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AndyRM

AndyRM

Elder Goth
I guess Northumbria's finest haven't got the memo because there were plenty of Palestine Action placards at the Monument on Friday evening in Newcastle. Maybe they only go after pensioners because the holders were all quite young?
 
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Psamathe

Psamathe

Veteran
AndyRM said:
I guess Northumbria's finest haven't got the memo because there were plenty of Palestine Action placards at the Monument on Friday evening in Newcastle. Maybe they only go after pensioners because the holders were all quite young?
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Don't tell Nigel or Elongate as they'll be starting up about "two-tier Policing" again.
 
briantrumpet

briantrumpet

Guru
Only 425 for the courts to deal with...

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Ian H

Ian H

Squire
Sanctions on Israel are mostly performative. They make so much of the equipment that's vital for efficiently killing people, and it's embedded in most armaments wherever they're bought.
 
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Pross

Pross

Active Member
There was a small Palestine protest in. Newport at the start of the ToB this morning. I bumped into a mate who’s in charge of policing this weekend and asked why he hadn’t sent his troops in to sort them out. It seems that maybe only the Met are getting pushed into that.
 
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Psamathe

Psamathe

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Thinking and reflecting on the recent protests over the organisation that cannot be named, I'm wondering if the large protests are not particularly in support of that organisation but rather to a degree indirectly about freedom of speech, in part about unhappiness about UK Gov. inaction over genocide, maybe even in part about politicians moving the goal posts with regard to law.

Interesting article from The Good Law Project
Proscribing Palestine Action is a dangerous shift in the law
The public support for Palestine Action illustrates that this dramatic shift in the law is out of step with what many people think: criminal damage may be a crime, but it’s not terrorism. Politicians steering the Terrorism Act through Parliament in 1999 reassured MPs that proscription would only catch groups engaged in “serious violence” and the then home secretary, Jack Straw, clarified that direct action groups like Greenpeace would be excluded. Four years earlier Greenpeace had occupied two nuclear production sites and caused serious damage by filling a waste pipe with cement. Criminal, but not terrorist.
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Palestine Action is due to challenge the proscription order in November. But there too the government has the whip hand. The national security material supposedly justifying the proscription order is shielded by closed hearings held in secret. Palestine Action’s special advocates can see that material and challenge it, but they can’t tell Palestine Action what it says or take instructions on how to refute it.
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A case of "Trust Me I'm A Politician" except we've already fallen for that far too often in the past.
 
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matticus

matticus

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Amusing footnote to the Vuelta protests:

Pro-Palestine activists have broadened their campaign against the presence of Israel-Premier Tech at the Vuelta a España to include hacking the official race radio during a stage.

According to the Spanish state news agency EFE, activists managed to take over the radio emissions during stage 14 from Avilès to Farrapona, broadcasting pro-Palestine slogans and even some songs at certain points of the race.

Race radio, popularly known as 'Radio Tour', is normally used to communicate information from the race organisation to race directors in team cars.

There were also unconfirmed reports of further hacks of the race radio during stage 15, with supporters broadcasting pro-Palestine slogans on Sunday over the radio at around 80 kilometres to go.

Vuelta security sources told EFE that "hacking a radio is a relatively easy task for an amateur radio fan to do. What happened yesterday was purely anecdotal and did not form any kind of risk to the race."
 
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Psamathe

Psamathe

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Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’
Except I have no idea what is any impacts this might actually have as it's more nuanced that a quick scan of headline suggests as they will happily work with Israeli film institutions that are not implicated in the genocide. How many Israeli film institutions are actually implicated?

The FAQ associated with the pledge does state
An FAQ accompanying the pledge addresses how to determine which film entities are implicated, and states: “Israel’s major film festivals (including but not limited to Jerusalem film festival, Haifa international film festival, Docaviv and TLVFest) continue to partner with the Israeli government while it carries out what leading experts have defined as genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

“The vast majority of Israeli film production and distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally recognised rights of the Palestinian people,” it adds.
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So maybe it is a bit more significant?
 
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