Ian Hislop chiama l’arresto dell’uomo che tiene un cartone animato privato a Gaza protesta “sbalorditivo”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/private-eye-cartoon-arrest-ian-hislop-protest
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Ian Hislop chiama l’arresto dell’uomo che tiene un cartone animato privato a Gaza protesta “sbalorditivo”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/private-eye-cartoon-arrest-ian-hislop-protest
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Yet more overreach from the police.
It’s very much looking like this is a deliberate attempt to shut down all protests about what’s going on in Gaza.
Is setting a very worrying trend of what kind of uses the terrorism act will be used for in the future. I can see trans rights groups being next and environmentalist protestors will certainly end up getting this treatment from Farage should he end up prime minister.
Anyone know if he (the person arrested not Ian Hislop) can sue for false arrest?
What this shows is the police need a clear understandable target.
Two English words in close proximity means arrest. Words in Arabic, confusing images etc will be ignored.
>On Monday morning, a counter-terrorism officer called to tell him he would face no further action.
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>“So I said: ‘If I go on another demo and I hold up that cartoon again, does that mean I will be arrested or not?’ And she said: ‘I can’t tell you, it’s done on a case-by-case basis.’”
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>West Yorkshire police said: “We are sorry that the man involved is unhappy with the circumstances of this arrest. As this is a new proscribed organisation, West Yorkshire police is considering any individual or organisational learning from this incident.”
So they basically admit they don’t know what they’re doing. They kidnap a man for six hours who hasn’t done anything wrong. Just offering a weasel-worded non-apology apology isn’t good enough.
And all the free speech warriors are clapping because it’s someone against [children being shot in the head](https://aoav.org.uk/2025/shot-in-the-head-american-doctors-bear-witness-to-the-atrocities-committed-by-the-idf-against-gazas-children/) rather than someone saying the n word or a dog doing a nazi salute.
It’s insane. We are tearing down international law, ignoring charities like the Red Cross or amnesty. Paying for the RAF to have almost daily flights over the strip to provide the IDF intel, and shredding our own democracy.
For fucking what. We have an ally in the Middle East in Jordan and qatar. UK/Israel relations have never been like the Americans.
Is it just for being pals with trump? Is it as starmers deathly afraid of being called an antisemite by like 3 columnists? Cause I can understand keeping our hands clean, but we have our snout in the fuckin trough. And for fucking what.
The government has put the police in an impossible position by making Palestine Action a proscribed organisation: the police are supposed to arrest anyone who expresses support for PA, yet that inevitably drags in anyone who expresses any kind of protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza, or support for Palestinians in general.
It’s a completely ridiculous, anti-free speech thing to have done & is guaranteed to rebound in the government’s face by prompting even more protest, with any court cases almost certain to end in ignominious defeat for the government, on the grounds that support for Palestinians does not in any way imply support for “Palestine Action” the proscribed group.
What on earth did they think they were doing?
The British state’s obsession with authoritarian crap like this needs to fucking die. By all means go after people actually breaking only military bases, but making certain speech illegal is a grotesque violation of freedom of speech. Meanwhile actual crime is basically made legal and the police downgraded to an admin wing of the insurance industry.