A British judge has sentenced four Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, handing them custodial sentences ranging from four to eight years.

The unprecedented ruling came despite jurors convicting them of criminal charges not connected to terrorism during the prosecution.

On Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, added a “terrorism connection” to their offences.

In a preliminary ruling in March 2025, Johnson found an “appearance” of a terrorism connection in the case, as he said the activists were attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting their access to weapons. This information was withheld from the jury who convicted them.

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    8 hours ago

    Didn’t they break a cop’s back? “Middle East Eye” isn’t mentioning that because it’s not exactly an unbiased source of information. They’re just innocent “protesters” LOL.

    Why would a cop be there?

    Using violence to achieve a political goal is pretty much the definition of terrorism.

    Congrats, you just defined the entirety of every police force and judicial system in the world as terrorists.

    Using violence to influence a government is terrorism.

    No, it’s just the only effective way to enact change.

    They were doing violence (broke a person’s back) to influence the British government’s relationship with Israel. That’s terrorism.

    Only because they’re brown and going against a Western country. When the UK government hires people to do it, it’s just a military intervention.

    Consider expanding your sources of information beyond sites that are giving incomplete information with the goal of making you feel angry.

    You’re defending a country previously engaged in the worst acts ever recorded in human history, honestly dwarfing Germany’s in all but intensity, and currently is aiding in some of the worst acts in human history. If you ever find yourself in that position, I recommend either getting the taste of iron and sulphur in you, or correcting yourself before someone does that for you.

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      Why would a cop be there?

      Because they broke into a building and were destroying property. They were fighting with the building’s security and so the cops were called.

      You really don’t know anything about the subject, do you? Really, you have to read news from more sources instead of just swallowing whatever propaganda that gets fed to you.

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        Because they broke into a building and were destroying property.

        Oh no. Maybe that building was promised to them 3000 years ago. Did you see if they had any UK-recognized religious claims to that building and its materials? The UK recognizes ancient religious claims to land and possessions so clearly the cops broke the law by not following their own precedent.

        They were fighting with the building’s security and so the cops were called.

        Maybe the security were just islamphobic and were holding their children hostage. You don’t know. You weren’t there. Until I get a government press release from a trust worthy government I can’t really say it’s not true. Really we have to give such claims equal weight since we now know they had a 3000 year old claim to that building and all its possessions. It seems like the building security are the real terrorists here.

        You really don’t know anything about the subject, do you? Really, you have to read news from more sources instead of just swallowing whatever propaganda that gets fed to you.

        Maybe I just need some more Hasbara in my life, it’s clearly done you a world of good.

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          What are you talking about? They hit a police woman in the back multiple times with a god damn sledgehammer.

          Do you think people that do that shouldn’t go to prison?

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            Genuinely sounds like self defense. I’d have to wait until I see approved-state approved versions of the livestream and video though but it just sounds like that police woman was hiding nuclear secrets in her back and really had it coming. I mean she clearly threatened the entire country and these heroes bravely did what any hero should and took out the threat.

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              It doesn’t exactly help the argument that this wasn’t terrorism when you automatically relate every violent act to geopolitics.

              If you ever do any violence, this kind of thing in your posting history would be pretty strong evidence of terrorist intent.