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Nursietoday at 3:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Almost 100 people were jailed for protesting the Genocide and the illegal proscribing of the protest group.

Several hundred people actually.

To be clear, you could protest the genocide as much as you wanted, what you couldn't do was support the specific group "Palestine Action" who had some members who had committed (IMHO) some property crimes against defence contractors which the government decided to classify as terrorism and proscribe the whole group. When thousands of people continued to support the group, the police continued to arrest them by the hundred. It's a clusterfuck

Thankfully the UK government has recently lost its court battle on the proscription of Palestine Action, though there are ongoing hearings as to what happens next with all the people who were arrested and who are now awaiting a court date on (presumably) terrorism charges.

So this -

> If you were to protest killing entire families, targeting health workers and sniping children, you'd end up in prison.

Is not quite right. Or quite wrong.

The curtailment of the right to protest is worrying in all sorts of places. This specific case is muddied by the direct-action wing of a specific organisation.