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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (31 children)

It's a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren't their biggest fans.

Shortly after they did this they were designated as a terrorist group by the home office which is why public support is an offence.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (22 children)

Their latest action was against the planes, but they have actually been extraordinarily successful at damaging the economic machine behind the genocide through targeted and sustained sabotage campaigns against Elbit Systems weapons manufacturer and their supporters, like Barclays Bank. They have already forced the closure of two weapons factories and forced Barclays to divest. It is most likely this sustained campaign that is the real reason for the terrorist designation, though the action at Brize Norton was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (16 children)

It certainly made proscribing them an easy sell; you won't find many people who think it's unreasonable of the government to take a dim view of sabotage.

Hopefully it won't distract too much from the bigger story of almost everyone apart from the government taking a dim view of genocide.

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