Palestine Action is set to be banned after a High Court judge refused to temporarily block it being designated as a terror group.
The co-founder of the group Huda Ammori had requested the court to temporarily block Labour from banning the group as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the protest group under the Terrorism Act 2000 with the House of Lords backing the move.
Now, the move is set to come into force at midnight after a High Court judge refused Ammori’s bid for a temporary block.
Palestine Action is set to be banned as a group
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Supporters of pro-Palestinian campaign organisation Palestine Action demonstrate outside London’s High Court
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Supporters of pro-Palestinian campaign protested outside the Royal Courts
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Protesters meeting outside the courthouse
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Friday’s hearing comes after an estimated £7million worth of damage was caused to two Voyager planes at RAF Brize Norton on June 20, in an action claimed by Palestine Action.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action on June 23, stating that the vandalism of the two planes was “disgraceful” and that the group had a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage”.
Justice Chamberlain said that an assessment on whether to ban the group had been made as early as March, and “preceded” the incident at RAF Brize Norton.
Four people were charged in connection with the incident.
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The group has accused Labour of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza. Israel has repeatedly denied committing genocide in its war in Gaza, which began after Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
Ammori’s lawyer Raza Husain said the proscription marked the first time Britain had sought to ban a group carrying out such direct action, describing it as “an ill-considered, discriminatory, authoritarian abuse of statutory power”.
Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Israeli activist Yaen Kahn said: “We will remember July 4, a year since Keir Starmer was elected, this is fascism day. This is the day when Britain actually became a fascist state.
“I will never be silent because Gaza is being exterminated by Nazis. Hitler, who exterminated some members of my family, did it by law, and Britain is using the law.
“They are doing that so Israel can carry on and exterminate and annihilate every Palestinian. They have already exterminated half a million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
“This is a dark day in history. Now Britain has become officially complicit and is participating in the Israeli holocaust in Gaza.”
Destruction in North Gaza
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It comes as least 20 Palestinians were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to local health officials, as President Donald Trump said he expected Hamas to respond to his “final proposal” for a ceasefire in Gaza in the next 24 hours.
Health officials at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, said the Israeli military had carried out an airstrike on a tent encampment west of the city around 2am, killing 15 Palestinians displaced by nearly two years of war.
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