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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 228 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Codifying your genocide support into law. Nice.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If there is ever justice for Palestine the trials will be short. These bastards are so proud of their support for genocide.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 197 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label "terrorists."

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

~~Marcus Tullius Cicero~~ Someone

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 64 points 1 week ago

When the sentence is the same for non-violent protest and for actual terrorism, don't be surprised if things get more extreme quickly.

[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just more newspeak, like Trump calling everything he posts online "truths" while being nothing but lie after lie.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 163 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The harder they push their pro-Israel agenda, the more anti-Israel everyone is going to get.

You can't bully us into supporting a genocidal regime.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (9 children)

My fucking brain is so fried.

Both my parents were in World War II. They fought against fascism. I was brought up to feel for what happened to the Jews during that war. Now all I see is that they seem to be being worse than the actual Nazis.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Israel =/= the “Jews”.

Israel’s founders were actually very prejudiced against Jews that survived the holocaust. And much more against the ones that didn’t actually…

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 120 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Just to be clear because everybody seems to be missing this point.

Palestinian Action, is an organisation. Membership of that group is banned, it is not illegal to support Palestinians or to call out Israel's genocide. The government doesn't like it when you do, but it's not actually illegal for you to do it.

This organisation broke into a UK air force base in order to protest. They are not being charged because they protested, they're being charged for breaking in and damaging a lot of military equipment. I think it's a bit far to call them terrorists, but you can sort of see the government's point, if you squint.

The UK government does however absolutely deserve to get it in the neck for their support of Israel. Labour have had a pretty awkward relationship with Israel in particular and anti-Semitism in general for a long time, and they're now keen to be seen as supporters, but there are limits.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Looks like the UK is going down the American road here. It's time for all those UK citizens that said, "Rise up now!" to Americans months ago....time to rise up! Give us a great example!

Oh, you can't because you have to work for a living? How about that....

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is also legislation that can be used to arrest most protestors. And you can face a multi-year prison sentence if you say something wrong on social media.

The UK is actually further along the dystopian path than the USA in some ways, but as is tradition they are trying to pretend it's not happening.

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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are doing this because Palestine Action has been incredibly effective. They have already forced the closure of two factories in England that produce arms for Israeli defense company Elbit and forced Barclays Bank to divest through sustained sabotage campaigns. No person has been hurt by their actions, yet these actions have cost the genocide supporters millions of pounds and caused months-long disruptions to the production of weapons used in ethnic clean songs around the globe (Elbit weapons are fueling not just the Palestine ethnic cleaning, but Kashmir and DRC, too).

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wow protestors these days will stoop to the level of wisely putting pressure on major companies supporting genocide?!?

First property damage and now this??

clutches plastic pearls

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I support Palestine action

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

I hate evil.

[–] splonglo@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not only is the ruling wrong - it is the very thing it claims to be opposing. It is itself an act of terrorism, carried out with the intention of inspiring fear in the British public to further a political agenda.

In every way, the British government is replicating the actions it accuses PA of - except that the scale of harm to British society and the terror inspired is magnitudes greater, and performed in service of the opposite political goal.

This is a terror attack by the government against the British people.

The British people's opinion and will are the thing from which the goverment gains it's only source of legitimacy - and they do not line up with the government on this issue.

But evidently the government believes in a different model of legitimacy: they believe that legitimacy is derived from the mere fact that they hold power. In the mind of the government and it's supporters, the difference between a terrorist organisation and a legitimate government is just power and only power. To them, right and wrong has absolutely nothing to do with it. They think that they are winning, and that they are going to get away with it. Nothing else matters.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

I support Palestinian action in the UK

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm more shocked it hasn't already happened to Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain or Just Stop Oil.

But I guess blockading motorways and rocking up to art museums dressed like extras from a Wham music video and defacing paintings makes you less of a threat than wanting Netanyahu to stop his genocide of the Palestinian people.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're also losing our freedom of speech in America, so we Americans can sympathize a bit.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You've actually lost your citizenship for that Thoughtcrime. Have fun in El Salvador. -people who will only stop when met with violent force

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Labour are class traitors.

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[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago

That's good reason to remind people, that law is written by particular people, mostly to protect those people interests.

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