{"id":719620,"date":"2026-07-30T19:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719620\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:29:14","slug":"uk-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-on-britains-ban-of-palestine-action-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719620\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Supreme Court to hear appeal on Britain’s ban of Palestine Action group"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 The United Kingdom\u2019s Supreme Court has said it will hear an appeal against a lower court ruling that Britain\u2019s decision to ban campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was lawful.<\/p>\n

London\u2019s Court of Appeal ruled in June<\/a> that proscribing Palestine Action under terrorism laws was lawful because of its support for violence, after the High Court ruled in February that the ban unlawfully interfered with freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

The ban, which came into force on July 5, 2025, was imposed under the country\u2019s Terrorism Act. It made membership in or support for the protest group a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison under the terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n

In the June ruling, Judge Sue Carr wrote that Palestine Action \u201cis not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a covert organization operating with secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020 and brought the legal challenge against proscription, was granted permission to appeal against that decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court\u2019s website showed.<\/p>\n

She said in a statement: \u201cWe will continue to fight this proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn what has become one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before it was proscribed, Palestine Action had increasingly targeted Israel-linked defense companies or firms with links to them with \u201cdirect action,\u201d often blocking entrances or spraying red paint, particularly Elbit.<\/p>\n

The group was banned shortly after a break-in at the Royal Air Force\u2019s Brize Norton base in June 2025, in which activists damaged two military planes.<\/p>\n

Last month, a judge jailed four activists<\/a> for raiding an Elbit site near Bristol in western England in August 2024 and causing over a million pounds in damage. One of them hit a police officer twice on the back with a sledgehammer, leaving her with a fractured spine.<\/p>\n

Roughly 3,000 people have since been arrested for holding signs in support of Palestine Action, including dozens on Thursday outside Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n


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