The old T-shirt thing again.
Laverty’s read “Genocide in Palestine: time to take action.”
I see the BBC didn’t mention that bit, or that the T shirt didn’t mention Palestine Action at all.
I only linked to them because their article indicates Laverty has been charged.
A police spokesman indicated a while back that anything mentioning ‘Palestine’ and ‘Action’ in the one sentence will be viewed as support for the group PA.
What the police say might be their operational guidance, however ludicrous - but it isn’t the law.
In point of fact it’s ludicrous to claim that a narrow proscription applies to any much wider entity, and Palestine, the subject of protests for being in the middle of a GENOCIDE, is far bigger than one group of activists. The government can hardly claim (or admit) that it intended to ban all action on Palestine, without the law saying anything of the sort.
Laverty is a lawyer of some kind himself, I hope he is friendly with a couple of good barristers.
ED