Two local pensioners were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday (30 July), under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act, for publicly saying the words: ‘I support Palestine Action and I encourage everyone to do the same. Saving lives is not terrorism.’
… Nina Heaton said: ‘The UK government is desperate to silence any who dare to expose the UK’s complicity and active participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is desperate to conceal its highly lucrative arms trade with multiple Israeli weapons factories here in the UK. It is desperate to hide the truth from the British public. Sabotaging Israel’s machinery of death, weapons that maim, mutilate and murder is not terrorism. Decent people, people with a conscience will carry on protesting because we are right. Genocide is wrong.’
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