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[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 9 points 7 hours ago

Under UK terrorism law it seems it is a lesser crime to bomb the King David Hotel in Palestine.

The attack did not change Britain's stance toward an Anglo-American agreement on Palestine, which was then in its concluding phase.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You're a good UK citizen if you cheer for ethnic cleansng and aparthied, and let your government pay for it

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Technically western Europe was the origin point

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Maybe the real terrorists were the friends we made along the way

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 92 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Greta Thunberg is my favorite terrorist

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

That's a good t-shirt

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago

Freedom fighter

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 18 points 17 hours ago

Same. I fully support terrorism

[–] Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 44 points 17 hours ago

This is what they are trying to do with antifa here in the USA. As if anti genocide or anti fascism is bad. 🙃

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago

So if anti-genocide is ~~ill~~ anti-legal then the logical conclusion the government wants us to draw is?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 23 hours ago

Thank you police for protecting us from this obvious danger /s

[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 121 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Thunberg, 22, was earlier arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide”. The British government has proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group."

The group uses direct action to disrupt the UK arms industry, which it accuses of being complicit with Israel in conducting a genocide. Palestine Action have mounted 45 documented direct actions in the United Kingdom.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest

“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”

The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government."

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They threw paint on some military equipment. Claiming "criminal property damage" is quite the slanted representation of reality.

Not terrorism

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The paint was inside a jet engine so it wouldn't work. Property was damaged.

However, the planes experienced no terror.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Threw paint in the engine, and went at the plane with crowbars.

Besides, the main incident for which it was proscribed involved a policewoman being badly injured in a brutal sledgehammer attack, to the extent her spine still hasn’t recovered enough to return to work over a year later.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

None of what you describe is terrorism. The proscription is a disgrace, built upon a disgrace.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Surely deliberately causing injury with a political goal is terrorism?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Man Thunberg has been chronically based since she hit the centre stage. No wonder Thiel thinks shes the antichrist.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Theil thinks everything he doesn't like is the antichrist. He thinks the Antichrist's message is "peace and safety" and to enforce the stagnation of technological and scientific progress. International financial bodies restricting the ability to hide wealth are the Antichrist. Etc.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago

Yes, hes an unhinged fuckmonster of a man. But he also does think Thunberg specifically is the antichrist incarnate.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed the hero we should aspire ourselves to be like.

Even if you'd do one thousands of what she does it would be incredible for humanity.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 points 10 hours ago

I aspire to one day be awesome enough that Peter Thiel thinks I’m the antichrist.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not sure why the headline says arrested when the story is that she was released from the arrest from earlier this week.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 16 points 17 hours ago

Most people get released after they get arrested

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 34 points 1 day ago

Not sure but a lot of people are released after being arrested. Some are on bail or just plain free until a court date. Others get their charges dropped. They were all arrested though. This is particular notable because it shouldn’t be considered illegal. The government shouldn’t be able to skirt precedence when declaring a group a terrorist org.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait, when did she get freed from Israel? I thought they'd captured her, never heard about her getting out.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She was released fairly quickly. But there was alleged abuse that happened during which I would bet my left nut is 100 percent true.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

May your left nut grow and prosper.

...but not too much or else you should get that checked 😂

[–] frizzo@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I read this as let his nut glow and phosphor.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

I wish my nut glowed like that

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Nut glow and phosphor" is one of the less popular items on the Cheesecake Factory menu.

[–] frizzo@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Available in all 53 states for a reason.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

She was released and had stories of abuse/torture while in captivity.