At long last the police are cracking down on hard marches

I suggest anyone celebrating these arrests of peaceful protesters goes to live in Trump's America or perhaps even Russia, I think you might enjoy it.

Absolutely nobody with any critical thinking capacity believes PA comes anywhere close to being what is typically considered a "terrorist" organisation.

This is purely and simply an exercise in the UK government abusing the law to silence and repress people drawing attention to it's complicity in a genocide. State censorship, repression, and abuse of power. Straight out of the despot handbook.

If "British values" mean taking a stand against terrorism, then we ought to have cut relations with Israel years ago and should be seeking to put members of Likud and the IDF up for trial in the Hague, instead of arresting 80'odd year old vicars and grandads for holding placards. Understandably the police look utterly mortified at having to participate in this complete nonsense.

If that is what constitutes "British values" then I'm glad I don't identify as British.

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TBF the law was changed to name them a terrorist organisation, would you agree with Starmer if he changed the law to say the IDF is one too?

No you wouldn't.

British values means we take a stand against terrorist organisations of which Palestine Action is one.

...and all done under a Labour Government.

Shameful, any damage caused should be dealt with under criminal damage laws, not branding anyone who don't agree with Israel's actions as a "Terrorist"

Partner has just had a memo sent round to all employees to be mindful of what they say and post as this could lead to a 14 year prison sentence.

Yet we take in people from HK because they are risk being arrested for protesting.....

Not at all.

Maybe you are unaware that Palestine Action are a proscribed terrorist group in the UK like Hamas.

Would you say it’s ok for people to march in London or another UK city in support of Hamas?

They're ok if your protest group has aims, objectives and actions which remain within the law.

How anyone could celebrate living in a country where peaceful protest leads to arrest is beyond me. This is so far from the British values I admire.

So are protests only ok if you agree with what is being protested about or the protesters themselves?

Very good news. I strongly suspect that these people don't realise that they're being useful fools, however, some of them must know that they are supporting fascism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia and nihilism.

I agree it’s good that the police are using anti terror legislation to arrest anyone demonstrating for Palestine Action.

They are classified as a terrorist group in the UK. No public support for terrorist groups in the UK should be tolerated as that is against our values ( & law).

The focus should be stopping the war crimes being committed by Netanyahu. His disgusting his actions on the Palestinians is horrific not only for the people of Gaza but by the long term impact on Jewish people around the world as Zionism and Judaism won't be separated by many.