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Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The Green Party has voted for the Israeli military to be banned as a terrorist organisation and for Britain to apologise for the Balfour Declaration.

Members voted for the motion at the Green Party's annual conference in Bournemouth on Sunday, making it party policy.

The motion called for the Israeli military to be proscribed, which would make membership of the Israeli military or even glorifying it a terrorist offence under British counterterror legislation.

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[–] samc@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Appreciate the sentiment but can we please stop proscribing things? Surely we should have learned by now that this has an unacceptable effect on freedom of the press and the right to protest.

I do not want to see proscription become a cudgel wielded by successive political parties to ban support for any organisation they oppose.