Greta Thunberg arrested for pro-Palestinian protest under UK terrorism law
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/uk/greta-thunberg-arrest-uk-palestinian-protest-intl-hnk
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/uk/greta-thunberg-arrest-uk-palestinian-protest-intl-hnk
66 Comments
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 254d
"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."
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 147 pts · 254d
Man Thunberg has been chronically based since she hit the centre stage. No wonder Thiel thinks shes the antichrist.
lauha@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 254d
She's the hero we need
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 254d
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.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 253d
I aspire to one day be awesome enough that Peter Thiel thinks I’m the antichrist.
Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 252d
100% agreed!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 253d
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.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 253d
Yes, hes an unhinged fuckmonster of a man. But he also does think Thunberg specifically is the antichrist incarnate.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 253d
They threw paint on some military equipment. Claiming "criminal property damage" is quite the slanted representation of reality.
Not terrorism
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 253d
The paint was inside a jet engine so it wouldn't work. Property was damaged.
However, the planes experienced no terror.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 253d
Cue the US liberals: “this is just SO uncouth.”
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 253d
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.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 253d
None of what you describe is terrorism. The proscription is a disgrace, built upon a disgrace.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 253d
Surely deliberately causing injury with a political goal is terrorism?
foggenbooty@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 252d
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.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 253d
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
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 253d
What? No. Look it up. Also, PA did not plan to 8njure any police officers
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 252d
Looked it up. Turns out it is terrorism. At some point their intent changed. A sledgehammer doesn’t hit someone multiple times without intent.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 252d
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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 127 pts · 254d
Greta Thunberg is my favorite terrorist
FatVegan@leminal.space · 21 pts · 254d
Same. I fully support terrorism
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 253d
Freedom fighter
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 253d
That's a good t-shirt
chaosCruiser@futurology.today · 5 pts · 253d
I will watch her career with great interest.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 80 pts · 254d
Thank you police for protecting us from this obvious danger /s
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 254d
This is what they are trying to do with antifa here in the USA. As if anti genocide or anti fascism is bad. 🙃
fort_burp@feddit.nl · 37 pts · 253d
Under UK terrorism law it seems it is a lesser crime to bomb the King David Hotel in Palestine.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 7 pts · 253d
Which makes me wonder why the zionist did it? If they were getting what they wanted anyway.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 254d
So if anti-genocide is
illanti-legal then the logical conclusion the government wants us to draw is?answersplease77@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 253d
You're a good UK citizen if you cheer for ethnic cleansng and aparthied, and let your government pay for it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d
Greta's not a UK citizen, so she's going to be less than human in the eyes of UK law.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 253d
It's spreading
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 253d
Technically western Europe was the origin point
Naevermix@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 253d
Maybe the real terrorists were the friends we made along the way
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 16 pts · 254d
Wait, when did she get freed from Israel? I thought they'd captured her, never heard about her getting out.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 65 pts · 254d
She was released fairly quickly. But there was alleged abuse that happened during which I would bet my left nut is 100 percent true.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 35 pts · 254d
May your left nut grow and prosper.
...but not too much or else you should get that checked 😂
frizzo@piefed.social · 14 pts · 254d
I read this as let his nut glow and phosphor.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 254d
"Nut glow and phosphor" is one of the less popular items on the Cheesecake Factory menu.
frizzo@piefed.social · 3 pts · 253d
Available in all 53 states for a reason.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 253d
I wish my nut glowed like that
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 254d
She was released and had stories of abuse/torture while in captivity.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 254d
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face
frongt@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 254d
Not sure why the headline says arrested when the story is that she was released from the arrest from earlier this week.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 38 pts · 254d
Not sure but a lot of people are released after being arrested. Some are on bail or just plain free until a court date. Others get their charges dropped. They were all arrested though. This is particular notable because it shouldn’t be considered illegal. The government shouldn’t be able to skirt precedence when declaring a group a terrorist org.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 23 pts · 254d
Most people get released after they get arrested
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 253d
What would Trotsky do?
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -17 pts · 254d
Somehow this will end up the democrats fault.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 254d
Relevance?
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -9 pts · 253d
It’s called a joke.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d
Jokes are funny.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -1 pts · 253d
They’re funnier when you understand them.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 253d
Honestly its time to admit you just said a bad joke and move on.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · -4 pts · 253d
No, it’s time to admit that a lot of people on lemmy are uptight about being called out. You see, the joke was that everything bad that happened to Palestine is blamed on “the dems”.
That it’s downvoted doesn’t mean it’s a bad joke, it just means I unintentionally hit a nerve.
Honestly, maybe it’s time to admit it bothered you and move on. Because that’s a LOT of effort to let someone know you didn’t like their joke.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d
Dude your being called out about a joke and it bothered you and your crashing out... your kidding right?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 253d
this it the UK, lmao, it has a pro-zionist problem just like any other country supporting israel.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 1 pts · 253d
It’s like you almost understand why it was a fucking joke.