The British authorities have brought trumped-up charges against a member of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap in a bid to stifle criticism of their own complicity with Israeli war crimes. But no amount of legal harassment can stop the truth from getting out.
I dont know about the UK, but the EU distinguishes between the armed wing of Hezbollah and the political wing. Hezbollah is in the Lebanese parliament and was part of the Lebanese government.
Now they did commit quite some atrocities, but by that logic waving any flag of countries like Germany, UK, France, US, China, Russia amd many more would be prohibited. Obv. if we apply same standards Israel and most of its political parties, the IDF and many of Israels “civil”, organizatioms would need to be designated as terrorist groups.
Same for Hamas. Hamas has an armed wing but also a political wing that ran the civil administration of Gaza and still tries to do that, despite Israel mass slaughtering any civil servant. That the distinction between armed and civil wing is granted by the EU to Hezbollah but not to Hamas has no rational basis.
Then again the UK considers “stop oil” to be terroristic so the entire system of terror designations in the UK does not really care about employing a rational and consistent system.
I dont know about the UK, but the EU distinguishes between the armed wing of Hezbollah and the political wing. Hezbollah is in the Lebanese parliament and was part of the Lebanese government.
Now they did commit quite some atrocities, but by that logic waving any flag of countries like Germany, UK, France, US, China, Russia amd many more would be prohibited. Obv. if we apply same standards Israel and most of its political parties, the IDF and many of Israels “civil”, organizatioms would need to be designated as terrorist groups.
Same for Hamas. Hamas has an armed wing but also a political wing that ran the civil administration of Gaza and still tries to do that, despite Israel mass slaughtering any civil servant. That the distinction between armed and civil wing is granted by the EU to Hezbollah but not to Hamas has no rational basis.
Then again the UK considers “stop oil” to be terroristic so the entire system of terror designations in the UK does not really care about employing a rational and consistent system.