wear or display items arousing reasonable suspicion of membership
Bro, they’re making it illegal to wear a fucking keffiyeh. What a shitty fucking law.
People in the UK should protest en masse so that this damn police state can’t arrest everyone.
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inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Always have been a police state, anti terrorism laws are ALWAYS used to silence ‘dissident’ voices
From 5 July 2025, it is an offence under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 to be a member of Palestine Action,[7] fundraise for it,[8][9] wear or display items arousing reasonable suspicion of membership,[10] or if someone invites support or even “expresses an opinion or belief supportive of” Palestine Action “reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support” it.[11] These offences carry a maximum penalty of up to 14 years in prison for membership or inviting support, and up to 6 months in prison or a fine for displaying supporting items.[7][10][11][9]
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
inlandempire@jlai.lu 5 days ago
Head garments regulations are a recurring debate in France as well, what a coincidence it’s always about Muslim clothes and not Babushka’s scarfs
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
What does it mean to be a member? I’m still getting email updates and stuff and I’ll go to protests they organise.
I support Palestine action and I think this proscription is crazy.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Fuck that law. Isn’t that the law Putin used against Navalgny?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 week ago
Is Palestine Action a specific movement/group or is palestine Action literally just supporting Palestine? Asking from a non UK perspective.
scholar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren’t their biggest fans.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Their latest action was against the planes, but they have actually been extraordinarily successful at damaging the economic machine behind the genocide through targeted and sustained sabotage campaigns against Elbit Systems weapons manufacturer and their supporters, like Barclays Bank. They have already forced the closure of two weapons factories and forced Barclays to divest. It is most likely this sustained campaign that is the real reason for the terrorist designation, though the action at Brize Norton was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back.
scholar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It certainly made proscribing them an easy sell; you won’t find many people who think it’s unreasonable of the government to take a dim view of sabotage.
Hopefully it won’t distract too much from the bigger story of almost everyone apart from the government taking a dim view of genocide.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Do you have some reading on this?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Are the protestors with signs saying they support palestinian action intending to state that they support the group or that they support action generally?
Either way they’ve manufactured this issue to protest anti-terrorism laws right?
Not sure if would die on this hill.
scholar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
‘Palestine Action’ definitely refers to the group, otherwise you’d just put ‘Palestine’. I don’t think they did this to protest ant-terrorism laws, they’ve been very focused on targeting the genocide in Palestine so starting a new off-topic fight wouldn’t make sense for them.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 week ago
Ah, thanks for the info.
foggianism@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ah, so it’s the old “pay our people to do something ‘terrible/highly controversial’ in the name of our ‘enemy/opposing group’ so that we can discredit them and their cause and apprehend any of them”-rule
scholar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I don’t think there’s any need for false flag conspiracy theories. Palestine Action took credit for breaking into Brize Norton. I can only assume they thought it would generate enough attention to be worth the risk.
gnutrino@programming.dev 1 week ago
It’s a specific group that was proscribed after breaking into RAF Brize Norton and vandalizing tankers.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
AKA, they’re a group of heroes and the villainous government wants to keep doing evil.
gnutrino@programming.dev 6 days ago
Yes, because the world is actually a Saturday morning cartoon…
shiturdgensider@lemmings.world 6 days ago
They threw red paint.
The UK army is complicit in a genocide and deserve to have their planes and personel blown up.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 days ago
They threw paint into jet engines, which now have to be stripped down and rebuilt. They also went at the planes with a crowbar, and damaged security barriers at the perimeter. The damage is estimated at £7 million.
The army has nothing to do with any of this.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
It’s a group but of course considering the name they will be easier able to charge anyone supporting Palestine
inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 week ago
It uses Direct Action which are methods that governments tend to associate with terrorism