ARE PRIVATE EYE JOKES CRIMINAL?!
'PALESTINE ACTION' EXPLAINED
❌ Unacceptable Palestine Action
Spraying military planes with paint
✅ Acceptable Palestine Action
Shooting Palestinians queueing for food
© Private Eye no. 1653
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PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard (pictured)!
As the Eye went to press, Mr Farley, a retired headteacher who marches regularly with the Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told the Eye that police had confirmed on Monday morning there would be no further action and all bail conditions were lifted. He described the ordeal as a “nasty experience”, noting that West Yorkshire cops are “normally quite reasonable” but that despite his efforts to explain the obvious point the Eye’s joke was making, “nuance isn’t their thing”.
More than 100 people were arrested at various protests over the same weekend, amid warnings from police not to test the limits of the law by expressing support for Palestine Action, now a proscribed organisation, meaning any show of “support” for the group is a criminal offence. Even when no charges are brought, being arrested under the Terrorism Act leaves a record potentially affecting travel and employment.
Home secretary Yvette Cooper took measures to proscribe Palestine Action after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last month and sprayed two planes with paint.
As the Eye wrote in issue 1652: “Some will argue that proscribing Palestine Action and extending the definition of terrorism to direct action groups that destroy property but don’t aim attacks at the public — rather than using the current criminal law — is a high price for society to pay.” This was before the police decided to extend the definition of terrorism to include people cutting jokes out of satirical magazines…
We're at a pretty worrying place when it comes to protest rights in the UK, in my opinion.
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