When simply being anti-genocide leads to you being arrested, your government is pro-genocide by definition.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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I want to see more discussion about his governments are pro-genocide, because ultimately I'm not sure which are pro-genocide, and which are just pro- western. Like on some level, yes, the US, UK, and German governments are historically so islamophobic that there are most assuredly elements that support the genocide of Palestinians as an ethnic group of the middle east. But ultimately, more perniciously I would argue, I feel that for the majority of western officials, they simply do not care beyond the benefits of supporting the genocide. Israel wants Palestinians dead. Period. But America? I think far more evilly, we have been happy to funnel trillions of dollars into the military industrial complex while giving them free-range to test their inventions en masse on the people of Palestine, and are more than happy to just let Israel close up our "lab" now that we've perfected shit like facial recognition powered turrets. The Israeli government, and a large portion of the west, see Palestinians as some great enemy worth nothing less than death and destruction. I would say worse, the ruling powers of the west never even saw them as human in the first place. And while the outcome is the same regardless, I feel that we need to maintain the distinction, because the latter are going to be the first to say they never meant it to go this far. And we need to remember when they do exactly how fucking evil they really are.
"They can't arrest us all!"
Well, actually....
Where the fuck do they take 500 people? How big is the London holding cells? Jesus Christ.
The Met have 30 custody suites, the BTP and Border Force have one apiece in London.
Most of them were instantly released on bail.
weird how starmer can do the same thing palestine action did but get named prime minister.
Is that sustainable? Where are they keeping all these people? At what cost?
According to BBC News, about 200 of them had already been released on bail by the end of the night (which, for Americans reading, does not involve handing over any money in the UK). I imagine most of the rest will get the same within the next couple of days