UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
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@khannie 97% of Israel is Ashkenazi so NOT a Semitic people, while the Palestinians whom they commit genocide against are. So if anything you are the Antisemite.
Got a source for this? Ashkenazi Jews are eastern european. A lot of Jews are sephardic. I don't know the numbers but I'd guess that more Jews in Israel are sephardic.
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They're calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel's genocide. They're not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they're valuable allies. This is the UK Government's morality. I hope it's not shared by the British people.
It is not
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How exactly does supporting genocide get them elected? I don't get the impression that Labour voters want to see Palestinians murdered.
The fact that labour is propping up and financially supporting this is awful, we are somewhat complicit in this genocide too. Didn't fucking vote for this.
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The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription.
MPs had voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to proscribe the direct action group, alongside the neo-Nazi Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement.
Has anyone affiliated with the other two groups been arrested since this went into effect?
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Got a source for this? Ashkenazi Jews are eastern european. A lot of Jews are sephardic. I don't know the numbers but I'd guess that more Jews in Israel are sephardic.
@ewo Unfortunately not, I just read about a genetic study that determined this, however, I do not remember the people who conducted the study and what was published did not specify the sample size nor whether the samples are collected across the entire country, but then it's not that big of a country. -
@ewo We agree on pretty much all of the above, I apologize that my statements were pretty much overly broad. Tend to focus on what is getting attention at the moment. I am not at all happy with the leaders of my own country. I voted for Trump because he claimed to be the President of peace, then he pulls this. I know the DemonRats are warmongers and virtually no other party has a chance so clearly votes won't resolve this situation.wrote last edited by [email protected]
Just beforehand I'm not religious but I am part-Jewish and it's totally okay to call Netanyahu a warmongering facist prick who should rot in jail, because that's what he is. That's just common sense, which apparently a lot of the world is fucking lacking right now (excuse my French)
^^ if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and all...
You have nothing to apologize for, we are all on this planet together and everyone is allowed to have an opinion. Again yeah, well, Trump is a snake oil salesman. We have our own party in the UK called Reform who are aligned and do exactly the same.
They promise everything but give nothing. In the immortal words of JRR Tolkien, "evil cannot create. It only corrupts". Which is exactly what these morally bankrupt fuckers are doing.
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MPs had voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to proscribe the direct action group, alongside the neo-Nazi Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement.
Has anyone affiliated with the other two groups been arrested since this went into effect?
This is a good question, apparently they'd rather lock up 83 year old women than violent facists and warmongers
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Just beforehand I'm not religious but I am part-Jewish and it's totally okay to call Netanyahu a warmongering facist prick who should rot in jail, because that's what he is. That's just common sense, which apparently a lot of the world is fucking lacking right now (excuse my French)
^^ if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and all...
You have nothing to apologize for, we are all on this planet together and everyone is allowed to have an opinion. Again yeah, well, Trump is a snake oil salesman. We have our own party in the UK called Reform who are aligned and do exactly the same.
They promise everything but give nothing. In the immortal words of JRR Tolkien, "evil cannot create. It only corrupts". Which is exactly what these morally bankrupt fuckers are doing.
@ewo I thought he did ok in the first term, there were some minor skirmishes but nothing on this scale and a lot less than Byedone, but this time around not so well, but perhaps that goes with being a lame duck. He can't be elected again so might as well piss away every penny of political capital that he had. But really I see the problem in this nation as more systematic than personal. As long as you got a big industry making a lot of money killing people, the killing will continue. -
@ewo Unfortunately not, I just read about a genetic study that determined this, however, I do not remember the people who conducted the study and what was published did not specify the sample size nor whether the samples are collected across the entire country, but then it's not that big of a country.wrote last edited by [email protected]
Fair. Again Jews aren't some boogeymen. We bleed the same as everyone else. For a people that make up ~0.5% of the worlds population we really had to put up with stupid motherfuckers and their inane bullshit. Some people are really thick as pigshit.
Again yes I'm calling the nazis thick as pigshite. Murderous they were, but you cannot deny their reasoning makes them look stupid as fuck.
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@ewo I thought he did ok in the first term, there were some minor skirmishes but nothing on this scale and a lot less than Byedone, but this time around not so well, but perhaps that goes with being a lame duck. He can't be elected again so might as well piss away every penny of political capital that he had. But really I see the problem in this nation as more systematic than personal. As long as you got a big industry making a lot of money killing people, the killing will continue.
I tried to take this seriously but look at how many americans died due to his policies and covid. Bronze toddler has blood on his hands that's for sure.
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Fair. Again Jews aren't some boogeymen. We bleed the same as everyone else. For a people that make up ~0.5% of the worlds population we really had to put up with stupid motherfuckers and their inane bullshit. Some people are really thick as pigshit.
Again yes I'm calling the nazis thick as pigshite. Murderous they were, but you cannot deny their reasoning makes them look stupid as fuck.
@ewo Genuine genetic sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob perhaps, but you've got a bunch of Babalonian worshipers of Baal, Marduk and the line that came to Germany years back, still practicing child sacrifice that given the choice between changing religions and being beheaded changed religions, and what better way to continue exploiting the natives than to claim to be God's Chosen. As near as I can tell psychopathy seems to be a genetic feature of that lot. -
I tried to take this seriously but look at how many americans died due to his policies and covid. Bronze toddler has blood on his hands that's for sure.
@ewo I don't think this was his intent, regarding Covid, and unlike many state and local officials, he did not REQUIRE people take the death shot, I didn't, and I don't think he had a grasp of just how evil Anthony Fauci was. All that said, he wasn't the only one fooled on that lot, a lot of people were. -
They're calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel's genocide. They're not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they're valuable allies. This is the UK Government's morality. I hope it's not shared by the British people.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Technically it's because some members of the group trespassed in a military base and vandalised an airplane. Which is trespassing and vandalism. Not terrorism. Unless Starmer has been watching too much Thomas & the Friends and Pixar's Cars and believes that the poor planes can't sleep at night anymore, because they are terrified.
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They're calling these people terrorists for holding signs calling for the end of Israel's genocide. They're not calling the people who have been committing genocide every day terrorists: they're valuable allies. This is the UK Government's morality. I hope it's not shared by the British people.
Polling consistently shows disapproval for Israeli actions in Gaza.
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What percentage of the Israeli Jews support the genocide of Palistinians?
Does it matter? I’m sure a lot of people in whatever country you live in support the genocide. There are idiots in every religion, country, group etc. does not always make the entire group rotten.
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The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription.
Just wondering, if I would hold up a sign with 'go isreal, continue the amazing work you do!', would that get me arrested? Surely i'd get beat up but i mean what would the lawmakers think of that? Would it be different if the sign would say 'go isreal, murder those innocent families' or 'go isreal, your genocide rules!' (am i allowed to call it a genocide if i'm not against it?)
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the strongest countries, period.
China and Russia are colonial powers, too.
China and Russia are colonial powers, too.
Crazy how tankies think it's only ok if you do it to your neighbours.
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Politicians only care about being elected.
And their donors
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Does Israel have dirt on all these people? Its wild how everyone just supports genocide so willingly.
What makes you think they are backing israel only because of blackmail? They are arresting a 83 year old for opposing a genocide, our governments are shit and always have been, can't you see it?
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What a Fucking Legend!!! People such as her should be our icons. Not the plastic ridiculous people that the legacy media and the algorithimc social media keep pushing out like clowns to the circus floor to keep people distracted.
Sue Parfitt. Let's remember her name. In fact I'm gonna save this post.
And while I'm not one to support religion, between her and the reverend that gave that sermon to Trump's face in church, I would say "Lady Priests" (apologies for the reductionism) are having a moment and showing the cloth that apparently only the women in it seem to remember what "their calling" is supposed to be all about.
If anyone knows the name of the woman that gave that sermon, tag it under. Please.
It's not about supporting the church, it's about giving credit where credit is due.
In fact, we should start making a record of the people who are raising to the occasion these days all over the world, and taking the moral stand and give them the space and the limelight, instead of allowing everything to be about the shitty people doing their shitty deeds. That takes so much of the bandwith as it is, and makes us feel alone in the face of it all.
Be it about the atrocities being committed in Gaza, Ukraine, the U.S. or in any place where wrongful actions are occurring, let us make visible the people that raise to face it. Let us put forward the faces and voices of the ones who still truly give the word "humanity" some of its supposed meaning back.
PS: A lot of people here might not be able to read Spanish. But I do and I really liked the article you linked. It was a really nice complement to the one linked in the post. So, thank you for sharing it.
Praising a good priest is not much different than praising a good republican. You can be a good person without associating yourself to corrupted political parties or bigot cults
