Earlier today, we reported that the Metropolitan Police had arrested Greta Thunberg at a protest in London. Since then, Green Party leader Zack Polanski has come forward to condemn the arrest:
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government. https://t.co/cKYItJBiWZ
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) December 23, 2025
Hunger strike
Thunberg supports the hunger strikers, as she told us the other day:
— BeSmart (@smartthumb) December 20, 2025
The UK government has failed miserably in fulfilling their bare minimum legal duties to prevent and stop a genocide from happening. And what has happened here is that civilians have taken on that responsibility to act to end the complicity in genocide and are now being punished. We are criminalising empathy.
As people have pointed out, Thunberg’s sign technically didn’t even suggest support for ‘Palestine Action’; it suggested support for ‘Palestine Action Prisoners’:
What's wild is she's not even supporting the group with that sign. She's supporting the prisoners. https://t.co/wCFjpS8y7r
— Astrid (JustSomeDev) (@just_some_dev) December 23, 2025
Glad someone else has underscored this. She’s very clearly there to support the prisoners, and lists which org they’re from.
Feel like clarity is crucial.
To best of my knowledge it is not illegal to support prisoners?!
— Sean Adams (@seaninsound) December 23, 2025
Polanski has also spoken out supporting the hunger strikers and condemning Israel for continuing to violate the ceasefire:
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As Swawkbox reported, the hunger strikers have launched legal action against David Lammy as a result of them being jailed for 18 months without trial:
The letter details the hunger strikers’ seriously failing health, the risk of death they face, their demands of the government and outlines the Starmer regime’s long and sorry neglect of its legal and moral duties and own official policy statements, along with the ongoing failure of the prison system to meet its legal obligations.
Here’s David Lammy, before Labour won the election, bragging about how he used to protest in the 1980s and about how much he respects people who protest.
Bail the Palestine Action hunger strikers then, Dave, and give them a fair trial. pic.twitter.com/7L2wBETsxw
— Wokerati Marty (@WokeratiMarty) December 9, 2025
The fact people who took action with Palestine Action were regularly getting acquitted by juries, was used as a reason to proscribe the group.
That's why the state began locking people up for up to two years before they even got to trial – to punish them beforehand. It's sick.
— Huda Ammori (@HudaAmmori) December 19, 2025
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By Willem Moore
This post was originally published on Canary.