Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 18 hours agoWell, sometiems you have to commit a crime to protest an even bigger crime - warcrimes like genocide.
In that light, the removal of my comment appears unwarranted. For anyone curious (or whoever reported it), if I recall correctly, it expressed support for PA.
echodot@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
The problem is what they did didn’t really have any meaning. They haven’t really roused the public with their action, they in fact their subsequent arrest has been more impactful for their cause than the actual action and I can’t imagine that was envisioned as a predicted outcome.
What they did was actually unhelpful because it allowed the government to label them as terrorists and therefore ignore them. Sticking to protests and writing to MPs and just making a general stink about things would, in the long run, have been more helpful because it would have never given them something that they could use as a stick to beat people with when they complained.