Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.

The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site.

  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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    And they were accusing protestors of taking police resources away from protecting synagogues after the Manchester terror attack. While they’ve been arresting old and disabled people for holding fucking signs.

    This Labour government continues to hit new lows, they have honestly become worse than the Tories where civil liberties are concerned. They will do anything to protect Israel. They don’t work for the British people, they work for Tel Aviv.

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    Zionists are extremely effective at controlling information.

    They can’t tolerate people sharing the truth.

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    One of the hopes for a Labour government was that they would roll back the restrictions on our right to protest…