to think that just because you say something about Israel and Gaza does not mean that you should be threatened with arrest under the terrorism act?

I meant cause in the sense of the thread.

Tbf my initial comment and response wasn't to you and it was a broader one.

But fwiw I think you've been full of hyperbole and it doesn't help your cause.

Maybe? Pompous, patronising, superior, belittling attitudes tend to rile people.

I didn't say that and its always possible for the police to overstep, that will come out in the wash.

But if you hold up a placard saying I support Palestinian Action in the full knowledge they are a proscribed group then I will have to go and search for my tiny violin.

It is a great analogy.
Thank god women like your great aunt x2 did protest enough and endured horrible treatment so we could all vote today. And thank god people have not stopped raising awareness at the carnage inflicted upon Palestine today. Even as they are called fuckwits and useful idiots and stupid by the many pro Israelis that would rather we took our focus off Gaza and directed it somewhere, anywhere, else.....and inferred we are antisemitic because we don't.

I've already acknowledged this. You've really worn out my patience.

Suffragettes were using bombs amongst other tactics and were considered terrorists.
My great×2 aunt was a Suffragette who went to jail and went on hunger strike and endured force feeding as terrorist for pouring water in a postbox.
You might want to choose a better analogy

Absolutely. I've given this thread more time than I intended. Sometimes, you can't overlook stupidity.

Anybody acting violently, I presume. Any chants or slogans that are prohibited, will be included. Remember Mr throatcut?

I agree.

I've never had time for the former but am growing exasperated at the bandwagon jumping Tiktok idiots who are increasingly extremist. Well when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

They should absolutely be free to express their outrage at what is happening in Gaza.

However I’d also strongly recommend that they have a really hard honest think about why they’re motivated to express outrage and concentrate their anger on this one particular conflict. The world is full of horrible conflicts, suffering and unfairness.

So, why is Gaza the one conflict that has galvanised them in this way?

It’s almost as though they are trying to remove the name Gaza from public discourse altogether in the hope everyone will forget it. It’s quite sinister.

I pray enough Palestinians remain alive by the time the current American administration changes. There will have to be a recalibration of sanity and fairness as the the majority of ordinary people across the world and increasingly in America can see this isn’t right but the penalties for saying so are currently very severe.

I’m pretty certain the person in the pic is trans (Apols if I’m wrong), however, that doesn’t take away from the fact that the scope of terrorism has apparently widened to include holding a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’.

Really? You are ok with this?

So you presumably know that the German government passed laws in the 1930s that made it illegal for "non Aryans" to be employed in the civil service, then in healthcare and eventually limited the number in school because they were "worried about overcrowding".

You are happy with the US passing laws now that make it ok for their own citizens to be taken off the streets and incarcerated or deported?

If you think it's ok to support these laws then I point you to the Neimoller poem; First They Came.

I guess and get that you are feeling persecuted, but really all of us are in the same boat. Populations don't win under authoritarianism.

The police have made it clear what would be an arrestable offence. Since 7/10, they've had to police huge protests taking away attention to crimes relevant in the UK. This inevitably is going to lead to tension and often police mishandling. I do think this selective outrage of police misconduct is amusing. I seem to recall Tommy Robinson's arrest for presence within the vicinity of a protest, to be celebrated on here. It turned out the police were wrong. Funny that.