UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide

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UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide - Lemmy.ca

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Does Israel have dirt on all these people? Its wild how everyone just supports genocide so willingly.
Politicians only care about being elected.
How exactly does supporting genocide get them elected? I don’t get the impression that Labour voters want to see Palestinians murdered.
Money
It’s been proven that most of the time, whoever spends the most wins.
The UK has spending limits which mitigates that. www.electoralcommission.org.uk/…/spending-limit
Does this include quid-pro-quos like being invited to speak somewhere or providing lip service to a certain political party? Not all transactions can be measured in terms of monetary values. Think of ‘we don’t mind supplying you with state-of-the-art spyware, but we can’t do that if you make life hard on us and speak out against the genocide we’re committing’.
The fact that labour is propping up and financially supporting this is awful, we are somewhat complicit in this genocide too. Didn’t fucking vote for this.

Really? You weren’t there during the racist riot were ya?

Brits hate arabs more and more.

The care about holding the power. They don’t give a shit about elections. It’s just that they need them to legitimize their regime.
The west strongest countries are neocolonial powers supporting a colonial power

the strongest countries, period.

China and Russia are colonial powers, too.

China and Russia are colonial powers, too.

Crazy how tankies think it’s only ok if you do it to your neighbours.

Antitanks are retarded lmao

Post about the UK supporting genocide in gaza Antitanks: BUt whAt AbOut ChiNA

I don’t know if you just don’t know how conversations work, but it follows pretty reasonably. It didn’t come from no where. First someone complained about “the west” doing colonialism. Then someone corrected that all major powers do it. Finally someone points out that tankies only complain about “the west” and never China or Russia who do the same things.

This article is about the UK. The UK is pretty much the mothership of what we calls “the west”.

Everything else is deflection and whataboutism

Whining about china

So guess you’re paycheck doesn’t come from Russia then

I don’t have a paycheck you fucking retard. Why do you support genocide? Why do you try deflecting from the west guilt. This article isn’t about China

Go suck geerts, kankalika

To be fair, China does it all over, especially in Africa. Russia probably would too if they could.
The Russian Federation is de facto a Moscowite empire. And they are trying their best to annex more countries into their “Federation”.
Oh, for sure. I just meant they’d be doing it overseas if they could. Right now they’re only able to do it locally, and are currently not able to continue because Ukraine is holding them off.
is this the anti-tankie crowd warning us about WhaTaBouTiSm?
What makes you think they are backing israel only because of blackmail? They are arresting a 83 year old for opposing a genocide, our governments are shit and always have been, can’t you see it?

The entirety of the current Government owe their jobs to Israel, as the last leader of their party - Jeremy Corbyn - was kicked out opening the way for these ones to get power after a campaign of slanders of anti-semitism backed amongst others by Israeli-linked Jewish groups in the UK which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was said to be an anti-semite for what he said in a conference for Palestine in order to taint Jeremy Corbyn by association, as he was sitting in the same panel in that conference and “didn’t rise up to dispute it”.

Since Britain also has First Past The Post like the US, getting the leadership of that party was a guaranteed path to Government since that party was the next in line in the power cycle over there.

So these people personally owe their top jobs to Israel.

Every western government is scared of opposijg Israel since WW2. It’s absurd.
Yeah, Epstein was just the tip of the iceberg.
They’re calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel’s genocide. They’re not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they’re valuable allies. This is the UK Government’s morality. I hope it’s not shared by the British people.
Technically it's because some members of the group trespassed in a military base and vandalised an airplane. Which is trespassing and vandalism. Not terrorism. Unless Starmer has been watching to much Thomas & the Friends and Pixar's Cars and believes that the poor planes can't sleep at night anymore, because they are terrified.
Some definitions of Terrorism also include property damage
Well definitions can include anything and everything. They can also be debased to the point of being useless, or in the case of crimes of being the engine of witch hunts.
I do not believe inanimate objects can experience terror, so I also don’t agree with the definition. But I don’t write the laws.
Some definition of genociders also include “brits”
Oooh, waaah, muh paint!

On the outside of the engine I agree.

On the inside there are moving parts that probably don’t like increased friction, so they probably have to take the whole thing apart.

Big deal. The UK has billions of pounds from selling arms to the genocidal apartheid zionist state.
Big deal. The UK has billions of pounds from selling arms to the Apartheid Zionist state
Also, even if a few members organize themselves to do that, that doesn’t mean the entire organization supports it or is behind it.
“We’re civilised people, we can excuse genocide, but throwing paint and saying mean words is a step too far.”
Polling consistently shows disapproval for Israeli actions in Gaza.
No they’re not. There’s a difference between “Palestine Action” (the group) and “actions and other stuff in favour of Palestine”. The former has been banned, the latter has not. Protesting is legal in the UK; vandalising Air Force equipment is not.
They threw red paint at fighter planes, idiot

That’s sounds like vandalism, which confirms what the other guy said.

And there’s no need for insults.

Shut the fuck up.

  • no that doesn’t sound like vandalism what the fuck if a bit of paint can damage a fighter plane why do we spend half a billion for each of them.
  • you’re a genocidal piece of shit who support censorship. Shut the fuck up.
  • Please tell me where you park your car and your number plate. I will then throw red paint on it. If a bit of paint can damage your car, why did you spend 40.000€ on it?

    Just listen to yourself - of course throwing paint into an aircraft engine will damage a plane. This is exactly why this group did it. And there is nothing to prevent this - throwing paint will destroy every engine and esp. jet engines. You can support Palestine, but please use your brain and try to think about some things before posting. You can do better than this.

    I don’t have a car. I don’t like to spread lung cancer.

    Piece of shit

    Fucktard genocidal cunt.
    That’s the definition of vandalism. Feel free to open a dictionary and educate yourself.
    Genocide pos
    What has point of sale to do with genocide?
    No, not that pos
    I know, points of sale are usually in retail, nothing to do with genocide.
    That’s very funny. You should do stand up

    Yes, that is vandalism by definition.

    “Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.[1] The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism

    Vandalism - Wikipedia

    Apparently they sabotaged the engines:

    In June 2025, the Home Office announced that it intended to designate the group as a proscribed terrorist organisation after the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling planes by spraying paint into their engines.

    By committing that act they’ve successfully played themselves.

    Home Office - Wikipedia

    Shut the fuck up germgerm your country is arming a genocide too. Death to germany
    Shut the fuck up you genocidal piece of shit. Throwing red paint at a fighter jet isn’t “vandalism”. Fuck you. I hope you once see your loved one firebombed. Scumbag
    Damaging equipment that is being used to conduct genocide is not vandalism, it’s human fucking decency.
    True, but I wasn’t aware that the RAF are currently flying sorties into any ongoing genocide.