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Britain’s prohibition connected pro-Palestinian run radical Palestine Action arsenic a violent organisation was ruled unlawful by London’s High Court connected Friday (February 13, 2026), though the ban volition temporarily stay successful spot and the authorities said it would entreaty the decision.
Palestine Action was proscribed successful July, having progressively targeted Israel-linked defence companies – peculiarly Elbit Systems – successful Britain with “direct action”, often blocking entrances or spraying reddish paint.
Britain’s Interior Ministry argued the group’s escalating actions, culminating successful a June break-in astatine the RAF Brize Norton aerial basal erstwhile activists damaged 2 planes, amounted to terrorism.
Lawyers representing Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action successful 2020, argued astatine a proceeding past twelvemonth that the determination was an authoritarian regularisation connected the right to protest.
The prohibition had enactment Palestine Action connected a par with Islamic State oregon al Qaeda and made it a transgression to beryllium a member. More arrested for holding signs
The High Court upheld 2 grounds of challenge, including that the prohibition was a disproportionate interference with the close to state of look and state of assembly.
Judge Victoria Sharp said that “Palestine Action is simply a radical that promotes its political origin done criminality”, but that proscription was inactive disproportionate.
She added, however, that the prohibition would stay successful spot pending any entreaty – which Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood instantly said the authorities would pursue.
“I mean to combat this judgement successful the Court of Appeal,” she said in a statement.
