To think Palestine Action isn't a terrorist group?

[NotDarkGothicMama]

I don't agree with what they've done (breaking into military bases to vandalise planes), but I don't understand why they're being proscribed. Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have caused far more damage to property and general annoyance.

Arrest and prosecute the people who commit criminal acts, absolutely, but this is setting the bar for branding protestors "terrorists" far too low.

They’re not protestors. They broke into a military base and put some military planes out of action.

They have threatened the security of our country. That’s not a protest, they could have been shot dead.

I’m sure the UK’s enemies like Iran are laughing at this bunch of idiots attacking their own country so that they don’t have to.

It is troubling that these ‘protests’ which are really just hate filled racist violence dressed up as freeing Palestine have ever been allowed to continue given the illegal chants and criminal activity that has been taking place in plain sight.

There is no place for racism of any kind and certainly not death threats. It’s against the law in this country. I am glad they are clamping down. We would take exactly the same action if it was the other way around.

Yep!

i wasn’t aware it was possible to be racist to a plane?

I have no idea why so many people on the left are so keen on islamofacist regimes and kleptocracies but loathe their own democratic societies. It’s extraordinary to me.

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I believe when WW1 began suffragettes suspended their campaign for the duration of the war. And I don’t think there’s any record of suffragettes damaging military assets needed for the defence of this country

Thomas Mair (Jo Cox's killer) doesn't appear to have been a member of any group;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38071894

I know. Some of them supporting fascist, nihilistic, antisemitic, misogynist regimes over liberal democracies. Bizarre.

Breaking into a base and causing millions of pounds worth of damage to military equipment is terrorism. They’re being called what they are.

It’s magnitudes more serious than the actions of Just Stop Oil.

It really is. But also concerning.

It’s an act of treason at the very least.
Lucky the morons weren’t shot.

I wonder how many of you bleating about how they’re just harmless protestors who didn’t do nuffink wrong were celebrating when the people on the other side got prison sentences for making offensive Facebook posts?

OK, so arrest the people on charges relating to damage to army property, which I'm sure is very serious under the law, but it hardly merits them being labelled terrorists.

Who have they 'terrorised', who have they threatened by causing military aircraft to require an (I am sure) expensive repaint?

He shouted 'Britain First' twice during his attack.

It’s part of a broader picture though to undermine and destabilise our country and our ability to defend ourselves. The aspect particularly concerning to me is the division they are sowing. We are a tolerant nation of all religions, we will not accept fanatics or anyone sabotaging our peaceful society.

They are terrorists according to the governments definition of terrorists. They're lucky they weren't shot!

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Yes, that's my concern as well

He wasn't shouting a slogan - from my BBC link;

He shouted: "Britain first, this is for Britain.
"Britain will always come first...

the mystery of Mair is he appears to have simply got on with forming and reinforcing his views with no contact to any of the known extremist organisations in the UK.
There is no evidence of him having been identified at rallies or marches down the years...

What a lot of people seem to have forgotten is that two things can be true at once. Too many are divided into 'teams' and see every issue through this lens.

I am totally against what Israel has done in Gaza. However, I also believe that Hamas is an evil group and that vandalising military infrastructure is not legitimate protest.

We have a serious issue seem to think they have to support every single action carried out by their 'team'.

I highly doubt those who think it is fine to damage military jets would feel the same about Reform doing it to 'protest' against immigration.

But they a) didn't embarrass the establishment. B) show real terrorist who do want to.kill people how easy it is and c) commit treason.. Sorry but fucking with UK military equipment is treason.

plus there have been a number of attacks on Jewish people some have been reported in here. That is not acceptable. Jewish people in the uk are not the government of Israel.

I have to say I'm Jewish and I don't see them as doing that at all. They are very much targeting the infrastructure that facilitates genocide, not individuals and not Jews.

Israel is entitled to defend itself, but defence is not nearly two years of relentlessly attacking a largely innocent population and taking a wrecking ball to their cultural institutions and infrastructure in an attempt to bury their cultural as well as actual existence.

Our government needs to stop being apologetic and use their influence as a supposed ally of Israel to help put an end to this.

It's literally the definition of terrorism under UK law (as brought in by the previous Labour government) see screenshot below

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