Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by UK police under the Terrorism Act at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London, which insures the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.
If the Prime Minister uses political pressure to force Birmingham to accept the racist, violent football fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv next month, he will own the consequences of their actions. PSC Director @BenJamalpsc on Sky News.
See the whole interview here: https://t.co/Oy5jMOHhNg
A Green government would proscribe the Israel Defense Forces as a terrorist organisation.
The forces currently actioning war crimes and genocide upon the people of Gaza on behalf of the Israeli government.
This must not be allowed to continue.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Manchester City manager and football legend Pep Guardiola has spoken out in solidarity with Palestine, calling on people to flood the streets of Barcelona tomorrow to protest against the genocide.
@PepTeam@Palestina_cat
This is how leaders of the world should speak in unison to an unlawful occupier committing genocide,war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Instead, they stay silent and/or complicit.
Thiago Avila's is Our voice.
End genocide. End occupation. End apartheid.
More than 1,200 people in London have taken part in one of the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history, to protest the Palestine Action ban.
At 1pm on Saturday, hundreds of protesters, many of them elderly, sat down in Parliament Square and wrote “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action” on cardboard signs.
Among those taking part was Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old priest, who was arrested at the first-ever protest against proscription on 5 July, the day it came into effect.
The action, organised by Defend Our Juries (DOJ), was designed to pose an “unprecedented simultaneous challenge to all three legal systems within the UK’s constitutional framework”.
In a statement released before the protest, the Met police claimed the force had the “officer numbers, custody capacity and all other resources” necessary to arrest everyone. It was forced to backtrack on similar claims last month, speaking of the “entirely unrealistic” challenges it faced in enforcing the Palestine Action ban.
On 9 August, 532 people were arrested for holding placards in Parliament Square, in what was at the time the largest mass arrest event in London since 1961 - but it took the police hours, and many hundreds more protesters were able to leave, despite having broken the law.
Half of those arrested were over 60 - one was a blind man in a wheelchair.
Police dealt with the huge number of arrests last time by processing them nearby in Westminster and granting most arrestees “street bail” - meaning they were released immediately and didn’t need to be transferred to a police station. This time, DOJ told participants to decline street bail, in a bid to push police resources past their limit.
Key DOJ spokespeople who had been arrested and charged in dawn raids earlier this week broke their bail conditions to protest, as did many others who had been arrested at earlier protests, causing confusion for officers on the ground.
The government’s controversial decision to proscribe Palestine Action makes it the first non-violent organisation ever to be banned under the Terrorism Act.
The ban could be overturned in November, when it will go to the high court for judicial review.
Given the Israeli army shot dead the Palestinians queuing for aid, yes I would say Israel should be held accountable for shooting them dead?
What the fuck is this? This is supposed to be the best Britain broadcaster on Palestine, too.
The Western media whipped up a frenzy about fictional beheadings of Israeli babies.
Then said nothing about the mass slaughter of countless Palestinian babies.
There will be a reckoning.
Today, more than half a million people demonstrated on the streets of London to call on our government to end its complicity in genocide.
We are an unstoppable movement for Palestine.
Israel bombed the burns unit of a hospital.
They did it to kill journalist @hassaneslayeh, who they'd maimed weeks earlier.
Israel has perpetrated the biggest massacre of journalists in human history.
Yet most Western journalists haven't said a thing. History will damn them.
Save the Children humanitarian director Rachael Cummings says children in Gaza are 'eating grass' to survive.
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Just because it’s not in the news as much doesn’t mean the genocide in Palestine is over.
Please keep speaking up, keep sharing, and don’t let the world forget what’s happening. We cannot claim to care about justice if our solidarity has an expiration date.