Peter Tatchell, lifelong human rights activist, has joined pro-Palestinian demos week after week. Then this happened: on Saturday he was arrested for holding a placard that condemned the horrific actions of the Israeli government and also Hamas’s persecution of dissenters.
When he tried to rejoin the crowd, several officers grabbed and cuffed him, took him off to Charing Cross police station, fingerprinted and photographed him and kept him in a cell for five hours and 38 minutes.
People on all sides of the debate are also feeling the hands of the state tightening around them. The Daily Telegraph recently ran a story about Julian Foulkes, a retired special constable from Gillingham, who was arrested and handcuffed after his post on X was deemed “unacceptable” by Kent police.
Social censorship is getting worse, too. The BBC’s peerless football pundit Gary Lineker has been forced out after reposting on Instagram a pro-Palestinian post with an antisemitic symbol, which he says he failed to see or understand. He apologised and deleted it. But now he has left the corporation.
square SIMON KELNER Disagreeing is what being Jewish is all about
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Climate change activists are getting atrociously long sentences for doing what they can to save the planet. Amy Cameron of Greenpeace rightly asks: “What sort of country locks people away for years for planning a peaceful demonstration, let alone for talking about it on a Zoom call? We’re giving a free hand to the polluting elite robbing us of a habitable planet while jailing those who’re trying to stop them – it makes no sense.”
In 2022, some of my fellow members of the Society of Authors plotted to remove the then chair Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, because she wasn’t anti-trans enough. They lost the vote. But left a stench of intolerance.
Too many Brits have been comfortably uninformed about how our political thoughts and views are regulated by the powerful and by public pressure. That can’t go on. Resistance is a duty. Stop them stealing our ancient rights. We owe that to coming generations.
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