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.
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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
Were there people holding up signs for these in public places?
As a German I sincerely apologize for people like this guy here
Honestly, you have way more stuff going that need to apologize for.
Maybe look up Palestine Action before commenting:
In June 2025, the Home Office announced that it intended to designate the group as a proscribed terrorist organisation after the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling planes by spraying paint into their engines.
Source: Wikipedia
oh no, not -gasp- property damage!
sending military equipment to explode brown children: 😊
vandalizing military equipment so that you can’t send them to aid the genocide: 😨😠
vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT
MY WORD *clutches pearls*
vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling planes by spraying paint into their engines.
Funny, I wasn’t aware vandalism is a synonym to terrorism.
danke schön, brudi
Look at that diabolical criminal. I hope they reopen London tower just to hang her from it. After she bakes everyone cookies with afternoon tea.
I support Palestine Action - illegal
I support Action for Palestine - legal
I’m honestly impressed that a left wing organisation lasted long enough to get themselves banned.
They usually split into a dozen warring factions within a month.
I support P.A.
gets arrested
I said I support Pennsylvania, the US State!
As a Brit I still support Palestine Action and will be getting involved in more direct action.
One at me piggies.
Uh, I’ve had enuff of shitty news; let’s switch to another timeline.
Well that was quick.
“Are we the baddies?”
-Said exactly 0 of the cops
Does Israel have dirt on all these people? Its wild how everyone just supports genocide so willingly.
Every western government is scared of opposing Israel since WW2. It’s absurd.
Politicians only care about being elected.
How exactly does supporting genocide get them elected? I don’t get the impression that Labour voters want to see Palestinians murdered.
Money
It’s been proven that most of the time, whoever spends the most wins.
The UK has spending limits which mitigates that. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-spending-and-pre-poll-donations-and-loans-uk-parliamentary-general-election/spending-limit
Does this include quid-pro-quos like being invited to speak somewhere or providing lip service to a certain political party? Not all transactions can be measured in terms of monetary values. Think of ‘we don’t mind supplying you with state-of-the-art spyware, but we can’t do that if you make life hard on us and speak out against the genocide we’re committing’.
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.
The care about holding the power. They don’t give a shit about elections. It’s just that they need them to legitimize their regime.
And their donors
The west strongest countries are neocolonial powers supporting a colonial power
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.
To be fair, China does it all over, especially in Africa. Russia probably would too if they could.
The Russian Federation is de facto a Moscowite empire. And they are trying their best to annex more countries into their “Federation”.
Oh, for sure. I just meant they’d be doing it overseas if they could. Right now they’re only able to do it locally, and are currently not able to continue because Ukraine is holding them off.
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I don’t know if you just don’t know how conversations work, but it follows pretty reasonably. It didn’t come from no where. First someone complained about “the west” doing colonialism. Then someone corrected that all major powers do it. Finally someone points out that tankies only complain about “the west” and never China or Russia who do the same things.
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Whining about china
So guess you’re paycheck doesn’t come from Russia then
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The entirety of the current Government owe their jobs to Israel, as the last leader of their party - Jeremy Corbyn - was kicked out opening the way for these ones to get power after a campaign of slanders of anti-semitism backed amongst others by Israeli-linked Jewish groups in the UK which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was said to be an anti-semite for what he said in a conference for Palestine in order to taint Jeremy Corbyn by association, as he was sitting in the same panel in that conference and “didn’t rise up to dispute it”.
Since Britain also has First Past The Post like the US, getting the leadership of that party was a guaranteed path to Government since that party was the next in line in the power cycle over there.
So these people were basically bought by Israel.
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?
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.
No they’re not. There’s a difference between “Palestine Action” (the group) and “actions and other stuff in favour of Palestine”. The former has been banned, the latter has not. Protesting is legal in the UK; vandalising Air Force equipment is not.
Damaging equipment that is being used to conduct genocide is not vandalism, it’s human fucking decency.
True, but I wasn’t aware that the RAF are currently flying sorties into any ongoing genocide.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqg440v0gxo
They are not doing the bombing in Gaza. They are protecting the ones doing the bombing in Gaza.
You might want to re-read that article. It doesn’t mention Gaza once. Here are some quotes:
“fighting between Israel and Iran”
“protect UK personnel and bases in the Middle East”
“we’ve never been involved in attacking with Israel”
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Oh I’m sorry, I thought the recent moves deepening the existing framework was proof enough. You want to go back instead.
Let’s try this one: https://aje.io/78f3r5
how dare you bring logic to a circlejerk
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That’s sounds like vandalism, which confirms what the other guy said.
And there’s no need for insults.
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That’s the definition of vandalism. Feel free to open a dictionary and educate yourself.
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What has point of sale to do with genocide?
Please tell me where you park your car and your number plate. I will then throw red paint on it. If a bit of paint can damage your car, why did you spend 40.000€ on it?
Just listen to yourself - of course throwing paint into an aircraft engine will damage a plane. This is exactly why this group did it. And there is nothing to prevent this - throwing paint will destroy every engine and esp. jet engines. If you do not believe me, throw a bucket of paint into your car engine. You can support Palestine, but please use your brain and try to think about some things before posting. You can do better than this.
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Yes, that is vandalism by definition.
“Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.[1] The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner.”
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Apparently they sabotaged the engines:
In June 2025, the Home Office announced that it intended to designate the group as a proscribed terrorist organisation after the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling planes by spraying paint into their engines.
By committing that act they’ve successfully played themselves.
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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.
Some definitions of Terrorism also include property damage
Well definitions can include anything and everything. They can also be debased to the point of being useless, or in the case of crimes of being the engine of witch hunts.
I do not believe inanimate objects can experience terror, so I also don’t agree with the definition. But I don’t write the laws.
Oooh, waaah, muh paint!
On the outside of the engine I agree.
On the inside there are moving parts that probably don’t like increased friction, so they probably have to take the whole thing apart to remove the paint.
It’s still not really destruction of property.
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Also, even if a few members organize themselves to do that, that doesn’t mean the entire organization supports it or is behind it.
“We’re civilised people, we can excuse genocide, but throwing paint and saying mean words is a step too far.”
Polling consistently shows disapproval for Israeli actions in Gaza.
What if it is an excuse to put people that openly oppose colonialism and authority under control and fear? They maybe don’t care that much for Israel but why miss this opportunity?
It is not
Now I understand more closely Starmer’s subservience to America’s Donald Trump.
Zion Don inspired Kier to up his slobbering and bootlicking.
A very proactieve protestor and lady of the cloth, who seems to have been arrested 27-28 times already. According to this profile publication she claims she “has militant dna, as a maternal ancestor was accused of sedition in the 18th century”.
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.
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.
What a Fucking Legend!!! People such as her should be our icons
Great pickup up and I fully agree.
I saved your post about saving a post because it makes me less depressed and more warm and fuzzy inside. You are a good person and you clearly care <3
Oh, thank you so much. I wish I let myself believe that I am what you just described. You do seem to fit the description you assigned me very well from this very brief interaction.
Let us all keep spreading warm and fuzzy feels on and on to as many people as we can.
The world certainly needs an antidote to spread against the vile current that is dragging us all into a hole of despair.
We can’t let them happen!
Unfortunately, I often do let myself go in that direction.
So thank you for pulling me the other way.
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.”
From a letter by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2195
Thank your for such reply and the link as well. The text you linked shares a lot of inspiration for these trying times.
And oh, how we definitely need it.
100% agree and yes doubt does eat away at you sometimes! Don’t let 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
I understand your anger. I really do. But may I remind you that the Republicans were the ones who took a stand to abolish slavery and even died for it not that long ago really. And look at where they are now.
It’s people like this woman that are fencing any movement from turning corrupt and vile. Unfortunately all too often there’s not enough of them to stop it from happening.
She most likely saw the cloth as a way to reach and help people in need. As it is one way of doing it. And given her very advanced age, when she was young, it was probably one of the very few that existed at her disposal. Especially as a woman.
And you shouldn’t conflate the identity of individuals with the institutions they’re a part of or with their social descriptors. That is precisely what you hate about these groups you brought up. So don’t play for the opposite team and act the same way they do.
And by the way, you were downvoted but I wasn’t one of the ones who did it. As I do think your anger towards these institutions is absolutely warranted and justified. I feel the same way. Just don’t let that keep you from recognising a decent human being when it is very much the case. Otherwise, you allowed them to turn you into what we both hate about what these institutions represent.
This woman is on everyone’s side because she’s fighting for everyone. Even though I’m not religious, I recognise that I aspire to the same as her.
I’m gonna try it again maybe this time you will understand: praising a good priest is not much different than praising a good scientologis, you can be a good person without associating yourself to a cult that threat people to believe in ghosts
Why this level of vitriol and condescension in this exchange?
I’m also going to repeat… Taking your stance to an extreme, and you have yourself a reductionist view of the world with nothing but intolerance or hatred for those who don’t share it. Sounds familiar?
I don’t know what’s going on in your life, you could be going through something and I don’t want to add more to the pile of what you’re already dealing with. So I’m just gonna leave this here, because I suspect that even my concerning tone right now will read as passive aggressive to you. It isn’t. But I can’t control that.
So take care.
@theacharnian So now the Jews own the USA, UK, and Germany, who else?
Nobody wants to hear your antisemitic bullshit.
@theacharnian With the constant genocide of Palestine, the unprovoked attack on Iran, I’m really tired of Jews playing the victim card.
Jews =/= genocidal zionist nutcases
@ewo You watch any interview with any of them save for a few elderly sane folks, and they all believe the world should either be dead or subservient to them. Those who don’t believe that should take some responsibility for their countries actions, obviously they don’t.
I’m drunk as a skunk so I don’t quite see your point but aye
I’m half jewish, I’ve been all over Israel, what is going on there saddens me so much, to see my Jewish ancestors to escape the holocaust and then to do things like this… Again any self respecting Jew would reject rhis completely.
Jews =/= Israel
Israel =/= Jews
Criticising Israel =/= Anti-Semitic
And Netanyahu is a fucking war criminal. He deserves to be hung. I hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment
@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.
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.
Zionista not jews. Like in some proteats there was jews beaten for opposing israel in protests
@rumimevlevi Mincing words.
You again? Last time I came across you, you were being racist too. Your username is racist. Is racism just a hobby or a full-time job for you?
@floofloof If you dismiss truth as racists so be it. I have no problem with peoples skin color, I have problems with their actions.
No it’s not mincing words. One is antisemitic and the other is not. You should learn the difference tbh.
@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.
@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.
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 callimg the nazis thick as pigshite. Murderous they were, but you cannot deny their reasoning makes them look stupid as fuck.
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.
I’m more curious about non israeli jews because there also many arab israeli who are as blood thirstily and zionists as jewish israeli
then why are Jewish voices some of the loudest anti Israel voices?
you racist cunt
Feckless cowards.
Genocide accomplices!
Everyone involved with this “law” should be tried and hung in the Hague for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
Let’s not hang people in The Hague now
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Maybe change Germany to the country the post is related to after copy and pasting this, it’s not they’re the only one.
Those innocent European priests never abused anyone…. Oh wait
You’re right, she’s 83 years old. I’m sure she saw many bad things in life and didn’t speak up. Therefore, I think we can all agree it’s best to ignore her now.
Spotted Murican in the wild
Not even close, I mean you probably colonized my people good and tried to beat the Indian out of us, for which I hold a grudge, particularly to the church. But don’t let my criticism deflect from your attempt at a strawman rant. You probably wouldn’t even be able to find my country on the map, since it’s not a white nation.
P.s. the Americans are the bastard children of Europe, not of my people, so don’t put that on me.
“Criticism” :D
Hey what’s the difference between and American and a European? An ocean and some bicycles.
You’ll both fuck me equally while moralizing. Aside from that, you’re just as bad and pretentious and toxic as Americans
