It begins with the protests of Palestine. But where will the campaign end on British democratic freedoms? | Owen Jones
IBritain, the protest is no longer really. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withholding – on the whim of power. This is the effects of the new rules proposed by the labor government, which would dictate the time and place to allow the protests to occur, and bear the risk of imprisonment for those who unite orders. Successive governments have already cut this right: the last governorate administration that gave the police to sweep new powers, which Head of Human Rights of the United Nations It was condemned as “dangerous and unjustified restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Combating, these additional attacks on freedom have effectively canceled the right that was seriously achieved in freedom of protest.
The last attack is justified by the heinous, anti -Semitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There must be a global agreement that the security of British Jews must be protected. The use of this horror as a justification to strangle opposition is not only unrelated to this duty, but it causes it. Looking at Britain’s history of protest and direct action against racism and fascism, from the battle of Kabul Street in 1936, to the Jewish movements after the war, such as Group 43 or 62, or mobilization against the National Front in the 1970s. Many of these demonstrators have mocked their day, even while they were fighting for minority rights.
In today’s world upside down, here is what is happening already. Israel – the foreign state – commits genocide. Its war crimes have paid the International Criminal Court to issue arrest orders against Benjamin Netanyahu and the former defense minister. Public opinion in the West sharply turned against Israel’s violence. In Britain, a large majority of people The sincerity of Israel War crimes are likely to be committed. Most people do Support is a complete ban On arms sales to the state, and Support for detention From Netanyahu.
After losing the argument for a long time, Israeli presidents are now taking a anti -Semitic crime to try to silence a mass movement against an ethical catastrophe. The British government is included in this. The ministers failed to impose widespread sanctions on Israel, and they allowed Arms exports To follow up. As the American author TA-Nehisi Coates recently said about the Democrats, “If you cannot draw the line in genocide, perhaps you cannot draw the line in democracy,” said the American author TA-Nehisi Coates recently about the Democrats. The same applies to the work government.
The people protest against the erasing of Gaza were considered hateful extremists. But there is a reason for the lack of a comprehensive campaign against these demonstrators before. Former Minister of Ministers Benny Morton Recently claimed The demonstrators were calling for “death to the Jews”, but the reality is that a few demonstrators made hacker statements (and therefore illegal) about the Jews the police did not have any reason to eliminate them. Meanwhile, the Jewish demonstrators who were walking for a Palestinian life were eliminated. After one of these BBC demonstrators told that he joined every protest over the past two years, Ben HoshenLord of the Non -Jewish Conservative Party, called “a useful fool.”
The collapse of the Jewish identity in the actions of the Israeli state is not only sarcastic, but it is dangerous. Holocaust anniversary alliance Definition of anti -SemitismThe British government and many other institutions were truly challenged Suffocating. But there should be no debate about one of its examples: “The Jews’ pregnancy is a collective responsible for the actions of the State of Israel” hostile to Semitic. Nevertheless, Israeli defenders have tried repeatedly to confuse Israel’s criticism with anti -Semitic attacks on all Jewish societies, regardless of what many Jewish people are doing from these actions.
This is why we are now in a stage that the capital police can indicate that the protests that oppose Israeli crimes must be absent from it on the basis that “it can” unintentionally or intentionally “support anti -Semitism, and why why Pretty PatelThe Foreign Minister announced the conservative shadow, that the recognition of the late Labor Party in the Palestinian state made the party “complicit in the horrific abuse that we see across our streets and through the Jewish community in Britain.”
On the same day, as the attack of the synagogue, the Israeli army killed At least 57 Palestinians In Gaza – Another great balance in two years of daily atrocities that left tens of thousands of dead. The British politicians and the media hardly hidden the lack of value they attached to Palestinian life. It is among the most racist expressions of our time. One wonders how history will rule at this moment: politicians accuse people who protest against genocide of inciting hatred, while supporting those who commit genocide.
Our government has already crossed a dangerous threshold by banning Palestinian action, which is a direct, non -violent and anti -chicks working group. More than 2000 British demonstrators have been arrestedOften to hold the signs of opposition to genocide and support the banned organization. Many of them are retired. One of them is a retired priest, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. When the state begins to call “terrorism” movements when they are not like that, it attacks democracy itself.
It is not difficult to know where all this does. In the United States, the Democrats helped clarify the pro -Palestinians protests: former Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that some were some “Connected to Russia”While Joe Biden Such anti -Semitic protests are called. By doing this, they only helped legitimize the authoritarian campaign to such protests – and freedom of expression in general – during the reign of Donald Trump. If Nigel Faraj becomes prime minister, an arduous right -wing right -wing government will be granted to control the opposition. What do you think of a reform government that will do with this group of repressive tools? We struggled with our ancestors, suffered and tied to secure our freedoms. We will reach a street how we allowed them to leave.