the people, silencer of the righteous.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago

    Some of you may die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    Too bad he doesn't put that kind of effort into opposing Reform.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    I mean, they're already arreting grandmas for protesting genocide, the UK is almost as much of a joke as the US...

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Fuck this guy. Someone stabbed someone. Did that happen during a protest? How the fuck does anyone buy this. It's completely bare-faced.Fuck this guy.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What about the cumulative effect of bombs on the Palestinian community?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    If marches are going to be banned, then the next step is for a birth strike. The younger generations are the most angry about the genocide, and they hold the cards to this one. Older generations can participate by offering their support.

    The message is simple: do what we fucking say or we will march straight off a demographic cliff. No reproduction without representation. No reproduction while the government supports the bombing of children elsewhere.

    I long ago realized that nothing will change so long as people are producing and consuming to keep society going.

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