Daniella Lock writing in the LRB on the UK’s decision to label Palestine Action a terrorist group: ‘Given the large numbers of people it is likely to turn into “terrorists”, proscribing Palestine Action could impose a significant burden on the state to increase its surveillance of citizens who pose no threat, at a time when MI5 claims already to have “one hell of a job on its hands”. Its undermining of civil society may also make it harder to hold the government accountable for the proper use of terrorism powers. On the current picture, the real threat to the life of the nation comes not from Palestine Action but from the home secretary’s attempt to proscribe it.’
+ Liam Cunningham: “In Britain it is now terrorism to spray red paint on a plane. That same plane used to dismember children is not terrorism. This is where we are.”
I am grateful to Counterpunch for the above.
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