Protesters gather in support of banned Palestine Action in central London
Protesters have gathered for the second week in a row to demonstrate against Palestine Action being designated a terror group.
Groups came together in central London on Saturday, with other demonstrations also planned across the UK, after police reiterated that showing support for the group was a criminal offence.
The Metropolitan Police arrested 29 people for a similar demonstration last weekend.
Defend Our Juries
Two small groups of protesters sat at the steps of both the Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela statues in Parliament Square for the demonstration, organised by campaign group Defend Our Juries, shortly after 1pm, and received a brief round of applause.
The individuals then wrote the message “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” with black markers on pieces of cardboard, and silently held the signs aloft, surrounded by Metropolitan Police officers, who formed a cordon around the Gandhi statue, and members of the media.
Officers could be seen searching the bags of protesters and taking their ID cards.
Some demonstrators could be seen lying on top of each other while police held their handmade signs.
The protesters were then led away from the statues by officers into waiting police vans parked around the square.
More demonstrations will take place in London, as well as in Manchester, Cardiff and Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Saturday, the campaign group said.
Proscribed organisations
Scotland Yard said its stance remains that officers will act where criminal offences, including support of proscribed groups or organisations, are committed.
The force added that this includes “chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos”.
The terror group designation means that membership of, or support for, Palestine Action is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The move to ban the organisation came after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20, an incident claimed by Palestine Action, which police said caused about £7 million worth of damage.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action, saying that the vandalism of the planes was “disgraceful” and the group had a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage”.
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One of the bit in Private Eye, Called “Number Crunching”
Times and Sunday times ran 15 article’s mentioning Bob vylan last week (prior 11 July) and none mentioning the IDF ordered to fire at civilians.
Its why we are messed up with this.
I haven’t started on it yet but I have just taken a book into my Audible library by Omar El Akkad called ‘One day, everyone will have always been against this’ but that one day will be after the current crop of benefitting, self serving, bloodlusting genocide protecting, no mark political class have checked themselves into the ‘Not me Guv’ home for protected Empire criminals where they won’t be forced to answer for their actions.
It’s a very good book.
Thank you. I look forward to it more with your recommendation.
What is the point you’re trying to make?
You can’t see that the media (with the exception of nation.cymru) is skewed towards reporting any anti-zionist movement but hardly anything when Palestinians are slaughtered and their homes destroyed by zionists.
Well said. And I find If you dig deep enough you reveal those in the media biased towards Israel not only have conflicts of interest but some even take their orders direct from Mossad. Take the BBC Middle East head Raffi Berg. He was a former employee at a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) propaganda unit and a collaborator with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. This only came to light after BBC employees revealed a culture of extreme fear in the organisation after his position was scrutinised, this confirmed in 2020 interview with the Jewish Telegraph after Berg admitted he was… Read more »
Why did the BBC yank the Doctors doc?
It was shown on CH4.
Who is Gibb? Why is Nandy aftre the BBC because they may have shown that doc?
The usual suspect press in the UK powers hate and big powers agenda. We take in Ukraine refugees (quite rightly) but ignore the mass killing in Palestine and a lot of public idea’s in the UK is driven by the likes of Murdoch, one the biggest threats to many democracies going.
Lisa Nandy will show up soon with her “I support the IDF” banner, with the fananic Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in tow loudly bellowing “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.
Just slaughtered civilians.