More than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action.

Defend Our Juries, who organised the demonstrations, said there were 1,500 sign-holders in Parliament Square on Saturday at a fresh protest in London against the ban. At the previous major demonstration last month, 532 people were arrested for taking part. Participants gathered in Parliament Square by 1pm, many holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

At just after 9pm, the Metropolitan police said it had made more than 425 arrests. The Met’s deputy assistant commissioner, Claire Smart, who led the operation, said: “In carrying out their duties today, our officers have been punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them by protesters. It is intolerable that those whose job it is to enforce the law and keep people safe – in this case arresting individuals committing offences under the Terrorism Act – should be subject to this level of abuse.”

  • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
    329·
    2 days ago

    i love these guys, appropriately they’ve adopted the martyrdom approach favoured by terrorists in palestine, rather than

    1. acknowledging that vandalizing military sites is terrorism
    2. simply calling themselves anything else

    nice of them to volunteer their identities so we can help them with their intellectual diversity in the future

    actually the blind stupid leading the blind

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      Jimmy boy, you’ve missed the point quite spectacularly.

      Forcing the police to arrest pensioners veterans, and disabled people is the entire point.

      • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        151·
        2 days ago

        Neoliberals literally can’t understand basic social and material facts. You could tell them all day that arresting a thousand grannies will concretely demonstrate the newly passed law is bullshit creating the pressure to fix it. And they’ll respond “well if they named themselves something else they could have protested without being arrested” until their last breath.

        Neoliberals literally CAN’T think of the common good because they think there shouldn’t be commons, only individuals, families, and private property. They also don’t think there can be good, only profitable and legal matter, in that order.