The Met Police force has announced that it is going to start arresting people again – under the Starmer regime’s ban on support for anti-genocide group Palestine Action that the High Court has already ruled unlawful.

The Met had said it would stop arresting protesters holding signs supporting the group until the outcome of the Home Office’s appeal against the ruling. In the meantime, it said, it would record people’s details in case the government won. However, it has now said it’s going to resume arrests, because the appeal will take months to come to court.

Palestine Action arrests to resume

So months of stress, cost and restriction of liberty of being arrested and facing potential prosecution and imprisonment will again be inflicted on people protesting against a ban that is currently against the law. And this will be done to appease the UK’s Zionist government and the demands of Israel lobby groups outraged that the court should put human rights above the feelings of Israel’s supporters.

Right.

Thousands of people, mostly older people or disabled people, have already been arrested for opposing the Palestine Action ban. Many have faced punitive bail conditions. Israel lobby groups expressed their horror at the High Court judgment and their expectation that Israel supporters should be prioritised. Just as they did when a jury dared acquit a group of Palestine Action activists who had been imprisoned without trial for 18 months.

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