UK stifles protest at its support for genocide in Gaza
While protests against the killing of civilians in Gaza continue in the UK, the state has responded with police brutality and legal threats so as to stifle any dissent.
Over the past nine months, the world has seen the police attacking students and their encampments in the United States, as the pressure from the Israel lobby on the authorities to crack down on those protesting the genocide in Gaza keeps mounting.
The UK is also under the influence of international Zionism, the New Labour government of Kier Starmer is proving it too is willing to launch vicious assaults on the young people bravely standing for Palestine.
For example of the evening of the eighth of July, two known Zionist provocateurs called the police on the pro-Palestine encampment at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in Central London, falsely alleging they had been victims of a theft.
The police were deceived by the story which had been concocted by the Zionist militants so officers proceeded to violently arrest seven protesters, including some who are visibly disabled.
Students proceeded the next day to protest outside the police station calling for the release of those arrested.
The students were released but must appear in court and have been told the university is investigating them despite there being no evidence at all that they committed any crimes.
In addition to this, there have been a number of other tactics the state is using to shout down the protests against the Israeli genocide, such as at University College London, where an eviction notice was served on the pro-Palestine encampment.
Authorities have threatened that the police will be sent in to enforce it and violently break up the camp.
And in response to those threats, protesters emerged to show their solidarity with the students in the encampment.
This country and the West pride themselves on freedom of speech, the students have done nothing wrong and yet we've seen not only on the campuses over the protests, Germany, parts of Europe where it's complete police brutality and it's absolutely sickening.
Member of Public 01
The fact that the university is trying to crack down on students’ free speech, rather than actually doing anything about the investments, they should be held to account.
Member of Public 02
Students have been arrested, protesters have been arrested, and that just shows that the state is more scared of the people and repressing, attempting to repress protests.
Member of Public 03
However, as far as the students are concerned, nothing will deter them from staging a protest against the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza.
And even if their encampments have to be broken up, they'll continue to raise their voice unrelentingly for the victims of the genocide in Gaza.
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