MPs have supported the government’s move to ban direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, despite warnings that it would be a “chilling effect” on the protest.
The legislation was passed in the Commons yesterday, as MPs cast 385 to 26 votes, the majority of 359 in favor of prosecution of the group under the Terrorism Act 2000.
While security minister Dan Jarvis told MPs that Palestine’s action was not as a “legitimate protest group”, others criticized the move and described it as “Dracian Overch” and compared the group to the franchise.
Zarah Sultana, an independent MP for Coventry South, told Common, “It is not just absurd to equal a spray can of paint with suicide bombs, it’s frightening. It is a deliberate deformation of law that is a deliberate deformation of the law that to cool down dissatisfaction, to criminalize solidarity and suppress the truth.”
The House of Lord’s is expected to debate this proposal and to vote today.
Meanwhile, supporters-Palestine Protesters Has hit on GovernmentIts allegation of “hypocrisy” Under the anti -terrorism law, a worker prepares to ban the group.
The decision to prosecute the group comes after two aircraft Burbing in RAF Brize Norton on 20 June.
Talk to Independent Demonstrating outside Parliament, David Collins, a retired veteran who served with the Palestine’s action and served with Marine for nine years, said: “Compared to some atrocities that the government is approved – and is sending weapons to Israel – between some people – between some people, which can be taken a type of action.
Jonathan Foxman, 69, a retired doctor who was also performing on Wednesday, said a ban was “completely ridiculous”. “Palestine Action is a direct action group. They are non -violent non -violent and I think it is very high about them, which is embarrassing to disrupt the flow of weapons from Britain to Israel and to prevent terrible, terrible genocide to disrupt the flow of arms from Britain to Israel, he said.
The Metropolitan police said “a man, who blocked the door of Downing Street with his mobility scooter, arrested after protests in Westminster.
Two more arrests took place on Tuesday after Palestine’s action, claiming to block the entrance to the UK headquarters of an Israeli defense company. A group spokesperson said that activists blocked the entrance of the albit system in Bristol and covered it in red “Symbol of Palestinian bloodshed”.
Another defender, who demonstrated outside Parliament on Wednesday morning, accused the government of “full clampdown on the right to protest”. He said: “There are many groups that use the same strategy and have used the same strategy in the past and they have never had a reaction at this peak.
But home secretary Yweet cooper Said, “There is no place in legitimate opposition to violence and serious criminal damage. The right to protest and the right to free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy and countless campaign groups that independently exercise those rights.”
Prime Minister, Keer Stmper said that action Norton broke RAF There was “abusive” and “the act of vandalism”.
While the government is running through the absurd law to prosecute Palestine’s action, real terrorism is being committed in Gaza
Palestine Action
Chhaya Home Secretary, Chris Filp also condemned the group, saying, “The attack on the UK army is completely inappropriate. They are reducing the organization that protects all of us. Palestine’s action should be chased, prosecuted and banned.
A spokesman for Palestine Action said: “While the government is running through the absurd law of Parliament to prosecute Palestine’s action, real terrorism is being done in Gaza. Palestine confirms action that direct action is necessary on the face of Israeli’s ongoing crimes, which are for those crimes.
Opening the debate in the Commons on Wednesday, security minister Dan Jarvis said the group’s prosecution “would confirm the UK’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism, whether its form or the underlying ideology”.
He said, “The prosecutor is ideologically neutral. It is ready to deploy an organization on its actions and its actions, which is posted in search of the reason for it”, he said, Propipulation “was one of the most powerful terrorism-attentive devices available for the government. Any kind of decisions have been taken very carefully.”
Revealing the intention of banning the group after the incident on 23 June, Cooper said it was the latest in “long history of unacceptable criminal damage by Palestine Action”.
The group, which intends to bring a legal challenge against the government, has staged a series of demonstrations in recent months, spraying the London offices of Allianz Insurance with red paint on its alleged link of Albit and the barback of Donald Trump’s Turnberry Golf Course in South Irashire.
Says Palestine Action website Companies To benefit from harassment of Palestinians ”.
Under the 2000 Act, some 81 organizations have been prosecuted, including Islamic groups such as Hamas and Al-Qaeda, national action such as distance group and Russian private military company Wagoner Group.
The draft order placed on Monday also listed the Nav-Nazi Group Maniq Murder Cult and for-Right Nationalist Group Russian Imperial Movement, including its paramilitary hand, Russian Imperial Legions, which are to be prosecuted in the UK.
Supporting or expressing an accused organization, along with many other tasks, are criminal offenses who are taking a maximum of 14 years of jail sentence.