Do you think the Palestinian protests should be restricted?

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With talk of the potential police powers, what do you think?

YABU - no restrictions, allow them to go ahead every week as they currently do.

YANBU - restrict them so they’re allowed less frequently, or ban them altogether.

Do you support the murder of Jews? Do you celebrate October 7th? Do you want world-wide attacks? Do you think these things should be chanted on the streets of the U.K. as they are at these marches?

There’s folk on this thread who would have complained about the suffragettes.

Absolutely not!

I am aghast at any support for the erosion of civil liberties and idea of paying to protest 😵‍💫😵‍💫…..what’s wrong with people!

Get off your knees, if you don’t approve of government policy it’s your fundamental right to let them know through peaceful protest. They work for you, the gov don’t own the country, we do.

So they are protesting in support of the Trump plan? Cos thats the only peace plan on the table to stop this genoicide you are so concerned about.

I support their right to protest but it can be quite relentless in London and it is disruptive and expensive. Policing the pro Palestinian protests costs the met police millions. It also takes police away from dealing with crime.

I do sometimes wonder how people in towns and villages would feel if it was constantly going on in their towns and villages.

We have a right to peaceful protests in this country, and quite right.

I didn’t like Robison & his ilk … but as long as it’s peaceful, they have event right to walk about waving flags. I don’t particularly like the “Flags on lamppost” thing, but again, peaceful protests.

We don’t want to like the USA / Russia / North Korea, where those rights are removed.

If people are committing criminal offences at a protest, they will be dealt with by the current laws -

You could say that for any protest … are we to ban them all because the “police have better things to do with their time” ? slippery slope

Most protests don’t happen pretty much every week

Although I feel the protests this weekend were tasteless in the circumstances, I'm extremely uncomfortable with the government imposing restrictions on the right to protest.

We don't have a right to protest in support of a banned organisation. Many of these protests are in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action.

It’s not a very anti-semitic country. Prior to WW2, it was a small, poor country who had relatively recently fought a War of Independence from the UK (1920s). Many of that generation hated the English government due to their experiences of colonisation and war.
Nevertheless, though officially neutral, they passed information to the Allies and supported in other ways.

Walking into a totalitarian state in plain sight.
The brainwashing continues.

No, because they will become martyrs if you ban them. But some rules should apply:

Face coverings should not be allowed.

Anyone inciting hate at the protests should be carted off.

People can protest whatever they like … as said, if they are committing a criminal offence the current law will deal with them. We don’t need to curtail the right to peaceful protest

It’s a knee jerk reaction and after the conflict ends we’ll just be left with fewer rights to protest.

No, people can't protest whatever they like. That's just your misunderstanding of the law.

Peaceful is ok. Law abiding is ok. Not using hate speech, is ok.

When they support proscribed terrorist organisations they are breaking the law, not ok.

When they use violence or incite violence, not ok. Eg globalise the intifada, not ok

When they use hate speech, death to Jews, as per recent video from recent 'protest' not ok.

When they scream things at passers by, not ok.

Etc etc etc

😂 many of the 'protests' appear brainwashed, repeating hateful chants and inciting violence. Sheep like chanting.

Put them in an industrial estate and let them protest every week. Just not where it inconveniences everyone else.

No because the right to protest should not be restricted as a fundamental right.

However it’s painfully clear to most normal people that the protests involve a not insignificant number of bad actors who either use the protests to legitimise their hatred of Jewish people, or support foreign terrorists.

What a pity, given your claim to live in Ireland you haven't bothered to educate yourself on the history of the country.
There are many reminders of the deliberate starvation of over a million and a half people with a similar amount forced into emigration. The population has still not recovered to pre An Gorta Mór levels.
That is a huge part of why the Irish support the Palestinians. 'If you know your history....'

Yes. It has encouraged an environment of anti semitism in the UK which is completely unacceptable.

Whilst what is happening in Gaza is awful the protests have become a fashionable cause. It is bizarre and horrible to think that but it is true.

Stupid people, often young, who actually do nothing real to help anybody or have any desire to find out the complex history which has led to the current situation think that by waving flags, putting stuff on their social media they will be seen as socially conscious, on the right side and can congratulate themselves and their equally superficial friends.

The middle east is shitshow of death, prejudice and division.
The last thing we want is to import that here.

If you genuinely want to help lobby your mp, donate money for aid, volunteer for a charity.

No. It's a hard won right and we give it up at our peril.The vast majority are anti genocide which seems reasonable to me.

All of this proves the hatred spewing from these marches. Is disgusts me. All this promotion of violence in the UK, calling for supporters of mohammed to 'slaughter Jews'. Turn us into a medieval country then.

Of course they should continue. We have a right to peaceful protest.

Someone was saying they should stop in light of the Manchester attack. I don't think that's right. The protests are largely peaceful protests opposing genocide. They're not anti-Semitic marches.

Of course, there should be absolutely no place for hatred in a peaceful protest. Anyone using hate speech or using this genocide as an excuse for antisemitism is not a peaceful protester and should face swift legal action.

Jews and non Jews can unite against genocide and call for peace. We are stronger when we come together in our common humanity. Seeking an end to the war in Gaza is a humanitarian mission.

There is no room for religious hatred in that conversation, which is really about caring about and seeking an end to the suffering of others. That message needs to be absolutely clear.