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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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 15 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

At least this is just one group of palestine supporters. In the US you get deported for any sign of support for palestine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

The turd doesn't fall far from the ass

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn't explain why though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

lobbying.

they support the more leftist lobbied options.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Europe ia still controlled by racism and neocolonialism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

It is convenient. By claiming unwavering support for Israel you can distract from your own antisemitism and blame it on brown people. This comes in especially useful to ramp up racism against the very same people you blame for your own antisemitism.

Israel plays along in this game, as they profit both from racism against brown people letting them get away with more crimes as well as profiting from cases of antisemitism, as it allows Israel to claim it is needed for Jewish safety.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Which recent Europeen leaders and major parties has antisemitism policies?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not particularly. They could have amended the bill to exclude the one group. Maybe the tabs would try it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Some politicians tried and the government refused

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Unfortunatly mainstream media still have lot of influence on general public intention

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

that equipment was being used to further a genocide against the Palestinian people.

[Citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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