The British government will move to ban the activist group Palestine Action and proscribe it as a terrorist organisation, after two activists broke into the UK’s largest airbase on Friday on electric scooters and damaged two Royal Air Force (RAF) planes.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will submit a statement before parliament on Monday which if passed will make it illegal to be a member of the group, the BBC reported.
Footage shared by Palestine Action purported to show two protesters riding scooters towards the RAF planes on the runway at the Brize Norton airbase, where they used “repurposed fire extinguishers to spray red paint into the turbine engines” and “caused further damage using crowbars”. The activists then evaded security and escaped the base.
The group announced on its website on Friday that the airbase was targeted because flights leave daily from there “for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, a base used for military operations in Gaza and across the Middle East”.
At this point. Why not replace the paint with gasoline? I mean appearently it is the same thing. And obviously none hurt, which should be a basic thing to say something is terrorism… but I guess the definition is weather you have an air force or not
Other examples of “terrorist” groups that never killed anyone :
Group Proscription Date Classification Injured / Killed Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Listed under Terrorism Act 2000(, date varies by cell, widely since 2006) Proscribed terrorist organisation(, UK) Injured : Burn injuries reported (e.g. researcher burned in 1989 bomb; baby suffered flash burns and partial finger severance). Killed: None Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Proscribed in UK/US(, 2001–2006 period) Eco-terrorist group(, US FBI, UK Home Office) Injured : None reported. Killed : None Hizb ut-Tahrir Proscribed by UK Home Office, effective 19 January 2024 Proscribed terrorist organisation(, UK) Injured: None. Killed: None Making Palestine Action a terrorist group for “injuring” war planes used in a genocide(, or a unilateral massacre of civilians for those refusing to use a word abused in Lybia or systematically in our wars,) is just further proof that terrorism doesn’t mean anything, and more&more people realize that.
And yeah, i know that it wasn’t their first actions, but we shouldn’t use the same terms&laws for those refusing to kill :
https://youtu.be/lJw0ni1Q01k
