'If You Want Them to Disappear, Stop Arming Israel': UK Lords Slam Palestine Action Terror Label

'If you want them to disappear, stop arming Israel': UK Lords slam Palestine Action terror label

Peter Hain and Jenny Jones condemn government move, drawing parallels with anti-apartheid and suffragette struggles - Anadolu Ajansı

Green peer’s attempt to stop proscription of Palestine Action defeated in House of Lords

An attempt in the House of Lords to stop the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been defeated. The Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones proposed a ‘motion of regret’ in the House of Lords which stated that the proscription of Palestine Action ‘undermines civil liberties, including civil disobedience’, is a ‘misuse of anti-terrorism legislation’, and ‘criminalises support for a protest group, thereby cr…

Commons Vote on Palestine Action proscription - Real Media - The View From Below

The list of organisations condemning Yvette Cooper’s intention to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has grown daily since the announcement was first made. Among them: A group of Special Procedures Rapporteurs have contacted the Government warning that under the proposal, innocent citizens could be prosecuted and imprisoned for exercising basic rights to freedom of expression, and participating in political life. The UK vote…