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"Thunberg, 22, was earlier arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide”. The British government has proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group."
The group uses direct action to disrupt the UK arms industry, which it accuses of being complicit with Israel in conducting a genocide. Palestine Action have mounted 45 documented direct actions in the United Kingdom.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest
“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government."
Man Thunberg has been chronically based since she hit the centre stage. No wonder Thiel thinks shes the antichrist.
She's the hero we need
Agreed the hero we should aspire ourselves to be like.
Even if you'd do one thousands of what she does it would be incredible for humanity.
I aspire to one day be awesome enough that Peter Thiel thinks I’m the antichrist.
100% agreed!
Theil thinks everything he doesn't like is the antichrist. He thinks the Antichrist's message is "peace and safety" and to enforce the stagnation of technological and scientific progress. International financial bodies restricting the ability to hide wealth are the Antichrist. Etc.
Yes, hes an unhinged fuckmonster of a man. But he also does think Thunberg specifically is the antichrist incarnate.
They threw paint on some military equipment. Claiming "criminal property damage" is quite the slanted representation of reality.
Not terrorism
The paint was inside a jet engine so it wouldn't work. Property was damaged.
However, the planes experienced no terror.
Cue the US liberals: “this is just SO uncouth.”
Threw paint in the engine, and went at the plane with crowbars.
Besides, the main incident for which it was proscribed involved a policewoman being badly injured in a brutal sledgehammer attack, to the extent her spine still hasn’t recovered enough to return to work over a year later.
None of what you describe is terrorism. The proscription is a disgrace, built upon a disgrace.
Surely deliberately causing injury with a political goal is terrorism?
Look, I know nothing about this incident, I just happened across this thread in my feed. So I say without knowing any context, that no, attacking a single person doesn't sound like the appropriate use of the word terrorism.
Assault, yes. Atempted murder, maybe. But for me terrorism needs to have a broad scope and target innocent people. If any assault was terrorism then all organized crime would be terrorism. Protests that devolve into violence would be terrorism. It weakens the word to use it like this.
Now if that group went down to the local coffee shop and started beating everyone and claiming it's for their cause, terrorism. If they go on social media and call for everyone at home to grab their hammers and kill people indiscriminately in their name, terrorism.
Same with a pressure cooker bomb being called a WMD. It's ridiculous to put a crappy improvised explosive in with nukes and chemical weapons. When you trump up charges is fucks witj everything, like we're seeing here where a peaceful protestor is now being unlawfully detained.
Uk sending weapons to a genocidal state to kill innocent civilians becausw Israel is a political ally is terrorism
Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Pro-Palestinian Group
What? No. Look it up. Also, PA did not plan to 8njure any police officers
Looked it up. Turns out it is terrorism. At some point their intent changed. A sledgehammer doesn’t hit someone multiple times without intent.
So I don't think the actions of a single individual acting on their own initiative during an action is sufficient to declare the whole group a terrorist organisation. The stated goals of the group do not include "injure or kill anyone who stands in our way, including police officers," though the non-stated goals of that individual might.