Palestine Action Activists Will Be Sentenced As Terrorists, Court Confirms

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, actual terrorism in Belfast recently “merely a riot”.

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  • brewery@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly! Terrorism is instilling a fear into a population. What these people did in this case did not effect any body not working in security for a company selling weapons to a proven genocidal nation which will be used to kill children. I

    In fact, we will look back at this as just, just like the suffragettes, the LGBT+ communities, the racial communities and so many others.

    I, a British citizen, am terrified by the far right actions all over the country directly threatening people and their houses. This is happening on our streets, in our houses and is exactly what I would describe as terrorism.

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  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They actually called it a riot? Last I heard it was a bunch of ‘protesters’ that had set stuff on fire.

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There isn’t anything UK wouldn’t kill to protect Isreal it seems. Say goodbye to the last vestiges of democracy…

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  • SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would hope their people won’t stand for this, but only time will tell.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I voted against this shit…

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  • pilferjinx@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is there any general story or reason why the UK is extremely pro Israel/zionist? I haven’t been able to connect any dots with their zeal.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just the same faceless, concealed Big Money influence that they have in America

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• Naich@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tried as demonstrators, sentenced as terrorists. Grounds for appeal all the way up to the ECHR, surely?

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They should. This is the definition of being part way down a slippery slope.

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  • Veserr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Regardless the reasoning for them doing this, you cannot smash someone with a sledgehammer and lie to yourself that you are still the good guy

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• wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If they are to be sentenced as terrorists then they should be set free as no terrorism happened

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  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If protest is the exact same as bombings then why bother with protests?

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unless they are planning to start deeming damage to something…like property, as terrorism.

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  • Veserr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Regardless the reasoning for them doing this, you cannot smash someone with a sledgehammer and lie to yourself that you are still the good guy

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re 100% a good person if you smash a Nazi with a sledgehammer. Violence does not make you a bad person, the target does.

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    • davepleasebehave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      who was hit with a sledgehammer?

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    • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s bad to fight back against women soldiers, cops and security guards. With this one neat trick I will make all war and violence illegal and wrong.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wanting to end complicity in war crimes makes you a terrorist now?

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  • Trioxin@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, but doing something more than just standing on the sidewalk holding signs with generic slogans apparently does.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Way to water down what “terrorist” means

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  • Trioxin@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yep, if targeting even military equipment is “terrorism”, then literally every war ever fought was “terrorism”.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s treason, not terrorism

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying is that there is no difference between peaceful protesting and throwing bombs and, say, murdering politicians?

  Do you want real terrorism? Because this is how you feed real terrorism

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the consequences for robbery are the same as for murder then robbers have no incentive to leave their victims alive. The people in charge are far too arrogant to understand that they’re setting themselves up for a bad end.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh yes, the terror of asking if a small groups if people can please have the same rights as everybody else

  The terror of asking if we can please stop mass murdering babies

  Oh the terror

  Fuck the fascist UK

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• Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Starmers Britain.

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