Edward Torsney

Outrage as UK Brands Peaceful Protesters “Terrorists” While Genocide Rages On

This is beyond the pale. The UK government has sunk to depths of Orwellian absurdity that demand nothing less than furious condemnation.

The arrest of over 400 people associated with “Palestine Action” in London, including elderly and disabled citizens, isn’t just heavy-handed policing – it’s a grotesque perversion of justice and a deliberate, cynical misuse of the very concept of terrorism.

Let’s be crystal clear about Palestine Action: Peaceful protesters, driven by moral outrage, targeted an Israeli weapons company complicit in arming the genocide unfolding in Gaza. Their tactics? Sit-ins, occupations, civil disobedience. Non-violent direct action aimed at disrupting the machinery of death. At one point they sprayed non permanent paint on a plane actively involved in the genocide.

Now, hold this against the UK government’s own, official definition of terrorism (Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000):

It involves serious violence against a person.

It involves serious damage to property endangering life.

It endangers a person’s life (other than the person committing the action).

It creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public.

It is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

Where, in the name of sanity, does the non-violent protest of Palestine Action fit this definition? Sitting on a roof? Blocking a driveway? Holding placards? This is not terrorism. This is dissent. This is citizens exercising their fundamental democratic right to protest against their government’s complicity in mass slaughter.

The sheer, breathtaking hypocrisy is staggering. While the UK government refuses to officially acknowledge the meticulously documented genocide in Gaza – a campaign of slaughter that has leveled neighborhoods, starved children, and killed tens of thousands – it instead trains its repressive machinery on its *own* citizens. Citizens brave enough to say “Not In Our Name” and try to stop the flow of weapons enabling the carnage.

And who did they arrest? Reports confirm they dragged away elderly people and disabled individuals. Think about that. Terrorism by zimmer frame? Threats to national security via wheelchair? The image of British police handcuffing an octogenarian or someone with mobility issues for the “crime” of protesting genocide isn’t just shameful; it’s a dystopian nightmare. It exposes the government’s actions for what they truly are: not about security, but about silencing dissent and protecting the profits of the arms trade at all costs, even the shredding of basic rights and common decency.

This is not counter-terrorism; it’s political persecution. It’s a government terrified of the growing public revulsion at its support for Israel’s brutal onslaught. Unable to defend the indefensible, it resorts to labeling peaceful opposition as terrorism. It criminalizes compassion. It brands those demanding an end to genocide as the enemy within.

The message is chillingly clear: Criticize the government’s complicity in genocide? Demand an end to arming mass murderers? Prepare to be treated like al-Qaeda. Prepare to see your grandparents and disabled neighbors hauled away by police. This is the shameful, authoritarian reality of Britain today.

This is an outrage. A betrayal of democracy. A cowardly assault on the very right to protest injustice. And it must be denounced with the fiercest possible fury. The world is watching, and history will judge this despicable act of labeling peacemakers as terrorists while turning a blind eye to actual, ongoing genocide. Shame on this government.