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“By ‘non-violent resistance’ I was advocating boycott, sanction and divestment – the same tactics that helped bring down the apartheid regime in South africa. ‘Globalise the intifada’ means create a worldwide campaign like the anti-apartheid movement.
“The police are totally wrong to conflate support for Palestinian resistance to oppression with hatred and attacks on Jews,” he said.
In December 2023,the Metropolitan police said that protesters who chanted “globalise the intifada” would now be arrested as the “context has changed” after the October 7th attacks in Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza.
On Saturday January 27th, 2024, the force said: “Officers policing the Palestine Coalition protest have arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of a public order offence.He was seen carrying a sign including the words ‘globalise the intifada’.”
The Metropolitan police said ther were 13 arrests from the Palestine Coalition protest and one from the Stop the Hate counter exhibition.
Tatchell said three people “were charged with this new ‘crime’ of expressing support for an intifada against Israel’s actions in Gaza” at a London rally last month.
“I have a long history of defending jewish people against the antisemitism of the far right and Islamist extremism. I joined the March Against Antisemit
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