Mastodawn

Although the High Court ruled the banning of Palestine Action is unlawful, the Metropolitan Police has decided not to wait on the outcome of an appeal and to pretend the government has already won it. Officers will restart arresting people under the Terrorism Act https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-issues-revised-position-on-palestine-action-support-507641

Met issues revised position on Palestine Action support

Anyone showing support for the group is likely to be arrested.

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Netpol 6d ago

The appeal ruling is not that far away: as Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori said at Netpol's "State of Protest" report launch last night, it's only a month away, at the end of April.

It is apparent the Met is nervous about a backlash from the media over a planned mass action on Sat 11 April

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Netpol

Under pressure from rightwing and pro-Israel groups who exist primarily to try to ban their opponents, ministers wildly overreached by introducing proscription and acted illegally. Now the Met is deliberately trying to scare people away from resisting attacks on our rights https://www.EveryoneDay.uk

Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries

Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, domestic direct action group Palestine Action have been branded as a ‘terrorist organisation’, for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government’s complicity in genocide.

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