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A British judge has sentenced four Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, handing them custodial sentences ranging from four to eight years.
The unprecedented ruling came despite jurors convicting them of criminal charges not connected to terrorism during the prosecution.
On Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, added a “terrorism connection” to their offences.
In a preliminary ruling in March 2025, Johnson found an “appearance” of a terrorism connection in the case, as he said the activists were attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons. This information was withheld from the jury who convicted them.
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The unprecedented ruling came despite jurors convicting them of criminal charges not connected to terrorism during the prosecution.
On Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, added a “terrorism connection” to their offences.
Rule Of Law my ass!
Rule of Israel
Speaking ill of israel is a greater act of terrorism than crashing planes into buildings.
If spray painting a plane is the exact same as blowing it up then might as well blow it up.
the UK is officially a shithole country now
Fascism has been achieved
Now?
They’re putting the finishing touches on, been degrading for decades, ever since the focus of total control and surveillence shifted to them as a testbed.
UK gov: goes out of its way to make the place a shithole
also UK gov: “Why don’t people consider it worthwhile to reproduce anymore?”
The only terrorists are the regime of the UK that support actual terrorists and choose to terrorize their own citizens to protect them.
Terror is in interesting word, it used to mean a government that oppressed their citizens, then it changed to mean general attacks on civillians but a non government entity.
And now, it means protesting specific government policies.
The first meanings are understandable, they involve harming civillians.
The new definition is just idiotic.
Well, your statement is pertinent, and therefore it terrorises me, so I hope you do not live in the UK.
Free the Palestine Action prisoners!
Remove the shameful judge!
Britain should just follow Doggerland’s example. Aside from spotted dick, nothing of value would be lost.
/s.
If you do anything to oppose genocide you’re a terrorist. If you support genocide the red carpet is rolled out for you in the West.
Daily reminder that the Middle East Eye refuses to disclose it’s owner, which is extremely suspicious. That’s because the Middle East Eye is directly run by Qatar’s embassy in London.
Next time, please at least quote The Guardian or another British media outlet.
Is Israel committing genocide?
That’s because the Middle East Eye is directly run by Qatar’s embassy in London.
Citation needed.
Also, please elaborate on exactly why, even if it were true, that would be so fucking scary.
Are you suggesting Middle East Eye is secretly run by Zionists or Israel itself in an effort to further drive antisemitism? Similar to the way Evangelical Christianity grows stronger the more its adherents feel persecuted, one of the goals of Zionism is to increase antisemitic sentiment to make more Jewish people feel they have no safe place in the world other than to move to Israel? Interesting, I hadn’t considered this. /s?
News is the UKs worst export and that’s fucking saying something.
And so you post a trash rag owned by a shady zionist shell corporation?
Exactly, The guardian isnt much better.
Jesus christ, every time with this guy. Can you please try not to be so fucking obvious? The guardian is just as biased as MEE, the only difference is that their bias is in favor of Israel instead. You sound like a raging islamophobe btw.
Isn’t qatar a big ally of UK?
The “last minute evidence” was probably pics of the judge with an underage girl sourced from MI5/CIA/Mossad assets.
disarming israel is terrorism? yayyy were all terrorists because that term means nothing now
Adding an offence later in the case and withholding information to a jury has to be grounds a mistrial.
Zionism overrules all other laws, it would seem.
They didn’t add an offence, they added an aggravating factor.
How does wanting to disarm a foreign government terrorism?? By that logic the entirety of the UK government is a bunch of terrorists for wanting to disarm uh Russia and Iran I assume?
UK has stopped making sense a long time ago
Such a standard to be met:
He added that those convicted acted “for the purpose of advancing a political and/or ideological cause”.
Guess the legal system has no standards.
I thought the standard was " the activists were attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons."?
So terrorism just doesn’t mean anything anymore.
In the eyes of the oppressor …
It does mean something, just not what’s in the dictionary. The definition: “The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.” Based on that, police are constantly using terrorism, but they’re almost never said to be. The state has a monopoly on violence. Terrorism is just a term they use to support that. You acting against the state?" Terrorism." The state acting against you?" Justice."
But also by that definition, these guys don’t count as terrorists
Yeah, that’s my point. Terrorism is just whatever the state doesn’t like at this point. The dictionary definition has no relation to the definition they use.
It never has
Ironically, it means the same it has always meant: resistance to colonization/imperialism/opression, it’s just that in the past it was disguised with the veil of “civilization”, and now the mask is off and you can see the naked brutal truth of how the term has always been weaponized
It’s literally a disinhibitive ruling. Someone somewhere will inevitably think “well if I’m going to be called a terrorist anyway for some property damage, why not shoot at the cop that’s coming to stop me? In for a penny in for a pound.”
