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Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice.

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Israeli soldiers shot dead a 14 year old boy in the occupied West Bank yesterday because they apparently thought he might intend to throw stones at their armoured vehicles.

@Ed_Miliband's faux sanctions do not go far enough. End UK complicity NOW.

https://t.co/letHjzwm1u

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@StopTheHate_UK @itaigalmudy @metpoliceuk You lot couldn't spell xenophobia if you tried...

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Seven people charged in connection with pro-Palestine Action rally in Edinburgh

Officers were called to a demonstration outside the US Consulate building on Regent Terrace on 31 October.

https://t.co/Fs9qyzQ2bA

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THE LAST ARRESTEE

On October 31st, more than 300 people were arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for peacefully holding cardboard signs outside the US Embassy in London.

This woman was the final person arrested that night. She shared her version of this protest song with us.

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@Liverfool08 @CAGEintl @EuroPalestineNw @EyeonPalestine @AmnestyUK @WokeratiMarty @SaulStaniforth @ZackPolanski @owenjonesjourno @freefilton25 @Prisoners4Pal This was one of the many shocking things about it all. The police had even parked a van across the only dropped kerb on the pavement and an unrelated member of the public had to ask them three times to move so her wheelchair could access the crossing.

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POLICE DISCRIMINATION

In yet another absurd twist in the spectacle caused by the proscription of Palestine Action, the Met Police has discriminated against a disabled man by NOT prosecuting him under the Terrorism Act (Really.)

See the newly published footage and thread:

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@PeoplesMomentum ✅ Lifting the ban on Palestine Action

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@antisemitism "our country", "our values", and "they put Britain last" are three ironic phrases from an account that posts non-stop on behalf of genocidal Israel.

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@CAGEintl @EuroPalestineNw @EyeonPalestine @AmnestyUK @WokeratiMarty @SaulStaniforth @ZackPolanski @owenjonesjourno @freefilton25 @Prisoners4Pal The Met Police assertion that Mike couldn't know due to his blindness is discriminatory and offensive.

We never thought the day would come where a person not being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act would be an act of discrimination.

Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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@CAGEintl @EuroPalestineNw @EyeonPalestine @AmnestyUK @WokeratiMarty @SaulStaniforth @ZackPolanski @owenjonesjourno @freefilton25 @Prisoners4Pal Both Mike and his AA have confirmed that police told Mike that he was released without charge on the grounds that they "did not believe that he knew what was written on his sign".

To be clear, Mike told police what was on his sign at multiple occasions throughout the day.

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Here’s John McDonnell outside Parliament immediately after the vote to proscribe Palestine Action.

If only the Labour MPs with “buyer's remorse” had listened to him at the time, it would have saved them and the Labour Party a huge amount of embarrassment later.

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Challenge your local @UKLabour MP to take a look at this graph and defend their party's position on the proscription of Palestine Action.

We dare you.

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@PowellAlex80076 @UKLabour And it still wouldn't be terrorism.

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NEW: Palestine Action UK arrests higher than those at peak of the Troubles

Irish people represent the largest number of foreign terror suspects detained after proscribing of group

Surely it's time for @UKLabour to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action

https://t.co/wEm7CEHVzX

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Irish children’s book author arrested as part of UK ‘terror’ crackdown on Palestine Action

A total of 28 Irish people have been arrested at Palestine Action protests, the largest cohort of non-British-national terror suspects arrested in the UK

https://t.co/IJVGuWHU2N

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Did Palestine Action go too far? Ammori doesn’t accept the idea. She recalls the horror of following the war on Gaza, in which at least 70,000 Palestinians were killed, among them 21 members of the family of a friend of hers.

https://t.co/T6X6RteD1r

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Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year

Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group

https://t.co/rN3GFFVnlx