Yeah, that’s dumb. Curious what they were charged with, e.g. if they were told to disperse and didn’t, and if the charges will stick.

As dumb as it may be, you should be free-in a democracy, with limited exceptions—to verbalize support for a foreign or even domestic terrorist organization as long as you aren’t materially aiding it.

Is “supporting” defined in the UK Terrorist Act?

Spray painting a panzer tank in 1939 with "free the jews" would have been a pretty much identical form of "terrorism".

Nobody killed, no real damage done.

Obviously the Nazis back then would agree with modern far right that defacing weapons used to commit genocide fits the definition of terrorism and that voicing support for such a crime demands prison time.

And, modern liberals have always had an easier relationship with the far right than they have had with free speech.