Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists after they sprayed red paint and cracked windows at a branch of Barclays bank to protest the company’s links to an Israeli weapons manufacturer.
This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.
For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/
This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.
For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/