‘I’m an ex-army officer whose family fled the Nazis. This is why the Palestine Action ban should be overturned’
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King Charles Street in the center of London is a way that Colonel Chris Romberg knows well. During his last task in the army, it was a mail address, which had a connection to the home when he was abroad.
Last week, it became once again important after being arrested for the first time in the life of Address Col Romberg and taken to a transaction station established by the metropolitan police on the same street.
Hundreds of protesters, many of whom were 75-year-old Col Romberg, hired the banners in the Westminster Parliament Square to protest the genocide and support the Palestinian action.
Since the Minister of the Interior forbids the Palestinian action under the laws of terrorism, it is now a crime to express them in a T -shirt or sign. As a result, 522 arrests were made by the Met Police-112 of them were over 70 years of age.
Col Romberg, a former defense attaché in the British embassies in Jordan and Egypt, waited about five hours before the arrest and then embroidered by the officers and was released in street bail.
As he felt motivated by his pressure during his time in the Middle East, he had a campaign for the Palestinian case for several years. His father and grandfather, who were Christians of Jewish origin, fled Nazi -controlled Austria in 1938.
He said that this history opposed what happened in Gaza and what Western governments define as a criminal partner in the emerging humanitarian crisis.
He talked about the decision to participate in the protest last weekend, “I thought of this and met with his family because it is not an easy decision. Although we were not sure we would be arrested, there was a high possibility that we would be.
“This was for the first time. But all of our freedoms in democratic and non -democratic history and the best movements were obtained by people with risks and people who move. Motivation, defending the freedom of speech and expression, and at the same time preventing a genocide – which we have a moral and legal duty.”
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“For many people there, I believe that they have been arrested for the first time and that they took action for the first time. Inferences are serious because we are arrested under a very serious part of the legislation – the law of terrorism. Many people, especially for young people, have serious consequences for their ages like me.
The history of his family tied him to the grandchildren of Holocaust victims, a part of the pro -Palestinian protest movement. “In my case, my father and parents and sisters survived because they escaped. They fled from Austria after the German inheritance in 1938.
“Because of our family connections, we are afraid that a genocide should be realized again. And for many of them, this brings back the terrible memories from their own parents and grandfather and grandfather, and therefore we are determined to oppose it”.
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Worker’s Reulle and former Shadow Chief Public Prosecutor Shami Chakrabarti warned that the ban was at the risk of becoming the “I Spartacus” and called the government to “rethink”.
Former Labor Minister Peter Hain described mass arrests as “madness ve and said that the Palestinian action was not equivalent to real terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda or the Islamic State”.
Huda Ammori, the founding partner of the Palestinian action, was allowed by the Supreme Court to object to the ban on the courts-the first case that was allowed to continue such a legal war.
Defending our juries that coordinated the protest last Saturday, they committed that they would be shown again in September if 1,000 agreed to participate.
When the demonstrators went to the streets in the protest genocide and based on civilian freedoms, Interior Minister Yette Cooper tried to emphasize the dangers of the Palestinian action.
In a statement published after the arrests of the weekend, he said: “The Palestinian action was banned based on strong security advice following the serious attacks committed by the group, important injuries and comprehensive criminal damage … Many people may not yet know the reality of this organization, but the evaluations are not very clear – this is not a screw organization”.
Ammori said that the prohibition of the group cannot be used categorically or for the rest of any concession that is based only on material damage and based on other things ”.
