The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal against a lower court ruling that Britain’s decision to ban campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful.
Background
Palestine Action had been increasingly targeting Israel-linked defence companies or firms with links to them with ‘direct action’, often blocking entrances or spraying red paint, particularly Elbit Systems.
The group was banned shortly after a break-in at the Royal Air Force’s Brize Norton base in June 2025 in which activists damaged two military planes. Roughly 3,000 people have since been arrested for holding signs in support of Palestine Action, including dozens on Thursday outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020 and brought the legal challenge against proscription, was granted permission to appeal against the decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s website showed.
Ammori said in a statement: ‘We 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.’
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
