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JVL Introduction to article:
Craig Murray, who was formerly a British diplomat, has checked out the reports on Palestine Action from the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and finds no evidence there to back up the Home Secretary’s allegations about Palestine Action. He reminds us that the UN (and, we can note others such as Amnesty International) has made clear that Palestine Action does not meet international agreed criteria for designation as a terrorist group.
We can only speculate on the government’s reasons for trying to crush Palestine Action and any support for it, rather than dealing with that organisation’s attacks on property under existing laws, most obviously breaking and entering and criminal damage.
Could it be that they are worried about the strength of the movement in opposition to Israel’s actions and the UK government’s complicity? If so, they would seem to have scored a spectacular own goal given the large number of people who risked arrest and even imprisonment to oppose designating Palestine Action as a terrorist group. The organisers of the 9th August protest have called another for 1pm September 6th and are looking for 1,000 people to participate. You can find out more at Lift The Ban – Defend Our Juries .
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The stupidity continues!
It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.
The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.
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What a hero! Where can I get my t shirt?Originally posted by jon1959 View PostThe stupidity continues!
It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.
The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.
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The award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested in Edinburgh for wearing a T-shirt that allegedly referenced the proscribed protest group Palestine Action.
Laverty was attending a protest outside St Leonard’s police station in the city centre to support Moira McFarlane, a member of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was due to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt with the words: “Genocide in Palestine, time to take Action”.
Police Scotland confirmed that a 68-year-old man had been arrested under the Terrorism Act for “showing support for a proscribed organisation” and inquires were ongoing.
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Authoritarian madness as farce!Comment
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The government's 'independent reviewer' of terrorism legislation - who advised on the proscription of Palestine Action - turns out to be anything but independent!Comment
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Lawyers for a co-founder of Palestine Action have accused the home secretary of running a “cynical media campaign” which breaches her duty to the court in proceedings challenging the group’s proscription.
In a letter sent to the government’s legal department on behalf of Huda Ammori, who has been granted permission for a judicial review of the decision to ban the group under the Terrorism Act, her lawyers say Yvette Cooper’s public statements are not backed by her disclosures at the high court.Comment
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If only Palestine Action had used a bit of white paint with the red, Yvette Cooper would have been posing for selfies with them!Comment
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The Home Office has been given permission to challenge a High Court ruling which allowed Palestine Action to appeal against its ban under terror legislation.
The government have successfully appealed for permission to appeal against the appeal granted to Palestine Action..... ?
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Many Jewish people in Britain have long been opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza on a regular basis.
They include Carolyn Gelenter – the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Having witnessed first-hand the increasing police hostility under Keir Starmer’s government against people showing solidarity with Palestine, she firmly opposes the escalating crackdown of recent weeks.
And she now plans to risk arrest as part of the protest in London’s Parliament Square on 6 September calling for the government to lift the ban on non-violent direct-action group Palestine Action.
As the daughter of a Polish Jewish Holocaust Survivor I am proud to work with a core group of older Jewish women of conscience called ‘Jewish Peaceniks UK’ to organise support for Gaza. I am also honoured to stand under the banner ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against the Gaza Genocide’ on the demonstrations for Palestine. We have been asked to stand witness on the 6th of September to the mass arrest of over 1,000 people, willing to get arrested in support of a group of mostly young people, who passionately wished to stop our government’s complicity in the genocide and starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza and the violence throughout the West Bank.
The arrests of those who are holding up placards against genocide and in support of the proscribed group, are against the rights of democracy and free speech and are made more shocking by the fact that it is happening under the jurisdiction of a Labour government.
I have decided to do more than stand under the banner and witness. I have chosen to get arrested. Whether others are doing this action or witnessing the arrests in solidarity or marching, it is more urgent than ever that Jewish people speak out about the falsity of the government claim of supporting Israel’s right to defend itself and that criticism of the state is antisemitic.
Zionism is a political ideology supporting a nation state and has nothing to do with being a Jew. To claim otherwise is in itself a form of antisemitism, objectifying Jewish people as one entity with one belief. What people are doing here today is the true honouring of the memory of those victims of the Holocaust: Jewish, Roma, communists, socialists and trade unionists, the differently abled.
Israel is far from representing the entire world’s Jewry. It does not act for me. I stand today with humanity for all.
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Keep going Jon, I'm following along with all of your updates
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Isn’t it great to have a Labour Government again.Comment
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The police were just standing around most of the day - hundreds of them - and eventually arrested under 150 out of 1500 protestors holding bits of card saying ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Farcical - and a monumental waste of money and resources.
It was the most peaceful protest I have ever seen. Most of them pensioners.
The Quakers turned up in their hundreds to be arrested - but most weren’t. For a change I didn’t see vans from other forces - just the Met. Heddlu stayed home!
Plenty of Plasticine Action tee shirts too - as well as ‘I don’t support Palestine inaction’.Comment
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