The courts of London confirm the order which, according to criticism, puts the anti-Gaza demonstrators of the group on a par with Al-Qaeda, Isil.
The pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action has lost an offer to suspend the British government’s decision to prohibit the organization under “anti-terrorist” laws while waiting for its judicial challenge.
Huda Ammori, who co-founded the group in 2020, had asked the High Court of London to put an end to the proscription of the action in Palestine as an “terrorist” organization, before a complete hearing of its case that the group’s ban is illegal later this month.
Friday, the High Court refused to suspend the ban and, following an audience at the end of the evening, the court of appeal rejected an appeal against this decision just after 2130 GMT.
This means that the proscription of Palestine’s action is confirmed and will come into force at midnight.
The proscription intervened after British legislators this week decided to ban Palestine’s action after its activists burst into a military base last month and sprayed red painting on two planes to protest against the United Kingdom’s support for the Israel War against Gaza.
The proscription would make a crime to be a member of the action in Palestine which leads to a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The groups prohibited under British law include ISIL (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda.
AMMORI lawyer RAZA HUSAIN said the proscription has marked the first time that the United Kingdom sought to ban a group carrying out such a direct action, describing it as “a discriminatory and authoritarian abuse not considered a statutory power”.
Police invaded the demonstrators outside the Royal Court of Justice.
We do not allow them to intimidate us.
The demonstration will continue – a decision expected at 5:30 am. pic.twitter.com/9c1r538wvj
– Action of Palestine (@Pal_Action) July 4, 2025
The demonstrators gathered before the British Royal Court of Justice during the decision on Friday. Police have invaded the crowd, but Palestine Action said that his protests would not stop.
On Wednesday, after the parliamentary vote against the organization, criticisms criticized the frightening effect of the ban, which places non-violent activists at the height of armed groups such as Eiil and Al-Qaeda.
“Let us be clear: to assimilate a box of painting with a suicide bomb is not only absurd, it is grotesque. It is a deliberate distortion of the law to cool the dissent, criminalize solidarity and suppress the truth,” said the independent British legislative Zarah Sultana.
‘Draconian, silly “
Brendon Ciaran Browne, an associate professor at the Trinity College Dublin, told Tel Aviv Tribune that the British government’s decision was “absolutely absurd”.
“Essentially, what we are witnessing here is an attempt to enforce an effect of cold on all those who are absolutely disturbing by the complicity of the British government (in the War of Israel against Gaza) and their flagrant violations of international law that we have seen now for the best of 21 months,” he said on Friday.
Referring to the blow of Palestine Action in a British military base, Browne noted that the British government had existing legislation to face it.
“Those who would be involved can be accused of criminal damage. There are other ways to do so. But what you see here is again the British government which again uses the law on terrorism to target those engaged in direct action … It is a draconian and idiotic decision by the British government,” he added.
Action in Palestine is described as “a pro-Palestinian organization that disrupts the arms industry in the United Kingdom with direct action”. He says that he “is determined to end world participation in the genocidal regime and apartheid of Israel”.
Interior secretary, Yvette Cooper, the British Interior Minister, said that violence and criminal damage had no legitimate protest, and that his lawyers say that the case should be addressed to the commission of appeal for procurement.
Rights defense groups have accused Israel of having repeatedly committed abuse in his war in Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023. Since then, at least 57,268 Palestinians have been killed and 135,625 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
