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Nine arrested over pro-Palestinian banner in London. Banner reading ‘globalise the intifada’ was hung outside building that police say was being used by squatters
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/05/nine-arrested-over-pro-palestinian-banner-in-london
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The Metropolitan police said the building, a large Georgian terrace in one of the most expensive parts of London, was being used by squatters but had now been secured.
Police said the arrests had been carried out under section 18 of the Public Order Act, which prohibits the display of “any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting” if the intention or likely consequence is to stir up racial hatred.
When asked on 30 October about language used at some pro-Palestinian protests, an official spokesperson for the prime minister said calling for intifada was “obviously … not acceptable”.
The pro-Palestinian protests of recent weeks have brought renewed debate about freedom of speech and whether certain slogans constitute calls for violence or even genocide.
Among the most controversial has been a chant, frequently heard at the demonstrations, that states: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Activists have argued that the phrase is only a call for freedom and human rights for Palestinians, but in a letter to senior police officers in October Suella Braverman, then the home secretary, said it could be understood as an “expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world”.
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