11 h. ago Anas Sarwar backs plan to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group after RAF base break

Palestine Action has broken into defence factories in Glasgow and RAF bases in England.

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60 h. ago Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover

Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results Suresh Grover is founder of the Southall Monitoring Group and has led campaigns to help the families of Stephen Lawrence, Zahid Mubarek and Victoria ClimbiéThe facts are not disputed. On 20 June, two activists spray-painted two RAF Voyager aircraft at Brize Norton, where flights regularly leave for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. No person inside the compound was harmed.At worst, these actions may amount to offences around criminal damage and trespass. The former justice secretary Lord Falconer has stated that the action at Brize Norton would not justify outlawing the group.Suresh Grover is founder of the Southall Monitoring Group and has led campaigns to help the families of Stephen Lawrence, Zahid Mubarek and Victoria Climbié Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti

Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest groupThe makers of an award-winning documentary about Palestine Action say they fear they will be criminalised if they continue distributing the work after the group is banned under anti-terror laws.The online release of To Kill a War Machine was brought forward to this week after it emerged that the Home Office was going to proscribe the protest group, which takes direct action against Israeli arms companies in the UK. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Green Party peer says she will vote against proscribing Palestine Action

Baroness Jenny Jones was speaking at the Glastonbury Festival.

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6 d. ago Corbynista MP Zarah Sultana says 'we are all Palestine Action'

Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, posted on social media 'we are all Palestine Action' after the Home Office said it would proscribe the organisation behind the attack on RAF jets at Brize Norton.

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7 d. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Palestine activists aren't terrorists, as Labour seek to ban group lobbying for Gaza freedom'

Protest is a civil right, so why are the British Government planning to proscribe Palestine Action? Critic Aimee Walsh argues that the Labour government is weak on what matters: the genocide in Gaza

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8 d. ago ROBERT HARDMAN: I was in the midst of a mob of deluded conspiracy theorists united by a loathing of Israel, Trump and UK foreign policy

At one end of Whitehall, the Government was solemnly announcing plans to add the direct action group Palestine Action to the UK's current list of 81 proscribed terrorist organisations.

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8 d. ago Labour MP warns proscribing Palestine Action would be ‘kneejerk reaction’

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has unveiled plans to proscribe Palestine Action after a break-in at RAF Brize Norton.

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on Palestine Action: if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t? | Editorial

Labelling direct action as an act of terror criminalises dissent, chills speech and redefines nuisance as extremism under the banner of national securityThe UK government’s intention to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 marks a significant escalation in the treatment of civil disobedience. It elevates a group known for throwing red paint at buildings and military aircraft into the same legal category as al-Qaida and Islamic State. If there’s a serious threat from these activists, we’ve yet to see it – just a ministerial statement discussing civil disobedience in the language of counterinsurgency.If this is all that Palestine Action can be accused of, then the government is wrong. Ministers are setting a dangerous precedent by using terror laws to outlaw protest – and penalising protesters not for violence but for making a nuisance and vandalism. The cost will be felt in press freedom, political accountability and the right to resist. The home secretary’s statem...

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8 d. ago Home Secretary decides to proscribe Palestine Action after ‘disgraceful attack’

Yvette Cooper confirmed the move after Palestine Action’s vandalism of two planes inside RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

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8 d. ago Palestine Action proscribed as terror group by Yvette Cooper amid angry clashes

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has declared Palestine Action, whose activists damaged two RAF planes at Brize Norton air base last week, is a proscribed terror organisation

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8 d. ago Who are Palestine Action and why is the UK government banning them?

The UK-based group has been targeting arms manufacturers in the UK since 2020

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8 d. ago Palestine Action protesters descend on London ahead of being proscribed terror group

Palestine Action protesters descend on London ahead of being proscribed terror group  GB News

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8 d. ago Proscribing Palestine Action a terrorist group may be ‘escalation too far’

Baroness Shami Chakrabarti: It’s ‘one thing’ to be a threat to property, but it is ‘another thing altogether’ for a whole group to be proscribed as terrorists

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