Blogger’s Note: I expect this behaviour from New Labour and the Met Police – after-all – the Met Police is applying the laws enacted by the UK government. Zionist Israel is a fascist country opposed by many Jews around the world. Opposing fascism and genocide is both a moral and legal requirement. Israel has been murdering Palestinians since 1948 with support of the capitalist West – with only the USSR and Communist Bloc (but not China) opposing the Zionists by breaking-off diplomatic relations. Modern Russia has very good relations with Israel and whilst fighting IDF volunteers serving in the Neo-Nazi Armed Forces of Ukraine – says “nothing” to rock the boat. The so-called “cease fire” has seen Israel continue to murder Palestinian men, women, and children with impunity – proving the 1975 UN Resolution that Zionism truly is a form of “White Supremacy”.

The Guardian Newspaper (quoted below) has fully supported the Tories, LibDems and Labour in their neo-liberal project of destroying democracy and Socialism in the UK. It has also continuously supported Israeli terrorism and referred to Palestinians as “terrorists”. When it reports stories like that below – it is attempting to appeal to those left-wing readers it lost decades ago wit its lurch to the political (Trotskyite) right. The Guardian is self-righteously reporting a situation it single-handedly campaigned to bring into existence. The Guardian is practicing the “Entryism” of all Trotskyites – attempting to use deception to work its way into your good books. Take the story but reject the story-teller! ACW (30.3.2025)

Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk

At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London

Hayden Vernon

Sat 29 Mar 2025 19.20 CET

Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand.

More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm, according to a statement by the Quakers.

“No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” said Paul Parker, the recording clerk for Quakers in Britain.

“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.

“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”

In a video posted on Youth Demand’s Facebook page, a woman who claimed to have attended the meeting described it as a “publicly advertised welcome talk” about the group. She said police seized attenders’ phones and laptops.

Youth Demand describes itself as “a youth-led nonviolent civil resistance campaign demanding the UK stops arming Israel and cancels all new oil and gas granted since 2021”.

The Quakers’ statement said they “strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship” and pointed to the stricter protesting laws brought in by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023, which they claimed were directly responsible for the raid.

The Met police said it had arrested six people at the meeting on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. It said it arrested five other people for the same offence on Friday – four in London and one in Exeter.

The police said those arrested were part of Youth Demand and claimed those attending the meeting were planning direct action in the capital next month.

“Youth Demand have stated an intention to ‘shut down’ London over the month of April using tactics including ‘swarming’ and road blocks,” police said.

“While we absolutely recognise the importance of the right to protest, we have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality.”

Police said all those arrested had been released on bail, except for one who was released and will face no further action.

Quakers, a nickname for members of the Religious Society of Friends, follow a religious tradition that grew from Protestant Christianity in the 17th century.

Quakers have a long history of supporting protest movements and nonviolence is one of their core beliefs.