Britain’s ban on Palestine Action group to be considered by top court

The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal against a lower court ruling to allow Britain’s decision to ban anti-Israel activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.

London’s Court of Appeal ruled in June 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.

Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020 and brought the legal challenge against proscription, was granted permission to appeal against that decision yesterday, the Supreme Court’s website shows.

She says 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.”

Before it was proscribed, Palestine Action had increasingly targeted Israel-linked defense companies or firms with links to them with “direct action,” blocking entrances, spraying red paint and attacking staff, 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 today outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court.