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• scholar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sabotaging the tools of genocide should be supported by everyone who isn’t a monster.

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      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        100 years from now, who would possibly doubt that PAC are the heroes here and labor are the villains? Genociders are never on the right side of history. These people are heroes.

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      • shiturdgensider@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Sabotage” they threw paint at fighter jets idiot

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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

      Do you have some reading on this?

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      • Saurok@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        www.thecanary.co/page/1/?s=Palestine+action

        The Canary has covered a lot of their actions against Elbit and others. I’ve linked the search page above… They’ve honestly done so much stuff that this’ll probably be easier and you can just scroll through the articles.

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      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I learned about this through an interview with a PA member on Rev Left Radio: …libsyn.com/palestine-action-direct-action-agains…

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah, thanks for the info.

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  • foggianism@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • foggianism@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Them taking credit is no proof that they have no goverment agents inflitrated in their lines

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a specific group that was proscribed after breaking into RAF Brize Norton and vandalizing tankers.

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AKA, they’re a group of heroes and the villainous government wants to keep doing evil.

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, because the world is actually a Saturday morning cartoon…

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      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You would have said the exact same thing about the Holocaust.

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  • shiturdgensider@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They threw red paint.

    The UK army is complicit in a genocide and deserve to have their planes and personel blown up.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • worldAdminsGenociders@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fucking liar cunt

        thecradle.co/…/uk-confirms-israeli-soldiers-train…

        Genocidal scumbag piece of shit

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a group but of course considering the name they will be easier able to charge anyone supporting Palestine

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• inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It uses Direct Action which are methods that governments tend to associate with terrorism

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