Do you think the Palestinian protests should be restricted?

[Yriovd]

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.

What is sad is that the bad faith actors of Palestine Action are trying to overurn their ban by convincing the gullible and vulnerable in society to get themselves arrested in their name, so that the system gets overwhelmed and the ban has fo be overturned. Very Hamas like behaviour, the hiding behind the vulnerable. Many of the people holding placards won't know that PA took sledghammers and homemade whips to attack the police and the public.

I imagine they are going to be very regretful and humiliated during the trial in November. But then, they are adults who could have done basic research and just supported palestine instead 🤷‍♀️

And the co-founder of Palestine Action is currently waiting for his day in court for supporting Hamas and October 7th.

It’s not fair on the businesses and people who live in central London. How would these people like tens of thousands of people taking over their streets and making their lives miserable, every single weekend? Amazing how these people have so much time on their hands. Do they full time jobs or just float through life?

Have the protestors at least stopped banging on the window of McDonalds and shouting 'Shame on you' at the customers?

Absolutely not.

Tbf the police have to follow the laws as they are.

As posted by Plantatreetoday in August on your own thread noble

The charges !!
The news articles made in haste were wrong
The sledgehammer was brought to smash up equipment as the company were selling parts used in weapons used by Israel killing civilians in Gaza.

Did you miss where it said two police officers were seriously assualted?

And indeed some were charged with aggravated burglary using a sledgehammer.

The one charged with grievous and actual bodily hard was charged with aggravated burglary using a sledgehammer as an offensive weapon and when you look up the meaning of offensive weapon it means a weapon intended or actually used to cause physical harm. Not just smashing up equipment.

So he was using a sledgehammer as an offensive weapon, caused actual and grievous bodily harm, a police officer ended up on hospital but actually the sledgehammer was totally innocent?

Genuinely, did you not read your own post? What on earth are you defending these vile terrorist thugs for? Are you one of the simpletons who has been arrested for holding a placard?

"He put an officer in hospital and was charged with actual bodily harm but I'm going to quibble about the method of putting him in hospital because that makes all the difference."

It's bizarre, isn't it? Do they ever pause to do any self reflection?

Sledgehammers were to smash up equipment
Facts and truth are everything

And the police officer just put themselves in hospital.

I have to admit I find some of it quite selfish. I’d love to know how much it’s cost the UK in terms of resources, policing, planning etc we can ill afford on an issue so far away we have no realistic prospect of changing.

I think it's a bit of dawning realisation and 'oh shit that's actually really bad and I've supported them, wait if they assaulted police with homemade whips and knives instead of a sledgehammer then maybe I was justified in supporting them thinking that my placard would save Gaza and I would be a hero of the ages'

It's tragic

The ones outside my office are mostly students and retired professors all congratulating themselves for being on trend.

Well, if they were restricted, then the same rules would have to apply to people protesting outside hotels where asylum seekers live.

Sounds good to me! Let’s do that too

Yes, it sounds like a great plan with no downsides. Not sure why they suggested it like it was a bad thing.

Those students can’t be working that hard either…

What is tragic is the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in a genocide. Let’s have some perspective.

This is not a war. It’s a genocide.

Mate, it's not all about Gaza.

The war with Russia. Do you think this is a great time to be putting British military assets out of action?

For the past 2 years, people around the world have been watching a genocide unfold live-streamed onto their phones. It is beyond horrific.

Israel finds itself isolated not because the world is anti semitic, but because it has massacred hundreds of thousands of civilians, a disproportionate amount of whom are children. They have bombed every hospital, killed journalists and doctors. They have deliberately targeted children with snipers and withheld food, including baby formula, in attempt to starve an already desperate population to death.

They have committed ecocide in order to ensure ethnic cleaning is complete and people cannot return to agricultural land.

The global protests are a humane response to the atrocities, an attempt to persuade governments to put in place arms embargoes and insist upon the release of aid. People attending the protests are from all faiths with thousands of Jewish people alongside Christians and Muslims. This is not about religion, although there are those who seek to divide and weaponise by attempting to conflate Judaism with the actions of Israel.

Peaceful protest is a fundamental democratic right and anyone who seeks to undermine it does so to the detriment of us all.

You didn’t answer my question @Ellen2shoes