@owenjonesjourno That a person just trying to promote his religion and only trying to behead someone on our streets is arrested and facing prison is a terrible injustice… he had so many more people to behead before the evil government stopped him. This is what you sound like.
@mehdirhasan How about getting 30 months for a tweet or 3 years for throwing a bin? Since when do absolve terrorists? Oh sorry, that your whole shtick.
@TadhgHickey Oh look at his face…. He is a lovely person from Sudan and his only crime is trying to behead someone on our streets.
Are you seriously suggesting that terrorists cannot look human?
Periodic reminder that "direct action" is merely a progressive euphemism for "domestic terrorism."
#ICYMI I've conveniently compiled a collection of security cam, GoPro & body cam footage of the break-in @ElbitSystemsLtd UK for which "Palestine Action" domestic terrorists were sentenced today & for whom @ZackPolanski here is shedding crocodile tears.
After the first incident of vandalizing an Elbit UK facility in July 2020, the group announced on Twitter (account now deactivated): "Palestine Action has launched; join us; get mobilised; take action; end complicity in Israel’s war crimes & apartheid regime."
Notice the distortion of the language of international law in the last clause there, since this is my primary area of specialization.
The gov't has (correctly) not concluded munitions exported from 🇬🇧 have been used by @Israel to commit "war crimes" in Gaza. At most, @FCDOGovUK justified suspension of ~30 arms export licenses in Sep 2024 by claiming "there is a clear risk that certain items, if exported, might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of IHL."
I concluded in a critical analysis here @X that the "legal explanation" for doing so "is dangerously flawed & utterly unconvincing" (link to 🧵 in 1st reply). Even so, a "clear risk" that war crimes may be committed isn't conclusive evidence that @IDF has in fact committed widespread & systemic war crimes. Plus, as erroneous as the decision was to suspend certain export licenses, @GOVUK is actually *complying* with its int'l law obligations pursuant to the Arms Trade Treaty by *monitoring* use of arms exports & suspending licenses upon a "clear risk" finding (dubious though it may be).
Likewise, 🇬🇧 has not determined 🇮🇱 is committing "apartheid" or "genocide."
Yet, Palestine Action has justified their campaign of domestic terrorism - sorry, "direct action" - as a movement to end 🇬🇧 "complicity" in these violations of int'l law.
As a call to action, the group has encouraged "all those who support justice and equality to join our movement, get active with us, and help to build a campaign capable of ending the UK’s complicity in apartheid" (webpage no longer available).
Yet, the methods it adopts to "get active" & qualify for the definition of terrorism pursuant to domestic law.
That is, 🇬🇧 law defines "terrorism" (in part) as an act involving "serious violence against a person" or "serious damage to property" where the act "is designed to influence the government ... or to intimidate the public or a section of the public" and it is "made for the purpose of advancing a political ... or ideological cause."
If you want to see visual evidence of the "serious violence" or "serious damage" elements, watch the attached video if you haven't already. If you want to see evidence of the influence / intimidate / ideology elements, go read the excerpts of the group's public messaging presented above again.
During trial, Police Sergeant Kate Evans testified that her "spine was shattered" when one of the terrorists smashed it with a sledgehammer. Police Constable Aaron Buxton also testified the same terrorist swung the sledgehammer at him "multiple times," likely making contact with his right calf & service radio.
PS Evans testified that during the incident, she said "something like 'you have just hit me with a sledgehammer,'" and the terrorist "just started telling me I'm complicit in genocide again."
Just think about that for a second. A criminal suspect smashed a law enforcement officer's spine with a sledgehammer, and he attempted to excuse his actions by claiming the officer is "complicit in genocide."
These terrorists are enemies of the state - by intent & design. And the leader @TheGreenParty just claimed it's "gut wrenching" to see them jailed.
That makes him & his party terrorist sympathizers rather than a serious political party. They & their terrorist friends should be relegated back to the margins of civil society where they have always belonged.
@ZackPolanski There is no genocide. Everyone is waiting for Hamas to disarm. Put pressure on Hamas to go. It’s the only way Palestinians in Gaza will get a chance to rebuild their lives. But you knew this already. You only care about your radical votes, not Palestinians.
@PulaRJS The deserved lengthier sentences, they violently and severely injured a police woman. People have been imprisoned for a long time for a lot less. Did you speak up when Lucy Connolly got 30 months for a tweet she deleted?
@PolitlcsUK@george_revutsky Why are you showing their pictures portraying them all innocent? How about the picture of the police woman whose spine they broke with a sledgehammer?
@lewis_goodall@igt_78 Still, your salary would enable many people in the third world to have a good life. Shall we arrange to donate it to those that need it more?
@timespolitics Absolutely essential, no more antisemitic DEI hires . Find someone who actually understands and loves arts with plenty of proven experience.