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Police on guard duty at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, July 25, 2025, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to Scotland. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
August 28, 2026, 2:14 pm
Prosecutors: Palestine activists who damaged Trump Scottish golf course had ‘terrorism connection’
Protesters from banned Palestine Action group charged with ‘maliciously’ damaging greens, painting ‘political and offensive slogans on the grass’ of Turnberry golf resort last year
By Reuters
Police officers monitor protesters holding a banner during a protest in support of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, central London, on June 23, 2025. (Henry Nicholls / AFP)
August 26, 2026, 9:04 pm
Following UK’s lead, US designates Palestine Action as a terrorist organization
Move to ban, sanction British anti-Israel group comes amid crackdown by Trump administration on what it calls ‘far-left terror’; UK’s own ban is subject to court battle
By Agencies
Demonstrators gather outside the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, July 30, 2026, as a plea hearing for 25 people accused of showing support for Palestine Action takes place. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)
July 30, 2026, 9:05 pm
UK Supreme Court to hear appeal against Britain’s ban on Palestine Action group
After Court of Appeal upheld proscription of organization, co-founder wins right to appeal, vows to continue to fight ‘if necessary to the European Court of Human Rights’
By Agencies
People stand listening to the court proceedings outside the Royal Courts Of Justice in central London on June 15, 2026, amid a legal standoff between the UK government and the Palestine Action group. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)
June 15, 2026, 4:05 pm
UK court upholds ban on Palestine Action group, days after four activists jailed
Judge rules anti-Israel organization ‘is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group,’ but rather a ‘covert organization operating with secret cells’
By AFP
Samuel Corner (far right) and other Palestine Action activists Jordan Devlin, Leona Kamio, Charlotte Head, Fatema Rajwani and Zoe Rogers. (Used under clause 27a of the Israeli copyright law; taken from social media)
June 13, 2026, 3:21 am
Four UK pro-Palestinian activists jailed for violent raid on Israeli defense factory
Judge hands out years-long sentences as he highlights ‘terrorist connection’ in 2024 attack on Elbit, during which one activist fractured a policewoman’s spine with a sledgehammer
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Protesters gather outside the High Court in London on July 4, 2025 to support a challenge to the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
May 6, 2026, 11:10 pm
Canadian Jewish groups call for designating Palestine Action a terrorist entity
The groups say activist network’s guide on how to build ‘cells’ and ‘destroy’ targets incites violence and threatens security
By Grace Gilson
Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows an officer aiming a taser gun at an intruder at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, after the intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer. (Screen capture: Channel 4)
May 5, 2026, 9:32 pm
Four Palestine Action members convicted over 2024 raid on Israeli arms firm’s UK site
Jurors in retrial also find one defendant guilty of striking police officer with a sledgehammer and fracturing her spine during break-in at Elbit’s Bristol factory
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Supporters of Palestine Action stage a protest outside the Royal Court of Justice in London, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
April 29, 2026, 11:59 pm
Palestine Action ban is risk to free speech, watchdog says, as UK gov’t appeals to bar group
Lawyers for anti-Israel group tell court that government should have taken criminal measures against it rather than ban it, as state argues such steps would have been insufficient
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Supporters of Palestine Action stage a protest outside the Royal Court of Justice in London, the United Kingdom, April 28, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)
April 28, 2026, 5:35 pm
UK appeals ‘overstated and wrong’ court ruling that Palestine Action ban is unlawful
Anti-Israel group co-founder laments ‘severe restrictions’ on freedom of speech caused by terror designation, imposed in 2025 after activists broke into air force base, damaged two planes; separately attacked a policewoman with a sledgehammer
By Reuters
Suspects in the Palestine Action Germany attack on an Israeli defense firm in Ulm enter the courtroom in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 27, 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 27, 2026, 11:28 pm
5 Palestine Action members appear in German court on charges of smashing Elbit site
Prosecutors at hearing in high-security court say anti-Israel activists shouted pro-Palestinian slogans as they vandalized Ulm office of Israeli defense firm
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Bodycam footage from August 6, 2024, shows an officer aiming a taser gun at an intruder at Elbit UK's site in Bristol, England, after the intruder struck a police officer with a sledgehammer. (Screen capture: Channel 4)
April 24, 2026, 6:17 pm
UK Palestine Action activist tells court his sledgehammer attack on officer was ‘reasonable’
In retrial over 2024 raid of Israeli defense firm’s Bristol factory, defendant admits cop he targeted after hearing screams from fellow activist wasn’t actually hurting anyone
By Zev Stub
Josh Lees (R), from the Palestine Action Group, speaking in front of representatives of nine civil society organisations as he announces a constitutional challenge regarding protesting laws at the Supreme Court of NSW in central Sydney on March 17, 2025. (David Gray/AFP)
April 16, 2026, 2:16 pm
Australian court overturns law clamping down on protests in wake of Bondi massacre protest law
Judge rules measure unconstitutional; pro-Palestinian plaintiff claimed NSW government sought to ‘rip up our democratic rights to protest’; State Premier Chris Minns stands by decision to limit demos
By AFP and ToI Staff
Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja holds a sign reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" on April 11, 2026, in solidarity with the anti-Israel group, which was proscribed as a terror organization after breaking into defense plants and a Royal Air Force base, causing millions of pounds of damage and assaulting a police officer. (Screenshot via La Jornada on YouTube)
April 13, 2026, 5:53 pm
Massive Attack frontman arrested in London for backing banned anti-Israel group
Robert Del Naja decries ‘farcical authoritarian overreach’ at protest for Palestine Action, proscribed by UK as a terror organization after raids on military bases, defense plants
By ToI Staff
An elderly man is escorted away by police as protesters gather to call for the lifting of the ban on the anti-Israel group Palestine Action during a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London on April 11, 2026. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)
April 11, 2026, 9:42 pm
UK police arrest over 500 at London demonstration for Palestine Action support
Metropolitan Police return to mass arrest policy as government appeals court ruling against group’s ban; protesters defy order, say legal ‘flip-flop’ does not affect ‘morals’
By Agencies
Graffiti, including the words 'Free Palestine' and several inverted triangles -- a symbol used in Hamas propaganda to indicate an Israeli target -- is seen on a statue of Winston Churchill, in central London on February 27, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
February 27, 2026, 4:17 pm
‘Zionist war criminal’: Anti-Israel activist vandalizes Churchill statue in London
Suspected perpetrator’s activist group says he came from Netherlands to support activists who broke into Elbit factory; graffiti includes inverted triangles used by Hamas
By Leon Kraiem
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