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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/10/pious-palestine-action-activists-suffragettes/
Palestine Action Activists Are Nothing Like the Suffragettes
(Telegraph-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Palestine Action and its cheerleaders always look so smugly satisfied with themselves - they think they're the new Suffragettes - the women who rose up for the right to vote. They really think their violent, childish rage against the Jewish state puts them on a par with those valiant ladies who fought for the voting franchise for their sex. They are drunk on self-delusion. Someone needs to tell them - where those women were the great expanders of democracy, you are its enemies. Everyone needs to stop with this nonsense. It is a grotesque insult to all the women who helped to make Britain a freer, fairer nation to liken them with the irritants and narcissists of Palestine Action. The difference between these two movements is glaring. The Suffragettes took direct action because they were brutally locked out of the democratic realm. In contrast, Palestine Action and their noisy cheerleaders enjoy every democratic right - the right to vote, to speak, to march. And yet still they choose, to the vexation of decent Brits, to carry out their dumb stunts. Palestine Action is so consumed by disdain for the democratic process that they prefer wrecking RAF planes or splashing red paint on "evil" businesses to the far harder task of free, civil engagement. Their activism is profoundly anti-democratic. The Suffragettes hit the streets to make their own country a better place. Palestine Action obsesses like crazy over a tiny country 3,000 miles away which they are convinced is the embodiment of evil. Their every waking moment is consumed by hateful thoughts for the world's only Jewish state.