RAF-Basisvandalismus nicht ausreicht, um das Handlungsverbot von Palästina zu rechtfertigen, sagt Ex-Minister
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/22/palestine-action-raf-base-vandalism-not-enough-legal-justification-ban-lord-falconer
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
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> The former justice secretary Charlie Falconer said on Sunday that the “sort of demonstration” at the base would not justify proscription, “so there must be something else that I don’t know about”
I mean surely he must be aware of their attack last year?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e81qv784go.amp
Now whether those 2 incidents combined meet the UK definition of a terrorist group is debatable (acknowledging UK law has a different definition than the normal definition of terrorism).
It wasn’t vandalism, it was sabotage of two military assets
> But reports of a move to proscribe the group, which would in effect label it as a terrorist organisation, has been criticised by MPs, Amnesty International and the former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf.
Well, if Humza Yousaf thinks it is a bad idea maybe we should reconsider…
It would be stupid not to ban the group, sabotaging military equipment cannot be tolerated by protesters. Effectively treasonous behaviour making the UK less safe.
The trouble with Palestine Action is their messaging as well as their actions. It’s all “form a cell, evade the police, take direct action, no action is too extreme, here’s a list of people you should attack, don’t worry about why! Just trust us!” It’s all very terroristy and they know that.
The media needs to stop describing them as ‚a protest group‘. They attacked the UK military – that’s not a protest.
By itself maybe it would not be enough
But they have a pattern of aggressive, destructive acts against any part of the defence system that they can get into. They are saboteurs.
Nothing good could come from giving this group a 5th chance. They went too far and there should be consequences for what they did.
I don’t know.. it’s probably a good idea to stop political vandalism at the bud before they start targeting people.
You take the piss, the gov is going to come after you.
A group ban wasn’t remotely being discussed when they were just vandalising private businesses but they upped it to sabotage so this was always going to happen.
I swear it sometimes feel like the entire UK has collectively got the memory of a goldfish. It wasn’t just the plane sabotaging.
They broke into a factory and hit a police officer with a sledgehammer like 6 months ago.
It seems a bit of a pattern forming guys…
>has been criticised by MPs, Amnesty International and the former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf.
The guy who sent aid money to Hamas to get his in-laws out of Gaza? No bias at all I’m sure.
Or it could be said those that gained access to a military base to graffiti military assets did the nation a favour in exposing weak security protecting military assets, something of which will of course be of interest to real terrorists intent on doing far more damage than just spraying paint.
The positive that has come from this action is that military bases are now being forced to review their security of which given how easy it was for these folk to gain access on wheeled vehicles may be lacking.
If they were that convinced of their actions, they have broken into Lakenheath, Mildenhall or Fairford and attempted sabotaging some US planes.
The article just reveals complaints from more fifth columnists up in arms about the country doing literally the smallest thing to defend itself and prevent it from becoming swamped by hostile actors.
The headline is also bollocks. Lord Falconer just says he doesn’t know what they’ve done but that spray painting on a plane wouldn’t be terrorism in his view… well, they didn’t spray paint onto it… they sprayed *into* it, decommissioning it from operation until millions can be spent fixing or replacing the engines.