{"id":49809,"date":"2025-09-07T22:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49809\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:01:04","slug":"almost-900-people-arrested-at-london-protest-for-palestine-action-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49809\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 900 people arrested at London protest for Palestine Action \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Almost 900 demonstrators were arrested at a central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/\">London<\/a> rally protesting against the banning of Palestine Action as a terror group, the Metropolitan Police has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An estimated 1,500 took part in the protest in Parliament Square, Westminster, on Saturday and the force condemned the \u201cintolerable\u201d abuse it claims its officers suffered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/09\/06\/people-power-how-households-are-boycotting-israeli-goods-and-services-over-gaza-war\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We are in McDonald\u2019s but your son is refusing the food\u2019: How Irish households are boycotting Israeli productsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But organisers, campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ), insisted the rally was \u201cthe picture of peaceful protest\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A total of 890 people were arrested, with 857 arrests made for showing support for a proscribed group, while 33 people were arrested for assaulting police officers and other public order offences. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Police officers remove a protester. Photograph: Jeff Moore\/PA Wire\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Z7EBS6M3LS2JZ32YKEOQM2AWYE.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Police officers remove a protester. Photograph: Jeff Moore\/PA Wire <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Police officers remove a protester. Photograph: Jeff Moore\/PA Wire\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EH7GA7V7ZN6EZ7RDD5YRANGF64.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Police officers remove a protester. Photograph: Jeff Moore\/PA Wire <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Palestine Action was banned as a terror organisation in July after the group claimed responsibility for an action in which two Voyager planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton on June 20th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/2025\/08\/16\/sally-rooney-i-support-palestine-action-if-this-makes-me-a-supporter-of-terror-under-uk-law-so-be-it\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a \u2018supporter of terror\u2019 under UK law, so be itOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More than 700 others have already been arrested over their expressed support for the organisation, including large numbers at protest events and individual cases around the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 74-year-old woman wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt was arrested and subsequently released in Belfast last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Palestine Action is banned under the Terrorism Act 2000, the same legislation that bans Islamist terror groups such as Isis, the Russian mercenary Wagner Group and white supremacist organisations such as The Base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The activist group has won approval from the UK High Court to challenge the ban, with a hearing scheduled later this month in relation to the case. \u2013PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 900 demonstrators were arrested at a central London rally protesting against the banning of Palestine Action as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,666,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-49809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-palestine-action","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}