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The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: β€œI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription.

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[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 24 points 13 hours ago (42 children)

Just wondering, if I would hold up a sign with 'go isreal, continue the amazing work you do!', would that get me arrested? Surely i'd get beat up but i mean what would the lawmakers think of that? Would it be different if the sign would say 'go isreal, murder those innocent families' or 'go isreal, your genocide rules!' (am i allowed to call it a genocide if i'm not against it?)

make is sarcastic, the British way.

go on the telly, then show them a mirror to themselves. talk how excited you are for how many humanitarian volunteers are being slaughtered, how clever is it to stave children so they can take their land....

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[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 40 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

MPs had voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to proscribe the direct action group, alongside the neo-Nazi Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement.

Has anyone affiliated with the other two groups been arrested since this went into effect?

[–] ewo@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 19 hours ago

This is a good question, apparently they'd rather lock up 83 year old women than violent facists and warmongers

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 131 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (20 children)

They're calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel's genocide. They're not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they're valuable allies. This is the UK Government's morality. I hope it's not shared by the British people.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

What if it is an excuse to put people that openly oppose colonialism and authority under control and fear? They maybe don't care that much for Israel but why miss this opportunity?

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Technically it's because some members of the group trespassed in a military base and vandalised an airplane. Which is trespassing and vandalism. Not terrorism. Unless Starmer has been watching too much Thomas & the Friends and Pixar's Cars and believes that the poor planes can't sleep at night anymore, because they are terrified.

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago

Polling consistently shows disapproval for Israeli actions in Gaza.

[–] ewo@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 20 hours ago
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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Does Israel have dirt on all these people? Its wild how everyone just supports genocide so willingly.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The entirety of the current Government owe their jobs to Israel, as the last leader of their party - Jeremy Corbyn - was kicked out opening the way for these ones to get power after a campaign of slanders of anti-semitism backed amongst others by Israeli-linked Jewish groups in the UK which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was said to be an anti-semite for what he said in a conference for Palestine in order to taint Jeremy Corbyn by association, as he was sitting in the same panel in that conference and "didn't rise up to dispute it".

Since Britain also has First Past The Post like the US, getting the leadership of that party was a guaranteed path to Government since that party was the next in line in the power cycle over there.

So these people were basically bought by Israel.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Every western government is scared of opposing Israel since WW2. It's absurd.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

What makes you think they are backing israel only because of blackmail? They are arresting a 83 year old for opposing a genocide, our governments are shit and always have been, can't you see it?

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The west strongest countries are neocolonial powers supporting a colonial power

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

the strongest countries, period.

China and Russia are colonial powers, too.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 3 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

China and Russia are colonial powers, too.

Crazy how tankies think it's only ok if you do it to your neighbours.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

To be fair, China does it all over, especially in Africa. Russia probably would too if they could.

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[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 59 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

A very proactieve protestor and spunky woman of the cloth, who seems to have been arrested 27-28 times already. According to this profile publication she claims she "has militant dna, as a maternal ancestor was accused of sedition in the 18th century".

[–] sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

What a Fucking Legend!!! People such as her should be our icons. Not the plastic ridiculous people that the legacy media and the algorithimc social media keep pushing out like clowns to the circus floor to keep people distracted.

Sue Parfitt. Let's remember her name. In fact I'm gonna save this post.

And while I'm not one to support religion, between her and the reverend that gave that sermon to Trump's face in church, I would say "Lady Priests" (apologies for the reductionism) are having a moment and showing the cloth that apparently only the women in it seem to remember what "their calling" is supposed to be all about.

If anyone knows the name of the woman that gave that sermon, tag it under. Please.

It's not about supporting the church, it's about giving credit where credit is due.

In fact, we should start making a record of the people who are raising to the occasion these days all over the world, and taking the moral stand and give them the space and the limelight, instead of allowing everything to be about the shitty people doing their shitty deeds. That takes so much of the bandwith as it is, and makes us feel alone in the face of it all.

Be it about the atrocities being committed in Gaza, Ukraine, the U.S. or in any place where wrongful actions are occurring, let us make visible the people that raise to face it. Let us put forward the faces and voices of the ones who still truly give the word "humanity" some of its supposed meaning back.

PS: A lot of people here might not be able to read Spanish. But I do and I really liked the article you linked. It was a really nice complement to the one linked in the post. So, thank you for sharing it.

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