Palestine Action is a direct action group that was proscribed a terrorist organization after they spray-painted some RAF planes in defiance of UK military aid to Israel.
Most arrested individuals were retirees, with some blind and otherwise disabled people also arrested.
Over 500 people were arrested, the most for a peaceful protest since 1961.
Sincerely doubt it. The Troubles was a fight to end centuries-old apartheid rule by the victims of said apartheid. The government supporting genocide abroad is bad, but it doesn’t have the kind of personal stakes that’d make car bombs start showing up.