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    Die britische Polizei erhalten nach dem letzten propalästinensischen Protest neue Befugnisse

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    2. denyer-no1-fan on

      This government’s approach to everything is just „morale will improve when the imprisonment stops!“

    3. New_Relative_1871 on

      Surely jailing another person for liking a mean tweet will fix their problems

    4. saintkillio on

      It doesn’t matter why they’re gaining new powers, because that’s not the only thing they’ll use those new powers for.

    5. OldLondon on

      This is getting dumb, they’ve backed themselves into a corner with this, you can’t keep arresting 100s of people with signs. 

    9. jack5624 on

      The political temperature do be rising.

      Ultimately I think the police should just stop arresting people just for holding up signs and then wait for them to get bored and go home.

    10. adbenj on

      I have very mixed feelings about this. I understand it, but it does instinctively feel repulsive. At the same time, it’s difficult to see what purpose these repeat protests serve. Drawing awareness? We’re aware. Influencing government policy? If you’ve not influenced it by now, it’s never going to happen.

      In this particular instance, I can say from a Jewish perspective it feels as though the main effect of the protests – if not the aim – is to make Jews feel disregarded (whether you believe that’s a valid feeling or not), but maybe that’s balanced out by the sense of support and solidarity felt by British Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. I don’t know. I’ll also say, it’s not a new thing. It’s felt this way for two years. It’s felt this way since thousands of people’s immediate response to 7 October was to march on the Israeli embassy and call for a free Palestine. It’s felt this way since people decided to celebrate the killings with images of paragliders a week after the fact. Thursday’s events merely put this element of things back into the conversation.

      My understanding is, people won’t be able to protest the same thing in the same location ad infinitum. I guess the aim is to ensure there aren’t areas that permanently feel unsafe for particular communities. We can all stay away from somewhere for a day, but if they’re a constant presence on your doorstep, things are trickier. Does that satisfy the balance of the right to protest with the right of everyone to feel safe in their communities? Again, I don’t know. The instinct is such powers would be abused further down the line, but maybe that is just an instinct. Maybe the threshold would be sufficiently high for abuse to be unfeasible.

      I can’t see new laws to this effect getting through Parliament though, and if new laws aren’t passed, I can’t see this kind of action surviving scrutiny by the courts. So it might all be moot anyway.

    11. marsupialBasher on

      Reform in UK will come like a blitzkrieg on next elections after Labour kills every inch of goodwill they had with the people.

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