To wonder why so many pensioners are supporting Palestine Action, even willing to risk prison for it ?

I never said they are rich. Possibly it has more to do with where they live.

Brilliant, what a great survey.

I'm sick of this shite about rich pensioners voting for Brexit.
I'm not rich.It was the worst thing ever,started by Cameron for a laugh. Wrecked this country totally.

Rubbish! None of my friends voted for it, but my in laws and all their friends did!

Hundslappadrifa · Today 17:14

I think you need to look more at the 75+ for people who voted for Brexit.

That's incorrect, the older pensioners were more likely to vote Remain, because they'd live through the war, of its recent aftermath. Living in bombed out towns and seeing fathers and other male relatives come home blind, maimed, or mad led them to conclude:

War is a big, hairy bag of wank; co-operation is far superior.

I think it's a touchstone issue for left wing people of a certain age.

It's not the UN and others NGOs that are refusing - its that Israel and the US havent been letting them in, insisting instead that only the US-Israeli venture, the GHF, carry out all distributions (and who, it seems, are either inept or malicious). It is not clear if the UN and others, typical aide-distributors will now be allowed in.

HRchatter · Today 07:04
"Useless idiots, imprison the lot"

Which apart from many disabled people will also include a large number of Jewish people.

We’ve no room

I'm 68 and working as I have no choice. Despise Bexit.

Hilarious the ageism.

It's coming your way

Pensioners are the Vietnam generation. We've seen "protest" with CS gas and riot police ("Special Patrol Group" anyone?).

What passes for "protest" today is little more than a Sunday school picnic. It's simply a day out.

Some damage, yes (not sure of the value).

But that's not what terrorism means.

Sharing a cell with a criminal, a toilet in the corner? I don't think so.

But presumably you despise English people flying English flags IN ENGLAND. They were doing so because they feel their identity is being destroyed. However, it’s OK to video yourself tearing down those flags while a crowd cheers, which is what happened near me. People have every right to protect their culture and identity…so long as they’re not English. The English are having a new identity imposed on them, and they’d better celebrate (or else).

This.

RedAdmirals · Today 04:17

Then the beef is with the UN who for some reason won't distribute the Aid. Protesting in UK won't help.

You should have read your own links; you would have learned that Israel is preventing UNRWA from entering Gaza, or to distribute the food. Israel controls it and does it out, via an American-Israeli organisation.

But ultimately thank God Mandela existed eh? So that’s why you shouldn’t always believe what a Government tells you to think about people! You would have said “yes definitely a terrorist, lock him up!”’ But S.A needed him, and they wouldn’t have made a peaceful transition out of apartheid without him, pretty much the whole world acknowledged that! We must have people who are brave and unselfish enough to challenge Governments and insist on change. You will have benefited from such people, do you not realise that??

Some of them hold signs up, saying that they are Jewish. One such man wrote a letter to the Guardian explaining that. You can see that some of the are, because of their distinctive clothing.

Like any group of people, Jewish people have a wide variety of opinions and don't have to follow Netanyahu's every word. It was the same in the UK, during the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

All sorts of people joined the protests, left and right, Muslims, atheists, Christians. Some people were gung-ho for it, too.

I think you need to look more at the 75+ for people who voted for Brexit.
Oh and I’m 65 and still working full time, as are most of my office colleagues, defo not pensioners yet, unfortunately!

Oh yeah, that'll be it. I'm old, I might freeze to death so I'll get of fmy arse and go to a protest.

I am a pensioner. I don't like bulllies,injustice and starving children. Hope that helps.

Maybe because they possibly lived through it before and want to do something to stop another genocide.

It was about a homeless man who'd have a medical episode every autumn and mysteriously be able to leave in spring.

Obviously if it was written for the modern age he'd have been kicked half to death by a bunch of concerned citizens before spending winter on a trolley outside the morgue.

I am surprised we were allowed to read it, aged 14. Mind you the Somerset Maugham story was way way darker.

RedAdmirals ·

"They must be short of daytime soaps to watch "

No they are just against genocide.