The judges acknowledged that the proscription of Palestine Action was controversial, adding: “We recognise too that Palestine Action is supported by many otherwise law-abiding citizens, and that it is engaged in peaceful as well as non-peaceful protest. It is, nonetheless, a fundamental mistake to overlook the fact that Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism.

“It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation that operates using secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties. Palestine Action’s activities have caused injury as well as property damage.”

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    using violence to destroy (…) property

    That’s not violence, ffs, that’s just vandalism! Which is a MUCH lesser crime and pretending otherwise is the death knell of free society 🤬

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    The UK legal system is so far fucked, they are out of control, and there are no political parties that will even call them on it. Cancelling the right to protest, forbidding the defenses explaining why they did something like blocking a road, idk how involved they are in cancelling jury trials.

    Seriously, wake the fuck up, and agitate, the right is utilizing the anger because we have no one doing so ourselves. Where are your balls england? Where are they at? Stand the fuck up.

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      You know it was always fucked that it’s a systemic problem, you only need to to look at a lot of the rulings during the troubles for that.

      But most English people barely even know the North of Ireland exists, nevermind the atrocities the English have committed here.