In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
Being a member of, or showing support for, the direct action protest group will be a criminal offence after judge’s decision
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Seems a bit much to label them as terrorist but they've done a lot of vandalism on various companies. Seems their MO is to find a target rationalize how it's somehow tangentially associated with Israel and then break some shit.
They crossed a line when they did this to a military base and vandalized some RAF planes. They had some weirdo rationalization for this, but forgot to rationalize how this kind of thing will help anyone in Gaza. They seem to be just breaking things to get attention for themselves.
They crossed a line when they did this to a military base...
They didn't cross the line into terrorism, though. Yes, they are criminals, no, they are not terrorists. It's an incredibly important distinction. By definition, they are not terrorists:
criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages...
-definition of terrorism, UN resolution 1566
The UK parliament is sovereign, not the UN. So how the UN defines things isn't relevant.
Also the law is meant to prevent terrorism. While I don't agree with the designation in this case, I can understand the concern around how this group is escalating their attacks. There's this "globalize the intifada" stochastic terrorism going around and the Iranian regime (the ultimate source of most of this shit) just got it's ass handed to them and may be looking to do something to show their people they're still "strong".
Since the UK signed the UN charter in 1945, it might behoove us to conform to their definitions unless, of course the UK parliament has agreed on a different definition for terrorism?
You don't see the connection with the air force? The military? Are you dense? Tell me you at least understand why they did Elbit and Thales...
The RAF isn't part of the IDF last I checked.
Doing these kinds of stunts based on weird tangential connections does not gain any support for a cause. In fact it just turns people against it. This kind of thing is done purely to improve these people's standing within the cause, but doesn't further the cause itself. It's just narcissistic attention seeking behaviour.
Nonsense. "This kind of thing" won women the vote and got us a weekend.
Those movements succeeded because they were lead by people that has clear goals and were able to make plans. They weren't random people just doing random acts of vandalism to get monetization from tech bro billionaires.
Palestine Action has clear goals though.
Why are you still allowed to talk? You're a genocide apologist
So you think that some speech should be banned?
Some kind of people. Genocide denialists for example. Banned from humanity.
Banned from humanity.
What do you mean by this? Is that a death threat?
Ironic statement given the post. Speech has been banned, all that's left to do is quibble about what speech.
Should speech supporting genocide be banned, or should speech protesting genocide be banned?
Maybe neither should be banned? Also I'm not "supporting genocide", I just look at the casualty numbers and they're consistent with a war, not a genocide. The word "genocide" has been weaponized and that's rationalizing the use of violence which doesn't help anyone.
These "Palestine Action" idiots are not helping Palestinians in any way. They're narcissists doing vandalism to increase their standing within a internet small bubble. That's all they're doing.
You're reading words I've written, that's speech but apparently some people around here think that should be banned. Do you think words should be banned and vandalism by narcissists should be legal?
Also they threw paint at planes, idiot. If a bit of red paint can damage fighter jets maybe build them better. Fucking liar.
You have consistantly spread genocide denialism since you created your account.
You should get banned
So you agree with censorship. You just disagree on which people should be censored.
It was just interesting, that in a post about people's speech being banned with legal consequences (14 years in prison) your first comment wasn't to protest that. But in a comment threatening speech with social consequences (a ban from a social media site) you were right in on protesting that.
Once again, violence is already happening. All we can do now is quibble about who that violence is directed at.
Would you prefer violence against Palestinian civilians, or some property?
Summary:
Speech is already being banned. Do you think supporting/ denying the genocide should be banned? Or acknowledging/protesting the genocide should be banned?
Violence is already happening. Do you support the violence against Palestinian civilians. Or the violence against some planes.
To answer your question, given the choice between a world with more vandalism or a world with more genocide: I'd take the world with more vandalism.
I want the war to end. The only way the war ends is if Hamas releasing the hostages. If your protests were denouncing Hamas and calling upon them to release the hostages, then I might believe you care about Palestinians.
But you don't really care about them. You're just using Palestinian civilians the same way Hamas does: sacrificing them to justify the existence of a violent group.
There is a significant movement of Gazans protesting against Hamas rule. You admire these Palestine Action idiots, I admire Palestinians protesting against the oppressive Hamas government... in the middle of a war. Palestinians in Gaza struggle with forming and kind of opposition to Hamas because Hamas will torture people to death for speaking out against them.
I look at the photo in article and I see a bunch of white kids cosplaying as Palestinians at a protest in a western country. Cultural appropriation of the suffering of people in a place they've never been to. Suffering they have no understanding of. You've probably never even heard of Palestinians being tortured by Hamas for speaking out or the Hamas attack on food distribution that happened just yesterday because you're in an internet bubble that bans anything that doesn't conform to a narrative.
I respect actual Palestinians living in Gaza that protest against authoritarians. You respect some white kids living in an internet bubble that cosplay as Palestinians and vandalize shit. But go on believing you have some internet fabricated moral high ground just because you can spell the word "genocide".
Perhaps you responded to the wrong person. Here's what my comment stated and asked:
Speech is being banned. Would you prefer speech supporting/denying genocide be banned? Or, speech protesting genocide be banned?
Violence is already happening. Would you prefer violence be used to support genocide? Or, violence be used against planes in protest of genocide?
Personally, I would prefer vandalism over genocide. Not a particularly tricky moral dilemma for me, weird question to have asked.
Noteably, nothing about Hamas. You saw that right? Tilt at some other windmills.
You're just creating false dichotomies left and right and straw-manning all over the place.
Nobody is supporting genocide, that's just you straw-manning the opposition because you don't want to discuss the complexities of the issue.
Violence is happening in a conflict you don't understand. You don't want to even talk about Hamas because it spoils your narrative. You can't to explain how creating violence in the west will result in the release of the hostages Hamas is holding. So you just avoid the subject. In fact your actions might encourage Hamas to hold out longer and that will prolong the suffering of Palestinians. Which is why I say you don't actually care about Palestinians.
You don't want to understand the conflict you claim to care about because you only care about a bullshit internet narrative. Hamas is still holding hostages and the war will continue regardless of what you do. So as much as you try to frame it as genocide vs. vandalism, we all know that's complete bullshit. The vandalism will not impact what happens in this war (regardless of how you want to term it) so it's just people doing vandalism and ruining their lives to impress people on social media.
Once again. Speech is being banned. Only one of which was protested against in the comment I replied to: not the potential 14 years in prison, the banning from a niche part of a niche website. Not a false dichotomy. Nor is the violence choice a false dichotomy, it's pointing out the ridiculousness of complaining about vandalism under the shadow of genocide.
You want to talk about straw Manning, ctrl+f my comment for Hamas please. If it comes back with zero result you should apologise.
You don’t want to understand the conflict you claim to care about because you only care about a bullshit internet narrative.
The arrogance of this sentence. Genuinely, be ashamed of yourself and apologise.
Israel will continue the genocide no matter what I do, that's correct. But we, as a nation, don't need to support them... Hence the protests.
Edit: as you believe I don't want to understand, I'm linking my usage of the word "genocide" to people you might believe do. Each link is different.
I wonder if any Nazi said "your honour, we had to commit a genocide, the Allies had hostages" at the Nuremberg trials. Probably, a lot of nonsense was tried.
