This is entirely intentional. It sends a message: "if this is how heavy-handed we are with a harmless old man, just think about what we will do to you...."
Thanks for the info, and link. One might wonder, as a grammarian only, of course, if the word "action," following Palestinian, were not capitalized, if that would evade the heavy hand of the law? After all that would not indicate support for a group per se, but simply unspecified action on behalf of Palestine, which, as of now, as yet to be proscribed. Ah, Zionism, the gift to authoritarianism that just keeps on giving.
Right on schedule:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arrests-83-year-old-priest-backing-palestine-action-and-condemning-israels-genocide-gaza
This is entirely intentional. It sends a message: "if this is how heavy-handed we are with a harmless old man, just think about what we will do to you...."
God save the k8ng, everybody!
Thanks for the info, and link. One might wonder, as a grammarian only, of course, if the word "action," following Palestinian, were not capitalized, if that would evade the heavy hand of the law? After all that would not indicate support for a group per se, but simply unspecified action on behalf of Palestine, which, as of now, as yet to be proscribed. Ah, Zionism, the gift to authoritarianism that just keeps on giving.
"Action" of course being a synonym for "terrorism".
Only in the mind of a totalitarian.