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Welcome to the Labour police state (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 108 points 2 days ago (46 children)

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]

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 35 points 2 days ago (41 children)

Is Palestine Action a specific movement/group or is palestine Action literally just supporting Palestine? Asking from a non UK perspective.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (31 children)

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.

Shortly after they did this they were designated as a terrorist group by the home office which is why public support is an offence.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 day 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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